SAP QM component
The QM component is divided into the following subcomponents:
- Quality Planning
- Quality Inspection
- Quality Certificates
- Quality Notifications
- Quality Control
- Test Equipment Management
- Stability Study
In quality planning, you define information and processes on a long-term basis as master records. Quality planning provides the basis for inspection processing.
You use the following data for quality planning:
- General master data in logistics.
- Inspection planning data (for example, inspection plans, master recipes and material specifications).
- QM-specific basic data (for example, master inspection characteristics, inspection methods, sampling procedures).
General master data is made up of cross-application data and QM-specific data. Cross-application data is maintained in most cases in other components of the SAP system.
Cross-application data used in inspection planning includes:
- Material master
- Vendor master record
- Batch classification
- Customer info record
- Quality documents
- Quality info record procurement
- Quality info record sales
- Material specifications
- Inspection plan
The quality information record procurement contains details for a specific material/vendor combination. For example, it specifies:
- The delivery quantity, for which the vendor is released.
- The date, up to which the vendor is released for the relevant product.
- The QM system and quality documents that are to be used by the vendor or are to accompany the delivery.
- Is an electronic quality data exchange planned? etc.
- When and how an inspection is to take place?
- What documents are relevant for a delivery? etc.
