Knowledge Management

Question:
Hi
Is it possible to have different inspection plans for the same combination of material and plant but different vendors. It looks like you might be able to do it from the Q-info record but I am not sure how. I would appreciate any advice on this and potential pitfalls.
Thanks in advance
Alistair
Answer:
Yes.. after creating the plan (material/plant).. go to the plan assignment screen. On the assignment screen you will be able to enter the vendor number as a parameter. You can have one plan per vendor/material/plant if you so desire.
Craig
Answer:
Craig
Thanks for the info. Not sure if I am totally clear on where you assign the vendor. Is it a screen within the transaction QP01 where you add in the vendor or is it a seperate transaction ?
How does SAP know which inspection plan to pick up ? If you create a plan with vendor 123456 on the assignment screen, you need to create another plan with nothing on this screen but with a different group number to identify it ? Or am I missing the point somewhere !
Thanks again for your advice and have a happy Christmas !
Cheers
Alistair
Answer:
Hi,
when creating/changing an inspection plan, go to the task list overview (icon 'Hat'). There you find a button called 'Material assignement'. Beside adding material codes this table allows you also to add vendor/customer codes which are applicable for this plan. So you can define that the plan 123 with plan group 1 is valid for material 123456 in general, but also for material 123455 in combination with vendor 998877. You must be careful that you material/plan assignment is unique to ensure that automatic inspection lot creation processes are still running, because in case SAP finds more than one valid material/plan assignment, the inspection plan can't be assigned to the inspection lot, and you need manual steps to choose the correct plan. Check table MAPL regarding material/inspection plan assignment.
Best regards
QM-Dude
Answer:
QM-Dude
Thanks for the reply and Happy Christmas !
Do I create one plan then with material 6608888 and plant 0018 ........
then another plan with material 6608888 and plant 0018 and vendor 123456 on the assignment screen if I want to test that differently ?
Will then SAP pick up the latter plan if I receipt the material in from vendor 123456 ?
Thanks again for the help ...
Alistair
Answer:
Yes to all your questions! I think you got it!
If you have any more questions, let me know.
Craig
Answer:
QM-Dude
Thanks for the reply and Happy Christmas !
Do I create one plan then with material 6608888 and plant 0018 ........
then another plan with material 6608888 and plant 0018 and vendor 123456 on the assignment screen if I want to test that differently ?
Will then SAP pick up the latter plan if I receipt the material in from vendor 123456 ?
Thanks again for the help ...
Alistair
YES, THE LATTER.
Answer:
Hi,
I was searching the forum for an issue faced by me.
I have my users creating mutiple plans for the same material
I have two requirements:
1. When a user is going to create a 2nd plan is there a system message or/and setting which can trigger a warning message regarding the existence of a non-deleted plan for the same material
2. Is there a standard report or can a query be made to list materials with more than one non deleted plans
Thanks in advance
Regards
Matt
Answer:
Hi,
when apply QP01 for a new inspection plan, the user gets a screen with the existing inspection plans. What is your target: That no new group or new group counter will be created?
The best solution is good trained users anyhow. Tell them to check the screens and messages, or tell them to apply QP03 to check if there is a plan for a specific material/plant combination. If you want to restrict the creation of new inspection plans when there is a valid one, you migtht have to apply some coding in an QM user exit.
The plan/material assignment is stored in table MAPL in case you want a build a query or report.
Regards
QM-Dude
Answer:
Dear QM-Dude,
Yes that is the problem with the users lack of knowledge or lack of seriousness!
But they create additional plans for the same material and when the material is received to quality the lot do not pick up a plan automatically as the material is having two plans (valid for the same period).
(Or they think that they would delet the first plan after creating the second but conveniently forget it after the second plan is created!!)
But we have to bell the cat!
I am new into QM being a basically MM person at a support site.
Alternativel if there is a way to make the system to act in such a way that only one of the plans can be active for a material at a time even if there are n number of plans my purpose would be served
I had discovered MAPL table before making the posting but how to come out with query which would give me a report where I have more than one non-deleted plans? That is my query have to to look for the count of records. I think I have to make an ABAP program, am I right?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Matt
Answer:
Hi QM-Dude,
The problem is that during Qp01 they use the copy model where by they do not get to see the existing Quality Plans!
Ofcourse if they go for display, they would have certainly come to know about it. But users are after all users. They have their own quirks!
Regards