Quarantine Period in EWM Execution

[Ridzuan]

Hi Experts,

How the quarantine period in EWM Execution work with QM? Which report or transaction that can show the stock is quarantine for certain period of time? Will it block the stock from further processing and updating EWM inspection lot? Does it work in Public Cloud?

BR,

Ridzuan

[OwenLiu]

Removed general tag.

[Luana_Lovison]

Hey Ridzuan, 

Thanks for your question.

In the context of SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) integrated with Quality Management (QM), handling quarantine periods involves managing inspection lots and stock statuses during quality inspections.

Quality Management: In EWM with QM integration, the quarantine process typically involves placing stock in a specific status that restricts usage until quality inspections are completed. This is often achieved by using inspection lots that lock the stock until the inspection results are recorded and approved.

Blocking Stock: When stock is set to a 'quality inspection' status, it is  blocked from further processing (like picking or shipping) until the inspection lot is cleared or appropriate decisions are made. This ensures stock does not move through logistics processes until quality assurance is confirmed.

Updating EWM Inspection Lot: The process of updating inspection lots involves recording inspection results or making usage decisions within QM. 

Which report or transaction that can show the stock is quarantine for certain period of time? In Overview Plant Management you can have an overview of your stock and can click in the card for more information.  It will open the app Stock - Multiple Materials where you can look up for the column "Stock in Quality Inspection".

And in Public Cloud here is how the process follow: 

Inspection Lot Creation in Logistical Processes

In Quality Management, quality inspections are processed on the basis of inspection lots. If you want to inspect a specific quantity of a material, an inspection lot must be created in the system. The inspection lot is therefore a request to a plant to carry out a quality inspection for a specific quantity of material.

Use

The system uses the inspection lot to record, process, and manage information for a quality inspection. This information includes:

• Inspection processing data such as:

  • Inspection lot origin

  • Inspection date

  • Processing status of inspection lot

  • Inspection quantities

• Inspection specifications (for example, inspection plan)

• Inspection results

  • Recorded characteristic values

  • Recorded defects

• Usage decision (a decision that specifies whether the goods in the inspection have been accepted or rejected)

Integration

Inspection lots can be created automatically by events in the logistics supply chain, for example, in:

• Goods movements or stock postings (for example, goods receipt, goods issue, or a posting to inspection stock)

• Creation of production orders

• Creation of deliveries

You can also create an inspection lot manually.

Process Flow

When an inspection lot is created, the following functions are executed in the sequence shown:

1. Creation of inspection lot
2. Assignment of an inspection specification (for example, inspection plan)
3. Calculation of the sample size
4. Printout of sample-drawing instruction

The functions in this process can be executed automatically by the system or manually by the user. Depending on your inspection processing requirements and system settings, not all of these functions are compulsory.

Further Processing

Quality technicians can then carry out the quality inspection and record their inspection results.

Quality engineers complete the inspection by making the usage decision. This means they make the decision about the further handling of an inspection lot on the basis of the inspection results.

If you need more information about the procedures you can check here: https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD/d1e58be39d884a0dbf75a7526a9acbf4/a7e4b65334e6b54ce1000000...