- [Instructor] Let's explore
the SAP Quality Management module, also known as SAP QM.
As the name indicates,
this module deals with managing quality
throughout a company's processes.
There are three major areas
of the Quality Management module.
They are quality inspection, quality control,
and quality notifications.
Let's take a look at each of these areas.
Quality inspection helps determine if the units inspected
meet defined quality requirements.
This is where inspection lots, results recording,
and defect recording all take place.
Let's take a look at an inspection lot in our SAP system.
This is an inspection lot for a goods receipt.
That means we're inspecting goods
that were ordered from an external vendor.
This inspection lot had a quantity of 10.
Of these 10, zero units were defective or destroyed.
Quality control is the area where different preventive,
monitoring, and corrective activities take place.
This is also where suppliers can be evaluated on quality.
If a supplier's products are consistently not meeting
a company's quality standards,
it shows that it would be worthwhile seeking out
a better supplier.
Let's look at an inspection plan in the system.
This is an inspection plan for manufacturing
of material SG29 at plant 1010.
For this material, this inspection plan applies
to all lot sizes from quantity one and up.
Finally, quality notifications are used to record internal
or external problems that are caused by poor quality.
Quality notifications can be created anywhere
in the product cycle.
This includes incoming inspection when a product
has been purchased externally
and final inspection before sending finished products out
to our customers.
SAP Quality Management measures and monitors quality
against company defined standards all throughout
the procurement and production phases.