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SAP QM (Quality Management) Hints and Tips Quality Management focuses on the market requirements for quality management procedures, the business processes in a company, as well as data processing support for integrating quality management functions in the logistics supply chain. The main task of a quality management system is to ensure that at every stage of the logistics supply chain, business processes and the resulting products fulfill the quality requirements that have been laid down for them. The integration of the QM application component in the R/3 System allows quality management tasks to be combined with those in other applications (such as materials management, production, sales and distribution and cost accounting) and supports tasks associated with quality planning, quality inspection and quality control. In addition, it controls the creation of quality certificates and manages problems with the help of quality notifications.

Final confirmation of prod.order shows in inspection lot Have anybody encountered a following problem (version 4.6C): Production confirms production orders using tra CO19 Time event. Quality department has their inspection lot with type 04 and EARLY lot creation, i.e. only one inspection lot for the prod. order unless batch and/or storage location is to be changed. Sometimes (too often) the planned amount of the production order and the actual amount are not equal and hence Quality dep. doesn't know when to make UD. Is there any way that system can be set to notify (user status ?) QM people when prod. order status is CNF --> inspection lot status is xxx ???? Any help is highly appreciated. --------------------------------------------------------I don't see your business point of view but I assume that you do not want to make UD before production confirmation. Am I right? In that case you can make UD with transaction QVM2 i.e only confirmed inspection lots are listed. --------------------------------------------------------QVM2 doesn't work since it doesn't separate inspection lots (or actually production orders) which supposed to have more goods from those which are ok. Only those inspection lots created by production orders which have FINAL confirmation status should be included - not the partial confirmation.

--------------------------------------------------------There is no link between the order status and the inspection lot status. Since you are working with early lot creation though, once the GR is made there will be an automatic change to the lot status to SPRQ (assuming you are posting to QI stock). Again, this not tied to the production confirmations, but if you are using auto GR with confirmations, might be useful. Reading you post, looks like the samples are sent to QC upfront during the production process. They finish testing and await the confirmation and the GR to make the UD. In this case, watching the SPRQ status will help. We actually worked around similar requirement by building a selection profile for the inspection lot that includes lots that have SPRQ and have been inspected. If you really need to link order status = CNF to a status in the inspection lot, you will have to build an enhancement within the confirmation process.

Inspection lot vs Quality Certificate I am trying to assign several inspection lots to a Quality Certificate, any body has done that? Once again, a lot that was created during the production process and the lot for finished goods. How can this be made possible? --------------------------------------------------------You cannot assign inspection lots to a CoA. You can only specify which characteristics you want to appear on a CoA via the COA profile (transaction QC02). Via the field "result origin" you can specify from where the values should be derived: from batch characteristics, from material specifications, from inspection results, or from materials/batches of the production chain. Via the last option and via the button "materials" you can specify which materials and lot origins are used to find the results. But this only works if you have the "batch where-used list" working for the finished product that you print a CoA for. So in this way you can influence what kind of inspection lot will be used, to get the inspection results for a characteristic which will be printed on a CoA --------------------------------------------------------If they are all part of the same process, you just need to specify they are coming from the production chain and the system will follow the process back until it finds the required MICs. Since it is the inprocess and after production lots you could also transfer the results to the batch master and just read them from the batch master. ---------------------------------------------------------

Thanks. Where should we specify that the results are coming from the production. --------------------------------------------------------In the certificate profile, for characteristic, the results origin and Insp spec origin should be from production chain. --------------------------------------------------------Are you talking about in the config section? I am sorry having hard time to understand. --------------------------------------------------------They are talking about setting this directly in the certificate profile itself. When you create the profile you will first create a header then you will add the characteristics in the detail screen. It is here you can set the results origin. --------------------------------------------------------You cannot explicity assign inspection lots to a COA, but you can retrieve certain insp. lots during your COA generation routine. Here is the approach that we use to do this in 46C: 1) modify your COA generation program (which I'm guessing is some derivative of RQCAAP00) to search for lots associated with the shipped batches. This requires delivery items that are batch-relevant, and each inspection lot must have the batch field filled. 2) create a new Results Origin, in this new origin assign the function module 'QC02_INSPECTION_CHAR_MVALUE', which will sum the test results of individual characteristics 3) go to your relevant cert profile, and for the desired inspection characteristics assign the new Results Origin that was created in step 2) above. Tracking changes of an inspection plan without ECM

