SAP Quality Management is mainly used in the quality control process of the manufacturing organizations which manufactures and dispatch the product to the warehouse by maintaining the lead time. SAP Quality Management customers list includes all the major manufacturing companies which have reaped enormous benefits by implementing SAP Quality Management for better operational functioning.
The SAP Quality Management is integrated with the components which include materials management (MM), Plant Maintenance (PM), Production Planning (PP). It is essential for the warehouse as it facilitates in inspecting incoming material arriving at the facility for the manufacturing process. The quality management at the manufacturing process also checks the quality of the finished products before they are dispatched to the warehouse. The main components of SAP QM are planning, notification and inspections.
In SAP, quality inspection plans how an item needs to be inspected, the characteristics of an item which needs to be inspected, test equipment needed for inspection, etc. Notifications are raised internally to report a quality issue arisen on the production line or at the facility. This notification records a problem and this notification can be assigned to an existing QM order for creating a new order for the specific notification. The inspection process is created manually or automatically with the help of the SAP system. The item can be finished product, raw material, inspection equipment used for the inspection process. The results of the inspection of each characteristic can be recorded.