1. Explain what is SAP PP?

Answer:
SAP PP process is related to production planning of a company and it
encompasses all activities like MRP (Material Requirement Planning), BOM
(Bills Of Material), Routing, Capacity planning, etc. but mainly it contains two
segments

Material Planning: Material requirements planning, long term planning,

Execution Planning: Creation of production order, workflow, conformations,
technical completion and good movement.

2. Mention what are the production process in SAP?

Answer:
There are three types of production process in SAP

Discrete Manufacturing
Repetitive Manufacturing
Production- Process Industries

3. List out the activities carried out in Production Planning?

Answer:
Activities involved in Production Planning includes

Processing material master

Creation of Bill of Material
Displaying work center and routing
Maintaining planning calendar
Maintaining production lot
Maintaining quota file
Defining range of coverage profile and profile for safety time
Defining MRP views

4. Can anybody explain me why work scheduling view is required for

semi finished and finished products?
Answer:
We need to maintain working scheduling view in order to make that finished
or semi finished goods available for
production as we assign production scheduler and production scheduler
profile in this view, if not maintained
conversion of planned order to production will not be possible.

5. What is MRP List and what is the use of it?

Answer:
Definition of the MRP List
The system creates MRP lists during the planning run according to how you
set the creation indicator. These lists contain the planning result for the
material. The MRP list always displays the stock/requirements situation at the
time of the last planning run and it also provides a work basis for the MRP
controller. Changes that are made after the planning date are not taken into
consideration, so the list is static. MRP lists are stored in the system until they
are either deleted manually or replaced by new lists from a subsequent
planning run.

6. What is the use of Stock Requirement List?

Answer:
In the stock/requirements list, the most up-to-date stock and requirements
situation is displayed. The main difference between the MRP list and the
stock/requirements list is that each time the stock/requirements list is called
up, the system selects the various MRP elements and displays the most up-to-
date situation. You thus always see the current availability situation of the
material in the stock/requirements list. Changes that are made after the
planning date are displayed directly, so the list is therefore dynamic.
Stock/requirements lists are not saved in a fixed state in the system, but are
subject to change and only exist in the working memory.
Comparison
The screen layout of both lists is basically the same. The system automatically
runs the rescheduling check directly when both lists are created and puts
forward rescheduling proposals. The number of exception messages displayed
in each list is roughly the same. The only difference lies in the fact that, due to
the nature of the list, no exception messages can occur for newly planned
MRP elements in the stock/requirements list. Directly after the planning run,
both lists contain the same information. As soon as a change relevant to MRP
is made, the system updates the information in the stock/requirements list. As
stock/requirements lists are subject to change, they cannot be set with a
processing indicator.

7. Suppose the client wants me the vacancy to be displayed on a website

as well as ESS. How should I do it?
Answer:
Employee Self-Serviceenables employees to create, display, and change their
own HR-related data in the Enterprise Portal generally related to. Benefits and
Payments,, Working Time, Career and Job, Employee Search, Personal Data,
Travel Management, Corporate Information and Life and Work Events. So the
kind of data the employees can edit, change or delete depending upon the
authorizations the employees (users and roles) have. The authorization to have
access to the vacancies by employees is given, generally the vacancies will be
displayed for all the employees i.e all the employees will have authorizations.

8. What is internal recruitment?

Answer:
Internal recruitment is search for internal applicants. when you integrate with
personal development, you can use profile match up which help to search for
resources internally.
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9. What is Purpose of Schedule Margin Key?

Answer:
In this step, you specify the floats for determining the basic dates of the
planned orders. The floats are allocated to the material via the release period
key in the material master record.
Opening period: The opening period represents the number of workdays that
are subtracted from the order start date in order to determine the order
creation date. This time is used by the MRP controller as a float for converting
planned orders into purchase requisitions or into production orders.
Float before production: The float before production represents the number of
workdays that are planned as a float between the order start date (planned
start date) and the production start date (target start date). On the one hand,
this float is intended to guarantee that delays in staging a material do not
delay the production start. On the other hand, the production dates can be
brought forward by means of the float to cope with capacity bottlenecks.
Float after production: The float after production should provide a float for the
production process to cope with any disruptions so that there is no danger
that the planned finish date will be exceeded. You plan the float after
production between order finish date (planned finish date) and scheduled end
(target finish date).
Release period: The release period represents the number of workdays that
are subtracted from the order start date in order to determine the production
order release. The release period is only relevant for production order
management.

10. What is opening period?

Answer:
Opening period : The opening period represents the number of workdays that
are subtracted from the order start date in order to determine the order
creation date. This time is used by the MRP controller as a float for converting
planned orders into purchase requisitions or into production orders.

