Quality Assurance (Unplanned Inspections)

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Initiating Processing
Inspections Inspections

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Explorer The Quality Assurance (Unplanned Inspections) business scenario enables you to check the quality of products on demand. It allows
you to create inspections manually to complement, for example, goods receipts, production activities, or goods issues.

Scenario/Processes With this scenario, you can create, monitor, and analyze these inspections, record results, make quality decisions, and initiate corrective or
preventive actions as necessary.

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The following business roles are involved in this scenario:

Quality Quality
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Initiating Processing
Inspections Inspections

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Explorer The Quality Assurance (Unplanned Inspections) business scenario enables you to check the quality of products on demand. It allows
you to create inspections manually to complement, for example, goods receipts, production activities, orProcess
goods issues.
mainly driven by the user

Scenario/Processes With this scenario, you can create, monitor, and analyze these inspections, record results, make quality Process
decisions, anddriven
mainly initiate
by corrective
the system or
preventive actions as necessary.
Manual process not supported by the
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Process that communicates with third-

Scenario Flow party software (mouse-over for details)

Process with relevance to Financials

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The following business roles are involved in this scenario: Related scenario

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Process Details: Initiating Inspections
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Initiating Inspections X X

Create Prepare Processing

inspection samples Inspections

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Explorer The Initiating Inspections business process allows you to create and prepare inspections Performed by
and samples manually for: Quality Engineer
Inspector
 Inspections at goods receipt Employee
Scenario/Processes Receiving inspections for supplier deliveries, first articles, customer returns, and stock
transfers In the Work Center(s)
 Inspections in production Quality Control
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In-process control and final inspections for production Inbound Logistics
Internal Logistics
 Inspections in shipping Production Control Outbound
Scenario Flow
Final inspections for customer shipments Logistics
As part of this process, you create the inspection manually in the system and create, draw,
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and prepare the samples for the inspection.
Note that planned inspections are triggered automatically based on a suitable logistics or
production model.

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Process Details: Processing Inspections
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Processing Inspections X

Record
Initiating Inspect Decide
inspection
Inspections samples about quality
results
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The Processing Inspections business process allows you to process, monitor, and analyze Performed by
inspections of products : Inspector
Quality Engineer
 Inspections at goods receipt Quality Manager
Receiving inspections for supplier deliveries, first articles, customer returns, and stock
transfers In the Work Center(s)
 Inspections in production Quality Control
In-process control and final inspections for production
 Inspections in shipping
Final inspections for customer shipments
As part of this process, you inspect the samples taken for inspection, record results, make a
decision about the quality of the inspected goods, and, if necessary, trigger corrective or
preventive actions.
Planned inspections are triggered automatically based on a suitable logistics or production
model.
Unplanned inspections are triggered manually by the user.
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Initiate Execute Finalize

Record
Create Prepare Inspect Decide
inspection
inspection samples samples about quality
results

Scenario Overview Key Benefits

Explorer This scenario provides a comprehensive
approach to managing quality that helps
reduce costs and enhance
Scenario/Processes competitiveness.
You can run quality assurance across the
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SAP Business ByDesign helps your
Scenario Flow company to efficiently manage quality
assurance and provides advanced quality
planning and quality control functions that
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 Continuously improve and make product quality and services a key differentiator
 Avoid costs associated with rework, scrap, warranty, or product liability
 Reduce costs for sample-drawing activities and for inspections using integrated tools,
such as acceptance and adaptive sampling
 React quickly to internal problems, legal requirements, and market demands, and
visualize processes
 Access intuitive, transparent, and traceable documentation, including ISO-compliant
sampling plans
 Use analysis reports for quality assurance, such as defect analysis and inspection
analysis

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Scenario Flow

Quality Control
Inbound Logistics
Outbound Logistics Quality Control
Internal Logistics
Production Control

Initiating Processing
Inspections Inspections

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Work center in which

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mainly
driven by Work
the user Center
Business
document flow

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