You use the inspection planning functions to define inspection criteria (for example, material to be inspected, how the inspection is to take place, characteristics to be inspected, required test equipment, work center and inspection specifications). The R/3 System contains the following inspection planning options:

Inspection operations are increasingly integrated in the production operations. The R/3 System offers you inspection plans for different uses, for example, model inspection, goods receipt inspection, goods issue inspection, material inspection and audit. The system takes the task list usage that you defined into account when selecting task lists.

In the inspection plan, you define the inspection operations, the inspection characteristics to be inspected and the test equipment to be used. The inspection plan that is included in the QM component is related to the routing and the rate routing in the Production (PP) component and to the master recipe in the Process Industry PP-PI component. These task list types only differ slightly, with respect to the inspection planning functions.

For inspections in production, you do not need to additionally maintain inspection plans. The inspection characteristics are defined in the routings, rate routings or master recipes. You can assign the characteristics to the production operations themselves, or to the operations intended for inspection.

In inspection planning, you can reference the following master data:

• QM-specific data