About Quality Notification Partner Functions

Explain what is partner functions in quality notification?

Partner function represents who are all involved in the notification. As normally notification represents an issue or a problem so partner function helps in identifying who is responsible, coordinator, who has to do what in short

For e.g. You are creating a Q2 notification which is related to vendor finding an issue with the vendor material. So by default vendor becomes a partner. Now other partners can  be coordinator who coordinates the resolution of the issue.  Task owner can be those who are assigned tasks, person responsible may be the person whose area the problem had occurred.

You can make your own inference and use it as applicable to your scenario.

There are some settings to be done for Partner.

SPRO -> Quality Management -> Quality Notifications -> Notification Creation -> Partners -> Define Partner Determination Procedures

1) Here you can maintain what are the partners you need to use.

2) You can assign the partner function procedure to the notification.

3) In the notification, what are the partners that needs to be used.

Partner Function in Q2 Notification
 

In Q2 notification, system asking for entry in vendor and coordinator fields as mandatory.  How to change it to be optional?

Answer

Goto:

SPRO -> IMG -> QM -> Quality Notifications -> Notification Creation -> Partners -> Define partner Determination Procedure ->

Again Select "Define Partner Determination Procedure".

Select Quality management -> Change Partner

Now Select Q2, Click on "Functions in Determination Procedure".

Here you can Edit "Partner" Mandatory field. If you remove the Flag, It will be an Optional. You can enter Vendor and Coordinator in "Execution" Tab. (QM01)

Functions in Determination Procedure

Notes:

Yes can create new partner types with the below settings.

Run QCC0 ---> Quality Notifications ---> Notification Creation ---> 

Define Partner Determination Procedures

Define Fields for Partner Lists

Define Standard Messages to Partners

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