Question :We need to track down changes made to an inspection plan; i.e. who did what and when. I know that I can see the last change in the header page (administrative data) and related documents (for material) in Object history but this is not what I need. So, is it possible to store and review changes without implementing engineering change management? If we have to implement ECM - what functionalities of it? Answer :We have tested ECM and we dediced to use it, the most important advantage (in my opinion), are:

1. Track all the changes in the object (Inspection Plan): When, what, who, etc. 2. You could programing all the changes for a especific date, and evaluate each change before of release it. 3. Only the user that knows the Authorization Number, can do the changes. Finally, the funcionalitie could be easy to use or could be so "burocratic" (I hope be clear); for example: you can release an authorization for all the changes or release one authorization for each change. Also you can define that each Authorization must be released in one step or and all steps that you define (user status). We decide to start with a esay way and in the future evaluate a better practice.

Defect recording and catalog profile Question :I don't find reason why our system uses standard catalog profile , when we activate notification during defect recording in results recording. I have assigned our own catalog profile to notification type which is used in production (inspection type 03) and it works when manually activating. But.. when activation is made during results recording , it brings allways standard profile Qm...00001. The problem is quite awkward, because we have almost all type of catalogs in use and there is lot of catalogs under catalog types. Answer :You must also set the catalog profile for the Defect Report Type. Use following IMG Path: QM, Quality Notifications, Defects Recording (then choose Define Defect Report Type). choose your Report Type and you'll see where you assign the catalog profile. Table for Q-plan operation

Question :Does anybody know how to find the related table which contain the operation number of Qinspection plan? Because I want to make the query with those information. Answer :Inspection Plan PLKO Inspection plan Header Inspection Plan MAPL Material Assignement

Inspection Plan PLPO Operation Details Inspection Plan PLMK Inspection plan characteristics

QM inspection lot sample size Question :If an inspection lot has many defects, users want to change the sample size to reflect 100% inspection, sample size is set by sample procedure in material master. However, I am not able to change the sample size as I receive an error message QA267 (You cannot correct the actual quantity, since a serial number is required) transaction QAC3 I think is used. Answer :You cannot change the sample size normally. You can correct lot qty. but a new sample size is not calculated that I am aware of. If you want to have the option of doing additional results recording then set the control indicators on the MIC's for either NO SCOPE or LARGER SCOPE. Then you should be able to add as many additional results as you'd like. The downside to that is I believe you will need to do manual valuations when closing the MIC's. How to avoid creating inspection lot automatically?

I had set inspection type 04 in the material master . Now I don't want the system create inspection lot auotmatically, I want create it manual. How I can do that? Run TCode SPRO. Click on SAP Reference IMG or press F5. GoTo Quality Management->Quality Inspection->Inspection Lot Creation-> and execute 'Inspection for Goods Movements'. Select 'Deactivate Quality Inspection for a Movement Type' on the poped-up window. Check the 'QM not active' check box for relevant movement type. All the best. If you only want to deactivate it for a material you do that in the QM plant view of the material. Go to the inspection types and uncheck the "Active" box on the line for your 04 inspection. You would then need to make sure that 89 or 07 are active to create a manual one. Another option is to leave the 04's active but set up your inspection plan so that ALL lots are skip lots. Set up the Auto UD to process all skip lots. you can set a window so that they hang around for an hour or so, or 24 hrs if you want. If you don't want the material in QI stock make sure you also uncheck "Inspectiion stock" indicator for the 04 inspection type set up in the material master.

This way, all material goes to unrestricted, inspection lots are available if you want to use them and the lots are automatically closed for you after a given amount of time. Trouble in creating inspection lot before sales order delivery

I am trying to create inspection before delivery of Sales order, what i did is: 1. maintained insp. type (insp. before deliv. with s.o.) 2. maintaine inspection plan ( relevent for goods issue at header) 3. activated insp. with tlist, auto assignment, insp with charac. in qm view of material master, Inspection lot is generated once i deliver the sales order but, it doesn't picks up inspection plan) pl. tell the probable causes of error. From your note it sounds like your getting your inspection lot generated...but no plan assinged. Is this correct? I also assume your using inspection type 10 since it sounds like your getting the inspection lot created when the delivery is created. Therefore I'm assuming your issue is that the inspection plan isn't being assigned automatically. There are several problems that could be happenning. When you edit the inspection lot and assign the plan, is it picked up automatically then? If so then I'd recheck the material master and make sure that inspection type 10 has auto assignment on. If you feel that the assignment isn't happening at the right time, just know that the inspection lot can't be released until the delivery has been picked. Without quantiities and possibly batch numbers, (if batch managed), no sample sizes and such can be calculated. If the assignment isn't happening at all, even manually, then you probably have a problem with the plan usage vs. the configuration for the inspection type. Or possibly a key date issue. Or the material was never assigned to a plan to start with. I'm not sure I helped you much though. If nothing above triiggered something that works, Try to give us some more details and we'll see what we can do. Check the following settings:

