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SD CERTIFICATION QUESTIONS: UNIT: 9 INCOMPLETION

1. An incompletion log is a list of all the data essential to your company in a sales document that has not yet been entered in the system.
Yes/No. – Yes.

2. Can you edit a incomplete order once you have saved in the system?
Yes/No. – Yes. List of all incomplete orders can be generated and can be edited.

3. Can u save an incomplete sales order.
Ø It depends on customizing in sales document type, whether a warning or an error message has to be given by the system.


4. You can create a new order with reference to an incomplete order.
Yes/No. – No. Any incomplete document cannot be taken as reference.

5. Incompleteness log can be maintained at all the three levels of a sales document.
Yes/No. – Yes.

6. Where do you assign the incompleteness procedure.
Ø Header level to Sales Document type
Ø Item level to Item categories
Ø Schedule line level to Schedule line categories.



7. What is the role of a status group in incompletion procedure?
Ø When you define the status groups, you decide which steps should be prevented if data is missing.


8. Where do you assign this status groups?
Ø A status group is assigned to each field in the incompletion procedure.







UNIT: 10 PARTNER DETERMINATION

1. Business partners that exist in market place are represented with a partner type in the R/3 system.
Yes/No. – Yes.

2. What partner type exits in the system?
Ø AP – Contact Person
Ø KU – Customer
Ø LI – Vendor
Ø PE- Personnel

3. Partner function represents the role each partner type play within business transaction
Yes/No. – Yes.

4. Can one partner take on several functions?
Yes/No. – Yes.

5. What are the mandatory partner function for a sales order to be processed?
Ø Sold-to party (SP)
Ø Ship-to party (SH)
Ø Payer (PY)
Ø Bill-to party (BP)

6. The contact person can also be assigned to another customer.
Yes/No. – Yes.

7. Can you maintain partner relationships both in sales documents and in master data.
Yes/No. – Yes. you need to do separate partner determination for each of this objects.

8. Can you assign several partners to one partner function in the customer master?
Yes/No. – Yes.

9. Which is a unique partner function in customer master?
Sold-to Party.


10. In sales document, several partners can be assigned to a partner function
Yes/No. – No. only one partner can be assigned to each partner function, the exception is for outline agreements (partner functions AA and AW).

11. Can a sales document be created for two sold-to party?
Yes/No. – No.

12. Can a sales document have two Ship-to parties?
Yes/No. – Yes. Can be maintained at item partner level.

13. Is it possible to enter or change the address of a partner manually in a sales document once it is proposed from master data?
Yes/No. – Yes. It doesn’t effect the master data.



14. What are the partner objects for which you maintain partner determination?

Ø Customer Master à Account group
Ø Sales document Header à Sales Document type
Ø Sales document item à Item category in sales
Ø Delivery à Delivery type
Ø Billing header à Billing type
Ø Billing item à Billing type
Ø Sales Activity (CAS) à Sales activity type

15. Explain the partner determination procedure for customer master
Ø Partner Function to the Account group
Ø Partner Function to the Partner Procedure
Ø Partner procedure to the Account group

16. An account group controls what?
Ø Each data field, the number range and different information from can tab pages of the customer master.

17. Can you use other sources to automatically determine business partners in sales documents, Eg. Contact persons, Credit representative, forwarding agent etc
Yes/No. – Yes. we have to maintain relevant partner function in the partner procedure.



UNIT: 13 FREE GOODS

1. What are the two types of free goods function offered in the R/3 system.
Ø Inclusive: is a part of ordered quantity, both involve the same material and quantity units.
Ø Exclusive: extra goods free of charge, can be another article.
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2. Can the quantity unit in exclusive free good be different?
Yes/No. – Yes.

3. What happens if the quantities in the main item change or if the pricing date changes in the sales order.
Ø The system re-reads the free goods master record, then deletes the sub-items and re-creates them.
Ø Any manual changes to the free good quantity are lost.

4. If prices is re-run in the sales order, does it effect the free goods determination?
Yes/No. – No.

5. in what way you restrict the master records of free goods
Ø Validity Period:
Ø Minimum Quantity
Ø Calculation type
Ø Delivery control
Ø Scales

6. Free goods quantity is the quantity that is calculated from discount quantity and not the minimum quantity.
Yes/No. – Yes.

7. What are the three rules provided by the system to calculate free goods
Ø Pro-rated: proportionate determination
Ø Unit related:
Ø Whole units



8. How the system transfers free goods information to CO-PA
Ø Scenario1: Pricing is deactivated for free goods, only cost is set in sub-item
Ø Scenario2: Pricing is activated but it is discounted with 100%.
Ø Scenario3: Cumulation of calculation price for sub-item configured at main item level.

