Inspection lot for some material/customer

[Former Member]

Hello everyone,

I have some materials for which I've defined an inspection plan. The system is designed to create inspection lots in deliveries, but I would like those to be created just for some customers. I thought I could do it by defining the specific customers in QP01 but it is not working - inspection lot is always being created despite the customer considered.

Can anyone help me?

Thank you in advance

Joana

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

With Quality plan we can not achieve.

For incoming inspection that is goods receipt against purchase order we can assign the vendor name in Quality info record QI01. If you assign the material with vendor, system create Inspection lot for that specific vendor.

Regards,

Dharma

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello!

Thanks a lot for your useful tips.

1) Dharma has mentioned QM info record for procurement. I could use QM info record for SD, TC QV51 (the problem occurs with deliveries). I've already tried but it seems that instead of naming those customers for whom I want to create a certificate I have to do it for those I don't want! Am I doing anything wrong? This does not make any sense to me but would be perfect if it worked the other way round.

2)Abhijit and Chintan mentioned a solution related with configuration and maintenance of inpection plan/lot. I've checked configurations and they are maintained as Chintan refers and i have tested Abhijit solution but it seems the system is ignoring those definitions because it still creates an inspection lot for all deliveries, despite customer code.

Do you think it can be a system error? Because users have told me this worked before. I've heard that any update to material assignment in inspection plan should be followed of an update - a transaction code we should use afterwards. Do you confirm this?

Thanks a lot

Joana

[former_member311826 · Accepted solution]

Dear Joana

System will create Insp lot for all delivery as you had assigned Insp Type in materail master. But it will select Insp plan accourding to the customer & vendor you had mentioned in th QP01.

regards

Abhijit gautam.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Abhijit,

i didn't know that. Thank you. But I still have a problem. As the inspection lot is created (although i do not 'need' it) i am not able to post goods issue until i register inspection result - error message VL171. The problem here is the following: as i assign an inspection type to a material, i am forced to introduce quality results for the inspection lot created in each delivery although (from a business point of view) i just need to do it for some specific customers. Is there anyway you know to avoid this?

Best regards

Joana

[former_member42744 · Accepted solution]

Joana,

I beleive that using the concept of DMR would work this way,

The plan assigned to the material would be set to always be a skip lot. I.e it wouldn't have to be done and would be automatically processed.

The plan assigned to the material/customer combination would have no DMR and would be required all the time.

This would work but you should make sure you run a separate UD batch job for inspec. type 10 skip lots and run it like every ten minutes. The reason is that the deliveries can't be post goods issued until the lot is processed. So even the skip lots would delay the deliveries if they were not processed quickly.

Another solution that was used at a couple of places. We used QM in SD records and you are correct, we had to set a QM record for each customer that we didn't want the inspection for. This was handled by a program that run every night and looked of new customers. It would then create a QM in SD record for each customer by default turning off their delivery inspections. For those customers that required inspection we simply edited their SD record and changed it.

The reason I think SAP did it this way is that usually, the inspection at delivery is driven by the material. Like loading tanker trucks. Typically these are inspected after loading so you need the inspection at delivery. But every shipment, (i.e. material) gets inspected so all you had to do was turn on inspection type 10 in the material. It is the rare customer you don't inspect for. So in these cases, the QM in SD record makes perfect sense.

Craig

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Craig,

thank you very much. I think we'll go for option 2: QM info records, and develop a program like the one you mentioned.

Your tips were very helpful.

Best regards

Joana

[former_member16241]

Hello Joana,

if you are not working with QM in procurement you might consider using the Exit QAAT0001 in which you can set the flag E_NO_INSPECTION which will avoid the creation of inspection lots.

In this exit you can implement your own logic.

Furthermore please always maintain the coding

E_TQ32 = I_TQ32.

And ensure that it is processed in the includes of

EXIT_SAPLQAAT_002

EXIT_SAPLQMHU_001

EXIT_SAPLQPL1_005

If this not done you can run into the error message QA495

regards,

Isabelle

[Former Member]

Hi,

I think you can achieve it by implementing 'Dynamic Modification'.

Just have a look of following configuration.

Quality Management > Quality Inspection >Inspection Lot Creation >Maintain Inspection Lot Origins and Assign Inspection Types

for specific 'Inspection Lot Origin' , refer 'Dynamic Modification Criterion' (3rd column) > Value = '002 Material and customer'

Approach your QM consultant for further clarifications.

regards,

Chintan

[former_member311826]

Dear Joana

In QP01 while creating Insp Plan in Materiai Assignment atb there is a provison to insert vandor no & customer no so that whenever ur will do Goods Recipet or goods Issue specific plan for customer or vendor will be selected in Insp lot

Reward If usefull

Regards

Abhijit Gautam