SAP QM - Moving QI stock QAC2 - partial batch

[declanmccabe]

Hello,

I am wondering if anyone has encounter the same scenario below and how you overcame it?

Some background:

We have two locations where we receive deliveries: at the plant and a warehouse located close by.

The warehouse receives the bulk of deliveries and material is called down as required.

Our quality inspection is perform at the plant.

There are material that required inspection and SAP automatically moves this inventory to QI on receipt by the batch.

At the minute the warehouse is managing the QI material on an excel file (long story) and there are email back and front requesting material to be moved to the plant for inspection. Thus not ideal.

I am looking to move away from the excel files and manage this on SAP.

I have been looking at the QAC2 transaction and this will move material from one stock loc to another stock loc to and keep the stock under Qual Inspection.

However, this will move the full quantity in the batch. In the majority of cases we only need percentage of the material in the batch. 100 received but only 10% need to be inspected.

Has anyone encounter a similar issue and what solution did you use?

Is there a transaction available?

[SCulhane]

Hi,

Similar requirement here. 1 plant, 2 storage locations to represent a production facility (SLoc 1) and a warehouse close-by to store the finished goods (SLcc 2). There is a shuttle running every 2 hour to move pallets from SLoc 1 to SLoc 2 "push mode". WM is active and we have nice Z transaction to select pallets and do a QAC2 in the background

If I QAC2 the first 5 pallets produced from SLoc 1 to SLoc 2, the next pallet received from production in SLoc 1 will create a new inspection lot, which is an absolute mess to manage in real life.

I always thought that this limitation to have all QM insepction lot stock in only 1 plant/SLoc was the worst thing in QM and I wonder if anyone has found a "nice" way around this...

Especially now that S/4 finally allows STOs in Q status, it is a damn shame that this is not possible when QM is active.

Thanks

Steve

[former_member42743]

Hard to say.

You don't say if you Warehouse management. Are the two sites set up as two separate plants in SAP? Storage locations?

QAC2 moves the inspection lot as a whole. It can't move just a portion.

So if you don't move the whole shipment to the plant, who is sampling? How does the lab know what was actually sampled? If the warehouse pulls 10% are they pulling the right 10%. Pulling the first ten items of a 100 items shipment (10%) is not necessary correct. Or maybe they are taking the last 10 items? At they pulling random? etc. etc..

This sounds like a two plant setup and no warehouse management.

you could set up all your materials to be created with restricted batch status. Then post the qty not begin transferred out to restricted stock. Then you QAC2 to move the lot to the other plant. Once inspection is completed, make the UD and post the stock to unrestricted stock, unrestricted batch status. The stock in the other plant would be available.

Craig