SD CERTIFICATION QUESTIONS: UNIT:6 SPECIAL FUNCTIONS FOR DELIVERY PROCESSING

UNIT:6 SPECIAL FUNCTIONS FOR DELIVERY PROCESSING

1. Why Batch split function is used?
If the delivery quantities of an item is to be taken from different batches.

2. How batch split are carried out?
Ø Manually in the batch spilt screen
Ø Automatic batch determination (it has to be activated in delivery item category)

3. Can you do Post goods issue without batch determined for an item?
Ø If materials are maintained in the batches, it has to be determined before PGI.

4. What are serial numbers?
Ø Unique serial numbers are assigned to each material. Serial number profile has to be entered in material master record to use serial number for a material.

5. You must specify serial numbers before PGI.
Yes/No. – Yes.

6. Pricing conditions are transferred from preceding documents to a outbound delivery document.
Yes/No. – No. We have to enter manually or using conditions technique provided the procedure is assigned to delivery type.

7. What pricing information are available in delivery?
Ø Shipping-related conditions. E.g. shipping or freight.


8. Can you split an existing delivery?
Yes/No. – Yes. Using split profile, which is assigned to delivery type.

9. What happens when you split a delivery?
Ø New deliveries are created such as results and the remainder.

10. Can you call log of incomplete items from delivery processing?
Yes/No. – Yes. Both at header and item level.

11. What other functions can be performed in outbound delivery creation?
Ø Material substitution
Ø Texts
Ø Quantity checks
Ø Dangerous goods check
Ø Credit and risk management
Ø Export control


UNIT: 9 GOODS ISSUE

1. Posting goods issue for an outbound delivery completes shipping activities.
Yes/No. – Yes.

2. Goods issue applies to the entire outbound delivery document.
Yes/No. – Yes.

3. What are the ways for doing Post goods issue?
Ø Processing Single document
Ø Collective processing
Ø Outbound delivery monitor
Ø In picking by specifying rule 2 in Adopt pick quantity.

4. Goods issue can be done even though warehouse confirmation for picking is not done.
Yes/No. – No. PGI requires the mandatory functions to be carried out and also incomplete document fields should be completed.

5. Effects of PGI in the R/3 system?
Ø Reduces warehouse stock.
Ø Post value changes in stock accounts in inventory accounting.
Ø Reduces delivery requirements.
Ø Enter status information in outbound delivery
Ø Updates document flow
Ø Creates work list for billing

6. The following are true about cancellation of goods issue.
Ø The system carries out an inventory posting based on quantities and values with a reversed +/- sign.
Ø The cancellation document is entered in the document flow for outbound delivery.
Ø The goods movement status is reset to “Not yet started”
Ø The delivery requirements are recreated.
Ø Any billing document created with reference to delivery must be cancelled first.
Ø Reversal movement type has to be customized in inventory management.


7. Can Quality management be implemented for goods inspection before goods issue to the customer?
Yes/No. – Yes. Quality management view of the material master view has to be maintained.

8. What influences the QM inspection of goods to be either accepted or rejected?
Ø The usage decision of quality inspection department.

9. The goods can be sent to the customer before inspection log is submitted to the delivery department.
Yes/No. – Yes. depends on the customer decision.

10. What is POD?
Ø Proof of delivery (POD) is essentially designed to support the process of creating an invoice once the customer has confirmed the arrival of the goods.

11. POD relevance is activated where?
Ø Delivery item category
Ø POD relevance in customer master record of ship-to party



12. The creation of a billing document using the billing due list is blocked until POD has been confirmed.
Yes/No. – Yes. Depends on customization.



UNIT: 7 PACKING

1. What are packaging materials?
Ø Materials used for packing or transporting goods. Material type is VERP.

2. What are handling units?
Ø Items from an outbound delivery can be packed into an individual packaging type called a handling unit. Combination of packaging materials and goods.

