One of the users is facing a problem while creating a PO. He is trying to create an STO with reference to an PR. There are 18 items in the PR all of which are raw materials. He is getting error as "define QM procurement key (material)" only for one material. Message no is QB 114. I checked in the material master in the QM tab and found the QM procurement is checked. But still this error is appearing.
Solution:
If you have activated QM module in SAP, then you will need to extend your materials to QM view. Once QM view is activated then depending on the settings, the system will behave.
While at the time of GR, system will post this stock to quality inspection, then QM people has to process these stock and has to get the material to unrestricted use.
If QM module is implemented then your QM data will be stored and at any point of time and you can analyze the results.
QM procurement key or it is also called as QM control key in QM in procurement business process.
As the name itself indicates that this key is the integration of QM and MM.
As the QM in procurement business process is concern,
the QM procurement key plays an important role at the time of procurement
activities in MM.
The importance and scope of the QM procurement key is as follows:
(A) QM control in procurement:
[1] Release required: If you activate this control, it is mandatory to release the vendor and material supply relationship before the procurement of the material. And also needs to release the quality info record.
[2] Certificate required: If you activate this control, the quality certificate must be submitted with the delivered material by the vendor. Here you can define various certificate processing keys to take the control on the requirement of the quality certificate in the various business scenarios of the procurement. That means certificate processing key can check whether the certificate is mandatory for each PO, certificate is required at each GR, certificate check is required at each GR. Also it can control the system behavior if the required certificate condition is not met e.g. showing error message etc.
[3] Block inactive: If you activate this control, system deactivates all the blocks maintained for quality reason in the vendor master and quality info record.
[4] Block invoice: If you activate this control, system blocks the invoice for quality reason. It prevents the automatic payment to the vendor against the invoice.
(B) Message control for lock:
When the block for the quality reason is activated in the vendor master or quality info record, then system issues message. In this case, you can define the type of message e.g. warning, error, and information
(C) GR source inspection control:
Source inspection is the inspection at vendor's end conducted by the customer before the GR. From source inspection results point of view, systems behaves at the time of GR e.g. if the result of the source inspection is NOTOK then at the time of GR, system will not allow to post this GR.
