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Dr. Gaetano Altavilla describes the main steps to be done in the SAP system by the logistics, planning, quality, and financial departments to perform quality management activities for external activities in SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) 6.0 with the SAP materials management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Quality Management (QM), and Financial Accounting (FI) modules implemented. Based on his experience, he provides solutions already implemented in production environments for SAP MM, PP, QM, and FI in ECC 6.0. However, the processes he describes also apply to previous versions of SAP software. He also covers the main master data and customizing details that are prerequisites to running this process.