Dear Consultants,
Requirement -
Defective materials are rejected in production line and then eventually, the rejected stock are returned back to supplier. However, suppliers will have to provide the RMA number before proceeding with the returns.
Quality team requests the RMA number to suppliers on weekly basis. The rejections are captured in excel and consolidated by end of the week supplier-wise and sent to the respective supplier for requesting the RMA number. This practise in excel needs to be stopped and I am expected to provide a SAP solution for this. Rejected Material, Reject Qty, Reject Code and Supplier are the only information that are captured in excel presently.
Possible Solution -
1. When a material supplied by supplier A is rejected, create a Quality Notification for the supplier A and then keep updating it for further rejections from the same supplier A in the same week (capture rejected material code, reject qty and reject code for each rejections). And, by end of the week, generate a PDF from Quality Notification and send it out to suppliers for requesting the RMA. Set the Notificatiobn as complete once RMA number is received.
This solution will work only if multiple materials can be entered in single Quality Notification and we all know standard SAP doesn't allow it. I read through forums and found a thread where Notification Item is being suggested for multiple materials entry. (http://scn.sap.com/thread/1938535). I tried this in test envt., I am able to capture the defect code, qty and multiple materials in the 'assembly' field. This is exactly what the client wants, but is this solution misusing standard SAP functionality ? what is the impact of using 'assembly' field for capturing the rejected material code ? What is the real purpose of the assembly field here (we have never used 'assembly' for any notification type so far) ?
Please provide your valuable insights. Thanks !
Best Regards,
Ashok