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Dear QM Experts,
We have Quality process as below,
Vendor supplies 20 to 25 batches of a raw material in once consignment.
In validation mode(new vendor for the material),  8 batches need to be inspected, and other batches should be skipped.
In next consignment vendor supplies 30 batches,   out of which 8 batches need to be inspected, other batches should be skipped.
So Plant quality inspect, 8 batches per consignment, for 4 consequitive consignment(vendor deliveries).
Vendor some time supplies more than one consignment in one day, but plant quality will follow above procedure for inspection.
Kindly suggest how to map the dynamic modification rule in system.
if there is no standard solution, can we use any user exit to meet the above requirement ?
Thanks
Regards

Answer 1

This is one area I highly suggest to clients that they adapt a standard business practice that is recognized by most business.  Use an ANSI standard or some other protocol that is recognized for your industry.  SAP supports many of these in their standard, out of the box software.  Why reinvent the wheel when there are many established inspection processes for most businesses.  Usually these requirements can be historically traced to someone who at one time decided to reinvent the wheel and they established it as a practice at the firm. As a manual practice you can do whatever you want.  When you computerize, you should adopt industry best practices.
BTW: you never mention in your question what happens after the 4th consignment delivery.  Do you not take any more from the vendor?
"So Plant quality inspect, 8 batches per consignment, for 4 consequitive consignment(vendor deliveries)."
Are the all skipped after that?
In your case why not just inspect every third or fourth batch regardless of consignments?
Craig