Solved: Few Issues

Former Member · ‎04-25-2007

hi

some of the interview questions i have got with me . plz can anybody help me out.

1: whats the forward delivery? what is backward delivery? whats the difference between them?

2: Whats the forward scheduling / backward scheduling?

3: What is SIS n what is LIS? Explain?N where we can get them?

4:Whats the difference between TAD ? TAX Item categories?

5: Whats the difference between LEIS n DIEN?

6:What are KB, KE, KA,N KR? Which Document refers What purpose. Whats there billing type? Whats there delivery type? Whats the difference between them?

7: Whats the difference between S1, S2,S3, S4 Documents? Which Document refers What purpose. Whats there billing type? Whats there delivery type? Whats the difference between them?

8: Briefly explain picking location determination?

9: Whats the difference between schedule line n schedule line agreement?

10: Whats the difference between schedule line and a Contract?

11: Whats a release order?

12: What is the difference between NMS , WK1, WK2, SC n GK? Explain briefly?

13: Whats the account group for one time customer? Whats the acc. group for forwarding agent ? What is the acc. grp. for sales employee? where can we see all these in SAP?

Former Member · ‎04-26-2007

hi,

Q 9)

Contract: is an agrrement between the comnpany & sold-to-party (customer)

It is of 2 types Quantity Contract & Value Contract. Every contract has a validity period. In quantity contract you have an agrrement about the quantity to be sold to customer and you can have special prices for the contracts. In general any customer enters into contract for a price benefit and from company's presective it will assure the company that customer would not go to competetitors.

It is created in SAP using VA41. Every contract has a contract no and when ever customer wants material he will create a sales order (called Release Order) and it is created with ref to contract no. all the release orders are updated in contract document flow. with in the contract validity period customer can create n no of release orders till the target contract value is reached. if the target value is reached you can extend the contract or close it as per your requirement.

Scheduleing agreement: is also a contract between company and sol-toparty. the difference here is in scheduling agreement customer will tell in contract itself what product he wants, what quantity he wants and when the delievry is to be made. so in sheduling agreement only you have schedule lines created and when the delievry dates is reached you can directly create a delivery with ref to contract and no seperate sales order (release orders) are required for this type of contracts.

http://www.sap-img.com/sap-sd/sap-sd-scheduling-agreement-vs-contract.htm

With regards

Rajesh

Former Member · ‎04-26-2007

HI Venu,

Answers to sme of yourquestions:

2. Scheduling is basically a process which system users to comfirm whether a particular material could be delivered with in required delivery date. system by default is set to do backward scheduling first, if the confirmed delivery date falls beyound material availability date then syetm does forward scheduling to determine the Confirmed delivery date and system gives the new confirmed delivery date. system takes into account the following for scheduling:

a. Order Date

b. Material Availability date

c. trasnportation planning date

d. Loading Date

e. Goods issue date

f. Required delivery date

3. SIS / LIS: Go thr below links:

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/LOLIS/LOLIS.pdf

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/LOLIS/LOLIS_KOMPONENTEN%20DES%20LIS.pdf

http://www.sapfinancialsexpert.com/downloads/11-02.doc

4. TAD: Service Item

TAD gets determined based on Sales doc type + Item category group {OR + LEIS (Service Item category group)}

TAX : Non Stock item and gets determined based on Sales doc type + Item category group {OR + NLAG (Non stock material Item category group)}

Item category gets determined in sales document based on 4 standard rules:

sales doc type + item category group + useage + higher level item category.

& we use item cagetory group in material master - sales org1 view.

5. LEIS - is a item category group for service items, and this might have delivery also

DIEN - is a Item category group for serivce items without delivery

6. KB, KE, KA & KR are document types which are used in Consignment scenario

KB - Consignment Fill up

KE - Consignment Issue

KA- Consignment Pick up

KR - Consignment returns

And you have billing in only 2 of consignment scenarios i.e., Issue and returns and usually we use Billing type F2.

Go thr below link for Consignment:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/dd/55ffe4545a11d1a7020000e829fd11/content.htm

http://www.sap-img.com/sap-sd/consignment-sales-process-in-sap.htm

7. S1 / s2 etc are basically Cancellation Billing type. We create invoice using F2 and this is cancelled using Cancellation Billing type S1. This canbe configure din VOFA - Billing ytpe Config (SPRO)

8. Picking Location determination: Is a STandard determination and this works on Standard rules:

Shipping Point + Lant & storage Condition (this data is given in Material Master - Plant / storage View 1)

We know that a particulat material is kept in a particular bin and we can pick up but to map tihis activity in sap we use Picking Location determination.

9. Schedule line is bascially has infromation related to Shipping & procurement and this is a part of Sales document structure.This is controlled by Schedule line category and this is again a standard determination and gets determinesd on Item catgeory + MRP type.Any where you need to deliver a material you should have information about when the material woudl be delivered etca nd this is stored in Schedlue line.

