QM Procedure

[Former Member]

Hello QM Superiors,

I want to know some important points regarding QM.

My question is:

If XYZ is a company code under which 9 different plants is considered as a segment, Then what would be the QM process flow for incoming, semi finished,

subcontracting and finished goods.

Regards,

Santosh

[busyaban7 · Accepted solution]

Hi Santosh,

Whenever you try modeling any QM flows, the first thing you need to consider is the actual business process adopted by the client. There can be many solutions for many QM processes, but as long that is not required for your business, that should not be considered in design discussion/Blue printing phase.

While you engage in discussion with your business experts/BPA/Stakeholders, you may try gathering some the answers in the below format for evaluation the XYZ business process -

a) In-process Q-management => Variants like certificate processing, without certificate processing, with q-info record, without Q-Info record, auto release of incoming inspection lots, manual release of insp lots, vendor release on Q-score, inspection lot results updated in batch or not, quality notification processing, etc

b) Stock management => Inventory management in same plant or different plants through stock transfer posting, shelf-life managed or not, batch managed or not, classification managed or not, HU managed or not, Serial number managed or not, etc

c) Semi finished/Finished materials => potentially this is produced materials but these can be procured materials as well, q- stock management through in-process or goods received inspection (Repetitive or Discrete), batch derivation, classification update or not, inspection plan management, other things like sampling procedure, DMR, QDR profile in work center to get MSUB if result is recorded by LIMS, Shelf life maintenance, stock posting to other plants for selling, certificate processing for inspection lots, defects processing, quality notification processing, rework processing, Result recording and Usage decision management, etc

d) Material outbound flow to customer - certificate processing through output type or manual, inspection lot for outbound delivery/inbound return delivery required or not, how to handle customer complaints via notification, tow to take material return, how to settle claims, etc.

e) Business reports - Check what all business reports are required by clients like standard reports / customized reports, etc.

There can be some other additional points I have missed out here. You may need to consider those points as well.

Thanks,

Arijit

[former_member213163]

Hi,

for QM in procurement you can use inspection type 01 that is goods receipt inspection for purchase order,

where in you can use functions like quality certificates , vendor evaluation,Dynamic modification rules

for QM in production you can use inspection types 02,03,04 for goods issue, in process and goods receipt of inspection from production to warehouse.

here you can use functions like sampling procedure and sampling schema

for stock transfer you can use inspection type 08 that is stock transfer inspection

hope this will help you

with best regards,

Prathamesh

[anand_rao3]

Hi Santosh, this is quite generic question I would say! There's no specific rule as such that what practices such model should have. Rather it all depends upon what actual physical processes they follow. e.g. If plant 1 is just procuring something and selling then probably it would not have manufacturing related inspection activities. Similarly if some plants may be interested in carrying out production related inspections only!

Anand