MM/WM Challenges & interview q's

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could anyone Plzzzzz give ( explanation ) couple of challenges in MM or WM and also some interview questions. i have  interview on monday, so Plzzz someone respond.

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Message was edited by: Jürgen L

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Hi,

Please gothrough these questions, which is important for the MM interview.

1. What is the difference between the stock transfer between two plants belonging to same company code and those belonging to different company code?

2. What are the fields in Purchasing view?

3. What are the steps in automatic account assignment config.

4. How do you create movement types? What are the steps involved? When will you recommend a new movement type?

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

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

7. What are the steps involved in creating a pricing procedure?

8. What are the types of special stocks available?

9. What are the types of inforecords?

10. What is meant by consignment stock?

11. What are the steps involved in consignment cycle?

12. Tell me about the subcontracting cycle.

13. How is scrap accounted in subcontracting?

14. How are the byproducts taken care of in subcontracting?

15. Tell me about the various movement types and usage.

16. What is meant by scales? Can scales be used in standard purchase order?

17. What is the difference between a contract and a scheduling agreement?

18. How does the system calculate taxes?

19. How does the system calculate nondeductible taxes?

20. What is meant by batches? How can the batches be searched?

21. How is a shelf-life item managed in SAP? What is the full cycle?

22. What are the settings required for quota arrangement?

23. What is meant by MRP Type and lot sizing?

24. Can it be configured in such a way that the external requisitions can also be taken into account while MRP runs in consumption-based planning if VB is selected as MRP type?

25. What is a reference purchase organization? When can it be used?

26. Explain the concept of split valuation and when can it be used? What are the settings required?

27. What are valuation area, valuation category and valuation class?

28. What is meant by a credit memo?

29. How are free items managed in a PO?

30. What is meant by a release strategy?

31. What are release groups and release codes?

32. What are the differences between release procedure with classification and release procedure without classification? When are they used?

32. Is it possible to have a release procedure without classification for a PO?

33. What is the maximum number of levels available in SAP?

35. Is it possible to have scales in a quotation?

36. What is GR blocked stock? When it can be used?

37. What is the movement type for return to vendor? How to reverse it?

38. How are the variations in subcontracting taken care of in SAP?

39. What are the tools available for data migration in SAP?

40. What is LSMW?

41. What is the difference between LSMW and CATT?

42. How to give specifications for developments?

43. How do you plan for a vendor rating system and move about?

44. What is RTP?

45. What is the movement type used in receipt of RTP?

46. How is an item with serial no. managed?

47. How do you make variants?

48. What are the types of tables in SAP?

49. How to inventory excise duty in SAP?

50. What are the documents generated in the MIGO 101 movement type? What are the accounts hit?

SOME MORE QUESTIONS

Question:

You wish to procure a material using a purchase order. You wish to take delivery of the material at different times. A graduated discount scale exists for the material. How do you proceed if you wish to take advantage of the discount arrangement?

Answers:

A) Enter several order items with the same material number and different delivery dates.

B) Enter one order item with the material number and assign the material to different accounts.

C) Enter an order item with the material number and create a number of schedule lines.

D) Enter a number of purchase orders for the material and specify different delivery dates.

Question:

In the purchase order on which the goods receipt is based, you defined a purchase order unit that differs from the purchase order unit. What is the significance of the purchase order price unit and what should you take note of in the case of a goods receipts?

Answers:

A) The purchase order price unit is stored in the material master record or purchasing info record and defines the unit of measure in which the material is ordered.

B) The system establishes the relationship between the purchase order price unit and the purchase order unit conversion in the purchase order.

C) At the time of goods receipt, both the quantity in the purchase order unit and the quantity in the purchase order price unit have to be entered, however, the quantity in purchase order piece unit is calculated by the system. You have to change it when the calculated quantity differs from reality.

D) Both at the time of goods receipt and invoice verification, the material is valuated on the basis of the purchase order unit.

Question:

You enter a goods issue and receive the following message: "W: On , only 0.000 pieces are available". What do you conclude from this?

Answers:

A) No stocks of the material exist anywhere in the entire plant. Therefore, nothing can be withdrawn.

B) Only the specified storage location does not contain any stocks of the material. Therefore, nothing can be withdrawn.

C) The material exist in the specified storage location on the current day, however, it is unavailable, because of other reservations.

D) The message represents a warning which you can ignore by pressing the

ENTER key.

Question:

Which of the following statements on procuring a material of the material type NLAG are correct?