3. Can a handling unit be packed into other HU?
Yes/No. – Yes. Multilevel packing is possible.

4. All the items in a outbound delivery must be packed.
Yes/No. – No. Customization done in Delivery Item category.


5. What output types are set for packing in the system?
Ø Packing list (at delivery level)
Ø Shipping label (at handling unit level)

6. The packing functions are available where?
Ø In the order as packing proposal.
Ø In the inbound delivery.
Ø In the outbound delivery.
Ø In the shipment document.

7. Can you change the packing in the outbound delivery?
Yes/No. – Yes. As long as you have not posted goods issue.

8. Similar packaging materials are grouped into what?
Ø Packaging material type.

9. Materials that have similar packaging requirement are grouped into what?
Ø Material group for packaging materials.
10. Can a material be packed to any packaging material?
Yes/No. – Yes. provided Material group for packaging materials has not been maintained in the material master, depending on the weight and volume check.

11. What are packing instructions and how it is determined?
Ø Packing instructions consist of: packing materials, Materials to be packed, Text items, Rules concerning rounding, minimum quantities, definition of a check profile.
Ø It is determined using condition technique.
12. Can a packaging material be generated as separate line item in the outbound delivery?
Yes/No. – Yes. Item category must be determined using USAGE and a delivery plant for packaging materials must be determined in the outbound delivery.

UNIT: 8 HANDLING UNITS IN SHIPPING

1. What are the advantages of handling units?
Ø Simpler processing of materials flow in logistics using HU identification number, not material and quantity.
Ø All subsequent process can reuse this information within own organization and also by partners in the logistics chain.

2. What are the mandatory customizations required for efficient HU management?
Ø Define number ranges for handling Units.
Ø Define packaging material types
Ø HU requirement for storage locations (for which no stock has been entered)
Ø Packing control by item category
Ø External number range for handling units.

UNIT: 9 ACCOUNT DETERMINATION

1. What are the factors that are taken into consideration for account determination?
Ø Chart of accounts
Ø Sales Organization
Ø Account assignment group of customers
Ø Account assignment group of material
Ø Account key



2. An account determination procedure is assigned to what?
Ø Billing Document type


3. Can G/L accounts be posted by business area?
Yes/No. – Yes.
UNIT: 10 SD/FI INTERFACE

1. What changes can you make in the billing document before posting an accounting document?
Ø Billing date
Ø Pricing
Ø Account determination
Ø Output determination data

2. What changes can you make after posting to accounting?
Ø Only output data can be changed.

3. Can you customize the system so that automatic posting to an accounting document can be stopped while creating a billing document?
Yes/No. – Yes. By specifying a posting block in the billing type.


4. What is the significance of reference number and allocation number in the accounting document?
Ø Reference number: is in the header of the accounting document and is used for clearing.
Ø Allocation number: is in the customer line item and is used for sorting line numbers.

5. When invoice list is created, the reference number from the invoice list overwrites the reference numbers from the individual billing documents.
Yes/No. – Yes.

6. Accounting document type is assigned where?
Ø In the billing document type



7. What is the significance of Head office / Branch office field in the billing type?
Ø To control which partner functions in the billing document should be transferred to FI.

8. What is the significance of value dated credit memo field in the billing type?
Ø It controls when the actual credit memo date should be taken. If marked, then the system takes the actual billing date as the base line date credit memo.


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SCM ORDER FULFILLMENT – II
PART II OF II

COURSE: CROSS-FUNCTIONAL CUSTOMIZING IN SD

UNIT: 2-COPYING CONTROL

1. What is the significance of complete reference switch in the header level copying control?
Ø If marked, we can only copy the full items from source documents, partial copying is not allowed.

2. What is the significance of update document flow switch?
Ø Specifies whether the system updates the item level document flow.

3. While creating a document with reference to a previous document, can you overwrite the item category proposed by the system?
Yes/No. – Yes. in the copying control target item category should be given.


4. What is the significance of completion rule in the item category?
Ø To control when an item from the reference document is complete.













UNIT: 3 TEXT CONTROL

1. Texts are stored in which are all text objects?
Ø Customer master record
Ø Customer-material info record
Ø Material master record
Ø All documents – both at header and item level.