- Inspection types for the inspection origin - Inspecion plan usage for the inspection type - Usage of the inspection plan (this must match the usage of the inspection type) - Status of the plan - Setting in inspection origin: status. (this must match the status of the plan) - Validity of the inspection plan - If all these settings are correct, the inspection plan will be selected! Ok. that helps a little!! Now we have to make sure an inspection lot REALLY wasn't generated!! Not that I don't believe you but.... Were you able to Post goods the delivery? If so, then you really didn't get an inspection lot generated. (you only mentioned that you picked the delivery). The reason I ask is that most of the common QM worklists will not display an inspection lot if it has been created but does not have the "REL" status on it. Which SD/QM lots will not have that status until properly picked. Therefore, to find these, you need to create special variants for your worklists. Or do a manual search for individual lots. Also, check the timing on when you created the delivery and when you created the conditon record. Make sure the you have tested it using a Sales Order and a Delivery that you know was created. AFTER the conditon record was created. DO NOT use a copy sales order. The sales order should be created from scratch without reference the first time after creating the new condition record. Also of course check all the other things mentiond by the other posters. Quality Score

I have recently become a team leader of a SAP R/3 Release 4.6D Implementation on the QM Module. I am currently trying to set up quality scores for various usage decisions and was wondering what views there are as to the acceptance reange of a vendor maybe i.e. 80 or below a block maybe required. Any help appreciated I presume you are looking at possibilities to automatically control the stock posting depending on the UD score.

While creating the selected set codes, you have the field "Posting proposal for UD", which can be selected depending on the score you have defined. Like for a score less than 80, you could choose "blocked stock" etc. This would also mean that you have to select the background processing indicator (Automatic Posting) for the above to take place. That's exactly what I'm trying to do , I've managed to set up the UDs and put some bogus quality scores in for now. what i'm really after is a clue to the figures used. So that I can use them as a starting block. Also does SAP have a set limit ie score of 80 is poor ?? Thanks for the input, I've set up various acceptance decisions and want to give scores to them which will affect the overall score of a vendor. I think your right and it needs to be business specific. thanks You may go through these detailed notes supplied by SAP which give an insight on how to define your quality score with examples. I had sent it as an attachment. I am sending it again without attachment. The quality score procedure is defined in the inspection setup for the material master at plant level. You can define a default value for this procedure in the inspection type. Requirements o If you want to use quality score procedures that access the weighted shares of defects for the characteristics, you must maintain the characteristic weights. o If you want to use quality score procedures that access the quality score of the characteristics, you must maintain the defect classes. o If you want to use quality score procedures, in which the system calculates the share of scrap, you must: - Check whether procedures for estimating the scrap share have been defined in Customizing - Assign suitable procedures for estimating the scrap share to the characteristics in the task list - Identify inspection characteristics as relevant for scrap in their control indicators Standard Settings A number of commonly used procedures for determining the quality score are implemented in the standard system: o o o -

Quality score from the usage decision Quality score from the share of defects in the lot Quality score from the shares of defects for the characteristics From the maximum share of defects

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From the weighted average share of defects Quality score from the quality score of the characteristics From the minimum (worst) quality score From the weighted average quality score

SAP Recommendation o Use the procedure in the standard system. o Decide on certain procedures for each inspection type; if possible, do not differentiate according to material groups or plants. Activities 1. Determine which procedures for calculating the quality score should be used. You can make a distinction on the basis of the: - Plant - Inspection type 2. Modify the table of quality score procedures according to your needs. If the procedures contained in the standard system are not sufficient, you must create additional procedures using function modules. 3. Define the quality score procedures in the Default values for the inspection type or in the inspection setup for the material. Further Notes Example for representing the quality score procedure according to VDA-1 (VDA = Association of German automobile manufacturers). According to VDA-1 the best quality score = 100, the worst = 1. In this industry sector, the vendors are divided into three classes: a) Quality score >= 96 b) Quality score >= 90 and < 96 c) Quality score < 90 The formula for calculating the quality score is: QS = 101 - (1 * A1 + 5 * A2 + 30 * A3 + 100 * A4): A5 A list of the characters and their meanings follows: -