9. How free goods are determined in the system
Ø it is determined based on the combination of Sales area, document pricing procedure and customer pricing procedure using condition technique.



UNIT: 12 MATERIAL DETERMINATION

1. For what material determination is used?
Ø Material determination provides you with a tool for automatically exchanging materials in the sales document.

2. A substitution reason to every master record in material determination defines how the material should be determined.
Yes/No. – Yes.

3. You do not need a material master record for the material number that you are replacing.
Yes/No. – Yes.

4. Can you find the information about the material which was replaced in the order.
Yes/No. – Yes. The item overview for Sales A view.

5. Can you configure the system so that you can select the products manually
Yes/No. – Yes. We have to enter reason for substitution 0005, then the system displays the list of materials that are maintained in the master record.

6. if there are more than one material in the master record, the sequence in which they appear defines the priority that they have.
Yes/No. – Yes.

7. In automatic product selection, the system replaces the entered material automatically if it is not available.
Yes/No. – Yes. we have to assign reason for substitution 0004 and 0006.

8. If automatic product selection is being used, the system may display the entered and the substituted material as main and sub-items in the sales order.
Yes/No. – Yes.


9. you can choose whether or not to re-run material determination when the delivery is created.
Yes/No. – Yes.

10. what happens when the system re-runs material determination
Ø the substitution may change due to the new availability situation

11. Is partial product selection allowed in material determination?
Yes/No. – Yes. The partial confirmation of product selection allows us to deal with shortfall cases.

12. Can you view the information on how the system determined the materials
Yes/No. – Yes. we can activate the analysis for material determination in the sales document.

13. How material is determined in a sales document?
Ø Material determination procedure is assigned to sales document type

14. Can you ensure in the system that a particular customer should not receive certain materials?
Yes/No. – Yes. by creating material listing

15. What happens when certain materials that are listed for sold-to party are excluded in payer master while creating a order.
Ø Sold-to party gets the precedence

16. You can also exclude certain materials for a particular customer in the system.
Yes/No. – Yes. by creating material exclusion


UNIT: 11 OUTLINE AGREEMENTS

1. What are the two major outline agreements in the R/3 system
Ø Scheduling agreements
Ø Contracts: Value and quantity contracts

2. The scheduling agreements contain fixed delivery dates and quantities.
Yes/No. – Yes.

3. What happens when the quantity in the schedule line exceeds target quantity
Ø the system issues a warning message

4. How billing happens for a scheduling agreements?
Ø Processing invoice periodically eg. Once a month
Ø Collective invoice: deliveries due are billed


5. A contract is an outline agreement that is valid for certain period.
Yes/No. – Yes.

6. A contract does not contain any schedule lines, delivery quantities or delivery dates.
Yes/No. – Yes.

7. can you agree on special price agreements or delivery times in a contract
Yes/No. – Yes.

8. How a contract is fulfilled?
Ø With individual release orders.

9. What are the ways you can create a release order for a contract?
Ø Create with reference in the initial screen
Ø In the sales document menu
Ø Assign an order item subsequently
Ø Use automatic system search for open outline agreements

10. Can you customize your system so that it automatically searches for any open outline agreements?
Yes/No. – Yes. enter the messages for contract field in the sales document types

11. What is a value contract?
Ø It defines that your customer agrees to purchase a fixed total value(target amount) of goods and services during the defined period. It includes:
Ø Special price agreements
Ø Customer restriction
Ø Material restrictions

12. Can the target value be changed once you have created a value contract.
Yes/No. – Yes.
13. How can you restrict the materials in value contract
Ø Product hierarchy
Ø List of Valid materials (Assortment Module)
Ø Restriction by copying control at item level
Ø Materials that are permitted for the sales area for which value contract exists.

14. Assortment module for value contracts are maintained in the master data for products.
Yes/No. – Yes.

15. What happens when you do not maintain any data in assortment module
Ø All the materials in sales can be released in value contract.

16.A release order releases a partial quantity of the agreed total value of the goods or services from a contract.
Yes/No. – Yes.

17. Can you create a release order in any currency?
Yes/No. – Yes. the system automatically updates to the currency of the contract

18. Can we assign an order to a contract later?
Yes/No. – Yes. Both at header and Item level.

19. How billing is done in value contract?
There are two types
Ø Bill each release order (Order or delivery related)
Ø Billing plan for several dates and for partial quantities.

