November 24, 2014 1 minute read

Frequently Asked Questions – FAQ QM

Hello!

This blog is about Frequently Asked Questions in Quality Management and aims to collect the main information of our threads in QM and publish it in one single document, so the information can be easily find and people can search for a specific subject.

This document will be updated when new important threads appears.

If you have a suggestion of a good thread that are out of the list please give some feedback and I can add it here.

Topic	Thread
Usage Decision	reversal of Usage decision Inspection lot have a status of Usage Decision, yet there is no UD code visible in the inspection lot how to restrict the usage decision Usage decision with retroactive date or manual Automatic Usage Descision after Result Recording.
Quality Notification	Work flow through in Quality notification Customer field in QM11 transaction FM or BAPI For task creation in quality notification QM Notification: defect quantity not updated correctly Customer screen area of quality notification
Dynamic Modification Rule	(Inspection Lot) Dynamic Modification Rule for Production Order Dynamic Rule at Charateristic Level DMR & Annual Inspection How to Implement Dynamic Modification Rule for Material & multiple vendor Combination
Inspection Lot	Cancelled Inspection Lots can be reverte the system status Create Inspection lot with QI stock QA32 No inspection plan could be found Inspection lot QM CRTD Inspection Lot – Change Batch Remove MIC from particular Inspection lot Inspection lot creation time
Inspection Plan	CWBQM to remove MIC from Inspection plan CWBQM – to change mass IP Assign Inspection lot to lab technicians LSMW – Inspection Plan Upload – Direct Input Method QA32 No inspection plan could be found …again? Set up multiple inspection plans for one product and assign to different customer.
Result Recording	Colletive Result recording and Usage Decision Change Result Recording after digital signature done SMS alert to vendor about result recording Long Text Issue Results cannot be entered Calculated Characteristics Failing to do results recording Smaller than, greater than limits
Stock Posting	Blocking of Stock Posting after doing Usage Decision QI Stock in MD04 Stock inconsistency between MM and QM Stock posting from “unrestricted usage” to “Quality inspection” stock
Quality Certificate	Vendor’s Quality certificate recording for incoming material SAP Quality Certificate for Procurement Certificate Profile FM
Batch	Batch status at recurring insp lot creation Batch field disappearing
Quality Info Record	using QI06
Sampling Procedure	Sampling Scheme Sampling scheme Physical sample Physical sample sample drawing procedure – Auto sample calculation.
Calibration Inspection	Inspection Lot For Calibration Order in CRTD status Test Equipment Tracking
Stability Study	EHP 5 Vs EHP4 for stability study Stability Study
Master Data	QM Different Inspection types with the same Inspection Origin
Multiple Specification	Multiple specification in recipe Multiple Specifications in QM
Digital Signature	Digital Signature in In-Process Inspection
FMEA	Unable to create an FMEA object using a template, with copy actions indicator selected FMEA and Control Plan creation SAP

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Former Member

November 21, 2014 at 7:59 pm

Hi Natalia,

Nice compilation.

One more thing that troubles is less than and equal to limits of results recording. You can add following thread to this list

Smaller than, greater than limits

Best Regards,

Rahul

Natalia Machado

Blog Post Author

November 21, 2014 at 8:02 pm

Hi Rahul,

Thanks!

This is really trouble, I added it now 😀

BR,

Natália

Nitin Jinagal

November 22, 2014 at 4:54 am

Great Job Natalia ! 😉

This kinda compilation is surely gonna help people where FAQ can easily be reached. My suggestion is to add Sampling procedure (Scheme, Physical samples, Drawing procedures) in the list as they ain't that frequently asked but keep on flashing the wall quite often.

Besides, Automatic Usage decision is another pain which is eligible enough to get itself in the list

Regards,

Nitin

PS: Im sorry for not providing the related links. You gotta do a bit search more 😛

Natalia Machado

Blog Post Author

November 24, 2014 at 3:43 pm

Thanks for the valuable feedback Nitin!

I knew something was missing 😛 I just added some threads of Sampling Procedure and Auto usage decision now, thank you for highlighted it.

BR,

Natália

Umesh Mali

November 22, 2014 at 9:34 am

Hello Natalia,,

Nice document ,,,,Keep sharing

Appreciate your hard work ,,

Regards

Umesh Mali

Natalia Machado

Blog Post Author

November 24, 2014 at 3:43 pm

Many thanks Umesh! 🙂

Do-Wook Kim

November 24, 2014 at 1:57 am

Good job !!!

