Keep Your Product Standards High with SAP S/4HANA Quality Management
Ensure top-notch quality management by seamlessly integrating it into your existing supply chain processes within SAP S/4HANA. Follow these step-by-step instructions to configure and utilize key QM features, including batch management, audits, and more. By implementing quality plans, inspections, and notifications, you’ll have confidence in your product’s quality.
Key Points
Implement QM with SAP S/4HANA
- Plan, execute inspections, and manage notifications effectively.
- Integrate QM processes across your entire supply chain.
- Set up quality management in your SAP S/4HANA system using detailed instructions and screenshots.
- Configure master records, master recipes, and other essential QM elements.
Understand how QM interacts with other SAP S/4HANA modules
- Materials management
- Production planning
- Sales and distribution
- Plant maintenance
- Warehouse management
Optimize your system with quality management tools
- Sample management
- Quality certificates
- Engineering change management
- Stability studies
- Master data
- Batch management
- Quality issue management (FMEA)
- Reporting
Quality Management Core Concepts in SAP S/4HANA
Organizational Structure in SAP
- Client
- Company Code
- Plant
- Storage Location
- Warehouse Number
Business Processes
- Quality Engineering
- Quality Assurance and Control
- Quality Improvement
- Product Change Management
- Materials Management
- Production Planning
- Sales
- Plant Maintenance
- Embedded Extended Warehouse Management
- ISO 9001 Certification Process and SAP S/4HANA
Quality Management View in Material Master
Master Record
- Change Master Record
- Business Partner Master Record
- Batch Master
- Production Resources and Tools
- Master Recipe or Routing
- Reference Operation Set
- Work Center
- Inspection Method
- Quality Assurance Agreement with Vendors
- Quality Assurance Agreements with Customers
- Technical Delivery Terms with Customers
Master Inspection Characteristics
- Create Inspection Characteristics
- Edit Control Indicators
- Assign Inspection Catalog
Inspection Plan
- Task List Header
- Inspection Plan Header
- Material Assignment
- Test Equipment
- Operations View
- Long-Term Characteristics
- Calculated Characteristics
- Classed Characteristics
- Dependent Characteristics
- Material Specification
Business Processes
- Inspection Lot Creation
- Results Recording
- Usage Decision
- Stock Posting
- Defect Recording
- Inspection Report
- Master Data
- Inspection Lot
- Digital Signature
- Results Recording
- Usage Decision
- Engineering Workbench
- Multiple Specifications
- Master Data Settings
- Business Processes
- Dynamic Modification Rule
- New Inspection Types
- Client Settings
- Plant Settings
- Quality Planning
- Quality Inspection
Integrating with Materials Management
Configuration Basics in Quality Management
- Material Type/Task List Combination
- Control Key for Procurement
- Receipt in Procurement: Inspection Type 01
- Source Inspection: Inspection Type 0101
Pilot Run Inspection
- Configuration Basics
- Master Data Checklist
- Business Processes of Pilot Run Inspection
- Master Data Checklist
- Subcontracting Purchase Order
- Transfer Posting of Subcontracting Purchase Order
- Receipt for Subcontracting Purchase Order
- Inspection Lot for Subcontracting Purchase Order
- Invoice Receipt
- Stock Transfer Inspection: Inspection Type 08
- Other Goods Receipt: Inspection Type 05
- Configuration Settings
- Stock at QM Activation .
- Inspection Lot on QM Activation
Configuration Basics
- Material Type/Task List Combination
- Order Type-Dependent Plant Parameters
- Confirmation Parameters
- Control Key
- PP and QM Master Data Checklist
- QM Data in Master Recipe
- Process Manufacturing and Discrete Manufacturing
- Repetitive Manufacturing
Configuration Basics
Master Data
Business Processes
- Customer Delivery with Sales Order
- Customer Delivery without Sales Order
- Return Order
- General Delivery
Deciding Which Functionalities to Implement
- Scenario 1: PM without MM
- Scenario 2: PM with MM
- Scenario 3: MM without PM
- Scenario 4: Neither MM nor PM
- Test Equipment as a Material
- Test Equipment as PM Equipment
- Test Equipment as a Production Resource/Tool
- Test Equipment as a Document
- Inspection Type Assignment to PM Order Type
- Serial Number Profile
- Create Material Master
- Material Serial Number
- Test Equipment and Serial Number Synchronization
- Test Equipment
- General Task List
- Maintenance Plan
- Schedule Maintenance Plan
- Deadline Monitoring
- Calibration Order
- Inspection Lot for Test Equipment: Inspection Type 14
- Results Recording
- Calibration Orders Worklist
- Calibration Orders Completion
- Evaluations
Batch Management
Batch Management Overview
Batch Classification
- Define Characteristics
- Define Characteristics
- Define Class and Assign Characteristics
- Assigning Classification in the Material Master
- Create Batch Master Manually
- Changing a Batch
- Deleting a Batch
- Automatic Creation of a Batch in Goods Movement
- Stock Overview
Active Ingredient Management
- Configuration Basics
- Classificatbn in Material Master
- Business Processes
- Batch Information Cockpit
- Electronic Batch Record
Sample Management
Plant Settings
- Master Data
- Sample-Drawing Procedure
- Inspection Plan
- QM Master Data Checklist
- Goods Receipt for Purchase Order
- Inspection Lot for Goods Receipt
- Physical Samples for Goods Receipt
- Release Physical Sample Drawing
- Inspection Lots for Physical Samples
- Result Recording for Physical Sample: Inspection Type 15
- Results Recording for Pooled Samples Receipt Inspection
- Manually Creating a Physical Sample
Configuration Basics
- Physical Sample Type Assignment to Type
- Define Physical Sample Types
- Define Physical Sample Container
- Define Physical Sample Locations
Incoming Quality Certificates