A1 = Number of goods receipts without defects A2 = Number of goods receipts with minor defects A3 = Number of goods receipts with major defects A4 = Number of goods receipts with critical defects A5 = Total number of goods receipts

To reproduce the procedure in the system according to VDA-1, proceed as follows:

1. Define defect classes with the following quality scores: a) Critical defect with quality score = 101-100 = 1 b) Major defect with quality score = 101-30 = 71 c) Minor defect with quality score = 101-5 = 96 2. Assign these defect classes to the codes defined in the defect catalog. 3. Define defect codes in the task list characteristics in case a characteristic is rejected. 4. Choose the procedure contained in the standard system that determines the quality score using the minimal quality scores from all inspection characteristics. In this way, an inspection lot with no defects receives a quality score of 100, an inspection lot with minor defects receives a quality score of 96, an inspection lot with major defects receives a score of 71 and an inspection lot with critical defects receives a score of 1. On this basis you can classify vendors according to VDA-1 in the QM info system, if you have predefined the corresponding class limits in the info system. Question : Subject : How to exclude QI stock in MRP?

Dear Folks, Does anyone know how to exclude QI consigment stock from MRP calculation since i notice that stock are including in availability stock in MRP (T-code MD04)? Thx in advance Regards, Reply : Subject : How to exclude QI stock in MRP? Hi, The configuration of the combination of the availability check group (from material master) and check rule (default is normally 'PP') controls which stocks, receipts and issues are to be taken into account in MRP. Please note, I would normally advise that QI stocks be taken into account as companies would normally expect material to be approved and you do not want to make additional product just because the goods are sitting in the quality department. You should only exclude QI stocks if the rejection rate exceeds 50% (i.e. you do NOT expect the product to be approved!) - You would normally control the USE of QI stocks by limiting the availability check on goods issue (e.g. check rule 'B', 'BO' etc) so that unapproved goods cannot be issued.

If you have product that cannot be used then they should be placed in something like blocked stock - as a default, this is normally excluded from the availability check. If the problem is that the goods are still in QI when you are expecting to issue them to a sales order, then check your lead times and expecially the Goods Receipt Processing Time in the material master as this is supposed to include the lead time for quality inspection (i.e. it represents the time between completion of production and when stock is available for issue) Hope that information has helped you Reply : Subject : How to exclude QI stock in MRP? You' ve given beautiful explanation for including the Quality stock for MRP run. Keep it up. Question : Subject : How to tranfer inspection results from material to material?

Hi QM experts, Inspection results have been recorded for material 'A' batch '1' for inspection type '04'. If we produce material 'B' batch '2' using material 'A' batch '1' as a component (a new process order) is there any way to tranfer inspection results from the previous inspection lot to this new inspection lot? We face the similar problem during material to material downgrade (regrade) when we have to manually create an inspection lot for the new material and enter all results from the previous lot for the origin material. your suggestions and comments are welcome thanks Reply : Subject : How to tranfer inspection results from material to material? Hello, The only I know is that if create a cutting order, the new batch inherit all the batch values the original batch had. No QM values will be inherited unless they linked to batch (i.e. MIC linked to a class characteristic). Reply : Subject : How to tranfer inspection results from material to material? Hi, yes, it will be possible in those cases the batch-where-used-list will be extended with the batch history. Check transaction MB56. Enter material, batch and plant (the one you want to issue the

