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Quality Management with SAP
Link to the QM title: http://bit.ly/SAPERPQM
Link to Free Reading Sample: http://bit.ly/SAPQMRS
This book has taken a deep-dive approach to provide in-depth and comprehensive coverage to just about all the business processes in which you can or want to integrate QM. It begins with covering the enterprise structure of other components whose understanding is important for you to run QM business processes and which also reflects the inter-dependencies of other components’ enterprise structures. The configuration undertaken is then put to actual use to show you the impact of the configuration on the business processes. The connecting point here is that a business process must be comprehensively understood first, before proceeding to model and configure it in the SAP ERP system. Two chapters, namely, Quality Planning and Quality Inspection are devoted to help you gain a comprehensive understanding of the concepts, basics and fundamentals that forms the backbone of QM.
The book then transitions to cover QM integration with MM, PP, SD and PM components of SAP ERP system and also explains how to optimize your business processes by using several latent features that are often not as frequently used to bring about business processes improvements. This book moves toward conclusion by covering the quality evaluation, quality monitoring, and reporting capabilities, including the flexibility to create self-defined queries. Finally, the book concludes by covering how you can use QM component to continue to improve or incorporate business processes improvements by implementing or integrating your company’s internal or external audits, stability study and FMEA and control plan.
In summary, we structure the book along the following lines:
In Part 1 of this book we cover Quality Management Core Concepts. In Chapter 1, we cover the real life business processes and how you can map them in SAP ERP system. Chapter 2 is on the enterprise structure that you’ll need to ensure is available in the system, and which completely depends on the enterprise structures of other components. The enterprise structure forms the backbone of the SAP ERP system that helps in mapping the important business processes of the company. Eventually, reporting also takes important elements from the enterprise structure. Your understanding of enterprise structures and even master data is crucial to implement QM component. Chapter 3 covers the basics of Quality Planning and includes the important QM master data that you need to setup as a one-time activity to get your business processes up and running. Since QM component heavily integrates with other components, therefore this chapter accords due coverage to master data of other components that must also be available in the system. The master data that you set up in finds its actual and practical application in Chapter 4, which is on Quality Inspection, along with several optimization and quick tips to improve and expedite your business processes. This chapter also covers a relatively-newer functionality known as Multiple Specification to cater to the business needs of process industry.
In Part 2 of this book, we move forward with covering Quality Management Integration with Logistics components. Chapter 5 covers QM integration with Materials Management (MM) component, that is, QM integration with procurement and inventory management sub-processes of MM component. This chapter also covers a specific section that caters to business scenario when companies are embarking on implementing QM component for the first time. Chapter 6 is on QM integration with Production Planning (PP) component, and covers not just the covers QM integration in process manufacturing (PP-PI), but also discrete and repetitive manufacturing. PP-PI extensively uses batch management functionality hence this chapter accordingly accords due coverage.
Chapter 7 is on QM integration with Sales and Distribution (SD) and shows the controls that the system offers before the company delivers goods to the customer. If there is any customer-specific quality inspection that the company needs to ensure, then this chapter covers it.
The focus of Chapter 8 is on QM integration with Plant Maintenance (PM) component vis-à-vis Test Equipment Management. Test equipment management attends to calibration of laboratory and other test equipment that the company needs to ensure, so that test results of vendor-procured materials or company’s in-house produced products are reliable and accurate. Chapter 9 focuses on optimizing your QM component in Logistics components. This chapter delves into four important areas, namely, Dynamic Modification Rule (DMR), Recurring Inspection, Active Ingredient Management, and Batch Derivation.
Part 3 of this book is on Quality Management Workflow Tools. Chapter 10 is on Sample Management that offers far in-depth and comprehensive solutions and controls on how the company manages product samples, be it a com...
