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Inspection of Physical Samples 
The Sample Management (QM-IM-SM) component supports the inspection processes in your company with functions for drawing, inspecting, and managing physical samples in quality inspections.
The Sample Management (QM-IM-SM) component enhances the QM components for inspection lot creation, results recording, and inspection completion. The process flow for a quality inspection with physical samples does not differ from a normal goods receipt inspection or inspection during production.
The following conditions must be met, depending on the how you intend to process physical samples:
· Automatic creation of physical samples upon inspection lot creation
The system can create physical samples automatically when an inspection lot is created if you have:
¡
Planned the
physical samples in a
sample-drawing
procedure
¡ Assigned the sample-drawing procedure to the task list to be used in the inspection
¡ Assigned a physical-sample type to the inspection type
· Manual creation of physical samples
You can create physical samples manually at any time.
· Manual creation of inspection lots for existing physical samples
You can create an inspection lot manually for an existing physical sample, if an inspection type is active for inspection lot origin 15 (physical samples) in the inspection settings of the material master.
You have the following options for processing physical samples in the system:
· The system can create planned physical samples automatically when an inspection lot is created (for example, for goods receipt inspections or inspections during production).
· In addition to automatically created physical samples, you can:
¡ Create unplanned physical samples manually and assign them to an existing physical-sample drawing and inspection lot
¡ Create a new physical-sample drawing with physical samples and assign it to an existing inspection lot
· You can create inspection lots manually to inspect already existing physical samples
In addition to the above options, you can also create physical samples as follows:
· When you record results for an inspection lot, you can create and inspect a physical sample for a selected operation in a single step. The system proposes the data from the last sample drawing. This data can be changed.
· When you create a new physical-sample drawing for an inspection lot, you can also create additional physical samples and prepare results recording for these physical samples for one or all operations in a single step.

Note that the following restrictions apply when creating physical samples for inspection lots of the origin 17 (externally triggered inspection):
· The inspection type must contain the sample type 10 (sample from external inspection).
· The inspection plan does not require a sample-drawing procedure. It just requires a suitable inspection point field combination for the inspection point type Physical Sample.
· Samples are specified by the external system and can only be created, changed, or cancelled in this system. You cannot create any samples manually in the existing system, not even during results recording.
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