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SAP MM Interview Questions

Q1 What is purchasing organization?

Q2 What is reference purchasing organization and when and how can we use it?
Q3 What is purchasing group and how can we use it?
Q4 What is a plant? What are the various independent business activities, for which we can create organizational entity, plant?
Q5 What are the various purchasing documents?
Q6 What is the difference between contract and scheduling agreement?
Q7 What is the difference between scheduling agreement document type LP and LPA?
Q8 What is the purpose of having various types of purchase order document types?
Q9 What is the release procedure?
Q10 What is time dependent and time independent pricing procedure?
Q11 What type of pricing procedure is related with various purchasing document (time dependent and time independent)?
Q12 Can you change the time dependent pricing procedure into time independent pricing procedure for any purchasing document, if yes, which is that?
Q13 What is subcontracting procurement and explain complete process with accounting entries?
Q14 What is stock material and non-stock material procurement and explain complete process with accounting entries?
Q15 What is capital item procurement and explain complete process with accounting entries?
Q16 What is rate contract and annual maintenance contract (AMC)
Q17 What is the material type and what control it has?
Q18 What are the different material types?
Q19 How do we control that which material type should have which views?
Q20 How do we control the field control as mandatory/displayed/suppressed?
Q21 What is purchasing value keys?
Q22 If we have price control “S” standard in material master, can we still see moving average price in material master?
Q23 What is the need of non-valuated material type?
Q24 What is AUoM, Alternative Unit of Measure?
Q25 What are the organizations levels at which material master can be maintained?
Q26 What is a valuation category?
Q27 How do we maintain a valuation type for a material?
Q28 What is an account group?
Q29 What is the difference between MK01 and XK01?
Q30 What is reconciliation account, in vendor master?
Q31 What is partner function?
Q32 What are the different types of sources available in the SAP ECC 6.0?
Q33 What is global contract?
Q34 What is scheduling agreement?
Q35 What is source list and why do we maintain it?
Q36 What is pricing procedure and how does it work?
Q37 What is tax procedure and how does it work?
Q38 How does system determine pricing procedure for purchase order and (STO) stock transport order?
Q39 What is condition type and what does it control?
Q40 What is the difference in the usage of accrual and account keys in pricing procedure?
Q41 What is a requirement, in context of pricing procedure?
Q42 What is alternative calculation type, in context of pricing procedure?
Q43 What is alternative condition base value, in context of pricing procedure?
Q44 What is subtotal, in context of pricing procedure? When and where we use subtotal 9 and S?
Q45 What is the difference between manual and automatic condition types in a pricing procedure?
Q46 What is an access sequence? Can a condition type work without an access sequence?
Q47 What is the difference between TAXINJ and TAXINN?
Q48 What is the significance of condition type JEXP and NAVS?
Q49 How does system determine whether a tax condition is deductible or non-deductible?
Q50 How does pricing procedure and tax procedure interact with each other?
Q51 What is rule, in context of automatic account determination?
Q52 How do we configure automatic account determination for material accounts (related with logistics movement)?
Q53 How do we configure automatic account determination for taxes?
Q54 How do we configure automatic account determination for delivery cost?
Q55 What is purchase account management?
Q56 How do we configure automatic account determination for purchase accounts?
Q57 Why GR block stock (movement type 103) is executed?
Q58 What is movement type and what control it has?
Q59 How do we create new movement type? Explain some examples where we need to create new movement type?
Q60 What are the transaction / event keys?
Q61 What is the movement type 103 and how does it differ from movement type 101?
Q62 What is split valuation?
Q63 What are the accounting entries during goods receipt against purchase order?
Q64 What are the accounting entries during goods receipt against STO?
Q65 What is the difference between the movement type 103 and 107?
Q66 How do we upload initial stock in the system during Go-Live and how do we block initial stock upload after Go-Live?
Q67 What are the accounting entries during goods receipt against subcontracting order?
Q68 What is the price control? What is the difference between the two available price controls in the SAP ECC 6.0?
Q69 How the decision is taken to choose price control for a given material type?
Q70 Can we simultaneously maintain MAP and standard price in the material master?
Q71 How can we grey out (non-editable) the price field so that it can not be changed in MM02 (material master change) transaction?
Q72 What is LIV?
Q73 What is credit memo?
Q74 What is subsequent debit and credit?
Q75 What is invoice reduction? Which transaction/event key is involved in this process?
Q76 Which report can show the GR/IR balance? In other words, which can show pending invoices against GR?
Q77 Which report shows the list of PR? How do we differentiate between MRP generated PR and manual PR?
Q78 Which report shows the goods receipt value against quantity delivered?
Q79 Which report shows the GR against a cost centre or an asset?
Q80 What are the tables involved in purchase requisition document?
Q81 What are the various tables involve in Contract, scheduling agreement and purchase order?
Q82 What are the tables involved in the goods receipt document?
Q83 What are the tables involved in LIV document?
Q84 What are the tables involved in GR document with serial number?
Q85 What are the structures used for release strategy classification?
Q86 What are the structures used for pricing procedure?
Q87 What is period closing activity and what precautions should be taken while doing so?
Q88 Which authorization parameter makes it obligatory to enter reference document purchase requisition while creating purchase order ?
Q89 Which authorization parameter makes display accounting document along with the LIV document?
Q90 How to activate excise sub-screen in material master?
Q91 What is BAPI, how do we use it?
Q92 What are functional modules?
Q93 What is user exit?
Q94 What is Physical Inventory process?
Q95 What is batch management and batch classification?
Q96 What is shelf life and how do we manage it in SAP?
Q97 What are sensitive fields in vendor master?
Q98 What is inter-company and intra-company stock transfer?
Q99 What is SQVI?
Q100 What warning messages should be made error message to have better control over procurement process?

