on 09-09-2010 5:20 AM
Hi All -
I have a requirement to have one MIC with values ( Upper and Lower range). The tolerance values are customer specific.
I tried working on inspection planning engineering work bench where i assigned one master inspection characteristic with multiple customers with various tolerance ranges.
When i created a process order system created an inspection lot of type 04, however i am unable to perform results recording and i noticed that inspection lot status is "CTRD".
I tried manually assigning inspection plan using QA02 transaction by clicking on "Task List" button, however, unable to assign the inspection plan to inspection lot. I am getting an message " No inspection plan could be found" when i try to manually assign inspection plan.
Inspection plan exists for the material with usage as "5 - goods receipt". And material master is set up with 04 inspection type with "Inspection with task list and Automatic assignment check box" ON.
Please advice if there is a way to perform results recording ? Also please advice me process to set up engineering work bench for inspection planning.
Many thanks
S
Hi,
Check the key date of inspection lot and inspection plan valid date.
The inspection lot key date should be in the inspection plan valid date.
Regards,
Alagesan M
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I think that you are seeing something where the inspection lot is still not completed enough to allow the plan assignment. We've gone through the most common reasons for a plan not assigning to an inspection lot. It seems like something else still needs to happen with the inspection lot.
I'm wondering if one of the other statuses is preventing the assignment. I.e is the status ORRQ normally seen in your inspection lots?
Is there a QM order associated with the material? Are you tracking costs?
You never did answer my question as to if the inspection plan has ever been used successfully. Has it been assigned to other lots in the past?
FF
Thanks for the response,
Yes, previously i could able to assign inspection plan assigned to inspection lot with no issues. However, after i configured engineering work bench (CWBQM) i am facing this issue.
The requirement what we have is one MIC can have multiple ranges ( upper and lower limits) for the same material. Each customer will have their own tolerance range.
I created dependant characteristics for a material with different customers. And each customer will have their tolerance range. With this i could able to create inspection lot but not able to release the same.
I am not sure what i am missing ?
Many thanks once again for your support.
S
Are you actually using multiple specs or just dependent characteristics?
Dependent specs can be maintained via QP02. No need to use the EWB. But these are usually material dependant and not customer. Are you trying to transfer customer approval information to the batch record?
Did you assign the proper characteristics into the batch record?
I'm thinking that maybe you don't quite have the spec set up quite right in the EWB.
FF
Many thanks for your response,
I tried to avoid using EWB by assigning dependant characteristics in inspection plan, however the challange what i had is i am unable to assign customer to the dependant characteristic also system will allow only one dependant characteristic for one MIC.
The current requirement is one MIC for a material can have multiple tolerance ranges ( Upper and lower limits) based on customer. So i tried exploring EWB. And i am not trying to transfer customer approved information to batche char.
Please advice if there is anyway to have one MIC multiple tolerance ranges ....
Many thanks
S
Edited by: Sesh on Sep 9, 2010 10:37 PM
The problem is that most folks are in a Make-to-stock manufacturing business but on the other hand, want to have customer specifications. That results in a mixed environment and hence problems. It sounds like this is where your at. In this process you don't typically know which batch of material is going to which customers. Multiple specs was SAP's way of trying to deal with this.
But to activate multiple specs you have to first activate them in the QM client level settings. If you did that, you should see the multiple specs indicator in the inspection type set up in the material master. I'm begining to think that you did not do this yet. As a result, you have basically set up the dependent characteristics in the EWB but not truly the multiple specs.
As far as the basic question of multuple customer tolerances, the question is are you really inspecting the material for a specific customer at the time you make it? Do you know for a fact who it is going to? If you do, I would probably set up separate plans and have them select the proper plan in QA02.
If they don't know, then you'll need either the multiple specs or another approach. I have always preferred to keep customer specs in the batch search strategies (BSS) and then we create a FM for getting the COA specs from the BSS instead of the batch or inspection lot. The BSS can than be used in SD to make sure the batch meets the customer requirements.
But if you are not using batch level data then that might not be an option for you.
Multiple specs will work but the master data can be a bit daunting as well. And in the case of COA's, the data has to come from the inspection lot whcih in large companies with multiple plants and warehouses, this can also result in problems.
I wish I had a simple answer for you but there really isn't one good answer for this when you try to incorporate customer requirements into a make to stock business process. The business, volume and complexity have to be evaluated and the lessor of a bunch of evils is selected.
FF
Thanks for your response,
We are in the make to stock business and trying to meet customer specification which is creating a problem in master data maintenance as you said.
We decided to go with multiple specifications and EWB which i thought would be an option to maintain the multiple specifications. I have activated QM client level settings and could able to see multiple specification in material master and in inspection plan. However, when i create a process order and goods receipt is performed system creates an inspection lot with status "CRTD".
I am unable to release the inspection lot to perform results recording although I maintained inspection plan with usage 5.
And neither able to assign inspection plan manually to inspection lot.
In EWB i created dependant characteristics for one material with different customers and different specifications assigned to each one of them.
With this set up i am not sure why i am unable to release the inspection lot for results recording. I am i missing something ?
Many thanks
S
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