If a quality assurance agreement or a vendor release is required for a material, you must create a quality information record (quality info record). The quality info record determines how the material can be processed further.

When a quotation or purchase order is created, the system checks whether a quality info record is required and available for the combination of material and vendor.

The system also checks whether the vendor and material-vendor combination is blocked or released for quotations, purchase orders and/or goods receipt. The execution of this check depends on the setting of the QM in procurement control key in the material master.

The quality info record displays a vendor block specified in the vendor master, the vendor's QM system, and the lock date.