Inspection plan with multiple specifications

I have to maintain 1 inspection plan for 2 vendors for incoming inspection.
Eg: Vendor A & B
Vendor A, I have to check parameter Fe, Mn, Si
Vendor B, I have to check parameters Fe, Moisture (For B, no need to check Mn, Si. Also Fe specification will vary for A and B vendors)
How can we do this in SAP. I cannot maintain 2 inspection plans.
Vineeth

Dear Vineeth
1) Dependent characteristic
For MIC 1000 - Vendor A specification 10 to 20, For Vendor B spec is 30 to 50
Suppose we receive 10 pc from vendor A , after GR inspection lot will be created from the 10 pc and the specification for MIC (1000) will be automaticaly assgined to the inspection lot ie 10 to 20. If the vendor was B then the specification would be 30 to 50.
In inspection lot there will be only one specificaton either it will be of Vendor A or that of B
2) In multiple specification is normaly used for Customer, country etc.
you have customer A , B , C & D with differnet specs for one single mic and you want to valuate the mic with all specification seperately at one time
In this multiple specification is used. here we can valuate the mic with all the specification of A, B , C & D and results in a seperate window in the result recording tab. accordingly you can check wehter the mic has passed as ok with all cusomter specification
Regards
Gajesh

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I would like to use one inspection plan in multiple plants. Are there any disadvantages or pitfalls? (besides the fact that if I use workcenters, the same workcenters must exist in all plants using the plan)
Marcus.

I love to use material specs. They can be used alone or in conjunction with a plan.
There are several reasons why plans must be used in certain situations.
Dynamic modification is one of the big ones. You can only use DMR in inspection plans.
You also need plans to work with PRT assignments.
Security based on workcenters. Some plants require that only certain techs or personnel perform certain inspections. And the people who can do results recording is strictly monitored. This is especially true for those using SAP in the Pharm and food industries.
Using calculated characteristics. These can only be taken advantage of if your use inspection plans.
Enginerring change management. Plans can used ECM to track and document changes. Another big requirment in Pharma and food.
If a material spec is used it is an all or nothing situation. In many places, there might be 20 or 30 characteristics on a given material spec. If you inspect by material spec then all the characteristics in the material spec are copied into the inspection lot. If you inspect in conjunction with a plan, any characteristics that don't match up with an inspection plan characteristic are appended to the last operation of the plan.
Since in many places, inspections are done at various stages, or maybe derived from batch derivation, they often want to pick and choose what tests get performed at what inspection. A good example would be 03 and 04 lots. Many places might test some characteristics via the 03 inspection that get the tests from the routing/receipe. If the test is done in a later operation, there may not be any need to repeat the test in the 04 inspection lot. Using a material spec, they wouldn't have that flexibility. Anther example are 09 recurring inspections. Many companies may only inspect a certain subset of characteristics to requalify the material at reinspection.
Capturing costs for specific testing must use an inspection plan. (yes, you can use general QM order in the material master if you want, but the operation header of a plan has various values and settings for working with costs)
And now in 6.0, if you want to use the multiple spec functionality, you have to use inspection plans.
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sbabu

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Actually it is not useful in manual inspection lot because manual inspection lot used to check your quality of material at any movement.
Means for example your raw material is in store department but some time you suspect something about quality & you take decision to check quality of material that time it can be used. So in this case result record is mandatary,
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What is the difference between this and their limitation ,,when we have to use Inspection plan and when for the Material specification ?..Any detailed explanation please
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Depent multiple specs are entered in a task list after proper assignment of vendor & material .
please follow steps
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Assignment of material 000000000000001259;1000; is not available
Message no. QP306
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