CoA) and press top-down. By this you will see the history of the final batch and all other material/batches used to produce the final batch. Check the certificate profile for the correct settings (what's the SAP release you are working with?). Be aware that not all processes create an entry in the Batch-where-used-list, but normal process orders will do as some other processes like UBSD (Transfer order with SD). Regards Reply : Subject : How to tranfer inspection results from material to material? Thanks, What is cutting order? Thanks, I checked MB56. It does not show anything either for top down or bottom up....I am getting this message "Top-down expansion is not possible for the batch selected" I used MB57 to build up batch infor too.. Please explain how doing a MB56 will transfer inspection results recorded in the inspection lot ( not in the batch) will be tranferred to the new batch of the new material. Am I missing something? We are on release 4.6C. thanks once again Reply : Subject : How to tranfer inspection results from material to material? Hi, the batch-where-used list will be utilized to track back what batches had been used to produce the actual batch (in case of top-down). Along this path the CoA process can check at each level if there are valid inspection results in prior batches. Example. You produced a batch and made a full check. Then you take the batch and re-pack it, e.g. from a drum into a bottle. The chemical and pyhscial properities will not change. So you will not re-inspect. At this point it doesmn't matter if you create a new batch number or use the same one, but you might have a different material number for that new product-package-combination. Now the CoA-process will check at the first level for any valid inspection lots. Nothing found? OK, then the report checks the MB56 and founds the drum material and the inspection results. The valid results as requested in the CoA profile will be drawn. If you have multiple stages in the Batch-where-used list, the CoA process will go back as long as required to find valid results for all MIC's in your CoA profile. You must consider all the QM processes impacting this, like skipped/canceled inspection lots/MIC's and others. But the CoA profile provides controls to restrict the levels you go back, the inspection type and others. There is also a system status in the inspection lot which can be used to exclude a insp. lot from beeing taken into the evaluation path.

Lets focus again on MB56. This transaction provides a flag to indicate exiting inspection lots per batch. This will be showns by an information 'i' behind the batch- Click on that icon and you will see the inspection lot or a pre-selection list in case there isa more than one inspection lot for that batch. Basically the CoA process is capable to draw results from any stage if there are valid results, to conclude this. Hope that helps Reply : Subject : How to tranfer inspection results from material to material? Point of clarification: Do you need the results for a CoA? Or for other purposes. If you just need to print them out for a CoA then what QMDude is suggesting should work if your building the Batch where used list correctly and your properly issuing your raw materials to your production PRIOR to needing the results. If you want to populate the batch values of the finished product so that results are available for selecting the FP material via batch search strategies and such. then you'll need to do some custom programing. I might suggest incorporating the process in a follow-up action that utilizes the batch-where used list. But to do that you must have real-time or near real-time completion of your production orders. I.e. the issues to the order need to always get done before the UD is done. Question : Subject : Can inbound delivery be reversed when UD is made and QM active?

Dear All, Our client is a pharmaceutical company. We are implementing SAP R/3 4.6B with materials requiring batch management (QM is active). My problem relates to the processes of inbound delivery, Usage decision, goods receipt. The problem arises when end user while inputting the batch number in inbound delivery makes a mistake (wrong batch number and/or wrong quantity). The inbound delivery creates inspection lot, and user assigns usage decision without realizing that there is an error in input data. If now, he realizes that he made an error and wants to change the batch number, system will not allow. User cannot even reverse/cancel the inbound delivery. And the erroneous data will continue with the system as we cannot reverse any document after usage decision is taken. Is there any other way out? How can we reverse inbound delivery after usage decision is taken or How can we change the batch number?" This problem could even arise if end user created a wrong batch number while creating master itself and later realises it.

If any of you had faced this problem earlier,please post the methods you adopted to solve it. Thanks in advance, with regards, Reply : Subject : Can inbound delivery be reversed when UD is made and QM active? if we delete delivery, system will create delivery with another number....But, we need delivery document with the same number, but batch number rectified. i hope you got it. why you use 309? In my opinion, you should delete the batch in VL02N first. if necessary, then delete the Delivery and re-create. Thank you for the reply. from the discussion, I understand that one cannot reverse GR once it is posted. After discusing with my teammates, I concluded it is better to use "311" movement type rather than 309...in the sense one may rectify batch number in 311 but may end up entering wrong receiving material...it will create another headache. what do you say? post your reply With regards, Reply : Subject : Can inbound delivery be reversed when UD is made and QM active? I am operating system 4.6C at a public school distribution center and I am using batch management on our food products for our CNS department. If we make an error in the batch management and have to change a batch number to correct a mistake in the data I use TCode MB!B MovType 309 to make a transfer of inventory. I transfer the quant of the problem batch number to the same material master number but I assign a new batch number with the correct identifying parameters in the newly assigned batch. Reply : Subject : Can inbound delivery be reversed when UD is made and QM active? You can always reverse GR by using MBST ( Cancilation of Mat. docuement). I am wokring extensively on the Management of Batches.

