Quality Notification and Inspection Lots

Question

Hello everyone:
Does anyone have an SAP environment in which the quality notifications are generated automatically followed by inspection lot creation? In these instances please explain how you manage to assign the quality notifications to the related inspection lots.
I am working on a project to create quality notifications at the time of receipt into quality inspection stock then inspection lot creation/results recording and subsequent automatic closure of quality notifications.
Appreciate your feedback.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Genrally it's not the way it operates, but I can understand the way business forces their requirements on SAP team. The way you have given the requirements, it can done but everything has to be done through development. I never come across this type of requirement but you can check the following stuff.
1. As per SAP, once the material is received (any case Ware houes managed/ or simple IM) based on the master data set up system creates inspection lot and put the quality into stock. So, If you want to create q -note prior to inspection lot creation either it should be manual or independant of goods receipt. I suggest, find a user exit which fires at the time of GR (just before insp.lot gets created) and create the q-note based on the information from the p.o. There standard sap BAPI's available, so no complex developmen is required. Just need to find the correct user exit and timing of creating q-notes. What minmum required fields for your q-note? Do you want any defects info to be passed on to q-note from the data you maintain in MIC? You need see all these things before you go with creating prior q-note.
2. The biggest challenge will be mtaching the q-notes created in advance to the defects/out of spec. recorded during result.recording. Again if you have a smart developer, I think it is possible. Find out the user exit/ or any BADI which can be used when the results are out of spec., turn on standard settings of SAP to create a defect record but while q-note is generated(standard sap functionality) for defect - force your logic to find out the corresponding q-note which was already created and update it with defect info. You can explore passing p.o/item number as refe. no to q-note when it was created and same can be used in add. to your Material/plant/serial no if required.
I am sure, it's a challenging one and not the normal way we do in sap, but you have to go for it if business insists. In general its not the way I have seen, may be other experts might have come across.
Hope it helps.
Thanks,
Ram