QA32-Create Variant to Find Inspection Lot

Create variant to find Inspection Lot Definition:Inspection lot is the request to inspect. Any inspection in SAP can be carried out only with inspection lot. Different inspection types were defined in SAP. Below are the important inspection types. 01 – Goods Receipt inspection (inspecting material while receiving from supplier). Automatic lot creation. Relevance to stock posting. 03 – In-process inspection. (Inspecting the material during manufacturing). Automatic lot creation. No stock relevance. 04 – Inspecting the material when receiving after completion of production. Automatic lot creation. Relevance to stock posting. 08 – Inspection during stock transfer (inspection lot will be created whenever the item is moved form one location to another). Automatic lot creation. Relevance to stock posting. 09 – Recurring Inspection (inspection for material which are handled in shelf life. To inspect the material at periodic interval). Automatic lot creation through work list. No stock relevance. 14 – Test equipment inspection used in gauge calibration 89 – Manual inspection lot creation (to record any unplanned inspection details like third party inspection etc., Manual inspection lot can be created with 89 inspection

type). Manual lot creation. No stock relevance. Some of the inspection types’ Inspection lot will be created automatically during performing the relevant transaction. (e.g. while preparing GR, 01 inspection lot will be created automatically). Inspection type like 89, has to be created manually whenever required. When the inspection type is stock relevant, initially quantity of material received will be in Quality stock, after processing the inspection lot (result recording and making usage decision), it has to be moved from Quality stock to Unrestricted stock. There is no such a process for inspection type which are Not stock relevant. Objective :At any given instant, there may be many inspection lots in the system. How to search or select lot is explained in this exercise. Prerequisites:Inspection lot must be available. Menu path :Logistics  Quality Management  Quality Inspection  Work List -Inspection  QA32 – Change Data

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Press Twice on QA32 - Display Data

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Delete any filled in fields. Press Hide dynamic selections

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4. Press on a treeview node for a topic

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Select a desired field.

to display the fields that are available

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Press the Adopt selected items Button

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7. Perform step 4 to 6 for as many fields you want to add to your selection.

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Populate the added fields with desired data.

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Maintain the following data:

Field Name Plant

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Enter a desired Plant. Insp. lot Enter the relevant origin QM inspection lots. List Choose a desired list settings setting. 10. Select menu path Goto Variants Save as variant....

11. Update the following required and optional fields: Field Name Variant name

Values

Specify either: U_ Example U_46578 Desired name Descriptio Specify a n description. 12. Press Selection variables

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Choose Variant Variables for Variant xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

13. Make sure that the traffic light for option D: Dynamic date calculation is green, otherwise Press the traffic light in column D so that it becomes green. 14. Press the Button

15. Choose a desired date calculation, e.g. Current date +/- ??? days.

16. Press Back

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17. Press Save

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18. The message bar displays “Variant xxxxxxxxxx saved”