11. What is planning time fence?

Answer:
1. The planning time fence specifies a period within which no automatic
changes are to be made to the master plan.
2. The planning time fence is maintained in workdays.

12. What are all the settings done for configuring integration of PP with
FICO?
Answer:
1. Do availability check. You will get missing parts list. Procure those missing
parts. Then confirm the production order. One more thing you can do, change
customize setting so that user cannot release if parts are missing during order
release.
2. Standard cost is the cost which is fixed for a period, variable cost is varying
with period. As for example cost of semi finished, finished materials are fixed
& cost of raw materials are varied.
3. You will find in master data tab page of production header data overview,
CO02 – Read PP Master Data. Also from Functions menu you will get Read PP
Master Data. This means that you want the system to re-update the
production order with the latest BOM structure.
4. Assigning of Cost center to work center. Assigning Activity type to work
center, Standard Cost estimate, Costing Run, Order settlement, Product
costing.

13. What is Planning Horizon?

Answer:
In this step, you define the planning horizon. This planning horizon specifies
the period for the “Net change planning in the planning horizon”.
In this kind of net change planning, only those materials that have undergone
a change that is relevant to MRP within the planning horizon are included in
the planning run. Such materials receive a net change planning indicator in the
planning file. You make this specification for a plant. You can define an
alternative planning horizon for MRP groups.

14. We get an error message “Control parameters for scheduling not

defined” while creating test production Orders. Why?
Answer:
Before you attempt creating Production orders, configure your
Order types- Transaction Code OPHJ
Order type Dependent parameters – Transaction Code OPL8
Backorder Scheduling – Transaction Code OMIH
Scheduling Levels – Transaction Code OMIF

15. What is LSMW?

Answer:
The LSM Workbench is an SAP System tool that supports you when copying
data from non-SAP systems.
16. What do we do in Realization Phase?
Answer:
Provide ARICEF, Configuration Documents, integration test, BPP, UAT, Unit
Test and implements some SAP notes.

17. In LSMW which is most important Step?

Answer:
Maintain Object Attributes
Maintain Source Structures
Maintain Source Fields
Maintain Structure Relations
Maintain Field Mapping and Conversion Rules
Maintain Fixed Values, Translations, User-Defined Routines.

18. How to insert an inspection checkpoint at the end of an operation?

Answer:
If in process sample is to be defined, assign inspection type 03 in the Material
Master. Then create MICs and assign them in the Routings. System
automatically generates the Inspection Lots

19. Can we use same routing for materials undergoing the same
process/operations? Can we avoid separate routing for each and every
material produced?
Answer:
Presume that there are 50 products and the fabrication shop uses a set of 10
machines. If all these products use the same settings of the machines,
Reference Operation Sets (task list type S) can be setup for common processes
that use the same work centers. However costing, scheduling and capacity will
be affected if each product has different setup time and Reference Operation
sets can not be used.
A routing for each material number ( type N or R) has to be set up and within
that routing, the Reference Operation Set can be used.However, you can by try
utilizing the KMAT material and product variants invariant configuration to
avoid separate routing for each material.
You may create a routing group. Go into routing creation and enter the plant
and the group name. If you want you may name the group, else name is
assigned by internal counter). Create the routing with the work centers,
operation times, etc. Go to the “Header overview” screen and click on the “Mat
Alloc” screen. Fill in the blanks with all the material masters that use this
routing.

20. What is the use of MRP PP evaluations?

Answer:
This role contains a function for evaluating the MRP result. This function can
be used to find information about the availability of material and to identify
any material shortage situation.

21. Mention what is the purpose of using Capacity Planning?

Answer:
Capacity Planning supports planning in all phases
Long term rough cut planning
Medium term planning
Short term planning
It can be integrated with various SAP applications like SAP-SD, PP, PP-SOP,
PP-LTP, PP-SFC, etc.

22. Explain how can you create production order without routing and
BOM?
Answer:
Without BOM and routing you can create a production order by changing the
config in OPL8 ( order type dependent parameters) as routing optional. When
we try to create an order using C001 it may ask for a sales order.

23. Explain what happens to planned after it has been converted into
production order?
Answer:
When planned order is converted to the production order, the planned order
are offset by production order. The planned order reference can be seen in the
production order.

