Put quality first with QM in SAP S/4HANA! Connect quality management to materials management, production planning, warehouse management, and other logistics processes in SAP S/4HANA. Follow step-by-step instructions to both configure and use key QM processes like batch management, audits, stability studies, engineering change management, and more. Ensure confidence in your product's quality by implementing quality plans, inspections, notifications, and document management in SAP S/4HANA!

Highlights Include:
1) Master data
2) Integration with logistics
3) Quality inspection
4) Batch management
5) Sample management
6) Quality certifications
7) Quality notifications
8) Quality planning
9) Stability studies
10) Failure mode and effects analytics (FMEA)
11) Document management
12) Reporting

[Second edition, updated and revised]

Autorentext
Jawad Akhtar is an SAP logistics and supply chain management expert with a focus on business sales and delivery. He earned his chemical engineering degree from Missouri University of Science and Technology in the United States. He has 20 years of professional experience, 14 of which have been spent working with SAP systems. He has experience working on several large-scale, end-to-end SAP project implementation lifecycles, including rollouts. He works with SAP clients to help them identify root causes of business issues and address those with the appropriate SAP products and change management strategies. He now focuses on next-generation SAP products such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP IBP, SAP Ariba, and SAP Hybris. Akhtar is also a technical advisor to SAPexperts, an ASUG speaker, and a contributor to SearchSAP, where his "Ask the Expert" column shares real-life lessons and best practices gleaned from SAP implementations, ways to avoid common project pitfalls, and features of various SAP products that solve key business issues.

Inhalt
... Acknowledgments ... 23

... Preface ... 25

... Goals of This Book ... 26

... Target Audience ... 27

... Structure and Content ... 28

PART I ... Quality Management Core Concepts ... 33

1 ... Quality Management in SAP S/4HANA ... 35

1.1 ... Organizational Structure in SAP S/4HANA ... 36

1.2 ... Quality Management in the SAP Landscape ... 40

1.3 ... Business Processes in Quality Management ... 41

1.4 ... Integration with Other Areas ... 48

1.5 ... Summary ... 55

2 ... Quality Planning ... 57

2.1 ... Quality Management View in Material Master ... 59

2.2 ... Master Record ... 70

2.3 ... Master Recipe or Routing ... 73

2.4 ... Reference Operation Set ... 73

2.5 ... Work Center ... 73

2.6 ... Inspection Method ... 76

2.7 ... Quality Agreements ... 77

2.8 ... Quality Information Record ... 80

2.9 ... Master Inspection Characteristics ... 80

2.10 ... Sampling Procedure ... 90

2.11 ... Inspection Plan ... 93

2.12 ... Material Specification ... 106

2.13 ... Summary ... 108

3 ... Quality Inspection ... 109

3.1 ... Business Processes in Quality Inspection ... 109

3.2 ... Optimization Features of Inspection Planning and Quality Inspection ... 128

3.3 ... Multiple Specifications ... 160

3.4 ... Dynamic Modification Rule ... 169

3.5 ... New Inspection Types ... 183

3.6 ... Configuration Basics: Quality Planning and Quality Inspection ... 192

3.7 ... Summary ... 234

PART II ... Quality Management Integration with Logistics ... 235

4 ... Integrating with Materials Management ... 237

4.1 ... Configuration Basics ... 238

4.2 ... Procurement Business Processes ... 241

4.3 ... First Article Inspection for Production Part Approval Process ... 253

4.4 ... Pilot Run Inspection: Inspection Type 0102 ... 258

4.5 ... Subcontracting: Inspection Type 0130 ... 264

4.6 ... Inventory Management Processes ... 268

4.7 ... Handling Inspection Stock at QM Activation: Inspection Type 0800 ... 275

4.8 ... Summary ... 279

5 ... Integrating with Production Planning ... 281

5.1 ... Configuration Basics ... 282

5.2 ... Master Data ... 287

5.3 ... Business Processes in Production Planning ... 290

5.4 ... Summary ... 307

6 ... Integrating with SAP S/4HANA Sales ... 309

6.1 ... Configuration Basics ... 309

6.2 ... Master Data ... 310

6.3 ... Business Processes ... 312

6.4 ... Summary ... 321

7 ... Integrating with Plant Maintenance ... 323

7.1 ... Deciding which Functionalities to Implement ... 324

7.2 ... Defining Test Equipment ... 325

7.3 ... Configuration Basics ... 327

7.4 ... Test Equipment Master Data ... 330

7.5 ... Business Processes in Test Equipment Management ... 346

7.6 ... Inspection Checklists: Inspection Type 8916 ... 352

7.7 ... Summary ... 362

8 ... Integrating with Embedded Extended Warehouse Management ... 363

8.1 ... Configuration Basics ... 364

8.2 ... Master Data Setup ... 373

8.3 ... Business Processes ... 376

8.4 ... Reporting ... 382

8.5 ... Summary ... 386

PART III ... Quality Management Workflow Tools ... 387

9 ... Batch Management ... 389

9.1 ... Batch Management Overview ... 389

9.2 ... Batch Level and Batch Status Management ... 391

9.3 ... Master Data in Batch Management ... 395

9.4 ... Business Processes of Batch Management ... 399

9.5 ... Batch Determination ... 406

9.6 ... Recurring Inspection and Expiration Dates ... 418

9.7 ... Active Ingredient Management ... 425

9.8 ... Batch Derivation ... 448

9.9 ... Batch Traceability of Work in Process Batches ... 458

9.10 ... Batch Information Cockpit ... 469

9.11 ... Electronic Batch Record ... 471

9.12 ... Summary ... 473

10 ... Sample Management ... 475

10.1 ... Plant Settings ... 476

10.2 ... Master Data ... 477

10.3 ... Business Processes ... 481

10.4 ... Physical Sample Drawing with Reference: Production Processes ... 493

10.5 ... Configuration Basics ... 496

10.6 ... Summary ... 499

11 ... Quality Certificates ... 501

11.1 ... Incoming Quality Certificates ... 501

11.2 ... Outgoing Quality Certificates ... 512

11.3 ... Summary ... 521

12 ... Quality Notification ... 523

12.1 ... Workflow ... 523

12.2 ... Quality Notification in SAP S/4HANA Sales ... 526

12.3 ... Quality Notification in Production ... 539

12.4 ... Quality Notification in Procurement ... 542

12.5 ... Quality Notification Tools ... 546

12.6 ... Corrective and Preventive Action ... 557

12.7 ... Quality Issue Resolution ... 561

12.8 ... Configuration Basics: Quality Notification ... 578

12.9 ... Summary ... 584

13 ... Engineering Change Management ... 585

13.1 ... Change Master ... 586

13.2 ... Change Record ... 599

13.3 ... Engineering Record ... 604

13.4 ... Management of Changes ... 611

13.5 ... Summary ... 619

14 ... Audit Management ... 621

14.1 ... Overview ... 621

14.2 ... Setting Up Audit Objects ... 623

14.3 ... Business Processes ... 631

14.4 ... Productivity Tools and Audit Monitor ... 640

14.5 ... Audit Inspection: Inspection Type 07 ... 642

14.6 ... Configuration Basics ... 644

14.7 ... Summary ... 647

15 ... Stability Study ... 649

15.1 ... Integration Workflow ... 649

15.2 ... Master Data ... 651

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