What is the process of source inspection?

The Q-Info Record is used to trigger a source inspection lot for a material/vendor and plant. Under the tab key Inspection Control in Q-Info Record, you would find vendor source Inspection and under that select the inspection type desired for source inspection (say 01,0101) and give the lead time required to perform the  inspection in days (say 10 days). 

If you do not want to trigger an inspection lot @ GR for a source Inspection lot then check the box (Source Insp. No Gr). 

Ensure that the inspection type selected @ source inspection is activated in the Material Master Record for the chosen material in the Quality Management View. 

To trigger the lot manually you need to have some open purchase orders for the material/plant/vendor. Go to transaction QI07 and give the material code, vendor, plant and opening period. 

When you execute the transaction you would find open purchase orders for the given input data. Select the Purchase Order you wish to perform Source Iinspection and choose Create Inspection Lot. 

This would trigger the lot and then it is QE01 & QA11                *-- Krishna
 

We have an inprocess inspection set in the PP routing. We have three MIC's attached that take varying amounts of completion time. SAP will allow confirmation of that step when only one of the MIC's has been entered. We need the system to NOT allow confirmation (in CO11N)  until the UD is made.

The following steps can be done if more than one operation is there in routing.

1. The operation which requires inspection completion need to be given with the control key having milestone confirmation.
2. In SPRO-Producion-shop floor control-Operation- Define confirmation parameters, select the order type that will be used for production.
3. In detail screen, In check area - for Results Rec.QM field,change to error message if no inspection results exists.
4. The system will check, if any result recording has been carried out for that operation.
5. The drawback will be, if one MIC is recorderd and others left without value, still the system will allow to confirm the production order.

The above holds good only if there are more than 1 operation. if one operation is there in the routing, directly we can activate the "04 inspection type" for the material and move to quality stock during final confirmation.

*-- Parthasarathy.V

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