1. Quality Assurance (Unplanned Inspections) Scenario Overview
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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.
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:
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2. Quality Assurance (Unplanned Inspections) Scenario Overview
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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.
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:
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3. Quality Assurance (Unplanned Inspections) Process Details: Initiating Inspections
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The Initiating Inspections business process allows you to create and prepare inspections and samples manually for:
Inspections at goods receipt Receiving inspections for supplier deliveries, first articles, customer returns, and stock transfers
Inspections in production In-process control and final inspections for production
Inspections in shipping Final inspections for customer shipments
As part of this process, you create the inspection manually in the system and create, draw, 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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Inspection Plans Quick Guide

4. Quality Assurance (Unplanned Inspections) Process Details: Processing Inspections
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The Processing Inspections business process allows you to process, monitor, and analyze inspections of products :
Inspections at goods receipt Receiving inspections for supplier deliveries, first articles, customer returns, and stock transfers
Inspections in production 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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Sample Management
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5. Quality Assurance (Unplanned Inspections) Business Value
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Key Benefits
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
This scenario provides a comprehensive approach to managing quality that helps reduce costs and enhance competitiveness.
You can run quality assurance across the supply chain.
SAP Business ByDesign helps your company to efficiently manage quality assurance and provides advanced quality planning and quality control functions that are easy to use and to adapt.
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6. Quality Assurance (Unplanned Inspections) Scenario Flow
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