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Author's profile photo Ahmed Hassan

QM With Variant Configuration

Introduction : 

Configurable materials is used to define products that have different variants

The usage of configurable materials Show clearly in some industries like Textile, carton. By using Configurable material you will have one material code with different specification for each sales order. Due that quality inspection of Configurable materials should be treated differently than standard product.

 

The issue:

 

Due to the different specification of the same Configurable material for each sales order. the tolerance of some inspection Characteristic should adapt with the specification of each sales order. For example Length, thickness and so on. And that tolerance will be transfer from sales order specifications

 

The solution:

 

I will mention the required steps followed by an example

 

In order to use QM inspection with configurable material  Firstly you have to group the inspection characteristics into two groups

 

1- characteristics that will be added to inspection lot with the same tolerance regardless the configurable material specs

 

(These characteristics will be added direct in the inspection plan)

 

2- characteristics that will be added to inspection lot

Or it’s tolerance will change depend on the configurable material specs

 

 

For this type: we have to do as below : 

 

  • Maintain Modification required in Note  119708  then flow below steps

 

1- Create Class characteristic and assign it to each inspection characteristic

(With the same type (Numeric/character) and length

 

2-assign this Class characteristic into class 300

 

3-Maintain selection condition dependency that determine in which condition we will call the inspection characteristic in the inspection lot

 

4- for the quantitative inspection characteristics that we need to change its tolerance we can user variant table to trigger the values or just add the value manually during the sales order creation

 

5- As per SAP note 119708 for the inspection characteristic That has interval (Tolerance from to) we will create two inspection characteristics one will hold the lower value and the other one will hold the upper value we will link the inspection characteristic with configuration characteristic that hold the lower value

 

 

6- In case of qualitative inspection characteristic we will

use the value of

 

7- For both Types (Qualitative & Quantitative) value must be existed during configuration to be appeared in inspection lot

 

An Example :

 

  • Firstly maintain  Modification of Note  119708  Then

 

1-Create class characteristics for lower and upper values : CT04

 

 

 

2- Create inspection characteristic . with link to lower Class characteristic

 

3- Create Inspection Plan . that contains only the inspection characteristics that will be appeared in

inspection lot regardless the specification of the configurable material

 

4-Maintain Value in table ZQMCF

 

5- Maintain the check mark of  Inspection by configuration as below

 

6-Create sales order and assign value for Lower and Upper characteristics in configuration

 

-The value of  Lower and Upper characteristics  will be transferred  to the Inspection characteristic Length

 

 

7-Convert planned order to production order and maintain GR

 

8-Result Recording QA32

 

-As you see the tolerance of inspection characteristic (Length) become 20 – 27. Transferred from the Variant characteristics (LEN_LOW / LEN_UPP)

 

The conclusion:

By applying the solution you will be able to appear or  hide inspection characteristics  and change the tolerance  of it . for each configurable product sales order . which will make it easy to able the right Quality inspection standards for each customer specification

 

 

 

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      Author's profile photo Vignesh Veerasamy
      Vignesh Veerasamy

      hi Ahmed Hassan

      Very much needed as a part of VC with QM intergration.

      Clearly explained with steps.

      One query - at sale order level can we expect/will the sales team to enter the expected quality specification will be entered ? As normal business process they will be more specific on the parameters of the Final product.

      Vignesh V

      Author's profile photo Ahmed Hassan
      Ahmed Hassan
      Blog Post Author

      Hi  Vignesh,

       

      regarding your inquire . sales team doesn't have  this kind of knowledge . so we can fill QM requirements from other  characteristics  like length in the example without interaction from sales team . you can also us variant table  to store quality specification with reference to one or more characteristics of configurable product

       

      Thanks

      Author's profile photo Haythem Souayed
      Haythem Souayed

      Hello Ahmed,

      Well explained. Thanks for sharing.

      Author's profile photo Ahmed Hassan
      Ahmed Hassan
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks

      Author's profile photo Learsap ewm
      Learsap ewm

      good blog !!

      Author's profile photo Ahmed Hassan
      Ahmed Hassan
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks

      Author's profile photo mahmoud gamal
      mahmoud gamal

      good blog

      Author's profile photo Sally Xu
      Sally Xu

      Hi Ahmed Hassan,

      Thank you so much for sharing the blog.

      May I ask what the purpose of the table ZQMCF as mentioned in example step 4 Maintain Value in table ZQMCF?

      Is it quoted somewhere?

      Thank you so much for your help

      Sally