SAP QM
Quality Management
Quality Management Module deals with all
traditional functions of quality in an organization.
The integration of theQMapplication component
in the SAP system allows quality management
tasks to be combined with those in other
applications (such as materials management,
production, sales and distribution and cost
accounting).
Features
The QM application component supports tasks associated with quality planning, quality
inspection and quality control. In addition, it controls the creation of quality certificates and manages
problems with the help of quality notifications.
The following components are available in QM:
Basic data (for example, material master, catalogs, inspection characteristics, inspection methods and sampling procedures).
Inspection planning (inspection plans, reference operation sets, material specifications).
QM in procurement.
QM in sales and distribution
Inspection lot processing (inspection lot creation and inspection lot completion)
Results recording
Defects recording
Sample management
Quality Information System
Dynamic modification of the inspection scope
Quality certificates
Quality notifications
Test equipment management
Quality Inspection Process
Delivery
Inspection Plan / Routing
Production Order
Material
Material
Vendor
Quantity
Quantity
Inspection instructions
Sample Drawing Instructions
Inspection Lot Creation
Sample Procedures
Inspection Execution
Catalogs
Result Recording Record
Defects
Measured Values
ok
Not ok
Usage decision
Quality Posting if necessary
Create Q Notification Quantity Posting if
necessary
Quality Planning
Quality planning enables you to manage basic data for quality, inspection planning and material
specifications.
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.
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).
Quality Inspection
This functional capability is used to constantly check the quality of the companys products. Therefore
the inspection plans and characteristics are used. The inspection process mainly consists of the
following four steps:
Inspection can be triggered at a number of inspection origins:
Inspection
lot creation: in SAP QM, all quality inspections are based on inspection lots. These can be
triggered manually or automatically (e.g. at goods receipt from a purchase order, at goods issue of a
component, at a certain operation during production, etc.). The lots contain specific information about the
inspection size (e.g. based on the sampling procedure), inspection characteristics and methods from the
inspection plan or material specification, etc.
Results
Recording: After inspecting the products, the quantitative (e.g. width/height of a product) and/or
qualitative (e.g. color of the product) results of the predefined characteristics can be directly recorded in the
inspection lot.
Defects
recording: Defects can be recorded additional to the results recording. These defects are also
referenced to an inspection lot and contain information about any attribute of a material/product/process that
deviates from the defined characteristics. The defect recording can be based on standardized codes that can
be taken from the predefined inspection catalogs.
Inspection
lot completion: A completion of the inspection lot is necessary after results recording to finally
decide about the usage of a material. Depending on the usage decision, stock postings are performed (e.g. to
unrestricted-use stock, blocked stock, scrap, etc.). The usage decision also influences the quality level and the
quality score of a material or inspection lot
Inspection Lot Creation
In the Quality Management (QM) component, process
quality inspections on the basis of Inspection lots. If you
want to inspect a specific quantity of a material or a piece
of equipment, an inspection lot must be created in the
system.
We can create the inspection lots automatically or manually
and how you use the inspection lots to process different types
of inspections.
Once an inspection lot has been created, you can inspect
the goods, record the inspection results or defects, and
complete the inspection with a usage decision.
Quality Notifications
Quality notifications are used to process and document quality
related problems within a standardized process. Quality notifications
consist of basic header data such as material, reference documents,
batch numbers, etc. and detailed information about the
problem/deviation.
Additionally to that, tasks and activities can be
tracked to support an internal CAPA (Corrective and
Preventive Actions) process.
Notifications can e.g. be used for:
complaint against a vendor
internal problems (material error, etc.)
complaint from a customer
Quality Certificates
Quality certificates document the following of certain quality requirements. They
are mostly used during the collaboration with suppliers or subcontractors
(incoming certificates) to document the quality standards of incoming goods or
when acting as a supplier, to document the companys quality standards
themselves (outgoing certificates).
Quality certificates can guarantee:
the following of certain manufacturing / quality processes
the execution of predefined inspections. These can be either defined by norms (e.g.
GMP: Good Manufacturing Processes), law, customers, ...
defect-free inspection results for a delivery, assigned to the quality certificate
SAP Reports
Reports are collection of records that are helpful
for arriving at important decisions.
Reports can be filtered based on requirements
parameters. For e.g., TCode MM60 we can filter
based on Material ans Plant or Plant or Material or
it can even be a blind filter.
