You use catalogs to manage, uniformly define, and standardize information (for example, defect types, follow-up actions, tasks or characteristic attributes) on a client-wide or plant-wide basis. The catalogs can help you to record and subsequently evaluate qualitative data, and to describe problems.
In the catalogs, you assign each unit of information a unique alphanumeric code and an explanatory text.
You can:
Directly assign catalogs to master inspection characteristics , (that is independently of the inspection method), or assign them using the inspection method.
Store information at characteristic level in tasks lists with the help of catalogs
Use the catalogs to make it easier to record inspection results, defects, and defect locations during inspection lot processing
Make usage decisions during
inspection lot completion
with the help of catalog
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Use the catalogs to describe defect items, tasks, activities, and causes in quality notifications , maintenance notifications , and service notifications
You can:
Define catalog types P through Z in Customizing. Catalog types 0 through 9 and A through P are predefined in the SAP system. The standard system contains the following catalog types (among others):
Catalog Types |
Short Description |
---|---|
1 |
Characteristic attributes |
2 |
Tasks |
3 |
Usage decisions |
4 |
Events |
5 |
Causes |
6 |
Results of defects |
8 |
Activities (QM) |
9 |
Defect types |
A |
Activities (PM) |
B |
Object parts |
C |
Overview of damage |
D |
Coding |
E |
Defect locations |
Create and change code groups in a catalog type
Group several codes together into code groups
Create selected sets at plant level that contain codes from different catalogs