Quality inspection code is defined in MMS001 – item master, which is global.

Nevertheless, it may be possible that a BU prefers to report PO receipt in one step only, goods in  status 2 – approved, PO line status 75/75 – fully reported.

This solution article shows how this can be done without issues.

Quality inspection code is in MMS001/F.

Goods receiving method in the PO line drives how the inspection code affects the PO receiving process, together with the receiving location.

Goods receiving methods RIP and RI implicate quality inspection.

RIP – Receive / inspect / put-away.

RI   – Receive inspect.

DIR – Direct put-away: allows to report PO receipt in only 1 step, also for quality inspected items.

Receiving location: In order to exclude additional steps after reporting PO receipt, it’s important to report receipt on a location that has status proposal 2 – approved (setting in MMS010/E), e.g.  like location CW:

Example of the PO process:

MMS002/G: in warehouse 300, the item has default location CW, which has status proposal 2-Approved.

Warehouse is entered in PPS200 – PO header.

The goods receiving method can be entered / overruled in the PO line PPS201/F.

PO receipt is reported in PPS300.

If goods receiving method = DIR, the default location from MMS002 for the receiving warehouse will be proposed.

If goods receiving method RIP was used, the actual storage location would not be proposed. This also is an indication for the receiver of the goods that no fictive location for QC reporting should be entered here.

After reporting PPS300, the PO line already gets status 75 – put-away completed, fully reported also.

Since this PO has only 1 PO line, the PO goes to sts 75/75 – put-away completed, fully reported also.

Goods immediately get status 2 – approved.

If a record exists in LIS100 in the facility, a record will be generated in LIS200. However, if not needed for this facility, probably will also not exist in LIS100.

The fact that the record in LIS200 is not reported, does not block any one in the PO process, as described above.