Vignesh Veerasamy

November 24, 2014 at 7:54 am

Great job....very much useful.

Anand Rao

November 24, 2014 at 8:09 am

Hello Natalia, Thank you again for taking the efforts to share such a valuable compilation in the forum 🙂 . I am sure this would really prove very useful to many users to get the most relevant answers to their questions. The topic categorization is appropriately chosen! Could we add QM master data upload related topic also? - Just a suggestion from my side!!

Regards,

Anand Rao

Natalia Machado

Blog Post Author

November 24, 2014 at 5:08 pm

Hi Anand,

Thanks for the positive feedback 😀

Of course, I will search for threads with this topic and add it ASAP.

BR,

Natália

Kiran Madhurakavi

November 24, 2014 at 5:15 pm

Natalia,

Wonderful job and Very useful document.

Appreciate your good work.

Natalia Machado

Blog Post Author

November 24, 2014 at 6:42 pm

KK,

Thank you, hope it can be helpful!

BR,

Natália

Ayoub Habchi

November 24, 2014 at 9:42 pm

Thank you Natalia for this Article. 🙂

It is really useful and will help people get the most of QM forum posts.

Regards,

Ayoub.

Former Member

November 27, 2014 at 5:06 am

Hello Natalia,

Thanks for sharing !! 🙂

Its really helpful and appriciated..

Regards,

Abhishek

Former Member

December 4, 2014 at 5:49 pm

Hello SAP QM Friends,

I'm starting training in SAP QM, so please provide tips and helps in SAP QM studies and preparation for exam.

regards,

Iyappan.s

Natalia Machado

Blog Post Author

December 4, 2014 at 6:40 pm

Hi Iyappan.s,

In our threads I'm sure you will find a lot of tips and issue's resolution.

Here there are some links that can also be helpful:

SAP HELP QM - http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_07/helpdata/en/a6/df293581dc1f79e10000009b38f889/frameset.htm

WIKI - http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=26764

Regards,

Natália

Former Member

January 2, 2015 at 6:16 am

Hello Natalia, This is very good and helpful for everyone.

Regards,

Raghu

Former Member

January 2, 2015 at 1:28 pm

Hello Natalia,

Great job.

Very much useful.

Regards,

Ravi

Former Member

January 9, 2015 at 4:21 am

Hi Natalia,

Very wonderful job done. Very useful threads.

if possible, please also add the threads like Quality Certificate, Statistical Process control, calibration inspection and Stability study.

thanks

Ketan Thakar

Natalia Machado

Blog Post Author

January 11, 2015 at 9:02 pm

Hi Ketan,

Many thanks for the feedback 😀

There is already two threads about Quality Certificate but I will improve the document with threads about your suggestions.

Regards,

Natália

LAKSHMI ADAPA

January 19, 2015 at 2:22 pm

Greetings of the day Natalia

I would like to request Please add some of threads related Multiple specification and also add Characteristics link with PI sheet, rest of all you did excellent job...

Natalia Machado

Blog Post Author

January 19, 2015 at 5:15 pm

Hi Prasad,

Thanks for the feedback 😀

I made a search and found two good threads about Multiple Specification that I have just added to the list, but about characteristic link with PI sheet I didn't find anything.

I will be monitoring the threads and if something related to this topic appears I will add it here too.

Have a good day,

Natália Machado

Former Member

January 25, 2015 at 1:57 pm

Hi Natalia,

Really appreciate your hard work.

Thanks for sharing.

Regards

Balaji

Arijit Banerjee

March 31, 2016 at 10:04 am

This is indeed a Great repository document. Before querying in SCN forum, this document should referred as a handbook, and check if it's helping or not. Hopefully, most of the common questions would be answered here.

Natalia Machado

Blog Post Author

March 31, 2016 at 1:49 pm

Hi Arijit,

Thank you for the very positive feedback 😉

Regards,

Natália

Dipeshkumar Bhavsar

April 1, 2016 at 10:48 am

Good & helpful compilation

Sanjay Chavan

May 7, 2017 at 3:38 pm

Great and very very helpful.

Sanjay Chavan

May 7, 2017 at 3:40 pm

Great Job & thanks for useful document

AMOL NAMJOSHI

April 18, 2019 at 6:28 am

Thanks Natalia for Giving Useful Information and Documents.

Its really helpful and appreciated.

Requested to you please add quality certificate and Defects recording topics.

Frequently Asked Questions – FAQ QM

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