24. Mention what is the difference between stock transport order and
stock transfer order?
Answer:
Stock transfer order: It is referred to the transfer of stock for the usage in the
same company
Stock transport order: It is referred to the change of title of stock in the name
of the buyer

25. Explain what is PRT (Production Resource Tools) in SAP PP?

Answer:
PRT (Production Resource Tools) are moveable operating objects used to
perform repeated activities in plant or production maintenance, for example,
documents such as drawings or programs for which document management
functions are used. Various other PRT components include
Engineering drawings
Jigs
Fixtures
Measurement Instruments

26. What is INTERNAL PAYROLL PROCESS?

Answer:
Payroll process(program) is run at a specific point in time, not only to calculate
an employee’s basic remuneration but also any special payments, overtime
payments or bonuses that must be effected for the period in question.
27. What is meant by authorization? Did you ever work on it?
Answer:
Authorisations are the transactions given to the end users or the developers
for only some areas to work, infotyopes, transaction codes, org units and
others depending on the requirement of the client or the develping enterprise.
Check this at PFCG tcode.
28. What are Dynamic Actions? Give a few examples. What are the IT’s
you used in them?
Answer:
Dynamic actions which are triggered by the system. They are result of some
personnel action. If you make a change (personnel action) to the personnel
data of an info type that then has an effect on the data of a second info type,
the system automatically displays the info type. One of the main purpose of
the dynamic action (of the system) is to have a consistent and coherent data.
These actions are started automatically by the system, unlike the Personnel
actions which you start by yourself. The best example is when you carry out an
action lets say hiring, you need to populate a set of info types. Your initial
entry of details in infotype 0000 is personnel action. When you do this system
automatically displays next infotpes- which is result of dynamic action

29. What is IT 41 used for? How do I default IT 41?

Answer:
Date Specifications (Info type 0041). The following information is recorded in
the Date Specifications info type (0041). The Date type specifies the type of
information. A concrete Date type (specified by the user) is used in a series of
reports, for example to evaluate an entry date that cannot be derived from the
organizational assignment history but which is stored in the Date
Specifications info type(0041). This info type can be used in payroll as well as
for the leave program. The standard system contains twelve combinations of
Date type and Date. If you require more than twelve date specifications for an
employee at the same time, you can use time constraint.

30. In TM, if group of employees get 10 days of annual leave, what will
be the time evaluation status?
Answer:
TIME evaluation shows the exact details maintained over to the employee
through his 2006 and 2001. if they are all allowed to take leave it shows leave
as paid or unpaid depending on the configuration done by the consultant for
these situation. in
processing time data in payroll or even Time evaluation ( Valuation of
absences ) also.
31. How the process time is calculated in a WC when both labour,
Machine categories exist?
Answer:
Scheduling is done based on the Capacity Category we define in the
Workcenter.

32. Mention what are the t-codes for creating, changing and
summarizing BOM?
Answer:
BOM transaction codes for

Creating BOM= CS01

Changing BOM= CS02
Summarized BOM=CS13

33. Where have we to specify the teardown time in one operation?

Answer:
Teardown time can be defined as one of the Standard Parameters.

34. What is REPORT VARIANT FOR OFF CYCLE ACTIVITIES, what do we do

in this step?
Answer:
Variant is to save all input field parameters. once you saved as a variant , you
can use the same for future purposes.

35. What is the role of a administrator in PA?

Answer:
To restrict access to Personnel administration based on PA/PSA.
Administrator: we come across for Personnel admininstration, Time
management, and Payroll in sap .
Each admiinistrator is reponsible for each individual activity. You can get the
name of the administrator in the pay slip so the employee for any clarification
he can meet the responsible administrator (accessed through payslip)
This administrtor (is created in PA of PM) is responsible for recruitment.

36. How is the process time calculated in a WC when both labour,

Machine categories exist?
Answer:
Scheduling is done based on the Capacity Category we define in the
Workcenter.

37. What is a ‘BOM’?

Answer:
A ‘BOM (Bill of Material)’ is nothing but a structured list of components (with
the object number, quantity, and unit of measure) that go into the making of a
product or an assembly. Depending on the industry sector, they may also be
called recipes or lists of ingredients. The structure of the product determines
whether the bill of material is simple or very complex.

38. What are the ‘BOM Categories’ Supported by SAP?

Answer:
The following are the various Categories of BOM:
Equipment BOM
Material BOM
Sales Order BOM
Document Structure
Functional Location BOM
WBS BOM

39. What are all the ‘Technical Types of BOM’?

Answer:
There are two ‘Technical Types of BOM’ supported in SAP:
Variant BOM
Material BOM
Differentiate ‘Variant BOM’ from ‘Multiple BOM.’
While a ‘Variant BOM’ groups together several BOMs that describe different
objects (for example, different models of a car) with a high proportion of
identical parts, a Multiple BOM groups together several BOMs that describe
one object (for example, a product) with different combinations of materials
for different processing methods.
The Variant BOMs are supported for the following BOM categories:
Material BOMs
Document structures
Equipment BOMs
Functional location BOMs
Multiple BOMs are only supported for Material BOMs.