Let me know if I can assit you .. Cheers, Reply : Subject : Can inbound delivery be reversed when UD is made and QM active? So after u do Inbound Delivery, a lot is also released that is brought in Unrestricted stock. Now after that u realize that its wrong data that has feded inside. so do followig.. 1. Make a GRN with movement type 102 i.e. return to vendor..for the same quantity 2. Make inbound delivery again and this time u give correct information. Reply : Subject : Can inbound delivery be reversed when UD is made and QM active? If attempting to reverse the GR (either by MBST or by MB01-102 wrt inbound delivery) you need to ensure the QI (post to quality inspection flag) is de-selected since the stock is no longer in QI status. Also, as far as I know, the usage decision itself cannot be reversed. I've had this similar problem before (but was not even using inbound deliveries). Tracking changes of an inspection plan without ECM

Question :We need to track down changes made to an inspection plan; i.e. who did what and when. I know that I can see the last change in the header page (administrative data) and related documents (for material) in Object history but this is not what I need. So, is it possible to store and review changes without implementing engineering change management? If we have to implement ECM - what functionalities of it? Answer :We have tested ECM and we dediced to use it, the most important advantage (in my opinion), are: 1. Track all the changes in the object (Inspection Plan): When, what, who, etc. 2. You could programing all the changes for a especific date, and evaluate each change before of release it. 3. Only the user that knows the Authorization Number, can do the changes. Finally, the funcionalitie could be easy to use or could be so "burocratic" (I hope be clear); for example: you can release an authorization for all the changes or release one authorization for each change. Also you can define that each Authorization must be released in one step or and all steps that you define (user status).

We decide to start with a esay way and in the future evaluate a better practice.

Defect recording and catalog profile Question :I don't find reason why our system uses standard catalog profile , when we activate notification during defect recording in results recording. I have assigned our own catalog profile to notification type which is used in production (inspection type 03) and it works when manually activating. But.. when activation is made during results recording , it brings allways standard profile Qm...00001. The problem is quite awkward, because we have almost all type of catalogs in use and there is lot of catalogs under catalog types. Answer :You must also set the catalog profile for the Defect Report Type. Use following IMG Path: QM, Quality Notifications, Defects Recording (then choose Define Defect Report Type). choose your Report Type and you'll see where you assign the catalog profile. Table for Q-plan operation

Question :Does anybody know how to find the related table which contain the operation number of Qinspection plan? Because I want to make the query with those information. Answer :Inspection Plan PLKO Inspection plan Header Inspection Plan MAPL Material Assignement Inspection Plan PLPO Operation Details Inspection Plan PLMK Inspection plan characteristics

QM inspection lot sample size Question :If an inspection lot has many defects, users want to change the sample size to reflect 100% inspection, sample size is set by sample procedure in material master. However, I am not able

to change the sample size as I receive an error message QA267 (You cannot correct the actual quantity, since a serial number is required) transaction QAC3 I think is used. Answer :You cannot change the sample size normally. You can correct lot qty. but a new sample size is not calculated that I am aware of. If you want to have the option of doing additional results recording then set the control indicators on the MIC's for either NO SCOPE or LARGER SCOPE. Then you should be able to add as many additional results as you'd like. The downside to that is I believe you will need to do manual valuations when closing the MIC's LIS in QM

Question :Please help me to activate info system in QM. When I want to execute any report in info system,there is a message that no data exist,however there is a data . Kindly suggest me the solution. Answer :check if you have entries (in 40b): SPRO > QM > QC > QM-IS > ... Transaction codes of reports in which "no data exist" message comes are as below. MCXB MCXD MCVB MCVD 1) check info-structure behind LIS transaction eg: MCXB >Goto >>Other info structure >>>S161 2) create version for info structure: SPRO (40b) >Logistics-General >>Logistics Information System (LIS) >>>Logistics Data Warehouse

>>>>Data Basis >>>>>Applications >>>>>>Tools >>>>>>>Setup of Statistical Data >>>>>>>>Application-Specific Setup of Statistical Data >>>>>>>>>Perform setup - Quality Management >>>>>>>>>>Setup: Copy/delete versions (OLIX) (copy version "000" to "&(1") >>>>>>>>>>>Set up statistics in QM-IS (OLIQ) 3) add user parameter MCR to your user in transaction US3 with "&(1" so that you have the chance to run eg MCXB with a different version other than "000". obs: just as a test i got a error in my system while running OLIQ but i suppose this is due to the fact that im in 40b in HP1: "Message no. QG 744: Internal error in READ TABLE subrc = 4 table XMCQALS insp. lot 000000000011"