QualityNotification

The business object Quality notification describes a business
object's nonconformance with a quality requirement and contains a request to take appropriate action.

Structure

A quality notification can contain several items. An item describes a
single problem. The items in a quality notification can specify the causes for the nonconformance with the quality requirement.


The activities or tasks that must be carried out to complete a quality
notification can be described at the header level or item level of a notification.

Comment

A quality notification may pertain to a customer complaint, a complaint against a vendor, or an internal problem report.

A quality notification can specify the partners who are involved in the processing of the notification.

Among other items, quality notifications can exist for the following business objects:

Available Methods

• CreateFromData : Create quality notification [ BAPI_QNOTIFICAT_CREATE ]
  
• GetCatalogProfile : Determine catalog profile [ BAPI_QNOTIFICAT_GETCATALPROFIL ]
  
• GetKeyFigures : Determining of related notifications [ BAPI_QNOTIFICAT_GETKEYFIGURES ]
  
• GetListForCustomer : Select quality notifications for a customer [ BAPI_QNOTIFICAT_GETLISTFORCUST ]
  
• GetMaterialListFCust : Materials list for a customer [ BAPI_QNOTIFICAT_GETMATLISTFCUS ]
  

CreateFromData

You create quality notifications using this method. You can create setfields and the long text in the notification header, as well as various notification items.

Currently, you can only create notifications for notification types that are assigned to the origin customer complaint
.

Notes

In the parameter NotifHeader, you must at least enter thenotification type (NOTIF_TYPE). If a sales order (SALES_ORD) thatcontains an item number (S_ORD_ITEM) is returned, the system onlytransfers dependent data from the customer order, for example, the
material (MATERIAL). However, the system first checks whether thetransferred customer number corresponds to the customer number in the order.

GetCatalogProfile

This method selects the relevant catalog profile for a combination of notification type and material numberand lists the corresponding code groups and codes.

This method first checks whether a catalog profile is stored atmaterial level. If no profile is stored, the method selects the catalog profile that is assigned to the notification type.

Notes

Notifications are given in the RETURN parameter.

GetKeyFigures

You can use this method to determine the number and the list of related quality notifications.

You can search for the quality notifications according to various criteria, for example:
Quality notifications for a specific material, a specific customer, a
specific vendor, or a specific combination of material and vendor.

You can also choose between two variants, to determine the number of related quality notifications:

Notes

Note that a simultaneous evaluation according to customer notifications and vendor notifications is not possible.

In variant 2, the system does not provide a list of the existingnotifications. This variant, however, determines the number of existing notifications more quickly than variant 1.

For more information on the advantages and disadvantages of the access variants, see the documentation for the Version.

Further Information

Parameter documentation

key_figure_structure: Entries that the system uses, to search for the
quality notifications. This structure consists of the following fields:

Material

Mat_Cust

Mat_Vend

Customer

Vendor

Mat_No

Cust_No

Vend_No

Version

No_Days

key_figures: This structure contains the numbers of relatednotifications that the method has found. The structure contains the following fields:

Material

Mat_complet

Mat_open

Customer

Cust_complet

Cust_open

Vendor

Vend_complet

Vend_open

Mat_Customer

Mat_Cus_co

Mat_Cus_op

Mat_Vendor

Mat_Ven_co

Mat_Ven_op

List_of_notifications: List of all the notifications found. Contains the following fields:

Notif_No

Notif_Type

Short_Text

Priority

Notif_Date

Mat_No

Cust_No

Vend_No

Insp_Lot_No

Status_Ind

Material

Mat_Cust

Mat_Vend

Vendor

Customer

Object_No

GetListForCustomer

This method selects quality notifications for a customer.
To do this, the system uses the following data as selection criteria:

The selected quality notifications are displayed. All notifications areselected, irrespective of their status. As an option, you can exclude completed notifications from the selection.

Notes

Notifications are displayed by the return parameter.

GetMaterialListFCust

This method provides a list of all materials, for which a customer- material-info record.

Notes

Notifications are given in the RETURN parameter.