Introduction I had the idea of posting this blog so that organizations or companies who perform inspections on their material can effectively analyses the process of their rejection process and make subsequent improvements in ensuring the rejection, lifting of material from storage locations and its visibility in the system. In specific industry cases, Once the […]
PLM Quality Management (QM)
Change Record in S4HANA – A New Look to ECR/ECO in S4HANA
As most of the folks are aware of the ECR and ECO functionality for the change Management for the BOM, Master recipe, Material Master etc. This functionality was phased out in S4/HANA, and Engineering Record was introduced. This too had some things missing like analyzing the impact etc., so from HANA 2020 SAP introduced Change […]
Working with Defect Processing FIORI App SAP QM
Disclaimer This blog will help people to understand the basics of new functionality added by SAP from S4H 2020 in the form of FIORI app for “Defect processing”. This functionality will help to record & process defects without creating QM Notification. Defect processing was available in SAP QM since the functionality of Quality Notification, but […]
Convert Repetitive Manufacturing into Discrete Manufacturing Process
Below are the important steps to convert repetitive manufacturing processes into discrete manufacturing processes: Delete all the unnecessary demand and run MRP. So that all the open planned orders will be deleted from the system. Finish all the production bookings in MFBF, so that there’s no more cancellation. Ensure all the reprocessing records are processed […]
Charge vendors for non-compliance or issues identified during GR via SD
Introduction: In this post, I will elaborate on how to charge suppliers for non-compliances or issues found after an inspection via SD. Business process overview: Once goods receipt is posted in SAP if the material/article master has inspection activated, then SAP will create an inspection lot to be processed for that PO line item. If […]
Quality Certificate Check at Goods Receipt
This blog will help to implement receipt of certificate at the time of “Goods Receipt”. The process can be implemented to validate receipt of quality certificate or any other mandatory document at the time of GR, so that necessary actions can be taken by quality department. There are 2 approaches considered in this blog: Restrict […]
Working with Formula Based / Calculated MIC (Master Inspection Characteristics)
This blog will guide with an example to work with Formula based / Calculated MIC. This process can be implemented where one parameters value to be calculated based on the values recorded for other parameters. In this example, Area of Triangle is calculated. The formula for Area of Triangle is: Area of Triangle = 1/2 […]
Cost of Quality Inspection
This blog will guide to implement Cost of Quality Inspection in SAP QM. This is integration process of SAP QM with SAP Controlling module. You might need to take help of controlling consultant for some inputs. Pre-requisites Following are the pre-requisites: Activity type should be available (T-Code: KL01) Activity rates should be maintained (T-Code: KP26) […]
Record result on the web_ A platform for partners
This piece would be helpful if you want to provide your vendors, customers or 3PL/4PL partners a user Interface to record result on your behalf for the Inspection characteristics for example physical condition of goods and other product parameters. You can even ask them to upload quality related documents. They can record result without installing […]
How to get business object/event to build/develop custom workflow in SAP
Purpose: This blog will help to identify the Business Object and event to develop custom Workflow. Introduction In Standard SAP, we have very limited Standard Workflows. If the Business requirement is out of Standard Workflows, then we must built/ develop the custom workflows. To develop custom workflows, we must know the Business Object which is […]