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 Catalogs (QM-PT-BD-CAT)

Purpose

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.

Integration

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 3

  • Use the catalogs to describe defect items, tasks, activities, and causes in quality notifications , maintenance notifications , and service notifications

Features

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