If you want to use physical samples for in process inspections, the Quality Planner must update the task list. Review the following image and read the following text for learn more:
Settings on the Task List Header Level
Inspection points are used as reference objects for recording inspection results below operation level. By maintaining the inspection point identification, you can select the reference object that is used as an inspection point in the Task List Header (field Inspection Point Field Combination). In the context of physical samples, the Inspection Point for Sample is the only sensible reference object. In addition, you assign the Sample-Drawing Procedure to the task list header. The system automatically creates an inspection point for each sample and assigns the sample number as the inspection point identifier. In addition to this number, the inspection point can also contain additional fields (for example, date, time, and so on).
Settings on the Operation Level
On the operation level, you define the inspection point completion variant. In contrast to free inspection points, you can only select automatic or manual valuation of the inspection point. When valuating automatically, the sample is accepted (rejected) if all inspection characteristics are accepted (rejected).
Settings on the Inspection Characteristic Level
For each inspection characteristic, you maintain a sampling procedure supporting physical samples. As usual, the sampling procedure defines the sample size and the valuation of the inspection characteristic. Note that, due to technical reasons, it is not possible to use sampling procedures which do not support inspection points. Assuming that you configured a sampling procedure FIX1-0 (draw one sample and accept the characteristic if there are no defect items) and want to follow a similar approach also when using inspection points, you must define an additional sampling procedure (for example FIX1-0-SP) with identical sample sizes and acceptance values. However, the new sampling procedure must also support physical samples.
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For chemical analysis, you often require a fixed sample quantity, for example 25 ml, to be extracted. To perform this scenario in the SAP S/4HANA system, you configure a sampling procedure with a fixed sample quantity of 1. Note that sample sizes maintained in the sampling procedure are dimensionless. When defining the inspection characteristic in the operation, you maintain a Base Sample Quantity of 25 and a Sample Unit of Measure of ml, respectively.
Assume that you want to measure three different characteristics at the same time and therefore must distribute the drawn sample to three different laboratories. For this case, you define three inspection operations with one inspection characteristic, respectively. You then assign the first inspection characteristic to partial sample number 1, the second inspection characteristic to sample number 2, and the third inspection characteristic to sample number 3. By following this approach, the SAP S/4HANA system automatically creates three partial samples for the drawn sample and prints this information to the sample drawing instruction. When recording the inspection results, you can enter your results with respect to the partial sample number.
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For more information about partial sample numbers, please see below and/or refer to this
example in the SAP Application Documentation.
Inspection point identifiers enable a link between the inspection results and the logical business object. Therefore, you can set up various inspection point identifiers in the SAP S/4HANA system containing the following information:
The system offers the following configuration options:
Fields which are used to identify the inspection points
Technically, the inspection point identification corresponds to a set of user fields which you can combine, for example text fields, number fields, a date, and a time field, respectively. As indicated in the figure, you can assign keywords to each field type which are displayed when the Quality Technician records inspection results for the respective inspection point. You can furthermore influence the order in which the fields are displayed by maintaining an entry in the field Field Active. A field type is only displayed if you maintain a sequence number in the field Field Active. By default, the system assigns the sample number as an inspection point identifier. However, you can add additional data.
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For physical samples, the SAP S/4HANA system uses the inspection point type 3 (Inspection Point for Sample).
In the example, the SAP S/4HANA system creates the following inspection an point identifier:
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Sample <Sample Number>, Inspection Date <current date>, Inspection Time <current time>
Default values for valuating the inspection points
You can define codes as the default valuation of an inspection point. If the valuation of the inspection point takes place automatically, these codes are used by the system. If you valuate inspection points manually, the system proposes the default value.
Function modules for the validation of user input
During results recording, the system can propose user field entries as default, verify the content of user fields, and/or generate value lists for user fields.
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You can set up field combinations in customizing (Quality Management → Quality Planning → Inspection Planning → General → Define Inspection Points).
If no valuation has been defined for the inspection point, the valuation is taken from the Quality Management settings in the QM-Customizing at plant level (Quality Management → Basic Settings → Maintain Settings at Plant Level: Plant-Dependent QM Settings - Results Recording.
For additional Information about the Quality Inspection with Inspection Points, please refer to the SAP Application Documentation.