40. What is a ‘Work Center’ in PP?

Answer:
A ‘Work Center’ in PP (PP-BD-BOM) is an organizational unit that can be a
combination of machines or groups of craftsmen, people, and production
lines, wherein certain operations are carried out to produce some output. Each
of the work centers is assigned to a cost center. A work center can be assigned
to a work center in SAP-HR, which will enable assignment of employees,
qualifications, etc.

41. What is a ‘Routing’ in PP?

Answer:
A ‘Routing’ in PP (PP-BD-RTG) is used to define the sequence of operations
(work steps) and resources required to perform certain operations in order to
produce a material with or without reference to an order. The standard values
of planned time for the various operations need to be entered into the
routing.
There are two different types of routing:
Routing
Rate routing
(A similar concept exists in PS where you define a ‘task list,’ which is similar to
‘routing’ in PP.)

42. What is known as ‘Demand Management’?

Answer:
‘Demand Management’ (PP-MP-DEM) helps in determining the requirement
quantities and delivery dates for finished goods assemblies. It uses the
planned independent requirements and customer requirements (customer
requirements come from sales orders). Planning strategies help in deciding the
kind of demand program. If production is triggered by sales orders, then it is
known as ‘Make-toOrder’ production; if is not then it is known as ‘Make-to-
Stock’ production.

43. What are the Three ‘MRP Procedures’?

Answer:
Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
Master Production Scheduling (MPS)
Consumption-based Planning
What is ‘MPS’ (Master Production Scheduling)?
Executed as that of an MRP, ‘MPS’ is nothing but a special form of MRP, which
aims to reduce storage costs and to increase planning stability. With MPS you
can flag materials that greatly influence company profits or take up critical
resources as master schedule items and check and plan them separately with a
series of special tools.

44. What is ‘Consumption-based Planning?

Answer:
Using past consumption data, ‘Consumption-based Planning’ aims at
determining future requirements. In the process, it makes use of material
forecasts or any other ‘static’ planning procedures. The ‘net requirements’
calculation is triggered when the stock level falls below a reorder point. The
net requirements can also be calculated by forecast requirements from a
historical consumption pattern.

45. What is SLA ? Service Level Agreements?

Answer:

Service Level Agreements (SLA) define the attributes for service products (for
example, maintenance, Hotline) that have been agreed upon with the
customer in service contracts. The SLA confirms different parameters, such as
response time, availability time and system availability.

46. What are Basic Dates?

Answer:
Earliest date for the execution of the production order. This date takes into
account the float before production. If, on order creation, a planned order
exists for the production order or process order, then the order dates are
taken from the planned order. When scheduling the production order the
system tries to adhere to the order dates (if necessary, with reduction
measures).
1. If it is not possible to adhere to the basic dates and if the control parameter
in Customizing allows the basic dates to be adjusted, the system adjusts the
basic dates of the order during the scheduling run.
2. If the control parameter in Customizing does not allow the basic dates to be
adjusted, the order keeps the basic dates of the planned order.
3. If the production order is created manually, you must enter at least one
order date manually.
4. The scheduling type determines, which order dates you must enter.

47. What is Group BOM?

Answer:
Alphanumeric character string used to uniquely identify a BOM.
Use
If you assign a “meaningful” number to a BOM group, this gives you an
additional way of accessing the BOM.
The system stores the following under a BOM group:
1. all the alternatives in a multiple BOM
2. all the BOMs entered for a variant BOM

48. Can’t one material be assigned to more than one operation in a

routing?
Answer:
One material from a BOM CANNOT be assigned to different Operations.
It can be done by defining the material for so many times as required in the
BOM

49. What is the purpose of creating symbolic a/c, what is transaction

code for same ? Can we assign one symbolic a/c to multiple wage types?
Answer:
It depends upon your payrol requirement to create salary head like expense
account etc.

50. We need to do GI of components to production order using Back-

flush. The component stock is managed in Batches. The Batch to be back-
flushed?
Answer:
With the following settings, the batches are selected the moment the
production order is released.

1: Set up batch determination the way that the batches in batch selection are
sorted the right way. e.g. sorted by expiry date
2: Use automatic batch selection in disp view.
3: Ensure that the components are allowed to be back-flushed (material
master/ work center) is selected by FIFO from the issue storage location.
2 nd PART

1. Explain what is Routing in SAP PP?

Answer:
Routing in SAP PP is referred to a list of activities which are required to
produce any material. For example, when you do cost estimation for the
material, the system triggers the relevant routing and activity rates for all
those described in routing. Which will helpful to calculate the processing cost
in product costing.

