What are the activities to be carried out to define the Quality inspection in the process?

I want to activate a Quality inspection after some operation, what I have to do?

by : Parthasarathy 

1. Initially, we need to have the the material master with the type of inspection you want to carryout and other required masters for carrying out inspection such as MIC, inspecion method, Catalogs and sampling procedure.

2. If inspection at receipt stage is required, then Inspection plan for goods receipt need to be created to release the inspection lot for results recording.

3. For In-process inspection, the MIC needs to be attached in the routing itself and separate inspection plan is not required for the same.

4. For inspection during the final confirmation of the production order, inspection plan for goods receipt needs to be made. (similar to goods receipt from purchase order). 

5. Similarly, ispection plan can be created for the goods issue inspection also.

Our scenario is as follows:

We have multiple operation in the process to make the product which were all defined in routing but the catch here is that 3 operations to be done in one section and after that the lot come to Quality by confirming the production order and then it goes to some other section for another operation and again then it comes back to same section where it was already moved.

Now what is required is that they want to move the material to quality once again after another process.

As per your process, mapping in SAP depends upon the routing you have made for your product.

I am explaining the standard process with the following scenario:

Scenario: material "A" has 5 operations in the routing. First three operation are done in a shop and inspected. If found ok, then the material is  moved to the next shop for fourth operation. checking is carried out before proceeding to the next step.

1. In in-process inspection, stock posting to the quality stock is not possible, since the material is still with the production department with a production order and also it is not confirmed.

2. If you want the material to be posted to inspection stock, then semi finished material has to be produced after step 3, and the routing should have only three steps. So, final confirmation from production order can be made and stock posting to inspection stock is possible.

3. If your motive is, compulsory checking after step 3, then the operation 3 in routing should have milestone confirmation control key and we can change system settings to avoid confirmation of each operation without results recording. 
Drawback: If more than one parameter has to be checked in the above process compulsarily, the system does not check for all the parameters. It checks only whether one result recording has been carried out or not.

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