Scheduling agreement is a type of contract.Go thr below link:

http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/windocs/bpors11m.htm

10.Contract is agreement between a company and sold-to-party. you have 2 types of contracts - value contract and quantity contract. go thr below link:

http://sap-img.com/sap-sd/sap-sd-scheduling-agreement-vs-contract.htm

11. with ref to contract you create a sales orders and these sales orders which are created with ref to contract within the validity period of contract are called as Release orders.

12. NMS / WK1 / WK2 etc are document types for Contracts: go to VA41

WK1 - general value contract

WK2 - material value contract

GK - Master Contract

Master Contract:

The master contract is a document under which you can group contracts as lower level contracts. It contains the general terms which apply for all the lower level contracts over a specified period.

Use

You group contracts as lower level contracts under a master contract to ensure that

The terms in the master contract are granted in all the lower level contracts

The data in all lower level contracts remains consistent

You can group the following documents under a master contract:

Quantity contracts

Value contracts

Service contracts

The link between the master and lower level contracts is controlled by the referencing procedure which is assigned to the master contract type in Customizing. The referencing procedure determines which data is copied from the master contract into the lower level contracts

Structure

A master contract contains header data only. In the master contract, you can record:

Business data

Partner data

Contract data

Billing plan data

On the overview screen of the master contract, there is a list of all the lower level contracts which refer to it. You can branch from this list into the individual contracts.

Hope this clarifies.

Reward if it helps

Regards

Srini

Former Member · ‎04-26-2007

6) KB - ORDER TYPE FOR CONSIGNMENT FILL UP, BIILING TYPE - LF

KE - CONSIGNMENT ISSUE... BILLING TYPE -LF

KA - CONSIGNMENT PICK UP BILLING TYPE - LR

KR - CONSIGNENT RETURNS... BILLING TPE - LR

10) CONTRACT - ITS CONTRACT BETWEEN CUSTOMER AND COMPANY FOR CERTAIN PERIOD FOR QUANTITY OR VALUE...

SHEDULEING AGREEMENTS ARE CONTARCTS BUT WE HAVE SPECIFIC DATE AND QUANTITY'S TO BE DELIVERED BEFORE VALIDITY DATE...

11) RELEASE ORDER MEANS WHEN CREDIT LIMIT EXCEEDS, POWER USER RELEASE THE ORDER BY GOING TO VKM3/VKM5...

13) ACCOUNT GROUPS CAN BE DEFINED IN FI-ACCOUNT RECEVIABLES AND PAABLES-CUSTOMERS A/CS- MASTER DATE- PREPARTION FOR CRATING MASTER DATA- DIFE A/C GROUPS.. WHERE U CAN DEFINE ONE TIME CUSTOMERS, AGENTS AND ETC..

HOPE ITS HELPS OU, GURU'S- ANY CORRECTIONS PLS DO ..

REWARD POINTS IF ITS OK..

rEGARDS

RAMKI

Former Member · ‎04-26-2007

12: What is the difference between NMS , WK1, WK2, SC n GK? Explain briefly?

These are the contracts like

Master contract, Quantity contract, value contract and servie contract

The master contract is a document under which you can group contracts as lower level contracts. It contains the general terms which apply for all the lower level contracts over a specified period.

Quantity contract is an agreement that your customer will order a certain quantity of a product from you during a specified period. The contract contains basic quantity and price information but no schedule of specific delivery dates and quantities.

A value contract is a legal agreement with a customer that contains the materials and services that the customer receives within a specified time period, and for a value up to a specified target value. A value contract can contain certain materials or a group of materials

The use service contracts to record the details of the service package that you have agreed to provide a service recipient with over a specified period of time.

It meas we are providing service for some products.

The contract does not delivery dates and schedule lines

With regards

Rajesh

pratik_mahendra · ‎04-26-2007

lots of questions. well i will try and answer few.

Whats the forward scheduling / backward scheduling?

Forward delivery is something where we do forward scheduling for delivery which mean we start calulating dates for delivery from material availability date or order date which transportation planning, loading time, and pick pack time. so delivery is on the date which may not be required delivery date.

backward delivery is when you dot he vise versa. on delivery required date we run backward scheduling and determine on which date material has to be available and transportaiotn planning has to be and loding has to be done for goods to reach the customer destination on time.

What is SIS n what is LIS? Explain?N where we can get them?

LIS integrates all possible information systems whish are part of logistics: like sales info system, shop floor info ststem , purchase in system, quality etc.

SIS is only related SD all reports related to sales are integrated in SIS.

Whats the difference between LEIS n DIEN?

LEIS is and item category grp ( service item without delivery which helps in determining item cat of an item. it is an item cat grp od mat type DEIN.

DEIN is mat type for service material which determines how materail will behave.

I hope it helps, I m sorry i am running short of time to answer all your query.

do reward points if your are clear about it.

Do mail me at pratik_666@hotmail.com. If you need more help.