2. Can you enter texts in different languages?
Yes/No. – Yes.

3. Can you copy texts from one document to another document?
Yes/No. – Yes. Text determination procedure.

4. Text determination procedure contains what?
Ø All Text types


5. Can you make texts to be mandatory in the documents?
Yes/No. – Yes. By marking the mandatory field in the procedure.

6. Using texts as the reference as the following consequences:
Ø While the texts in sales document 2 still refers to the texts from source sales document, it cannot be changed.
Ø If the texts in the source document are changed, the text in the target sales document is also changed.
Ø If the text in the target document is changed, any changes to the text in the source sales document will no longer affect the target sales document.

7. What happens when a text is copied from the source document?
Ø If the text is changed in the source document, it does not affect the text in the target sales document.

8. Can you copy the text from the delivery to the billing document?
Yes/No. – Yes. we have to mark the delivery text field in the billing type.



UNIT: 4 OUTPUT

1. What is an output in SAP R/3 system?
Ø Output is the means of communication for exchanging information between partners and the system.

2. At what level do you determine an output in a document?
Ø Header level: Header output issues the whole document.
Ø Item level: item output is for issuing each individual item in the document.

3. Can you give examples of output type in SD?
Ø BA00 – Order Confirmation.
Ø RD03 – cash sale invoice
Ø RD00 – Invoice
Ø LD00 – Delivery note
Ø LP00 – scheduling agreement

4. How output is processed?
Ø By using a processing program.

5. What is a communication strategy?
Ø Represents a sequence of communication types, mainly used for external transmission.

6. Can you determine when an output is issued?
Yes/No. – Yes. by specifying the time in the output configuration.



7. Output in a Documents header contains what parameter fields?
Ø Output type,
Ø Partner,
Ø Medium and
Ø The time.



8. What are the various transmission mediums available in the system?


UNIT: 5 OUTPUT PROCESSING

1. What is the two steps system follows to print out documents?
Ø Data procurement: using processing programs to call up the data.
Ø Data defining: using FORM (SAPscript) to define a layout for the data procured.

UNIT: 6 INTERFACE MODIFICATIONS

1. What does an account group control?
Ø Field selection in the master record, which are required or optional
Ø The number range for customer account.
Ø Whether the number range should be internal or external
Ø What partner function are assigned to a account group
Ø Whether it is a one-time account.
Ø Which output determination procedure is used?

2. Can you influence field selection according to the transactions?
Yes/No. – Yes. by defining transaction dependant screen layout.



3. What are screen variants?
Transaction processes can be simplified with screen variants, such as
Ø Enter default values in fields
Ø Hide and change which fields can be completed with data
Ø Hide whole screens.

4. A transaction variant is made up of screen variants.
Yes/No. – Yes. A transaction variant is assigned to exactly one transaction, but each transaction can have several variant assigned to it.

TSCM ORDER FULFILLMENT I
PART I OF I

COURSE: SAP OVERVIEW

UNIT1: mySAP. BUSINESS SUITE

1. What are included in the SAP Net Weaver technology?
Ø SAP Web application server
Ø Portal infrastructure
Ø Exchange infrastructure
Ø Information integration.

2. To access data in SAP BW, users use what tools?
Ø SAP business explorer
Ø Standard Web browser
Ø Presentation tools such as MS excel etc.

3. What are business objects in SAP?
Ø An SAP business object is the representation of a central business object in the real world such as an employee, sales order etc.

4. Where do business objects are maintained?
Ø Business Object Repository (BOR)

5. A business object in the Business Object Repository can have many methods from which one or several are implemented as BAPIs.
Yes/No. – Yes. A method is an operation performed on a business object.

6. What is BAPI?
Ø Business Application Programming Interface is standardized interface for integrating third-party applications and components in the Business Frame work.

7. A BAPI is assigned to one and only one business object.
Yes/No. – Yes.

8. What is ALE?
Ø Application link enabling is used to distribute data, master data and transaction data across different systems within one enterprise.

