SAP PP INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Can you explain about your activities/roles in SAP PP Module? 2. Have you worked on SAP PP-PI, if yes how many implementations you have done?3. What about REM experience?4. Could you explain Difference between REM, Discrete and Process industries scenario?5. How your are good at integration with CO, MM ,QM and PM Modules6. Could you explain one Business scenario integration between PP and QM7. How many tickets used to get daily in your Post implementation support?

8. Explain Me about SALES OPERATIONAL PLANING? ANS: Sales & Operations Planning (SOP) is a flexible forecasting and planning tool with which sales, production, and other supply chain targets can be set on the basis of historical, existing, and estimated future data. Rough-cut planning can also be carried out to determine the amounts of the capacities and other resources required to meet these targets.

9. Can you tell difference the between Planning strategy 10,11ANS: The first strategy i.e 10 is purely make to stock with net requirements planning i.e. the consumption/receipts will reduce the Planned independent requirements (system will consider the ware house stock during netting in MRP).The second strategy i.e. 11 is also make to stock but it is gross requirements planning i.e. the consumption/receipts shall not reduce the Planned independent requirements (system won't consider ware house stock while running MRP)

10. What is the different between Component scarp and operation scarp?Component scrap: scrap of a component that may break during production of an assembly. Component scrap increases the dependent requirements quantity of the component. We can enter values for calculating component scrap in the material master or in the BOM on the Item Detail Screen, in the material master (view MRP 4) in the Component scrap fieldOperation Scrap: The percentage of the material processed in an operation that does not meet quality requirements.This scrap is generated during the production process, operation scarp maintained at BOM LEVEL

11. When I was saving my production order, there was this error message that told me that there was an error in cost calculation. Do you have any suggestions what I couldn't have done? What can I do to fix this? Ans: Check the Finished goods material standard cost, if Standard cost doesn’t exist for finished goods item, please release standard cost and click on cost order, then proceed for next steps 2nd Reason: check The Moving avg price for raw Materials which are in BOM,if any Raw Material price is zero, Make necessary changes and click on Cost order, proceed for next steps.

12. Is there any way to get the deleted entries record of COGI?( If Yes Or No ,explain reasons for both cases) ANS: No it is not possible to get record for deleted entries of COGI

13. Can we book the cost to production order after TECO status,Ans: Yes we can book the cost after TECO, but we can’t Book the Cost after CLSD status

14. What are the Trigger points? ANS: Trigger point is used to trigger the operation or order when the operation status changes.

EX: 1. Release succeeding operation.15. Could you explain difference between individual and collective indicator

In individual indicator planning, this indicator is used to display the dependent requirements of a component separately.In collective requirements, this indicator is used to display the dependent requirements of a component grouped together

16. Tell me about batch managementAns: Batch - A batch is a quantity of the material produced during a given production run. A batch represents a homogeneous unit with unique specifications. A Batch is a subset of the total quantity of a material held in stock. The subset is managed from all other subsets of the same material.

Depending on the plant, material and operational levels we can choose the level at which you want the batch number to be unique. The material number is unique at the client level. However, the uniqueness of the batch number can be defined at the following levels -

In combination with the material and plant In combination with a material number At the client level

17. Could you explain about Product costing.do you have any idea which are T codes required to estimate the standard cost of Material

Ans: Product costing is used to calculate the cost of goods sold and manufactured for each unit of goods manufactured. It is used to keep the track of cost at each and every point of production Ck11n or ck40n Ck24

18. Can we release the Stand cost for finished product more than once in same period, (if yes or no explain the reason for both cases?)

Ans: No, we can’t release Standard Cost more than once in SAME PERIOD. Standard SAP doesn’t allow releasing the Standard cost more than once in SAME PERIOD

19. How can we update the Production order, if BOM modified after production order release?Ans: DO the PP READ MASTER DATA in CO02.

20. What is Production Order Settlement? Against which you settle Product order cost? Ans: The order balance can be reduced to zero by transferring to Financial Accounting (FI) the difference between the preliminary inventory valuation (goods receipt) and the actual costs incurred. The price difference can also be transferred to Profit Centre Accounting.

In MTS scenario, Variance will posted on Material,IN MTO variance will be posted on Sales order

21. After production order release, Raw Material Price is changed; will it have any impact on production order variance, if yes explain?Ans: Yes, Variance will be changed as Target cost changed ,Variance will be Difference between the Target and Actual Cost.

22. Can we create production order without Material (if YES or NO Say reason for both cases).Yes we can create the Production order without Material, example Coal Industry.

23. what is the difference between SOP and Flexible planning ?

Standard SOP has limited features; it has fixed characteristics, Key figures

In Standard SOP one can plan only at single organization level

In Standard SOP only Level-by-Level Planning method is used

. In flexible planning one can create characteristics and Key figures according to their own requirement

. In flexible planning one can plan for Multi organization level

In flexible planning any Planning method can be use

24. Do you have idea about PP&QM integration, if yes, what is the inspection characteristics? Where we have to assign? What is t code to create Inspection characteristicsAn inspection characteristic describes what needs to be inspected. It defines the inspection requirements for materials, parts and products..Inspection characters will be assigned to operations in routing; Qs21 is the t code to create inspections characteristics.

25. Can we stop the Confirmation; if inspection characteristics are not recorded, If Yes, How can we stop?

Ans: Yes we can stop the confirmation; in confirmation parameters (in Opk4 t code) activate the indicator that if a result doesn’t exist, stops the confirmation

26. What is difference between MD 04 & MD 05? MD04 - Dynamic in nature ie. It shows current situation for stock.

MD05- Static in nature, only shows result of last MRP run, but in between if any procurement is raised is not considered/updated in it.