20. Is automatic billing done for value contracts?
Yes/No. – No.

21. What happens if the release order quantity exceeds target value.
Customization in item category

22. How do we ensure that which partners are authorized for a release of contract?
Ø Check partner authorization field should be maintained in the sales document type

23. the partner determination procedure assigns the partners authorized to release against the contract
Yes/No. – Yes. (AA and AW should be assigned to customer master record)

24. Partners authorized to release are only checked at header level.
Yes/No. – Yes.

25. At what level can you maintain a contract data
Ø Both at header and item level.



26. What is the use of a contract profile and where it is assigned to?
If you assign a contract profile to a sales document type, the system automatically determines default values specific to a contract such as

Ø Rules for determining start and end date of the contract
Ø Duration category
Ø Subsequent activities
Cancellation procedure

TSCM62 ORDER FULFILLMENT – II
PART I OF II

UNIT: 2 OVERVIEW OF THE SHIPPING PROCESS

1. What processes are covered in Logistics Execution process?
Ø The goods receipt process: goods collected from vendor.
Ø The goods issue process: delivery to the customer.
Ø Internal warehouse processes: stock transfer posting
Ø The transportation process: outbound shipments, cost calculations etc.

2. SAP R/3 supports the following functions within shipping processing:
Ø Creation and processing of outbound deliveries
Ø Monitoring of goods availability
Ø Picking of goods with WM system
Ø Packing of goods in delivery
Ø Printing shipping documents
Ø Processing goods issue
Ø Controlling through overviews E.g. Deliveries to be processed etc

3. What is the delivery document structure and what are the key header data?
Header level:
Ø Shipping point, Ship-to party, route, document date
Item level:

4. What are the various options for delivering orders.
Ø Complete delivery
Ø Partial delivery
Ø Order combination

5. How and where do you store the delivery agreements for a customer?
Ø Delivery agreements are stored in either customer master record to customer-material info record of Sold-to party using indicators.

6. Delivery status is updated at both header and item level.
Yes/No. – Yes.

7. What information does the status indicators provide?
Ø Information about the work progress in the shipping activity.

8. The document flow can be displayed at header and item level for one or all items of a delivery document.
Yes/No. – Yes.

9. the overall processing status of the outbound delivery is in process until the billing document is generated, even if the shipping processing activities such as picking, packing, post goods issue are complete.
Yes/No. – Yes.

10. What are the other application areas of delivery apart from sales order.
Ø Outbound delivery,
Ø replenishment delivery,
Ø delivery for subcontract,
Ø returns delivery vendor,
Ø inbound delivery for purchase order,
Ø delivery from projects

11. The outbound delivery in SAP R/3 supports the processing of shipping activities in the warehouse and at the shipping point.
Yes/No. – Yes.

12. What is the document that is generated for combining the outbound deliveries?
Ø Shipment document.

13. Can a shipment document have multiple shipping point, ship-to party along a route?
Yes/No. – Yes.

14. can we create single shipment document for two different routes?
Yes/No. – No.

UNIT: 3 ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT IN SHIPPING

1. The plant plays central role in logistics?
Yes/No. – Yes.

2. Stocks are managed at the level of what?
Ø Storage location

3. What are the organizational units in a warehouse?
Ø Warehouse: a warehouse complex comprising of several storage location.
Ø Storage type: different warehouse areas, which differ from each other with respect to some technical features. E.g. Cold storage, high rack storage
Ø Picking area: below the storage type level, picking area groups together storage bins from picking point of view
Ø Staging area: goods are stored immediately after loading or unloading
Door: used for inbound and outbound delivery of goods

4. which organizational unit of a warehouse are stored at outbound delivery header?
Ø Door
Ø Staging area

5. can several storage locations within a plant refer to the same warehouse number.
Yes/No. – Yes.

6. The following are true about the shipping point
Ø An independent organizational unit which processes and monitors outbound deliveries and goods issue.
Ø It is determined in the order at item level
Ø A shipping point can process outbound deliveries of several plants, provided plants are located in the same general vicinity.
Ø Several shipping points can be assigned to one plant
Ø A shipping point can also be set as goods receipt point.

4 CONTROLLING DELIVERIES

1. What controls does the delivery document have?
Ø Number range
Ø Output determination
Ø Partner determination
Ø Route determination
Ø Relevant for shipping
Ø Delivery split by warehouse number
Ø Texts
Ø Reference to order



2. What are the standard delivery types in the system?
Ø EL: Inbound delivery
Ø LB: Delivery for subcontract order
Ø LF: Outbound delivery
Ø LO: Delivery w/o order reference
Ø LP: Delivery from projects
Ø LR: Returns delivery
Ø NL: Replenishment delivery

1. What control does the delivery item category has in the document?
Ø The delivery item category controls how delivery items are handled and processed during the shipping process.


2. How an item category is determined in the delivery document?
Ø For items with order reference using the copying control function and for items without order reference the system takes into account the delivery type and item category group from material master of the item.