SAP CIN Interview Questions

Q1 What is excise duty?

Q2 What is excise group?
Q3 Which business processes are covered under CIN?
Q4 Which t-code display CIN menu?
Q5 What master data set up is required before CIN customization can take effect?
Q6 How many types of registers are there to be maintained in CIN?
Q7 How does system knows that which register to update during GR?
Q8 How the CIN registers are updated?
Q9 What do you mean by extraction and printing of Registers?
Q10 What is the difference between the tax procedure TAXINJ and TAXINN?
Q11 How does system know that which condition types in tax procedure and import pricing procedure are CIN relevant?
Q12 How does system differentiate between deductible excise duty and non-deductible excise duty?
Q13 What are the purpose of condition types NAVS, JEXS and JEXC in pricing procedure?
Q14 What is the purpose of subtotal 5 & 6 in the pricing procedure?
Q15 What setting do we need to do so tax code can work during creation of purchase order and sales order?
Q16 What are the excise transaction types (ETT)?
Q17 What is sub-transaction type?
Q18 Which settings determine that during MIGO transaction, excise invoice can be captured (posting of part I entry) or Posting of excise invoice is allowed (part II
accounting entries) or the other options are available or not?
Q19 What CIN settings are required if we have to do STO between two manufacturing plants or between manufacturing and depot plant (sending and receiving) (or two
excise group with excise registration manufacturing unit)?
Q20 Why should a STO (stock transport order) have pricing procedure?
Q21 Explain domestic procurement at manufacturing unit?
Q22 Explain domestic and import procurement at depot plant?
Q23 What needs to be done if the Excise Invoice quantity is not equal to GR quantity?
Q24 Is the depot plant process applicable to all the industry sectors?
Q25 Explain import procurement at manufacturing unit?
Q26 Explain STO process from manufacturing unit to Depot Plant?
Q27 What is the functionality of the rejection code/reason code?
Q28 Specify which movement types involve either excise invoices or part 1 entry of register or both?
Q29 In the subcontracting attributes (CIN IMG) what is the difference between Movement Type Group Issues and Movement Type Group Receipts?
Q30 What are two different possible scenarios for subcontracting process?
Q31 How is the recursive BoM scenario (the parent and the child material being the same) handled in subcontracting?
Q32 For which of the movements will I run the Quantity Reconciliation for the subcontracting Challan?
Q33 How do I delete challans assigned to the Goods Receipts document?
Q34 How will you handle sales return from customer?
Q35 How will you handle vendor return and GR cancellation?
Q36 How does system determine accounts to be posted for CIN registers?
Q37 How does fortnightly utilization determine the accounts to be posted?
Q38 What is transaction type ‘UTLZ’ used for?
Q39 What will be the accounting entry during GR of raw material, Excise invoice posting and subsequent LIV of material?
Q40 What should be accounting entry in subcontracting reversal / Recredit?
Q41 What will be the accounting entry during GR of capital material, Excise invoice posting and subsequent LIV of material?
Q42 How does the credit of the amount taken which has gone to Cenvat ON Hold account?
Q43 Under what circumstances we may need to transfer the credit amount (against a specific invoice) from Cenvat ON Hold to current Cenvat account, within the same
fiscal year (as year of purchase)?
Q44 How the accounts are determined when capital goods are procured?
Q45 What will be the accounting entry during scrapping of excisable goods?
Q46 What will be accounting entry when the materials are stock transferred from manufacturing unit to depot plant?
Q47 What will be the accounting entry for sales excise invoice?
Q48 What will be accounting entry during PLA entry and utilization?
Q49 What is utilization? How do we execute it in CIN?
Q50 How do we take utilization against service tax receivable and payable?
Q51 What are PLA and TR6C Challan?
Q52 What are the number range objects for which number range should be defined?