2. What are the steps of Production Execution Process?

Answer:
Production Execution steps include

Converting planned order to production order

Releasing the production order
Goods issue for production order
Confirmation of production order
Goods receipt against production order

3. Find the scenario and give the result : A,B,C are employees, where A,B
will get basic,HRA,DA. C gets Basic and DA. How to group for the
allowances?
Answer:
Allowances are paid depending on his gradation and even wages are also paid
on this criteria, if AB are paid bas, hra and DA then take three wage types ans
assign to the ES Grouping and don’t give HRA wage type to C.
Check basic salary of inda and ALlowances in indian payroll thorougly, bcos
first of all v have to undestand this first and
then you have to decide the emp sub gtroupings.

4. What are the reports generated in product cost controlling information

system?
Answer:
Product Cost Controlling information system generates information for
following areas

Product cost planning

Cost object controlling with the subcomponents
Product cost by period
Product cost by order
Product cost by sales order
Costs for intangible goods and services
Actual costing / Material Ledger

5. What is the use of INFOGROUPS?

Answer:
The infotype group (commonly known as infogroup) guarantees that during
the personnel action, all information needed for the business processes is
stored. The infogroup is processed when you perform a personnel action. – An
infogroup exists in the standard system for every personnel action type. – In
Customizing for Personnel Administration, you can tailor the make-up of the
various infogroups to the requirements of your company. – You can define
infogroups as user-group dependent. Infogroups are used in Personnel
Actions to define a set of sequencial infotypes that you would be using while
performing an action. For example, when you hire, you would want to use
IT0000,0001,0002,0006,0007,0008 etc in a sequence- in a particular order. So
define an Infogroup for this purpose which contains all these infotypes, their
order of execution and the user groups it is applicable for. Then you assign
this infogroup to the action that you had defined.

6. What is the difference between by-product and co-product and how

do you differentiate them in a BOM?
Answer:
In case, of Co-product costs are settled with an apportionment structure. In
case, of By-product the price of this by-product is credited to the order or the
material stock account of the lead material being manufactured. Co-Product
as well as by-product are defined as BOM Components/Items. Both of them
have negative quantities. ( Not all negative quantity items fall under these
categories!). When BOM is created for FERT, you can see one indicator in
COMPONENT DETAILS screen for co-product. You need to define the co-
products with this special indicator.

7. Explain the uses of the simple maintenance interface?

Answer:
Simple Maintenance is used when Staff assignments and reporting structure
are to be changed. There are three main areas in Simple Maintenance. Each
area contains particular maintenance functions, depending on whether you
want to edit organizational structure, staff assignments or task profiles. For
Organizational Management users, Simple Maintenance is best used to
establish the basic framework in organizational plan development. For
complete, detailed editing of individual organizational objects in your
organizational plan (editing particular positions or organizational units, for
example), we recommend that you switch to Info-type Maintenance. Simple
maintenance uses a tree structure, which allows you to create a basic
framework for organizational plans, using streamlined procedures. In this way,
we can create an organizational and reporting structures step by step.

8. How do you get the system to update this value from the routing?
Answer:
In routing, carry out scheduling. Go into the routing operation overview and
follow Extras -> Scheduling -> Results. The pop-up window displays the
scheduling data. At the bottom there is a pushbutton to copy the scheduling
data to the material master Check this push button to update master data.

9. We defined SOP in months. However, during SOP transfer to demand

management, our independent requirements are appearing in weeks.
How can we correct this from weeks into months?
Answer:
Check transaction OMPA for general split. OMPS – based on the MRP group.
Ensure that MRP group assigned to the material. Delete any allocations in
these tables.
Then periods will be transferred to Demand Management with the same splits
as in SOP. Also, check whether the value of period is set as “month” at your
plant level in Transaction ‘OMP7’
10. What is the difference between “planned consumption” and
“Unplanned consumption”? Can safety stock calculation be done on
either of these?
Answer:
While customizing movement types (OMJJ) it is defined as to which set of
consumption values gets posted during the material movement. For some, it
may always be the total consumption and for some, it is always the unplanned
one and for some, it is dependent on whether the issues were done with
reference to a reservation ie., a planned consumption.
The way these consumption values are taken into account in MRP is defined in
the customizing of MRP types.

For Reorder point planning (VM) the total consumption is used to calculate
the safety stock and the reorder point.
For Forecast-based planning (VV) the total consumption is used to build the
forecast which will be used to compile the order proposals.
For Deterministic MRP (PD) the unplanned consumption is used to calculate
the forecast which in turn is added to the actual demand.

11. How is Time managment and payroll is integrated?

Answer:
TM MGMT and Payroll are integrated in ways are time data is collected from
the info type 0007 and these hours are taken in basic as Number of hours
worked or utilizwed, and even with time evaluation and last with schemas
integration.
X000 schema carries xt00 and these data can be transfered between other
modlues.