Answers:

A) The purchase order must be account assigned.

B) The goods receipt must always be unvaluated.

C) When you enter an invoice, you can change the account assignment as long as the goods receipt was unvaluated.

D) When the material is for consumption, no document is ever created in Financial Accounting.

Question:

Which of the following stock transfer are relevant to valuation?

Answers:

A) Stock transfer from storage location to storage location in the same plant or company code.

B) Stock transfer from consignment stores of vendor XY to our unrestricted-use stock in storage location 0001.

C) Stock transfer from stock in quality inspection in storage location 001 to stock in quality inspection in storage location 0002 in the same plant.

D) Stock transfer of a material from storage location 0001 from plant 0001

to plant 0002. The plants belong to the same company, however the valuation areas are different (valuation level is plant).

Interview Questions on SAP MM

1. What are the types of special stocks available?

Subcontracting, consignement, pipeline, project, sales order, RTP, stock transfer ,third party.

2. What are the types of inforecords?

Standard, consignment,subcontracting & pipeline.

3. What is meant by consignment stock?

The stock supplied by the vendor is in the companies premises with the company having no liability for the same. The liability for the company will only be affected when the goods are issued from the consignment stock for use.

4. What are the steps involved in consignment cycle?

Create consignment info record with proper tax code, create Po with item category K, maintain output condition record for KONS, process GR, no invoice verification done, but settlement is done through MRKO transaction.

5. Tell me about the subcontracting cycle.

The Po is created with item category L , the goods is transferred to subcontractor by 541 movemet. for this movement note no accounting docs take place. When GR is done automatically, 543 movemnt takes place which take care of the consumption of components from stock.

6. How are the byproducts taken care of in subcontracting?

You can add these by products in the BOM for the header matl.

7. 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 qty from 1-100 price RS150 & 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 master data like info record, quota arrangement.

8. What is the difference between a contract and a scheduling agreement?

With regard to Outline Agreement:

1. You can create the centrally contract (cross-plant) where you can maintain different pricing conditions for each and every plant

2. You have to create the Release Order with reference to Outline Agreement.

3. No detailed delivery schedule can be made in the Release Order.

4. No Release documentation is created.

5. Only time-dependent conditions can be created.

6. Some Item Category 'M' and 'W' can be used.

With regard to Scheduling Agreement:

1. The Plant Location must be entered in the Scheduling Agreement.

2. We do not have to create any other purchasing document except for delivery schedule line via Transaction ME38 or MRP running (with the appropriate setting of Source List).

3. Delivery Schedule line items are created subject to your specific requirement.

4. Can create both Scheduling Agreement with and without Release Documentation (subject to the Document Type LP or LPA) with the selection of either FRC or JIT delivery schedule.

5. Either time-dependent or time-independent conditions can be created subject to the customizing in the Document Type of the Scheduling Agreement.

6. Item Category 'M' and 'W' can not be used.

9. How does the system calculate taxes?

10. How does the system calculate nondeductible taxes?

11. What is meant by batches? How can the 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 ingredients. It is very hard to reproduce the same color in exactly the same way at two different moments.

- ore may be divided in batches based on their mineral content.

You can search batches using the standard search facility (match code, key F4) based on the naming convention of the batches or, if you use batch classification, based on the characteristics of the batches.

12. How is a shelf-life item managed in SAP? What is the full cycle?

13. What are the settings required for quota arrangement?

To set up a quota arrangement for the procurement of a material, proceed as follows:

Master data -> Quota arrangement -> Maintain, enter the material and plant number, press ENTER to display the overview screen for the quota arrangement periods, Enter a validity period for quota arrangement, Enter date until which the quota arrangement is valid. The start date is calculated by the system. Press ENTER .

Select the quota arrangement and choose Goto -> Item overview to display the item overview screen of the quota arrangement. Enter a quota arrangement item for each source of supply you want to include in the quota arrangement.

You must enter the following data.

- Procurement type

- Special procurement type, Enter k in the S column, for example, if a consignment arrangement for the material exists with the vendor.

- Vendor number

- Procurement plant (supplying plant):

- Quota column, enter the quota assigned to each item.

Press ENTER .

The percentage distribution of the quotas is calculated and displayed automatically by the system.

Save the quota arrangement. The system assigns a number to the quota arrangement item automatically

14. What is meant by MRP Type and lot sizing?

15. Can it be configured in such a way that the external requisitions can also be taken into account while MRP runs in consumption-based planning if VB is selected as MRP type?

