SAP Quality Management Overview

Key Information
Quality Management Overview

o Quality Management (QM) is an integral part of the logistics function

and within the SAP system it is fully integrated with complementary
components including Materials Management (MM), Plant Maintenance
(PM), and Production Planning (PP).

o Quality management is important to the warehouse,

inspecting incoming material as it arrives at the facility,
where the quality of in-process items are checked during
manufacturing process and finished goods are inspected
before they reach the warehouse.

o The QM module covers three distinct areas

o Planning
o Notification
o Inspection
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QM Overview
Quality Planning

Quality Inspection

Quality Certificate

Quality Notification

QM Integration with Other Modules

Quality Insp. Process

Benefits
Standard Reports
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Quality Planning: Activities

Creating and managing the

Quality planning master data that is required
(among other items) to plan
Quality inspection
and execute quality
Quality control inspections.

Quality certificates

Quality notifications
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Quality Inspection: Activities

Quality planning Determining whether the units

inspected fulfill the predefined
Quality inspection quality requirements.

Quality control

Quality certificates

Quality notifications
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Quality Control: Activities

Implementing different
Quality planning preventive, monitoring and
corrective activities.
Quality inspection
These activities are based on the
Quality control specifications from quality
planning and the evaluations of
Quality certificates
quality inspections and quality
Quality notifications notifications.
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Quality Certificates: Activities

Certifying the quality of a material
or product.
Quality planning

Quality inspection Quality certificates contain texts,

specification values, and
Quality control inspection results.

Quality certificates

Quality notifications

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Quality Notification : Activities

Recording the Non-Conformance
or product.
Quality planning

Quality inspection Investigation and analysis of defect

Record Cause , Task and activities ,
Quality control etc.,

Quality certificates

Quality notifications

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Key Information Position of QM

QM Integration:
Quality
Material Management Management:
MM PP
o Manages quality information Integration
for materials, vendors. in logistical Quality
Management
processes

PM SD

o Manages the release status of delivery relationships,

for example Vendor approval, Sample Approval etc.
o Triggers source inspections to be carried out at the vendors premises
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before the vendor is due to make a delivery - Source inspection.
o Triggers inspections for goods movements, for example, goods receipt
o Blocks payments until Inspection Lots are accepted
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Quality Inspection Process:
Delivery Production Order
Material Material
Vendor Quantity
Quantity
Inspection Plan
Inspection instructions
Inspection Lot
Sample Procedures Creation Sample Drawing Instructions

Inspection Execution

Catalogs
Result Recording Record
Measured Values Defects

ok Not ok

Usage decision

Quality Posting if necessary Create Q Notification Quantity

Posting if necessary
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Quality Inspection Process:
Inspection Lot Creation
Manual / Automatic Lot
Non-Stock / Stock relevant Lot
Result Recording
Quantitative / Qualitative
Single/Multiple recording
Valuation with specification
Defect Recording : For deviation
Usage Decision
UD code / Stock Posting
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Benefits:
Comprehensive master data maintenance by system.

Stocks in Quality till inspection is completed.

Inspection Results are available for review.

Standardized methodology for complaint reporting and analysis.

Standard reports for analysis.

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Standard SAP QM Reports:
Reports are collection of records that are helpful for arriving at important
decisions.

SAP provides a number of reports for the quality management module.

o The material defects report can show the number of times an item has
been in a defect status.
o The vendor defect report shows the frequency of failed material by
vendor.
o By examining inspection lots for goods receipts, a quality department can
highlight vendors who are supplying goods that frequently fail inspection.
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Standard SAP QM Reports:

Standard Reports in QM
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Presented by:
THANK QM Team
Mohammad Zafar Saeed
Muhammad Khurram Barakzai
YOU S. Muhammad Kashif Zaidi