SAP Quality Management

Name: leverX Company
Brand: LeverX
Rating: 4.9 (114 reviews)

Go beyond compliance. Achieve total quality excellence.

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Maintaining quality is a primary business objective worldwide. As companies support complex supply chains, digitize processes, and expand operations, they are encouraged to adopt a unified system to ensure standardized practices and quality control, from the factory floor to the customers’ hands.

SAP Quality Management (SAP QM) is designed to meet this demand and become a cornerstone of product quality management. The solution is no longer a standalone module, but an integrated component embedded across the core processes of SAP S/4HANA, including logistics and manufacturing. With mainstream maintenance for SAP ECC planned to end in 2027 (with an optional, fee-based extension until 2030), companies have another incentive to migrate to SAP S/4HANA.

Comprehensive quality visibility

Consolidate all quality data for prompt problem-solving and decision-making across your value chain.

Preventive risk management

Receive real-time alerts and forecast possible quality issues before they impact your business operations.

Enhanced compliance

Follow global and industry-specific quality standards without relying on manual effort.

Streamlined reporting

Automate compliance checks, documentation, and reporting.

Smooth business processes

Set automated triggers at key points to streamline operations, maintain consistent quality, and foster overall efficiency.

SAP provides an opportunity to set a blueprint for further quality checks. The quality management capabilities help you define what to measure and its rules. The functionality includes:

Establishing master (basic) data, such as the individual parameters of a product or the criteria for samples to be inspected.
Defining inspection criteria, including creating plans from 3D models.
Managing quality inspections.
Setting conditions for anticipating potential problems.

The quality management component of SAP S/4HANA can be used in combination with other SAP modules to maintain quality control across departments.

SAP Material Management (SAP MM): Check the quality of materials and goods when they arrive to minimize the number of returns and invoice disputes.
SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM): Match quality issues with maintenance work to address the initial causes and prevent repeat problems.
SAP Production Planning (SAP PP): Align quality audits with the production steps to minimize rework and deliver high-quality outputs faster.
SAP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD): Deliver conforming goods with quality certificates when needed, streamline complaints handling, and protect your company's reputation.
SAP S/4HANA Finance: Measure the quality costs for materials, plants, and processes, and automatically update financial records.
SAP Human Capital Management (SAP HCM): Reduce operational risks and provide access to authorized specialists for performing and approving quality checks.

Industries We Serve

Leveraging our experience with SAP together with diverse industrial expertise, we’ll help you select solutions that will drive meaningful, long-term value for your company.

Automotive

Industrial Manufacturing

Transportation & Logistics

Pharmaceuticals & Life Science

Why LeverX?

Proven track record

For over 20 years, we have helped businesses worldwide succeed with SAP. We’ve already completed 1,500+ projects for over 900 clients, including top names on the Fortune 500 list.

Industry experts

The LeverX team comprises professionals with hands-on knowledge in 30+ industries, including manufacturing, logistics, and oil and gas.

SAP partnership

We implement SAP projects end-to-end  and collaborate with SAP on the development and enhancement of its existing solutions.

Quality and security

LeverX operates in compliance with international standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, and ISO 55001, ensuring reliability and quality in every project.

Investment in innovation

We actively integrate advanced technologies, such as Data Science, IoT, AI, Big Data, Blockchain, and others, to help clients efficiently address their business challenges.

Flexibility

Our team is available 24/7, which enables us to quickly deploy projects, maintain process transparency, and adapt each development phase to meet your specific requirements.

SAP QM Implementation Roadmap

We follow the SAP Activate methodology, which breaks down the implementation of SAP Quality Management into six essential stages:

Current processes evaluation: Assess existing business processes and identify the organization's needs.
Defining technical requirements: Create a detailed specification of the functional and technical needs of the new system.

Discover

Setting goals and objectives: Establish and agree on the goals to be achieved throughout the project.
Assembling the project team: Appoint team members and define their roles and responsibilities.
Project plan development: Create a comprehensive plan that outlines project phases, timelines, resources, and key performance indicators.
Budget determination: Estimate and approve the budget.
Specifications preparation: Develop the technical and functional specifications for the development team.

Prepare

Ensuring business requirements are met: Check that SAP QM aligns with business requirements and project objectives.
Data validation: Verify the accuracy and compliance of the data.

Explore

Data migration: Transfer data from existing systems to the new one.
System configuration: Set up the solution according to requirements and specifications.
Customization: Develop additional features and modules, if the standard solution does not meet all needs.
Integrations: Configure SAP QM to work with other IT systems and applications.

Realize

Testing: Perform functional, integration, regression, and load testing to ensure that all works correctly.
User training: Organize sessions to help users become familiar with the new system.

Deploy

System readiness check: Verify that the system is ready for operational use.
Launch: Officially transition to active use of SAP QM.
Ongoing support: Continuously monitor solution performance to identify and resolve any issues.

Run

FAQ

I’m considering adopting SAP QM, but I’m not sure about the available deployment options. What are they?

Depending on your business and technical needs, you can choose between on-premise, cloud, and hybrid deployment. Since SAP QM is a native part of SAP S/4HANA, you have carte blanche here.

What about sustainability goals? Does the component support them, or does it focus only on product quality?

SAP supports its clients' sustainability efforts, which are reflected in their products. SAP QM, in particular, can be used to manage the quality of recycled materials, monitor emissions during production, and support product compliance with environmental regulations.

I know that implementing such solutions often implies hidden costs. Are there any associated with SAP QM?

To avoid any unexpected expenses, we recommend paying attention to the following aspects before purchasing the component:

The state and volume of existing quality data
The need for data optimization and migration
The availability of a change management strategy
The qualification of employees and their readiness to adopt upgraded operations

It’s great that the quality component can help me reduce defects. Are there any other benefits I should know about?

We can highlight several long-term benefits for an organization adopting SAP QM. First, you will promote a culture of quality within your company, leading to better employee involvement in the processes. Second, you will get an opportunity to improve your strategic decision-making based on centralized quality data. Last but not least, it’s a great opportunity to strengthen brand reputation and customer loyalty while minimizing customer complaints and delivering consistent product quality.

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