Quality Management (QM) is a practice of managing different activities and tasks within an organization to ensure that products and services offered, as well as the means used to provide them, are consistent. It helps to achieve and maintain a desired level of quality within the organization.
Four key components of Quality Management:
- Quality Planning – The process of identifying the quality standards relevant to the project and deciding how to meet them.
- Quality Improvement – The purposeful change of a process to improve the confidence or reliability of the outcome.
- Quality Control – The continuing effort to uphold a process’s integrity and reliability in achieving an outcome.
- Quality Assurance – The systematic or planned actions necessary to offer sufficient reliability so that particular service or product will meet the specified requirements.
Quality Management System is a set of policies, processes, and procedures required for planning and execution (production/development/service) in the core business area of an organization (e.g. ISO 9001:2015,...)
Quality Management System in ERP is a solution help cover all the Four key components of Quality Management in multiple business processes
SAP QM is a powerful Quality Management System, which enables organizations:
Quality planning
- Basic master data for Quality Management
- Inspection planning using inspection plans of materials, which brings standardization of quality planning.
Quality assurance
- SAP Quality inspection is performed through inspection lot processing. During this process quality results are captured, and usage decision is taken to accept or reject the inspection lot.
- Quality certificates of analysis
Quality control
- In SAP QM Quality notifications the root cause analysis is done for the identified defect.
- SAP QM information system is where you can analyze various reports like vendor evaluation, a list of quality notification, quality charts, etc.
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