Customer related inspection characteristics

[patrick_g1]

Dear experts,

I need to be able to maintain characteristics and expected values for result recording with respect to client specific requirements.

Means:

Customer A requests to have a water content of the product 10% - 15%

Customer B requests to have a water content of the product 12% - 20%

Customer C does not request this characteristic and do not want it to be printed in CoA.

I assumed that this is possible using certification profiles. But I am not sure.

The inspection plan is the master data where the inspection criteria is maintained as far as I remember.

But this cannot be separated per customer.

Does anybody has a suggestion or am I completely wrong at all?

Many thanks in advance

Best regards

Patrick

[former_member42743]

Both of the previous posters provided valid answers.

Customer C's issue is easily solved with a customer specific COA profile assigned to the customer. Nothing special about that, all standard SAP.

The issue with Customer A and B is harder because we don't know your business process.

Do you do these as a make-to order? In which case you can use variant config, Take the order and set spec range for this characteristic when you take the order.

Do you make to inventory? Then multiple specs might work if you have enough variability in your production. In your example is your production spec range 10%-20% with results evenly distributed across the range? Or do you perhaps produce to the union of these specs? i.e. 12% -15%.

Multiple specs can help solve the issue but not entirely. And it also requires a lot of master data set up and extra spec review at time of UD. And you still need to set up batch determination records for the two LOBM OK/NOTOK for customer characteristics.

If you manufacture to the union of the spec at 12 - 15 and have an occasional outlier from that, you can use standard batch determination in the delivery and make sure you only determine batches that are valid for the customer it is going to. So a batch with 16% water won't be determined for customer A but would be determined for customer B.

To get the customer's actual spec on the COA with batch determination being used, you need to write a new spec origin FM for the COA profile that will check for a customer batch determination record and substitute those specs in for the standard batch spec range. If no customer batch determination record exists, the standard spec is printed.

[sourabh_maheshwari2]

Please use Multiple Specifications for the Inspection Plan

And for the CoA, have a Customer Specific CoA

[Abhishek_Parab]

Hi patrick,

Please check the inspection by Variant configuration and inspection by batch setting to meet customer specific requirement. These settings are at the inspection type level and its based on the process your are trying to achieve the same. inspection by batch is for inspection type 10,11,12 i guess and you can use inspection by variant configuration for eg 01 inspection type etc.

Thanks and Regards,

Abhishek Parab.

[patrick_g1]

Variant configuration is not an option.

Setting up this process for such a small requirement is not applicable.

[Abhishek_Parab]

Hello Patrick,

Agree.on your point.

Thanks and Regards,

Abhishek Parab.