You plan physical samples to:

• Develop and adapt your strategy for drawing physical samples to your company’s inspection processing procedures
• Enable the system to automatically create physical-sample records when an inspection lot is created

The Customizing requirements for Sample Management include the required and optional activities specified below.

In Customizing for Quality Management, your project team has:

• Defined physical sample types (for example, goods receipt samples, production samples, competitor samples)
• Assigned physical sample types to the inspection type for goods receipt or production
• Defined number ranges for physical samples numbers and physical-sample drawing numbers
• Defined inspection points for physical samples
• Set the indicator to display the number of containers for goods receipt inspection lots (settings at plant level)

In Customizing for Quality Management, your project team has:

• Defined container types for physical samples

• Defined physical sample locations for storing the physical samples
• Assigned material authorizations for processing and confirming physical samples
• Specified whether a digital signature is required for the material authorization to confirm the drawing of physical samples

For more information about the activities in Customizing, refer to the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Quality Management.

• Defining inspection points for physical samples in the inspection plan
• Assigning a sample-drawing procedure to an inspection plan
• Defining the inspection point valuation at the operation level of the inspection plan