Inspection Plan warning message

[former_member593420]

I am creating an inspection plan. The Unit of Measure for wire is “M” for meters. When I enter a MIC I receive a popup warning asking me to confirm the Unit of Measure. Why and how can I avoid this message on the future?

[former_member42743]

The reason you get the message is that when the sample UOM is different than the inspection plan UOM defined in the header it flags it as a potential problem. Normally you want them to match.

For instance.. if your plan UOM is in KG's and you sample in mg's, no issue.

If your plan header is in ml's , but your sample UOM is in mg's that could be an issue. Temp changes density and hence weight. So it's hard to have a conversion factor between ml's and mg's for a material.

Or you might have the plan header in kgs's but you take delivery in 5 KG bottles. And you want your sample to be 1 bottle. If you use 1 bottle you might have a problem if that's not defined in the material master in alternate UOM's.

You don't want to eliminate the message. It's there for a reason.

Craig

[former_member593420]

Thank you fr your answer!

what do you mean with sample UOM (where can I check it or in which transaction?)

Also the material master view plant data /stor 2 is same as inspection plan

material-master-uom.png

inspectio-plan.png

[former_member42743]

You can specify the UOM in three places.

- In the header as you showed in your screen shot.

- At the operation level

- at the characteristic level (that is the actual sample UOM).

All three should be the same and should match the BUOM of the material. This is in general what I tell people and new users.

There are some UOM conversions that the system can do but it can also get somewhat tricky as you get into different UOM's. For instance. Converting kg (BUOM) to grams. Sounds simple. But if you sample size is one, that means one kilo. If you sample in grams, your accuracy can't be less than a gram and in some industries, that is critical, (not in most though). If you purchase by tonnage but sample in grams you can get sample sizes of 000. It can get complicated. But unless you have a complicated industry, Keep it simple. Keep all the UOM's aligned and you probably won't have a problem.

[former_member593420]

So means that If I have on three places same UOM I will not have problems and still warning message will appear?

[former_member42743]

No. The warning message will probably always appear whenever you change a sampling procedure. SAP cannot predict the impact of a change sampling procedure since it can't know what UOM's you have, which ones you use, how you use them, and what conversions you maintain. They just know that a sampling procedure change, especially on an inspection plan in use for many materials, can adversely affect the process. So they just want to warn you to make sure you've take that into consideration.

Craig

[former_member593420]

But what is the reason that appear this message, do I need to correct something? What I need to do to eliminate this message warning?

[former_member193808]

Hi,

The below message is for UoM maintained under Sampling procedure.

You have entered a sample unit of measure that is neither a unit of weight, a unit of volume, nor a unit that has no dimension. This is why warning message is issued by system. You can press enter and proceed in this case.

Thanks

Prem