The aim of the SAP Inspection Planning functions is to allow your Quality process owner to define inspection criteria (for example, material to be inspected, how the inspection is to take place, characteristics to be inspected, required test equipment, work center and inspection specifications).
The SAP QM System contains the following inspection planning options:
- You can use task lists such as inspection plans, routings, rate routings, master recipes, and maintenance task lists to define inspection characteristics, their assignment to inspection operations and the test equipment to be used. This enables you to inspect materials at a quality inspection.
- The material specification allows you to structure simple inspection planning procedures at client level.
-- You can carry out a quality inspection without an inspection plan or material specification using an inspection lot.
-- You define the parameters for inspection planning in the inspection setup (Quality management view of the material master).
Module Integration
SAP inspection operations are increasingly integrated
in the production operations. The SAP QM System offers you inspection plans
for different uses, for example, model inspection, goods receipt
inspection, goods issue inspection, material inspection
and audit. The system takes the task list usage that you defined into account
when selecting task lists.
In the inspection plan, you define the inspection operations,
the inspection characteristics to be inspected and the test equipment to
be used. The inspection plan that is included in the QM
component is related to the routing and the rate routing
in the Production Planning component and to the master recipe in the Process
Industry component. These task list types only differ
slightly, with respect to the inspection planning functions.
For inspections in production, you do not need to additionally maintain inspection plans. The inspection characteristics are defined in the routings, rate routings or master recipes. You can assign the characteristics to the production operations themselves, or to the operations intended for inspection.
Master Data
In inspection planning, you can reference the following master data:
QM-specific data
- Material specification
- Inspection plans
- Master inspection characteristics
- Inspection methods
- Code groups [Ext.] and selected sets
- Sampling procedure
- Sampling schemes
- Dynamic modification rules
- Quality documents
- Quality info records
Other master data
- Material master records
- Data from the classification
- Vendor master records
- Customer master records
- Customer info records
- Test equipment master records
- Work centers
- Routings
- Rate routings
- Reference operation sets
- Master recipes
- Maintenance task lists