12. What is costing? How it is affected the PP?

Answer:
Determining the material costs of a product.
When you calculate production costs using a quantity structure, the system
automatically determines the BOM and all the BOM items that are relevant to
costing, in order to calculate manufacturing costs.

13. We want the system to run a single level MRP automatically on

receipt of sales order. How to configure triggering event based MRP?
Answer:
This can only be run if the material master has planning strategy 41 (made-to-
order) in the MRP2 view. We need to run for other MRP types. We have to
create a user exit in the sales order processing (VA01) to start MRP based on
data from our sales transaction.

14. What is Recruitment Cycle?

Answer:
Its is the complete process of recruitment right from identifying the vacancies
displaying the same, notifying them, inviting the applicants, screening the
applicants, interviewing them, selecting them, and recruiting them and
appointing them(giving an organizational position in the organization— all
theses processes constitute the recruitment cycles.

15. We are trying to create Purchase Requisition from MRP run. We have
material, info Record, Source list, Demand in place. MRP is always
creating plan order. Why?
Answer:
Check the procurement type in MRP view of material master. Check ‘Create
Purchase requisition’ indicator while running MRP. If you want purchase
requisitions to be created in the opening period, select the for MRP control
parameter ‘create purchase requisitions’ as ‘1’.

16. what is the option “Documented goods movements” on Selection of

Individual Object Lists (transaction code CO28)?
Answer:
Use Transaction code OPL8 to customize by choosing the order type, select all
the checkbox under “Documentation of goods movements” at the bottom of
the page. Create a new Production order, make GI to it, and run the report.
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17. Explain how to create PRT master records?
Answer:
To create PRT master records you have to follow the following steps

Choose logistics/Accounting -> Project System -> Basic data -> Master data -
> Production resources and tools -> Create
The initial screen for creating a PRT appears
Enter a number for the PRT and choose continue
The basic data screen appears
Maintain the basic data
Choose Goto -> Defaults and enter the default values
Save the PRT

18. What is golive actually ? What is the role of a functional consultant in

it?
Answer:
Go live is transfering of data from Development server to Production server.
Development —–> Quality server
In Quality you need to Unit, Integration testing, Once it is OK in Qulaity server,
Then you need
Development —-> Production

19. How to group employees for their allowances in payroll?

Answer:
Go to basic salary of india in Payroll india and group the employee first
depending on the allowances to be paid and this is
applied for even differantiating the employees into groups depending on their
pay structures.

20. Explain what is PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) in SAP PP and

what is the use?
Answer:
It is a collection of solutions with which you digitally create, maintain and
make product information, available in the whole company and for the entire
life cycle of the product.
PLM provides you the function with which you do following things

The workplace is an open portal in the world wide web and allows you to
access all application and information that you need to work with all external
and internal business partners
It can link with other internet applications like program management, change
and configuration management and engineering collaboration.

21. We have two storage locations are ‘0001’ and ‘0600’. Default storage
location in Process order is always ‘0001’ What determines this default
location?
Answer:
Look into OSS notes: 100757, 63493, 96262, 87843, 82033, 64946. The Storage
location as configured in the Supply area has the highest priority.

22. What is MRP controller Means?

Answer:
The MRP controller is a person or a group of persons responsible for
monitoring material availability. You can use the number entered here, for
example, to select the planning results per MRP conroller. Every material that
is relevant to the planning run must be assigned an MRP controller number in
the material master record. You can also determine a special person for
backorder processing who receives a mail if a goods receipt was posted for a
missing part. You must enter the mail name of this person in the field entitled,
recipient name. In addition, you can define a person or a group of persons,
who are to informed if you send a mail from the MRP list or
stock/requirements list to the MRP controller for the material displayed.
Actions.

23. What is PROCESSING CLASS, where we do them and why?

Answer:
Wage type characteristic that determines how processing is conducted during
the payroll run
24. In cost controlling information system mention the fields that are
listed in the list screen of the report?
Answer:
Following fields are listed in the list screen of the report

Key Figures
Costing/MM
%Costing/MM
Revaluation
VarCstRuns
%VarCstRuns
Basic data
Valuation

25. Explain what is the use of SAP Material View and list out other
parameters where SAP Material View is applicable?
Answer:
SAP Material View is an SAP object that not only hold name of the material,
but various other information related to material like

Material production related information

Material planning related information
Material sales related information
Material purchase related information
Material storage and warehousing related information
Material costing and Accounting related information
Material batch specification information

26. What is meant by payscale structure? How did you configure payscale
structure?
Answer:
Pay Scale Structure means creation of Payroll area , Pay scale type,area, group
and levels with EmpSub group grouping for PCR & CAP’s.