9. What is Idocs?
Ø (Intermediate documents) Data exchange is carried out via Idocs in the EDI interface.

10. What is EDI?
Ø Electronic Data Interchange supports information exchange between R/3 systems in different enterprises.



OVERVIEW OF SAP SOLUTION MANAGER


1. What is SAP solution manager?
Ø The SAP Solution Manager brings in a new era of solution management covering all relevant aspects for implementation, operations and continuous improvement.

2. What are the five phases that are followed in the Implementation Roadmap?
Ø Project Preparation
Ø Business Blueprint
Ø Realization
Ø Final Preparation
Ø Go Live & Support

3. What is the operations infrastructure of a solution manager?
Ø Operations
Ø Solution Monitoring
Ø Support

4. What are the three areas of Implementation Road map?
Ø Project area
Ø Viewing Area
Ø Attachment area: Accelerators are found (Document Formats)

5. What is the structure of Roadmap?
Ø Level 1 – Phases
Ø Level 2 – Work packages
Ø Level 3 – Activity
Ø Level 4 – Tasks





















TOPICS, WHICH ARE NOT COVERED IN CERTIFICATION


CROSS SELLING

1. What is the purpose of Cross-selling?
Ø The order taker can suggest additional articles that the customer might buy. For example, if the customer orders a VCR, you might suggest purchasing some blank tapes.

2. The articles that appear in the cross- selling dialog box always depend on which articles are in the sales order.
Yes/No. – Yes.

3. Can we make cross-selling dependant on other factors such as customer’s past purchasing history?
Yes/No. – Yes. using Dynamic Product proposal customization.

4. What information does the cross-selling dialogue box displays?
Ø Material number and description.
Ø Sales unit
Ø Price per unit
Ø Availability check.
Ø Delivery flag.

5. For each material, can you assign more than one cross-selling material?
Yes/No. – Yes.

6. What customization we have to make in the system for setting cross sales?
Create the conditions tables, access sequence, and calculation schemes for determining cross- selling articles, since the cross selling function relies on the conditions technique.
Create a cross selling profile with the following attributes:
Determination of cross selling articles via function module
Price calculation scheme
Scheme using conditions technique
Flag indicating how the cross selling dialog is to appear
Flag indicating whether an availability check is to be performed
Assign the cross selling profile to a sales area, document scheme, and customer scheme.







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PART I OF II
COURSE: PRICING

UNIT: 1-PRICING FUNDAMENTALS

1. What are the types of pricing conditions you can maintain in R/3 system?
Ø Pricing
Ø Discounts / Surcharges
Ø Freight
Ø Taxes

2. Can you limit a pricing agreement?
Yes/No. – Yes. By specifying a validity period.

3. Can you maintain prices based on different scales?
Yes/No. – Yes. Unlimited number of levels in a scale can be maintained.
4. For what the upper and the lower limit in a condition is maintained?
Ø Manual changes in pricing elements can be limited based on these limits.
5. What is a condition type?
Ø The condition type determines the category of a condition and how it is used.

6. What are the possible scale base types and calculation types exits in the system?
Ø Value – Percentage or fixed amount
Ø Quantity – Amount / unit of measure
Ø Weight – Amount / unit of weight
Ø Volumes – Amount / unit of volume
Ø Time period quantity per unit of time

7. Can you set a condition type automatically as surcharge or as discount?
Yes/No. – Yes. by activating the positive/negative field in the condition type.

8. All the condition type should have an access sequence assigned to it.
Yes/No. – No. Header condition types and some item condition doesn’t have access sequence assigned to it.


UNIT: 2 CONDITION TECHNIQUE IN PRICING

1. What is a pricing procedure?
Ø All permitted condition types are contained in the pricing procedure, which is assigned for a combination of sales area and customers.

2. Can you control the behavior of a condition type in a procedure?
Yes/No. – Yes. By assigning a requirement to it.

3. The pricing procedure can contain any number of subtotals between gross and net price.
Yes/No. – Yes.

4. What you have to do if you want a condition type to surely influence the pricing of a document?
Ø Mark the condition type as mandatory in the pricing procedure.