Work Experience Based Questions

Q1. What are the pros and cons of implementing split valuation and why would you recommend it to your client/customer?
Q2. What issue you have handled in the existing project/assignment? What were your approach, solution and individual contribution?
Q3. What is the most challenging issue you have faced what was the solution and what was your contribution towards the solution?
Q4. What is Data-migration and cutover strategy?
Q5. How do you upload initial stock?
Q6. What checks can be the part of checklist before Go-Live?
Q7. What developments you have looked after?
Q8. What is, Functional Specification (FS)/ Description (FD) / Requirement (FR)?
Q9. Can you explain the data flow in any of the report you have got developed? Or how did you make ABAP consultant understand your requirement?

Questions to evaluate a configured SAP MM Module

Q1. How many Company Codes are there and what are they?
Q2. How many purchasing organization/s are there and what are they?
Q3. Is there any reference purchasing organization?
Q4. How many plants are there?
Q5. What types of plants are there, manufacturing plant, warehouse/depot, corporate plant, virtual plant, bonded warehouse plant, maintenance plant, subcontracting plant
and so on?
Q6. What purchasing groups are there and what is the basis of these purchasing groups?
Q7. How many storage locations are there and the need of those storage locations?
Q8. What are the various document types for contract, scheduling agreement and purchase order? What is the logic behind various document types?
Q9. Is the process of inviting quotation and entering quotation is done through MM module?
Q10. What are the purchase / goods movement / vendor invoice verification processes exist in the organization? Following are the possible purchase processes:-
a. Raw material procurement process
b. Packing material procurement process
c. Consumable/non stock item procurement
d. Engineering/spare parts procurement process
e. Sub contracting process
f. Any process involving virtual/logical plant
g. Goods Receipt Process
h. Goods Issue Process
i. Stock transfer between storage locations to storage location (Intra Plant transfer)
j. Plant to Plant stock transfer (Inter plant transfer)
k. Intercompany stock transfer (intercompany procurement)
l. Product Distribution Process
m. Vendor Invoicing process (Logistics Invoice Verification)
n. Pricing and Taxation in various purchase transactions

Q11. Is batch management active? If yes, any logic behind batch number nomenclature?
Q12. Is the batch number internal /system generated or external, enter by the user?
Q13. Is batch status management is active? If yes, what are the reasons to change the status of the batch?
Q14. What are the various stock statuses or special stock of the materials kept in warehouses/stores/depot? For example unrestricted/block/quality/return stock or sales
order stock, project stock etc. What are the processes and reason for these stocks?
Q15. What are the pricing procedures configured in the system?
Q16. What are the customize routines assigned in pricing procedure?
Q17. What are the Z- t-codes in the system?
Q18. What are the Z developments in the system, to control various processes?
Q19. What is the physical inventory process?
Q20. What are the various during goods movement?
Q21. What are the various types of material types?
Q22. Any process involving non-valuated material type?
Q23. Is the material number range is external or internal?
Q24. If external, any logic behind external material code nomenclature?
Q25. What are the material groups? What is the logic behind them?
Q26. What are the various types of Valuation classes?
Q27. Is split-valuation active?
Q28. If yes, what are the various types of valuation type and valuation class attached to that valuation type?
Q29. What are the various vendor account groups? What is the logic behind various vendor groups?
Q30. Any process which is not being done through SAP system or any workaround is being followed to do that process?
Q31. Any scrap sales process? How does inventory of scrap gets created in the system?

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