This document serves as a comprehensive configuration guide for SAP S/4HANA Quality Management (QM). Quality Management in SAP encompasses all processes to manage and control the quality of materials and processes, from procurement to production and sales. The guide details the necessary steps to set up and customize the QM module, ensuring proper integration with other SAP modules and effective quality control throughout the supply chain.
Key Topics/Steps Covered:
- Basic Settings: Configures fundamental QM settings at the client and plant levels, which are essential for controlling various QM functionalities.
- QM in Logistics: Defines control keys for procurement, certificate processing, number ranges for certificate receipts, and delivery blocks. These settings manage quality requirements within the procurement process.
- Quality Planning: Covers the configuration of defect classes, catalog types, code groups, codes, and selected sets for defining and categorizing quality-related issues and data.
- Inspection Characteristics: This section details the setup of default values for control indicators, characteristic weights, number ranges, and sample determination for inspections which are the basis of all inspection planning.
- Inspection Planning: Addresses the assignment of task lists to material types, task list usages, status, planner groups, default value profiles, parameters, number ranges, inspection points and control keys for inspection operations in order to perform inspection lot.
- Quality Inspection: Configures inspection types, inspection lot origins, number ranges, default values, goods movement inspections, manufacturing order inspections, confirmation parameters, and plant maintenance inspections. It provides all configuration that has to be set in order to perform quality inspections.
- Quality Notification: Establishes notification types, catalogs, catalog profiles, and the linkage between catalog profiles and notification types, which allows recording quality issues with specific characteristics.
This configuration guide provides a systematic approach to setting up the SAP QM module. By following the outlined steps, businesses can effectively manage and maintain quality throughout their operations, ensuring consistency and compliance.