5. What shipping relevant customizing is done in sales?
Order type:
Ø Delivery type proposal
Ø Requested delivery date proposal
Ø Immediate delivery
Order item category:
Ø Delivery relevance
Ø Schedule line allowed


Schedule line category:
Ø Delivery relevance
Ø Movement type allowed


UNIT: 5 GOODS ISSUE PROCESS

1. While determining the shipping point the shipping condition assigned in the sales document type is takes precedence than that of sold-to party.
Yes/No. – Yes.

2. can you manually overwrite the route in the order once it is defaulted by the system?
Yes/No. – Yes.

3. you can redetermine the route in the delivery.
Yes/No. – Yes. based on weight of delivery items, it depends on customization of delivery type.

4. What type of scheduling you can do in outbound delivery for determining the delivery date?
Ø Forward scheduling (depends on customizing of document type.)

5. How the times are calculated in scheduling?
Ø Precise scheduling: displays the scheduling in times based on shipping point-working times.
Ø Daily scheduling: displays the scheduling in days based on the shipping point factory calendar.

6. Pick/pack time and loading time is calculated based on what?
Ø Shipping point working times

7. Transportation lead time and transit time is calculated based on what?
Ø Based on Route

8. What is used to organize outbound deliveries for shipping?
Ø Route schedule

9. Route schedule can also be used as selection criteria for the individual steps in shipping processing.
Yes/No. – Yes.

10. what information does a route schedule has?
Ø A route
Ø Departure date and time
Ø Ship-to parties
Ø An itinerary

11. A route schedule is assigned to what?
Ø Shipping point , Sales document type or delivery document type.


CREATING AND PROCESSING OUTBOUND DELIVERIES

12. Can you deliver purchase orders or other requests manually?
Yes/No. – No. only collective processing is allowed.

13. Delivery scenarios are used for what?
Ø To model the different business process for deliveries. E.g. sales orders etc

14. what is user roles?
Ø User roles are used to fine-tune processing of delivery due list, they control the scope of selection and display of the delivery due list.

15. User roles are assigned to what?
Ø User roles are assigned to each delivery scenario.

16. Storage location are determined in the sales order.
Yes/No. – No. they are only determined in the outbound delivery.

17. How the system determines the picking location?
Ø Based on the MALA rule defined in the delivery type [shipping point, delivering plant and storage condition for the material]

18. User exit can also be used for storage location determination.
Yes/No. – Yes.

19. Staging area can be determined at both header and item level.
Yes/No. – Yes.

20. how staging area is determined?
Ø Header: storage location of ship-to party or route schedule
Ø Item level: storage location of ship-to party or route schedule with storage condition.

21. What happens if staging area is different from header to that of items?
Ø It causes a split in transfer order.

22. how doors are determined?
Ø Header: storage location of ship-to party or route schedule

23. Can you add items manually to the outbound delivery once it is created with reference to an order?
Yes/No. – Yes. item entered need not be with reference to an order.

24. we can change the shipping point and ship-to party in the delivery after saving it?
Yes/No. – No. header data cannot be changed.

25. What are the output types available in shipping?
Ø Header level: Delivery note(LD00), Packing list(PL00), Freight list(LL00) etc,
Ø Item level: Quality certificate(LQCA), Shipping label(0001) etc.


26. What is the use of an outbound delivery monitor?
Ø The outbound delivery monitor displays all deliveries that are still to be processed or that have just been processed according to each processing in shipping.

27. What is picking?
Ø Picking is the process of preparing goods for delivery to the customer with special attention paid to dates, quantity and quality.

28. Is all items in a delivery is relevant for picking?
Yes/No. – No. Only those items that are marked as relevant for picking in the item category can be picked.

29. Delivery is possible in an outbound delivery with partial picking.
Yes/No. – No. The pick quantity and the delivery quantity must be the same for doing post goods issue in a delivery document.

30. What is a transfer order?
Ø A transfer order is an instruction to move materials from source storage bin to a destination storage bin within a warehouse complex.
Ø It includes: Material number, Quantity and Source and destination storage bin.

31. Is separate confirmation required for transfer orders to verify quantities removed from warehouse?
Ø It depends on customization. It is defined for a shipping point.


32. What is the advantage of Lean WH management?
Ø Lean WH management does not have inventory management at the level of the storage bin; only fixed bin storage bins are maintained.

33. What is the structure of a Lean WH?
Ø At least one warehouse number and storage type is required.

34. Lean WH is assigned to what?
Ø Combination of Plant and storage type.

35. What are the possible ways for creating a transfer order?
Ø Follow-on function from O/D.
Ø Using O/D monitor
Ø Using collective processing
Ø Automatic/direct transfer order based on output timings

36. What is a Pick list?
Ø Combining transfer orders from several outbound deliveries.

37. What will be the confirmation status if quantities are partially picked?
Confirmation status will be confirmed [C] irrespective of pick quantity.

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.


TSCM 62
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.







TSCM62 ORDER FULFILLMENT – II
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.