SAP SD-PP-MM-QM integration is seamless
SAP SD-PP-MM-QM integration is seamless,
Highly recommended for manufacturing entities,
Here’s how it basically looks like,
Provided that the necessary SAP Configuration is in place, you can integrate SD, Production Planning and Quality Management with ease.
In the attachment, I showcase one of the ways to integrate Sales & Distribution, Materials Management, Production Planning & Quality Management.
Let’s say, you want to produce a finished product based on a make-to-order (customer order) process. Here’s a high-level process of how it might look like,
1. Using MM01, create a finished product & maintain the necessary views for this particular product depending on the required development.
To integrate with QM, you maintain the QM view, and assign the inspection type 03, so that the inspection lots will be generated automatically in the system.
2. Create Bill of Materials (CS01) for the finished.
3. Create Resources and state the relevant information for each resource such capacity and the operator that resource.
3. In QM, and create the MICs for the finished products, these are parameters you are quality testing to validate that the product meets the standards of manufacture.
4. Create catalog(s) if there are any and assign them to the relevant MICs.
5. Create sampling procedure(s), Inspection Methods and QM workcenters.
Note that we can reuse the Master Recipe in QM instead of using an Inspection Plan as well, and we can assign QM operations here, this reduces data redundancy.
6. Create Master Recipe (C201), and assign the resources, QM workcenters where checks can be done. Select a line item with the QM Workcenter and select inspection characteristics, in the next screen – assign MICs and the sampling procedure.
7. Next, go back to PP, and use t-code MM02 to go into the material master change mode. Input the previously created finished product, and choose the MRP4 view. Go to Production Versions, and create a new entry with the newly created Bill of Materials + Master Recipe. Click on Check, to see if the master data is picked up by the system, if all is yes, proceed to save your entries.
8. Next go to VA01, create a processing invoice, assign the relevant customer, PO details, finished material + quantity required, plant and the PI date. Once you press enter, if availability check is maintained MM, an availability check is performed. When you save the document, if its incomplete its okay, you can proceed, since the necessary info to showcase the SD-MM-PP integration is captured.
9. Next go to MD04, look for the finished product’s planned order and convert it to a process order.
10. On the process order, assign the relevant master data, once complete, move to the ‘Assignment’ tab – release the order & immediately an inspection lot is generated. Save your entries.
11. After this you can start to perform QM results recording transactions.