27. What is MRP group and what is the use of it?

Answer:
MRP Groups
In this step, you can carry out the total maintenance of the MRP groups and
you can allocate a material type to an MRP group. The MRP group is an
organizational object that can be used to allocate special control parameters
for planning to a group of materials. You can maintain MRP groups if planning
control per plant is not precise enough for your requirements and you want to
allocate certain material groups different control parameters from the plant
parameters. For this purpose, MRP groups are defined with these specific
control parameters and are assigned to the material in the material master
record (MRP 1 screen).
For example, the following control parameters can be set for the total
planning run:
1. the creation indicator for the plarequisitions, MRP lists, and so on)
2. the planning horizon
3. the consumption mode
The following is valid for total planning and single-item planning:
1. for all materials without an MRP group, the system uses the plant
parameters, or the entries in the initial screen of the planning run
2. for all materials with an MRP group, the system uses the parameters
recorded in the MRP group inning run (creation of purchase)

28. What are some important tables used in PP (Production Planning)?

Answer:
For orders:

CAUFVD dialog structure for order headers and items

AFPO – Order item
AFFLD Order: Dialog table for order sequences (AFFL)
MOPAR Operation for production order
KBED Capacity requirements
AFRU Order completion confirmations
RESB Reservation/Dependent Requirements
AFFHD Structure of PRT’s in orders
SOPER Sub-operations
SAFRU Sub-operation confirmations
SK BED Capacity requirements for sub-operation
MRP table is MDTB.

For PI:

CAUFV – AFVC Operation within an order

AFFT Order Process Instructions
AFFV Order process instruction values

Some other tables of interest:

PLKO, MAPL, PLAS.

Bills Of Material

29. We want to report on several status combinations like each order that
has status ‘Not deleted’ and ‘Not technically completed’. What set up is
required?
Answer:
Check transaction CO28. In the selection screen note the possible selection
‘System Status’. You can select TECO for technically complete an DLT for
deleted from the list. Select the Excl. indicator also.

You may also try transaction CO26 (Logistics -> Production -> Production
control -> Control -> Information systems -> Order Info System -> Object
overview). Before executing the transaction report, combinations of statuses
can be selected or exclude them.

30. List out the basic procedure for dispatching operations in capacity
leveling?
Answer:
For dispatch operations basic procedure includes
Either the user determines the date of dispatch or else it is specified by
scheduling
A dispatching sequence needs to be determined if several operations need to
be dispatched
The systems checks for
The dates to which operations are to be dispatched
The work center to which operations are to be dispatched
Finite scheduling is performed Operation check is performed
Status for the operation is set as “dispatched.”
System carries out midpoint scheduling

31. Explain what is the need of MRP list if the stock requirement list is
already given?
Answer:
MRP list displays the result of the last planning run, changes that occurred
between planning runs are ignored in the MRP list. While contrary to this, in
the stock or requirement list all changes that occurred in the stock, issues and
receipts are displayed by the system.

32. Explain what is “work center” in SAP PP and what is the use of Data in
Work Centers?
Answer:
“Work Centers” are business objects in SAP-PP that is used in task list
operations ( routings, maintenance task lists, inspection plans) and work
orders.Data in work center is used for

Scheduling: Formulas and operating time are entered, so that the duration of
an operation can be calculated
Costing: Formulas are entered so that the costs of an operation can be
calculated
Capacity Planning: The available capacity and formulas for capacity
requirements is entered
Simplifying operation maintenance: Various default values can be included in
the work center
33. How Requirements( PIR,Sles Order, Customer Requirement) are
reduced after they are produced?
Answer:
Reqmts are reduced automatically after Delivery is made to the Particular
Order
(In case of Strategy 11, the PIRs are consumed after the GR for Production
Order)
34. Can we have more than 6 standard values in standard value key?
Answer:
One way to achieve this is to create another operation step using the same
work center. However this shall be with a control key that is not a milestone.
When the milestone operation is confirmed, the previous operations up to the
next milestone are automatically confirmed. To get the desired number of
standard values , all the ‘non milestone’ steps can be built depending on the
need.

35. Scheduling times can be defined in the material master record by?
Answer:
entering the in-house production time. This value can be updated from the
routing by the system.
# entering the setup, tear down, processing, and interoperation times. If these
values are maintained, the system determines the in-house production time
on the basis of lot size.

36. We have a lot of size procedure here which is creating more order
proposals. How do you set the limit value for the maximum number of
MRP order proposals per date in IMG?
Answer:
Under customization, try materials management->consumption based
planning->maintain all plants

37. What is meant by a schema?

Answer:
No, you have to say him that schema is a set of instructions ( Programs )
madified as per requirements and its process is to collect the data as from all
the defined instuctutions with sub schemas and PCR’s. As I was not authorised
to work on them I know just the process of schemas only, (you should have
said like this.)

