Introduction:  

In this blog, the steps outlined how to ‘Block creating a Purchase order for a specific Material and Supplier combination’ due to quality reasons in S/4HANA

When the Purchase order is created, the system checks whether a quality info record is required for the combination of material and supplier, and also checks whether the supplier and material combination is blocked or released for the procurement process.

Pre-requisite:

• Setup Supplier Master
• Setup Material Master
• Setup Quality Info record

Process Steps:

1. Configure Control keys in S/4 HANA
2. Set up the Procurement data in the material master QM View
3. Change Quality Info records for the combination of Material and Supplier
4. Create a Purchase and check the error message

Step-1-Configure Control Keys

SPRO >Quality Management > QM in Logistics > QM in Procurement > Define Control Keys 

 2. Set up the Procurement data in the material master QM View

3. Change Quality Info record for the combination of Material and Supplier   

4. Create a Purchase and check the error message

You can see the error message while trying to create a  Purchase order. The system prevents the creation for Purchase order

Conclusion:

• After going through the above blog, the user should have learned key concepts and setup in how to prevent creating a Purchase order for a material and supplier combination in the S/4HANA due to quality reasons
• Please provide your feedback/comments. You can ask Questions / Answers for the open Questions in the SAP Community here

Reference:

QM in Procurement – S/4HANA:

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/2bc3ee8d1c83404e8cf62418640004f2/9cb5bd53e3acb64ce10000000a174cb4.html