16. How are free items managed in a PO? yu need to tick the tem as free in the PO. The price will be zero for such PO's.

17. What are the differences between release procedure with classification and release procedure without classification? When are they used?

Release procedure with classification means the Purchase requsition can be released both at item level & at the header level. Release procedure with out classification can also be used for PR which is used for item level release only. all other external documents cannot be relesed with classification. The two procedures are mutually exclusive (that is to say, you must decide in favor of one of them only - you cannot use both).

18. Is it possible to have a release procedure without classification for a PO?

No

19. What is the maximum number of levels available in SAP?

Did not get this question …pls clarify.

20. Is it possible to have scales in a quotation?

No

21. What is GR blocked stock? When it can be used?

Whenever you are not sure about the quality of the product received, you can put in GR blocked stock.

22. How are the variations in subcontracting taken care of in SAP?

23. How to give specifications for developments?

We normally prepare a business requirement document in which we specify what is required. what field & tables have to be referred for the required development.

24. How to create PR or PO by MRP?

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

MORE Questions

1. What are the types of special stocks available?

Subcontracting, consignement, pipeline, project, sales order, RTP, stock transfer ,third party.

2. What are the types of inforecords?

Standard, consignment,subcontracting & pipeline.

3. What is meant by consignment stock?

The stock supplied by the vendor is in the companies premises with the company having no liability for the same. The liability for the company will only be affected when the goods are issued from the consignment stock for use.

4. What are the steps involved in consignment cycle?

Create consignment info record with proper tax code, create Po with item category K, maintain output condition record for KONS, process GR, no invoice verification done, but settlement is done through MRKO transaction.

5. Tell me about the subcontracting cycle.

The Po is created with item category L , the goods is transferred to subcontractor by 541 movemet. for this movement note no accounting docs take place. When GR is done automatically, 543 movemnt takes place which take care of the consumption of components from stock.

6. How are the byproducts taken care of in subcontracting?

You can add these by products in the BOM for the header matl.

7. 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 qty from 1-100 price RS150 & 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 master data like info record, quota arrangement.

8. What is the difference between a contract and a scheduling agreement?

With regard to Outline Agreement:

1. You can create the centrally contract (cross-plant) where you can maintain different pricing conditions for each and every plant

2. You have to create the Release Order with reference to Outline Agreement.

3. No detailed delivery schedule can be made in the Release Order.

4. No Release documentation is created.

5. Only time-dependent conditions can be created.

6. Some Item Category 'M' and 'W' can be used.

With regard to Scheduling Agreement:

1. The Plant Location must be entered in the Scheduling Agreement.

2. We do not have to create any other purchasing document except for delivery schedule line via Transaction ME38 or MRP running (with the appropriate setting of Source List).

3. Delivery Schedule line items are created subject to your specific requirement.

4. Can create both Scheduling Agreement with and without Release Documentation (subject to the Document Type LP or LPA) with the selection of either FRC or JIT delivery schedule.

5. Either time-dependent or time-independent conditions can be created subject to the customizing in the Document Type of the Scheduling Agreement.

6. Item Category 'M' and 'W' can not be used.

9. How does the system calculate taxes?

10. How does the system calculate nondeductible taxes?

11. What is meant by batches? How can the 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 ingredients. It is very hard to reproduce the same color in exactly the same way at two different moments.

- ore may be divided in batches based on their mineral content.

You can search batches using the standard search facility (match code, key F4) based on the naming convention of the batches or, if you use batch classification, based on the characteristics of the batches.

12. How is a shelf-life item managed in SAP? What is the full cycle?

13. What are the settings required for quota arrangement?

To set up a quota arrangement for the procurement of a material, proceed as follows:

Master data -> Quota arrangement -> Maintain, enter the material and plant number, press ENTER to display the overview screen for the quota arrangement periods, Enter a validity period for quota arrangement, Enter date until which the quota arrangement is valid. The start date is calculated by the system. Press ENTER .

Select the quota arrangement and choose Goto -> Item overview to display the item overview screen of the quota arrangement. Enter a quota arrangement item for each source of supply you want to include in the quota arrangement.

You must enter the following data.

- Procurement type

- Special procurement type, Enter k in the S column, for example, if a consignment arrangement for the material exists with the vendor.

- Vendor number

- Procurement plant (supplying plant):

- Quota column, enter the quota assigned to each item.

Press ENTER .

The percentage distribution of the quotas is calculated and displayed automatically by the system.

