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Top 50 SAP PP Interview Questions And Answers

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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.

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2. What are the steps of Production Execution Process?

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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

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5. What is the use of INFOGROUPS?

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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.
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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.

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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.
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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
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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?

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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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

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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
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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
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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.

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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?

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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
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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.
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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.

Explain how the PP Module is Organized in SAP.

The PP module is made up of the following components:
PP-BD Basic Data
PP-SOP Sales and Operations Planning
PP-MP Master Planning
PP-CRP Capacity (Requirements) Planning
PP-MRP Material Requirements Planning
PP-SFC Production Orders
PP-KAN Kanban
PP-REM Repetitive Manufacturing
PP-PI Production Planning for Process Industries
PP-PDS Plant Data Collection
PP-IS Information Systems
Explain How ‘PP’ is ‘Integrated’ with Other Modules.
‘PP’ is one of the modules in SAP R/3 that is complex as the functions cut across many modules. The
following modules are tightly integrated with PP:
CO Controlling
FI Financial Accounting
MM Materials Management
SD Sales & Distribution
PS Project Systems
PD Personnel Planning and Development

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