Inspection plans and Material Masters best practice

[Jorge_Bermudez]

Which one is the best practice to have:

1. 1:1 - Relation between Inspection Plans and Material Masters, I mean 1 inspection plan for each Material Master

or:

2. 1:Many - Relation between Inspection Plans and Material Master, I mean 1 inspection plan could be linked to several Material Masters

Thank you,

Jorge

[memem]

Greetings,

I don't think there is any straight answer. If you have materials which are inspected in the same way then you can have 1:N relationship. In this case if you have a change in the inspection plan you only need to change it once.

I would says that you need to answer the following questions:

• are the materials inspected in the same way 
• are the materials similar to each other (in terms of material type and procurement type)
• are the same people/departments responsible for master data maintenance for these materials
• how often do you update the inspection plan
• are there any regulatory constraints (change number requirements, GxP, etc.)

Best regards, Matjaž.

[Jorge_Bermudez]

Thank you Matjaž for the input. Tx