38. How do you restrict the data to be entered in payroll area?

Answer:
No, data is entered in a payroll area , but the employees are defined
depending on their payscale structure. If you are restricting any data to be
entered for pay strcs this is for indirectly for payroll area.

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39. What are the other modules integrated with OM?

Answer:
OM contains all the modules to be integrated, depending client requirement it
is done. As OM-PA, OM -RECT, OM-BENEFITS, OM-TRAINING & EVENT
MGMT, OM – PD AND OTHERS.
CHECK THIS BY GOING TO IMG –> CTRL F AND GIVE INTEGRATION WITH OM
)
CHECK ALL OF THEM , GO FOR PROGRAM
RHINTE00 PHINTE10 , PRHINTE20 , PHINTE30 AND 40 ALSO.

40. What are GAPS? Some Examples?

Answer:
The GAPS are some issue in blue print that SAP cannot capture or prividing
the client bussiness process.

41. What is Qualification Deficiency? How will you come to know that a
Person does not have certain skills/qualification?
Answer:
Generally the required qualifications are stored in Required Qualifications
(Infotype 5129). So any deficient qualifications can be viewed in this infotype.

42. We would like to have a report/inquiry that would indicate variances

(materials, material quantities) between material recipe and actual
process orders. We tried ME2M but this gives us a list of purchasing
documents and not the consumption deviation. Where can I get such
consumption deviation (master recipe Vs. Process> Orders)?
Answer:
Do a data collection first.

Menu Path – Accounting->Controlling->Product cost acctg->Process mfg-

>Information system->Cost object hierarchy->data collection

(If you are using order hierarchy you would select order hierarchy in place of
cost object hierarchy in the menu path.)

Then, Accounting->Controlling->Product Cost Accounting->Order Related

Production->Information System Choose Report Period Costing –
Target/Actual production variance.

43. How do you differentiate Tax for different countries?

Answer:
Taxation has so many use exits to be created which means it all happens only
from the new versions which SAP Releases.

44. What is meant by slab? How is Indian slab and US slab?

Answer:
Grouping of employees depending on their allowances and PERKS is nothing
but Slab system and it also even comes for Professonal Tax.
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45. In OM, how to get the details for group of employees (ex.) group of
Drivers in the organisation?\
Answer:
Drivers can be identified depending on their position at which they are
working and you can have a different job codes for them who do you want to
look into.

46. What is the difference between Indian and US Payroll?

Answer:
Yes it correct and even you have to say about the Benefits which are more
important in US. In US unemployment tax will come. Garnishments will come,
Residence taxation, Work tax and others, you have to say it in broad way then
only they can know that you are working, or confident enough.

47. Mention what are the keyfields found in MRP View 1?

Answer:
MRP views 1 are mostly maintained for production purposes.

General Data
MRP Procedure
Lot size data

48. How can we shut off the “automatic costing indicator” and the
“automatic scheduling indicator” which go on when the production order
is released?
Answer:
For “no automatic costing” follow the IMG path
Production -> Production orders ->Master data -> Order – >Define order
type dependent parameters
Select the order type for which u automatic costing is not required. In the
controlling settings, select “no automatic costing”

For “no automatic scheduling”, follow the IMG path:

Production ->Operations – >Scheduling -> Define control parameters

Select the order type and go to details. Deselect ” automatic dates “

Alternatively, you can find indicators in the control key, which is in the routing.
Transaction OPL8 gives you costing indicators (Order type dependent
parameters), and OPJU (control table for scheduling) gives some scheduling
options.
49. How can I use variable size items?
Answer:
For example, consider an item A with ‘kg’ as base Unit Of Measurement(UOM)
and ‘m3’ as stock keeping/issue unit. Conversion factor is 1kg = 2.4 m3.
In the BOM of ‘B’ ,number of A required are specified (say 5).

Specify the 3 variable dimensions i.e. length, width & thickness- say 2000mm
X 3000mm X 4mm = 0.024 m3

As per BOM – ‘B’ , the quantity of A required is 0.024 X 5 = 0.120 m3

If a production Order is released for 15 numbers of ‘B’ , the quantity of

variable size unit will be 1.20 m3.

You can change the length, width or thickness in the production order &
check the resulting variable size item quantity. At the same time, this
requirement can be seen in ‘kg’ in stock/requirement list.

50. Can anybody explain to me why work scheduling view is required for
semi-finished and finished products?
Answer:
We need to maintain working scheduling view in order to make that finished
or semi-finished goods available for production as we assign production
scheduler and production scheduler profile in this view, if not maintained
conversion of planned order to production will not be possible.