Quality Planning (QM-PT)

Purpose

Quality planning enables you to manage basic data for quality and inspection planning and to plan quality inspections with the help of inspection plans and material specifications.

Implementation Considerations

The Quality planning component allows you to:

Manage quality information for materials, vendors, manufacturers and customers
Monitor the QM systems of vendors and manufacturers
Plan a source inspection at the vendor’s premises and trigger this inspection before the delivery date.
Plan inspections for goods receipt, stock transfers, for production orders, for predefined inspection points, in shipping when deliveries are created and plan recurring inspections
Plan inspection operations in work processes

Integration

The integration of the Quality planning component in the SAP system allows quality planning tasks to be combined with those of other components such as materials management, batch management, inventory management, variant configuration and cost accounting.

Features

Quality inspection covers the following functions:

Master data management (material master, catalogs, selected sets, master inspection characteristics, class characteristics, inspection methods, sampling procedures, sampling schemes, dynamic modification rules, sample-drawing procedures, QM work centers).
Inspection planning (inspection plans, reference operation sets, material specifications).
Control mechanisms for:
- Quality inspections (for example, inspection setup, QM-specific data in the material master, QM order, batch management, serial number processing).
- QM in procurement (for example, quality info record in procurement, quality assurance agreements in procurement).
- QM in production (for example, inspecting by batch, serial number processing, inspection of variant products).
- QM in Sales and Distribution (for example quality info record in sales, quality assurance agreements in sales, technical delivery terms).