- Configuring the Control Key
- Define Control Functions for Certificate Processing
- Master Data for Incoming Quality Certificates
- Create a Purchase Order
- Goods Receipt against the Purchase Order
- Incoming Inspection Certificate
- Incoming Certificate Worklist
- Define Keys for Certificate Processing
- Master Data for Outgoing Quality Certificates
- Business Processes in Outgoing Quality Certificates
Quality Notification
Workflow
Quality Notification in Sales
- Creating Quality Notification: Customer Complaint
- Correction Tasks
- Changing the Activities Status and Completing the Notification
- System Status and User Status
- Follow-On Action
- Action Log
- Partner Data of the Notification
- The 8D Report
Quality Notification in Procurement
- Create Quality Notification
- Buyer's Negotiation Sheet
- Document Flow
- Controlling Tasks Using Notification Worklist
- SAP Fiori Apps for Quality Notification
- Information System
- Solution Database
SAP Quality Issue Management
- Business Processes
- Deployment Options
- Configuring SAP Quality Issue Management
- Structure of SAP Quality Issue Management
- Creating a Quality Issue
- Overview of Notification Type
- Notification Creation
- Copy Screen Areas from the Standard System
- Allocate Change of Notification Type
- Notification Processing
- Additional Notification Functions
- Defects Recording
- Nonconformity Costs for Vendor Evaluation
- Define Confirmation Profile
Change Master
- Configuring a Status Profile (User Status)
- Maintain Profile
- Change Master Creation
- Changes in Inspection Plan with a Change Number
- Engineering Change Management Information System
- Manage Engineering Changes
- Manage Change Records
- Engineering Record
Audit Management
Overview
Setting Up Audit Objects
- Set up Audit Plan
- Set Up Audit
- Set Up Question List/Question
- Release Audit Plan
- Release Audit
- Valuate Question
- Create Corrective and Preventive Action
- Valuate Audit
- Audit Report
- Audit Plan in MS Project
- Import and Export Audits
- Audit Monitor
Configuration Basics
- Audit Usage
- Audit Type
- Digital Signature
- Audit Trigger
Integration Workflow
Master Data
Stability Study for a Material
- Create Stability Study with a Material
- Initial Sample
- Bill of Materials
- Initial Test Inspection Lot: Inspection Type 1601
- Inspection Process for an Initial Sample: Results Recording and Usage
- Change Notification
- Complete Initial Test
- Storage Conditions,
- Testing Schedule
- Inspection Lot for Inspection Type 16
- Print Labels
- Define Start Date of Study
- Manual Inspection Lot for Storage Condition:
- Inspection Type 1602
- Change Storage Conditions
- Change Stability Study Status
- Display Stability Study
- Primary Packaging
- Physical Sample Container
- Storage Conditions
- Storage Locations
- Bill of Material Usage
- Samples for Stability Study
- Testing Schedule Category
- Maintenance Strategy
- Notification
- Priority Type
- Action Box
Process Overview
- Action Plan
- Failure Across Categories
- Closed-Loop Quality Approach
- Create Function List
- Create Function
- Create Prerequisite
- Creating a Characteristic
- Create Defect
- Create Cause
- Create Preventive Action
- Create Detection Action
- Create an Effect
- Valuation of Detection Action
- Valuation of Preventive Action
- Valuation of Effect
- Calculation of Risk Priority Number
- Additional FMEA Features
- Create Questions in the Question List
- Approval and Release of a Question List
Risk Analysis
Control Plan
- Create a Control Plan
- Control Plan Integration with FMEA
- Field Selection
- Valuation Specification
- Structure of Question List
- Priorities
- List Structure
- Rating Profile
- FMEA Type
- Objects, Properties, Forms
- Control Plan Type
- Structure Type in Control Plan
Early Warning System
Overview
Set Up EWS
- Create Exceptions
- Group Exceptions
- Set Up Periodic Analysis
EWS in Action
Exception Analysis
Reporting in SAP
The Basics of Reporting
- Inspection Lot Selection
- Multiple Selection
- Maintain Selection
- Maintain Variant
- Inspection Lot Selection Worklist
- Filter Settings
- Download
- Copy Selective Data to Microsoft Excel
- ABC Analysis
- Standard Analysis: Material Overview
- Key Figures
- Other Info Structures
- Standard Analysis: ABC Analysis
- Standard Analysis: Time Series
- Inspection Lot Analytics
- Quality Level History
- Record Inspection Results
- Results History
- Quality Technician Overview
- Quality Engineer Overview
- Manage Usage Decisions
- Manage Inspection Lots
- Manage Quality Levels
- Process Inspection Lots
- Manage Control Charts
- Record Inspection Results
- Process Quality Tasks
- Manage Quality Tasks
- Supplier Evaluation by Quality
- Inspection Lot Analytics
- Inspection Lot Detailed Analytics
- Characteristics Analytics
- Characteristic Detailed Analytics
- Inspection Lot
- Inspection Order
- Manage Batches
Vendor Evaluation
- Configuration Basics
- Master Data Maintenance
- Business Processes
- Calculate Score
- Additional Functions
- Updating the Quality Level during Inspection Lot Creation
- Manual Creation of the Quality Level
- Evaluating Quality Level
- Analyzing Data Using a Control Chart
- Quality Chart
- QM Master Data Checklist
- Process Capability
- History of Quality Scores
- Histogram
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Jawad Akhtar: An SAP Logistics and Supply Chain Management Expert Jawad Akhtar is an accomplished SAP logistics and supply chain management expert, specializing in business sales and delivery. He holds a chemical engineering degree from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in the United States. With over 20 years of professional experience, 16 of which have been dedicated to working with SAP systems, Jawad brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. Key Highlights of Jawad’s Career Project Implementation
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