Link to Free Reading Sample: http://bit.ly/SAPQMRS
This book has taken a deep-dive approach to provide in-depth and comprehensive coverage to just about all the business processes in which you can or want to integrate QM. It begins with covering the enterprise structure of other components whose understanding is important for you to run QM business processes and which also reflects the inter-dependencies of other components’ enterprise structures. The configuration undertaken is then put to actual use to show you the impact of the configuration on the business processes. The connecting point here is that a business process must be comprehensively understood first, before proceeding to model and configure it in the SAP ERP system. Two chapters, namely, Quality Planning and Quality Inspection are devoted to help you gain a comprehensive understanding of the concepts, basics and fundamentals that forms the backbone of QM.
The book then transitions to cover QM integration with MM, PP, SD and PM components of SAP ERP system and also explains how to optimize your business processes by using several latent features that are often not as frequently used to bring about business processes improvements. This book moves toward conclusion by covering the quality evaluation, quality monitoring, and reporting capabilities, including the flexibility to create self-defined queries. Finally, the book concludes by covering how you can use QM component to continue to improve or incorporate business processes improvements by implementing or integrating your company’s internal or external audits, stability study and FMEA and control plan.
In summary, we structure the book along the following lines:
In Part 1 of this book we cover Quality Management Core Concepts. In Chapter 1, we cover the real life business processes and how you can map them in SAP ERP system. Chapter 2 is on the enterprise structure that you’ll need to ensure is available in the system, and which completely depends on the enterprise structures of other components. The enterprise structure forms the backbone of the SAP ERP system that helps in mapping the important business processes of the company. Eventually, reporting also takes important elements from the enterprise structure. Your understanding of enterprise structures and even master data is crucial to implement QM component. Chapter 3 covers the basics of Quality Planning and includes the important QM master data that you need to setup as a one-time activity to get your business processes up and running. Since QM component heavily integrates with other components, therefore this chapter accords due coverage to master data of other components that must also be available in the system. The master data that you set up in finds its actual and practical application in Chapter 4, which is on Quality Inspection, along with several optimization and quick tips to improve and expedite your business processes. This chapter also covers a relatively-newer functionality known as Multiple Specification to cater to the business needs of process industry.
In Part 2 of this book, we move forward with covering Quality Management Integration with Logistics components. Chapter 5 covers QM integration with Materials Management (MM) component, that is, QM integration with procurement and inventory management sub-processes of MM component. This chapter also covers a specific section that caters to business scenario when companies are embarking on implementing QM component for the first time. Chapter 6 is on QM integration with Production Planning (PP) component, and covers not just the covers QM integration in process manufacturing (PP-PI), but also discrete and repetitive manufacturing. PP-PI extensively uses batch management functionality hence this chapter accordingly accords due coverage.
Chapter 7 is on QM integration with Sales and Distribution (SD) and shows the controls that the system offers before the company delivers goods to the customer. If there is any customer-specific quality inspection that the company needs to ensure, then this chapter covers it.
The focus of Chapter 8 is on QM integration with Plant Maintenance (PM) component vis-à-vis Test Equipment Management. Test equipment management attends to calibration of laboratory and other test equipment that the company needs to ensure, so that test results of vendor-procured materials or company’s in-house produced products are reliable and accurate. Chapter 9 focuses on optimizing your QM component in Logistics components. This chapter delves into four important areas, namely, Dynamic Modification Rule (DMR), Recurring Inspection, Active Ingredient Management, and Batch Derivation.
Part 3 of this book is on Quality Management Workflow Tools. Chapter 10 is on Sample Management that offers far in-depth and comprehensive solutions and controls on how the company manages product samples, be it a com...
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First published April 1, 2015
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Jawad Akhtar
23 books13 followersJawad Akhtar earned his Chemical Engineering degree from Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA. He has 17 years of professional experience, of which 10 years is in SAP. He has completed eight end-to-end SAP project implementation lifecycles in the areas of PP, QM, MM, PM and DMS in Steel, Automobile, Chemicals, Fertilizer, FMCG, and Building Products Industries. He has also worked as an SAP Integration Manager, as well as SAP Project Manager, and been proactively involved in a business development and solution architect role for seven years. His profile on LinkedIn is at http://pk.linkedin.com/in/jawadakhtar. You may reach Jawad via email at jawad.akhtar@live.com or follow him on Twitter @jawadahl. Currently, he is associated with AbacusConsulting as Head of SAP Delivery.
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