What is SAP QM
The following training tutorials guide everything about the SAP quality management (QM) module and its importance in ERP SAP systems.
SAP Quality Management (QM) is one of the important modules of SAP that controls the quality of products. While other SAP software may be able to run your warehouse efficiently and ensure the flow of goods and services is optimum, they cannot be able to guarantee the quality of the products that you handle. So to maintain the quality of the products, it is better to use the SAP Quality Management system (QM).
What is SAP Quality Management?
SAP QM is one of the important modules of the SAP system that comes with complementary components that are able to cater to the management of materials, maintenance of the plant as well as production planning. The SAP Quality Management platform is ideal for use in a warehouse and can be used in the inspection of materials as they come into the facility and also for monitoring the manufacturing operations. This allows for the materials that are processed and manufactured in-house to be checked before they can be released and reach the warehouse.
SAP Quality management (QM) comes with four primary components that make sure to maintain high quality.
Inspection plan
This is the component that is tasked with a variety of duties that are related to production planning about how the inspection of the product is done. SAP QM defines, how it is to be inspected, how the inspections should be carried out, and at the same time the aspects of the item that are to be looked into to ascertain their quality, including the tests and equipment that are required to conduct the quality inspection. This ensures that every part of the materials is taken under the respective tests without any one person being tasked with the responsibility of storing all that information or the test procedures.
Quality notification
It is one of the important components of SAP quality management. What if in the middle of production something goes wrong? How would you get to know this? The quality notification component notifies you of any problems that have been identified by customers on products that have been produced by your company as well as those of vendors. That way, you’re able to tell where the quality lapse is. The best part is that this component can be adjusted to include new notifications, for instance, those that might have occurred in the line of production or elsewhere within the company.
Quality Inspection
There are two ways that this can go. Initially, this occurs when someone that is in the quality department takes on the task of inspecting an item. Keep in mind the procedure, in this case, is determined by the quality inspection plans. The quality inspection can be manual or automatic, in which the automatic scenario is instigated by the movement of materials that can include goods receipts and goods issues.
Reports
All of these components of the SAP Quality Management would not be useful if there were no comprehensive reporting. This system is able to show how many times a certain material has been defective and also defects that were found on the deliveries that were outbound. That way, you’re aware of the areas that your company needs to tighten and clean up.
Considering the number of materials that come out of any one company, it would be virtually impossible for you to account for the quality of products that you manufacture. This is why SAP Quality Management is very important for the health business.
Refer to SAP Hana QM Tutorial that explains real-time scenarios and issues.