Manufacturer Part Number Processing in QM 

Purpose

The Materials Management (MM) component supports the procurement of manufacturer-specific parts or materials from different vendors. If you implement the functions for manufacturer part number (MPN) processing, you can also process goods receipt inspections for manufacturer-specific parts or materials in the Quality Management (QM) component.

For example, you can:

In addition, the system can:

Prerequisites

You can only process manufacturer parts in QM if the following activities have been performed in Materials Management:

In QM, you must perform the appropriate activities below, depending on which MPN processing functions you intend to use:

If the Quality department requires a quality assurance agreement or specifies the release of the manufacturer parts, you must create corresponding quality info records that reference the manufacturer part numbers.

To waive the inspection requirement for manufacturer-specific parts or materials, both the manufacturer and the vendor must have a certified QM system in use.

If you want the system to automatically select a manufacturer-specific inspection plan when an inspection lot is created, you must assign the manufacturer to the corresponding inspection plans (which are already assigned to the company-internal materials).

If you want to include the manufacturer as an additional dynamic modification criterion, you must specify this in the inspection plan (see dynamic modification criteria at header or characteristic level of the plan).

Process Flow

  1. The purchasing department in a company receives a purchase requisition to procure a material from a specific manufacturer.
  2. Purchasing converts the purchase requisition into a purchase order. Before the system creates the purchase order, it checks whether the QM procurement key for the company-internal material in the material master specifies a delivery release:
  1. After a purchase order has been created, the vendor delivers the goods. The system responds in one of the following ways:

It creates an inspection lot for a goods receipt inspection and:

It does not create an inspection lot because:

Calculates the sample sizes

The vendor and manufacturer have a certified QM system in use. No inspection processing activities take place in QM.

Selects a manufacturer-specific inspection plan

  

Prints the shop papers (inspection instruction and sample drawing instruction)

Copies the manufacturer data into the inspection lot record

Updates the material, vendor, and manufacturer-specific quality level (if the dynamic modification rule specifies dynamic modification upon lot creation)

  1. If the system creates an inspection lot for the goods receipt, you inspect the manufacturer parts and record the inspection results.
  2. You make the usage decision and stock postings for the inspection lot.

The system updates the material, vendor, and manufacturer-specific quality level (if the dynamic modification rule specifies dynamic modification when you make the usage decision).