The Quality Info Record for Procurement (Q-Info Record) is the specific master data object that controls the quality management processes for a particular material-and-supplier combination. To activate a source inspection, which takes place at the supplier's site before delivery, you must create a Q-Info Record. Within this record, you specify that a source inspection is required, which typically deactivates the standard goods receipt inspection for that specific procurement relationship.

A. Business partner: The business partner (supplier) master record contains general data about the supplier but does not hold the specific control settings for quality inspection on a per-material basis.

C. Purchase order item: The purchase order is a transactional document. The decision to perform a source inspection is determined by master data (the Q-Info Record) and is then reflected in the purchase order, not activated by it.

D. Material master: The material master's Quality Management view activates inspection types for the material in general (e.g., for goods receipt). However, it does not differentiate between suppliers for a specific inspection process like a source inspection.

1. SAP S/4HANA Help Portal

"Source Inspection": "To be able to carry out a source inspection

you must have created a quality info record for the material/vendor combination. In the quality info record

you specify that a source inspection is to be carried out instead of a regular goods receipt inspection." (SAP S/4HANA 2023

Quality Management (QM) -> Quality Management in Logistics -> QM in Procurement -> Source Inspection).

2. SAP S/4HANA Help Portal

"Quality Info Record in Procurement": "The quality info record determines how the material can be processed further... You can use the quality info record to... Activate a source inspection before the delivery." (SAP S/4HANA 2023

Quality Management (QM) -> Quality Management in Logistics -> QM in Procurement -> Master Data in QM in Procurement -> Quality Info Record in Procurement).

3. SAP Learning Hub

Course TS410 (SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management: Customizing)

Unit: Quality Management in Procurement: This course material details the QM in Procurement process

explicitly stating that the Q-Info Record (transaction QI01/QI02) is the master data used to control procurement activities

including the activation of source inspections for a material-vendor relationship. (Specific reference: TS410

Col23

Unit 7

Lesson: QM in Procurement).