SAP MM MODULE QUESTIONS AND ANSWER

1.       What is the one full implementation of life cycle in SAP-BW?

Full life cycle implementation means implementing the project start from requirement gathering, analysis, solution, design, mapping , implementing accounting to ASAP methodology.

2.       How the Price determination process works in SAP MM?

-          Price determination Process

-          Create a Price Schema

-          Assign Access sequence to the condition type.

-          Create a condition table and specify fields required.

-          Create a condition records. The Price Schema for the particular condition type. The Pricing will trigger the Price determination Process. Basically the Access Sequence assign to the condition type will search the condition table to find particular condition records and determine the price.

3.       What are the activities we will do in SAP MM module implementation?

-          Inventory

-          Warehouse

-          Purchasing

-          Vendor evolution

-          Invoice verification etc.

4.       Explain what are the steps in the SD process at least up to the invoicing stage?

-          Pre-sales activity – inquiry, quotation

-          Sales order

-          Inventory sourcing

-          Delivery

-          Pgi

-          Invoicing

5.       What is the work you have done in the MM Module and what programs did you use for creating views in MM.

-          In MM stock overview for a period can be done by T-code – MB5B further giving detail like storage location, Plant, Material Code Date.

-          Stock as on date can be viewed by using T-code MMBE further giving details like Storage location, Plant, Material code, mail.

6.       How do you get the Sales Order (S.O.) No. from the Delivery Order?

There are 2 ways through which you can see the reference of the documents.

-          Through Document Flow

-          Enter the delivery

Go at the item level and select TAB PREDECESSOR DATA TAB and you can see the reference order number.

7.       What is the Work Relation between SAP MM, SD and FI/CO Modules?

-          SAP is the integration of all the modules and the topics are very relevant to each other because basically its management skill set group. From manufacturing the product/goods/services to reaching the customer.  All the transaction process is depending on Sales area, Sales Doc, Item Proposals, Shipping, Delivery and Billing.

8.       How can I open a Previous MM Period?

T-Code MMPV

9.       What is the difference between Business area and Cost Centre?

-          Business Area is the place where the product or the produced components are valued in group or the total transactions carried out, Right from Procurement, Production and Sales of goods.

-          Whereas Cost Centre a particular are where the Production or the Project is taken up and expenditure is identified separately with a separate GL account.

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10.   What is the Fields in Purchasing View?

-          RFQ/Quotation

-          Purchase Requisition

-          Purchase Order

-          Master Data(Info Records, Source list, Conditions, Vendors etc.)

11.   What is meant by access sequence? When it is used?

-          Condition type has an access sequence assigned to it which determines which tables to access for data and what sequence.  This has a sequence of table based on the most specific to most generic.  It can be used for any new condition type creation.

12.   How does the PO pick up the pricing schema?

-          The pricing procedure assigned to vendor has a calculation schema attached to it.  This schema defines the various conditions, pre-requisite, calculation & sequence in the PO.  Generally, only one type of pricing procedure is followed for all the vendors.

13.   What are the types of special stocks available?

-          Consignment stock –vendor

-          Components provided to vendor

-          Project Stock

-          Consignment Stock – Customer

-          Pipeline Material

-          Order on Hand

14.   What is meant by consignment stock?

-          Consignment stock is the material which is lying in the premises but is not owned by the company.

-          It has no value assigned to it until it is taken into own stock.

-          Once it is used in Production or to be sold, it has taken into own stock.

15.   What is subcontracting cycle?

-When the material is sent for subcontracting i.e. some value addition, it is converted into a different material.

- It needs a BOM to define the components of the finished item being received.

16.   How is Scrap accounted in subcontracting?

-          The scrap or the process loss can be adjusted while doing a quantity inspection of the material received after subcontracting.

17. What is the various movement types and usage?

- 101 – GR in unrest, Use

- 103 – GR in Blocked Stock

- 105 – Release from Block to Unrest. Use Stock.

- 122 – Return to vendor from unrest. Use Stock.

- 124 – Return to vendor from blocked stock

- 301 – Plant to Plant transfer

- 309 – Material to material transfer

- 311 – Transfer from storage location to storage location

- 261 – Issue for consumption.

- 411 – Taking consumption assignment stock into own stock.

- 551 – Withdrawal for scrapping etc.

18. What is the difference between a Contract and Scheduling Agreement?

- A Scheduling Agreement can be made for Consignment, Subcontracting and Stock Transfer.

- A Contract, also known as Blanket PO, can be made for Standard items and can be restricted to a Value or Qty.

19. What is the complete flow of the profit center accounting, and internal order in controlling?

Profit Center Accounting :- The following data can be passed on in Profit Center Accounting and Related Activities in Controlling:-

-          Definition of Actual Assessment Cycles.

-          Definition of Plan Assessment Cycles.

-          Definition of Actual Distribution Cycles.

-          Definition of Plan Distribution Cycles.

Internal Order:-

Internal Orders are normally used to Plan, Collect and Settle the cost of internal jobs and Tasks.

The SAP System enables you to monitor you internal orders throughout their entire life cycle.

20. What are the steps involved in Consignment Cycle?

- Create Consignment info Records with Proper tax code

- Create PO with category K.

- Maintain Output condition record for KONS.

- Process GR, no invoice verification done, but settlement is done through MRKO transaction.

21. What is meant by scales?

 Can scales be used in standard purchase order?  You can fix a price in the info record for a say from 1 – 100 price RS. 150 & if the order qty. is 101 – 500- the Prices is 140.  Scales cannot be used directly in PO but can be pulled into the PO from various.

22. What is meant by batches? How can be batches be searched?

A Batch is a subdivision of your stock of a material having the same characteristics.

For instance:-

-          Food production uses batches to indicate the day of production.

-          Paint production uses batches based on production date and the used ingredient.  It is very hard to reproduce the same color in exactly the same way at two different moments.

-          Or may be divide in batches based on their mineral content.

23. What are the differences between release procedure with classification and release procedure without classification?

Release Procedure with classification means the Purchase Requisition can be released both at the item level and at the header level.  Release procedure without classification can also be used for PR which is used for item level release only.  All other external documents cannot be released with classification.  The two Procedures are manually exclusive ( That is to say, you must decide in favor of one of them only- we cannot use both).

24. How to create PR or PO by MRP?

The PR is created according to the safety stock mention for the material or can be triggered from a requirement.   For creating PO, you need to have the scheduling agreement in place.  After the MRP is run the scheduling lines are generated which are nothing but the PO.

25. What is the use of Configurable material?

Configurable material is useful if you have a large number of combinations of parts that go into a product.  It means different permutations and combinations of the parts for same material. If you maintain a unique material code for each combination, you require the large number of material numbers.  KMAT may be used in such case where you maintain just one generic product code.  A super BOM is maintained for such a material consisting of all possible operations that could be used, typically configurable material is used in Made to Order (MTO) environment.  However frequently ordered configurations may be planned with a material variant which needs to have a material master record.  Thus material variants may have stock and value.

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