Save the quota arrangement. The system assigns a number to the quota arrangement item automatically

14. What is meant by MRP Type and lot sizing?

15. Can it be configured in such a way that the external requisitions can also be taken into account while MRP runs in consumption-based planning if VB is selected as MRP type?

16. How are free items managed in a PO? yu need to tick the tem as free in the PO. The price will be zero for such PO's.

17. What are the differences between release procedure with classification and release procedure without classification? When are they used?

Release procedure with classification means the Purchase requsition can be released both at item level & at the header level. Release procedure with out classification can also be used for PR which is used for item level release only. all other external documents cannot be relesed with classification. The two procedures are mutually exclusive (that is to say, you must decide in favor of one of them only - you cannot use both).

18. Is it possible to have a release procedure without classification for a PO?

No

19. What is the maximum number of levels available in SAP?

Did not get this question …pls clarify.

20. Is it possible to have scales in a quotation?

No

21. What is GR blocked stock? When it can be used?

Whenever you are not sure about the quality of the product received, you can put in GR blocked stock.

22. How are the variations in subcontracting taken care of in SAP?

23. How to give specifications for developments?

We normally prepare a business requirement document in which we specify what is required. what field & tables have to be referred for the required development.

24. How to create PR or PO by MRP?

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

I have created a new vendor. Later I found that there were some mistakes and that I want that the system should not allow me to make any PO or post any entries to this vendor. How to deactivate this vendor?

You can block a vendor at the following levels:

All company code

Single company code

All Purchase org

Single Purchase org

Where to Get the Goods Movement Type List?

Step 1) Run spro command/TC

Step 2) Then move to "SAP Reference IMG" screen

Step 3) Then navigate following path:

IMG --> Materials Management --> Inventory Management and Physical Inventory --> Movement Types --> Copy, Change Movement types

Here with "Copy, Change Movement types" option a help tutorial is available (rectangular blue colour icon). In that go to "Further information" section where you can find a big list of movement types with some brief explanation.

Where the schedule margin key is customized?

You define the order float in the scheduling margin key, The scheduling margin key is copied from the material master. The float before production or float after production and the release period are defined in the scheduling margin key

For Customizing for Shop Floor Control, by choosing Operations --> Scheduling --> Define Scheduling Margin Key .

The scheduling margin key is assigned to the material ( MRP area in the material master) and is transferred when the production order is created. These values can be changed in the production order.

What is the function of OBYC?

Function of the OBYC stand for Configure Automatic Postings. In this step, you enter the system settings for Inventory Management and Invoice Verification transactions for automatic postings to G/L accounts.

Postings are made to G/L accounts automatically in the case of Invoice Verification and Inventory Management

transactions relevant to Financial and Cost Accounting.

For example, Posting lines are created in the Stock account and Consumption account.

Tell me what is make to order?

Make-to-order production is a process in which a product is individually manufactured for a particular customer. In contrast to mass production for an unspecified market where a material is manufactured many times, in make-to-order production a material is created only once though the same or a similar production process might be repeated at a later time.

In global trade, you often need to process several different kinds of transactions at the same time. The Trading Execution Workbench (TEW) provides a central cockpit where traders can process trading contracts and their subcomponents, such as purchase orders and sales orders and follow-on documents. In addition, TEW automates a large part of the data entry, making processing quicker, easier, and more error-free.

How to delete a material completely?

Try MMDE transaction but be careful this will remove all material from Client.

What is the use of Tables in MM. i.e. How the tables get created?

Through SE11 you can create a new Table. In MM if you create a Material Master MARA, MARM, MARC,MARD, MBEW & MVKE will updated. In Vendor Master LFA1, LFB1 & LFM1 will be updated. The same applies to EKKO,EKPO for P.O, MSEG & MKPF for MIGO & RBKP for MIRO.

If in any error, only the message no. ! or the table no. is shown , then how to resolve the error using message no. or table no.?

Contact ABAP or BASIS person to resolve this.

How to create new transaction codes?

In transaction code SE93 you can create, Change & Display a Transaction Code.

Reward if useful

Shawn

[Former Member]

Thanks Alot Shawn

[former_member459660]

Hii,

Regarding MM few impotant topics are

Automatic account determination

Release procedure

Subcontracting cycle

Types of contract

MRP

Split valuation(not frequently asked)

Consignment cycle

Assignment of organisational structure

ERS Prequisites

Auto PO generation during GR

Thanx and regards

SHYAM.R

[Former Member]

Thanks Alot Shyam