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Multiple PO to one notification (QM01)

Former Member
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Hi,
Do someone know how to link multiples puchase orders to the same notification. I read that you need to implemnet Business Function OPS_QM_NOTIFICATION.

But now I do not know how to continue.

Thanks,

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busyaban7
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Hi Rivera,

As you might have got the feedback form Craig, similar is my understanding too. Apparently you can't assign more than one PO while using it as a reference to create a new notification in QM01.

You can think of some workarounds here -

a) May be if at all it is mandatory, you can think of creating a custom tab where you can try to link all the remaining purchase orders JUST FOR ADDITIONAL REFERENCE!! But these will not be reflected under the "Reference" tab as it has only one place to store the data.

b) Additionally, you can think of using the long text field to attach all your reference purchase orders as text objects.

Thanks,

Arijit

bruno_esperanca
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Can't you use "items" for this? I think you can.

Table QMFE.

As far as I know, you need to enhance it (with an append structure?) to have the stuff you want (like purchase order numbers), and if you want this to show up in the document flow, you need to implement a few BAdIs and apparently this is not trivial.

But good luck! If you look into it, let me know, I'm interested

Cheers,

Bruno

antonio_rodriguez9
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Hi Diego.

Could you sort it out?

I want something similar to you.

In my case, i like to add differentes product from the same sales order in only one notification.

I see, that when i QM01 type Q1, i don't have this possibility to add more material the same sales orders, but with qm02, then it is possible field "assembly" in tab items add more material the same sales order.

Thanks so much.

Antonio

former_member42743
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I don't believe that will allow you to assign multiple purchase orders to a notification.  It was more designed to allow multiple materials/batches to a notification.  But I could be wrong on this.  I'd double check with SAP and look at the OSS note on this.  I'm sure there is a note related to this.

Craig

bruno_esperanca
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Hi Craig,

You seem to be very knowledgeable (and helpful) in quality management...

So, I'll share my situation (similar to the OP). Users in my company have been asking if it would be possible to group items from the same sales order to a customer complaint. I have already activated the business functions mentioned above. However, I still get a material in the reference object. I don't know how this should work. Should I simply "hide" screen Reference Object from the References tab and display tab Items? And should the users fill this information manually? It would be great if they could simply refer to a sales order and in the items tab they would select which items from the sales order were faulty.

I found some documentation for QM on the internet but only for release 4.6 and it's not very explicit

If you could provide me with any help it would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Bruno

former_member42743
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The functionality to have multiple object linked to a notification is new.  I think it is standard in 7.0+ and is provided as an advanced enhancement for 6.0 EHP4 (OPS_QM_NOTIFICATION)  But I can't swear to that.  Doing this from memory here.  I've not implemented that so I can't help you with that either!  My understanding is that under items you can list multiple objects there.  But I haven't seen this with my own eyes.

http://help.sap.com/ERP2005_EHP_04/helpdata/EN/bd/8cfed4318b4b0bad81a85f53a60727/content.htm?framese...

http://www.consolut.com/en/s/sap-ides-access/d/s/doc/YP-RELNQM_604_OPSQM_4

Maybe those links might help you a bit.

When you get this working, if you find something "tricky" about getting it implemented, it might make a great topic for a document here in QM.

Craig

bruno_esperanca
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Hi Craig,

Once again, thanks so much for your reply and your help. It is much appreciated.

Unfortunately, I had already gone through those web pages (I have been searching the web on this topic extensively for the past couple of days).

At the moment my problem seems to be twofold:

bruno_esperanca
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I'm a developer and I'm not really used to customizing. I've been going at it aggressively for the last couple of days and I've been able to change which tabs appear when creating a quality notification, and which screens, but I'm still struggling with the items tab, how to make it appear, and what to do with it. Besides, I've only this week started working with Quality Management (even if I have 4+ years experience with development in SAP, I must admit I'm not great with the functional side of things).

Secondly, it seems that my system has been butchered somewhat. Standard quality notification types don't work. Some miss the partner determination configuration, some miss some kind of profile... So... shouldn't standard notification types work out of the box? This seems strange to me.

I've also read SAP's PDF on QM-QN, but I only found it for version 4.6 and, even if it talks about Items, it's not very specific and I'm still struggling with what are items used for, and if they can be used for the purpose "my" users want... basically they just want to include more than one item from a Sales Order in the same Quality Notification, to reduce the number of notifications and ease their maintenance. If you could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated, even if I would agree that this seems more like actual work than a little help

Thanks again, all the best,

Bruno

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Hi Bruno,

We also have similar requirement and want to get your feedback. Were you able to activate standard business function and able to create one combined notification for multiple items in a sales order? or you have to go for total custom development?

Thanks in advance for your inputs.

Martin_H
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To my understanding SAP has added this functionality for additional documentation purposes. Which means that you still should use the primary page for your main references, and then on item level provide additional information.

That is how we are using it. It should be possible to add program routines for consistency checks if you require that, but we have not implemented such routines.

Regards

MH

Former Member
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Thanks MH for your inputs. Our requirement is to group multiple items in a sales order into one notification. Are you able to do something similar in your current system with the business function activated?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Suman

Martin_H
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I can assign the following Object Categories from SD area:

  • Order
  • Delivery Item
  • Sales Order Item

With Sales Order Item you can enter a sales doc and an item number per line. By adding multiple lines there would be no problem fulfilling your requirement.

Regards

MH

Former Member
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Thanks MH for all your inputs. This gives us big relief.

Regards,

Suman