5. Can you use a condition type purely for statistical purpose in the procedure without affecting the net value of the item price?
Yes/No. – Yes. By marking the condition type as Statistical purpose in the procedure.

6. Can you enter a condition type manually in the sales document?
Yes/No. – Yes. Manual switch has to be marked in the pricing procedure.

7. What is an access sequence?
Ø It is the search strategy for searching the accesses (Condition tables) that are assigned to it. The search strategy is from specific to general.

8. Can you make an access dependent on certain requirements?
Yes/No. – Yes.

9. What are the ways you can exclude a condition type from being determined in a sales document?
Ø Assigning a requirement to the condition type in the procedure
Ø Assigning the condition type to the exclusion group, which is in turn assigned to a procedure.















10. Can you change the condition manually in the document once it is determined by the system?
Yes/No. – Yes. Provided in the condition type manual entries field should be marked.

11. Can you enter conditions at the header level of a document?
Yes/No. – Yes.

12. The following are true about the header conditions.
Ø It does not have access sequence and have to be entered manually.
Ø It has to be activated in the document after entering in the document.
Ø These are automatically distributed among the items based on the net value of each item.(E.g. HB00) a routine can be defined in AltCBV for a different split rule to take place.

13. What is pricing type?
Ø We configure the pricing behavior in the pricing type.

14. On what level the prices are updated in the condition screen?
Ø Header and item level.


UNIT: 3 PRICING CONFIGURATION

1. A condition table is a combination of key fields from the field catalogue.
Yes/No. – Yes.

2. Non-key fields can be entered between key fields.
Yes/No. – No.

3. An access sequence is composed of one or more condition tables.
Yes/No. – Yes.

4. Can you define prices, discounts and surcharges at various levels?
Yes/No. – Yes.

5. Can you prevent an access from being read in a access sequence?
Yes/No. – Yes. By specifying a requirement to that access.

6. An access sequence is assigned where?
Ø To a condition type.

7. A condition type can have more than one access sequence assigned to it?
Yes/No. – No.

8. How pricing procedure is determined in a sales document?
Ø Sales area
Ø Document pricing procedure in the document type
Ø Customer pricing procedure in the customer master


UNIT: 4 WORKING WITH CONDITION RECORDS

1. What is a pricing report?
Ø It is an overview of condition records for analysis. E.g. Customer specific prices.
It consist of the following
Ø Page header
Ø Group header
Ø Items

2. Mass maintenance of conditions is possible?
Yes/No. – Yes. Using pricing report across all condition types and tables for a specific customer or product.

3. This condition maintenance is configured using what?
Ø Area menus.
4. Can you create a condition record with reference to another?
Yes/No. – Yes. Using create with template

5. Can you change multiple condition records simultaneously?
Yes/No. – Yes. Using price change function. Use the change documents to review and monitor changes made to the condition records.


6. Newly created customers A,B,C have similar conditions as of Z, what function you will use to maintain conditions for these customers?
Ø Copy condition function for creating multiple condition records.

7. What is a Net Price List?
Ø The Net Price List offers the option of creating price information for a customer on a selected quantity of materials by simulating billing document.

8. What is a condition index?
Ø We create condition index to search for condition records that were created for a variety of condition types and condition tables.

9. What is the prerequisite for using condition index?
Ø Activate in customizing for a condition type.

10. What is the use of a release procedure in condition records?
To control the condition records by defining its status
Ø Released
Ø Blocked
Ø Release for price simulation
Ø Released for planning and price simulation

11. What influences the release status?
Ø Processing status. It indirectly controls the release status.

12. can you convert old condition records w/o release status to new with release status?
Yes/No. – Yes.
13. What is a calculation type?
Ø It determines how the prices and discounts are calculated for a condition.

14. Can you maintain texts in condition records?
Yes/No. – Yes. But it cannot be copied into documents except for rebate agreements.