SAP QM – Overview

SAP Quality management is one of the key module and this will help businesses to define the quality parameters of materials.  It will cover the quality aspects of the following, 

• Incoming Materials

• In Process materials

• Finished Materials  

Incoming Materials

           Business will provide the specifications and procured the materials from the suppliers. Once it reaches to the plant, the same will be tested for the Quality parameters against the PO Specifications and provide the decision on the material acceptance / rejection.

In process Materials

          In the manufacturing, there will be various internal processes will be carried out before the Finished products. So, the quality parameters will be tested after completion of the intermediate processes and provide the result. The result is the key for the next process. If semi-finished product passes the quality, then only it will be moved to next process.

Finished Materials

       The Final testing will be done as per the client specs or the required norms. Once testing is completed and Found OK, then the product is qualified to dispatch. It will have dispatched with respective details of the product including the test certificate/ inspection certificates.

For the above activities, SAP QM Module is tightly integrated with other modules like Material Management(MM), Sales and Distribution(SD) and Production Planning(PP).