Most Significant SAP PP Interview Questions Part – 3
Q – 1 What are the costing parameter?
Ans- The costing Parameters are the following
Work center : Activity types and the formulaes,cost center
Routing : the time ,activity types
In Production order dependent parameters we are defining the Variant ,result analysis key,settlement profile
In the controlling i.e in KP 26 we will be defining the rates per hour depending on the rates it will reflect the cost caluculating from the routing..
Q – 2 What is the difference between stock transfer order and stock transport order?
Ans- Stock transfer is the transfer of stock for the usage in the same company whereas stock transport is meant for change of title of stock in the name of the buyer
Q – 3 Tell me the planning steps for 100 products?
Ans- CK11n is used for standard cost estimation. to run that we have to run ck24 also. Use CK40N f0r 100 products
Q – 4 What we will do after the marking and releasing of standard price in product costing?
Ans- Price update and the same reflects in the accounting view of the material master.
Q – 5 Do you have several alternative BOMs for a material, depending on the manufacturing procedure or lot size, for example (multiple BOM)?
Ans- yes you can have several alternative BOMs for a material, only thing is you need to define every BOM with deiffrent
product structure type.
Q – 6 Do you have products with a large number of variants? Do you need Variant Configuration?
Ans- We can have any number of varaint product. It is optional you can configurate it or at the timne of slaes order with will be ask for features and options. Every varraint has unique indentificatin number.
Q – 7 Which BOM maintenance functions do you require (copy functions, mass changes, and so on)?
Ans- CS20 with this transaction code we can able to do Mass changes to BOM such as:Change Item Data New material Number of the material that is to be created or that is to replace another material.
Dependencies You can only replace a material with another material that has the same values in the following fields: base unit of measure issue unit material type
Q – 8 What structure do your BOMs have? How many levels are there? How many components are there on each level?
Ans- BOM IS A multilevel, we can assign bom level by level cs11, level 1 bom header material assembly level, contains components which also have bom contains level 2 bom sub assembly level last lower level is level 3 components level
Q – 9 Do you have different BOMs for a material in different plants?
Ans-
generally we have following BOMs
1.Product Tree
2. Parent- component relationship
3. Multilevel Bill
4.Multiple Bill
5. Single Level Bill
6. Indented bill
7. Summarized parts list
8. Planning bill
9. where- used report
10. Pegging report
Q – 10 In which context do you use bills of material?
[ ] Material Requirements Planning
[ ] Execute Production
[ ] Goods Movements (to Help Data Entry)
[ ] Product Costing
[ ] Development/Engineering/Design
[ ] Documentation
[ ] Others?
Ans- Product Costing :in order to observe the different cycle times on the particular product in the bom,for the process capability&for the costing of that particular product
Q – 11 What is the need of pp in sap, what is the flow diagram of sap pp
Ans- SAP pp provides capabilities for planning, execution, quality, maintenance.This integrated manufacturing solution gives you the features and functions necessary for you to handle:
Activity flow
Step 1. Material Creation-Finished with suitable material type.
Step 2. Purchasing and procurement of Material
Step 3. Creation of Bills of Material
Step 4. Creation of Work center
Step 5. Creation of routing.
Step 6. Creation of Production Order
Step 7. Confirmation of production order
Step 8. Stock check
Step 9. MRP run
Step 10.Material Procurement
Q – 12 in sap system, how to get production order record! example: i want to know who lock my production order!
Ans- You can use SM12 and type in the Production order number with * at beginning and end.say like if order number is 100234 ,type it like *100234* and execute. it will give the list of users who are currently accessing that order
Q – 13 What are all the different manufacturing scenarios in pp?
Ans-
There are different scenarios in SAP PP module.
1)Make to stock
2)Make to order
3)External processing (Subcontracting)
4)Rework processing
5)Prodcution in another plant
Q – 14 Explain what is the meaning of exploding a BOM?
Ans- it is the process of multiplying the requirement by the usage quantity and recording the appropriate requirements throughout the product tree
Q – 15 Explain why their is need of production version?
Ans- In production version, we assign the BOM and ROUTING combination. And in case of alternate BOMs , it clears which
alternative bom has to be selected automatically.
Q – 16 If there are some errors in goods movements, and less stock of material consumed, how can we solve that problem in SAP?
Ans- First you have to do revoke Teco and then process the order,other wise system wont allow..
Q – 17 If there are some errors in goods movements, and less stock of material consumed, how can i solve that problem in SAP?
Ans- According to me COGI is basically a SAP standardised system which will tell you that what is the error in some cases it can rectify it too.
But if the entry is done manually by MB1A, MB1B, MB1C you have to bring back or cancell the movement or move the stock to desired material and then refresh COGI.
Q – 18 what is the difference between PP and PP-PI? Which one is better and how?
Ans- PP–> Prodction Planning mostly used for descrete type of industries , where at the time of confirmation the output is
sure to be fixed. eg Automobile PP- PI–> Production Planning for Process Industries , here mostly used for the typical chemical industries , as the Yield is not fixed due to chemical reaction yield values can be varied to noticable extent. Eg X+Y =Z some 10 kg of X and 1 KG of Y givs yiled that is Z of 10 Kg only.
Q – 19 Can we create Production order without bom and routing?
Ans- yes we can create a production order without BOM & routing. Change the Config in OPL8 ( order type dependent parameters) as routing optional. But it may ask for a sales order when we try to create order using CO01