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1) Requisition is form of external procurement process only.
Ans. False
2) What is the organization level in purchasing activities?
Ans. a) Company code. b) Purchase Organization. C) Purchase Group. D )
Plant e)Storage Location.
3) What is organization level required in raising the Purchase order.
Ans. except Storage location all the above.
4) A purchase requisition always created manually.
Ans . No. it can be created automatically through MRP.
5) Purchase order will be created with reference to any document or which
document.
Ans: purchase order can be created with references to PR or Quotation,
contract.
6) How a purchase order can be monitor.
Ans. Through purchase history tab.
7) What is the Special procurement Process?
A ) Stock transfer with Stock Transport orders.
B) Subcontracting. Like job work.
C) Vendor Consignment.
8) Can be stock transfer order be used between two companies.
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Ans. No. within one company.
9) Which kind of procurement has the Inventory management as well as
purchasing?
Ans. Stock transfer with Stock Transport orders.
10) Where the material qty managed in STO.
Ans. The Quantity is managed in special stock, the stock in transit of the
receiving plant.
12 how can u see the goods with subcontracting order.
This subcontracting stock will be shown under the special stock type Stock ofmaterial provided to Vendor.
13) Where are the price information stores in a vendor consignment PO?
Ans. Consignment Information record.
14) Can invoice verification happen in Vendor consignment.
Ans. No, in place of invoice, credit memo is generated for vendor.
15) How a purchase order is controlled.
Ans. Special indicator known as Item category.
16 ) what is the client?
Ans. Its a highest hierarchal level in the SAP system; from a business point of view
the client could represent the corporate group.
17) What is company code?
Ans. The company code is defined by 4 charter alpha numeric key.
It represents an independent unit producing its own balance sheet.
18) what is plant ?
A plant is an organizational unit within logistics that sub divides and enterprise
from the view points of production, procurement, plant maintenance and material
Planning.
19) what entities within the firms can be a plant.
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Ans. Production facility, Central issues storage location, Regional sales office,
Corporate head Quarter, Maintenance location.
20) what is storage location?
Ans. The storage location is an organization unit that facilitates the differentiation of
stock of materials within a plant, Inventory management on Quantity basis is carries
out in plant at storage location level, and the physical inventory is also carried out
at this level.
A storage location is defined by means of a four character alphanumeric key that is
unique to it in the plant.
21 At which level physical inventory is carried out.
The Physical inventory is carried out a storage level only.
22) What are the features of purchasing group?
A ) its a key for a buyer or a group of buyer who is responsible of certain
purchasing activities.
B) Purchasing group is not aligned to other unit in company structure.
23) What is purchasing organization?
Ans. Purchasing organization is an organizational unit within logistics that
subdivides the enterprises according to the purchase requirement.
24) Can a price in PO be automatically proposed?
Ans. Yes ( if the price has been maintained in Info records.)
25) How can you minimize data entries times in creating a PO.
We can minimize the data entries time in PO with Purchase info record.
26) What is the structure of PO?
A ) header.
B) Item overview.c) Item details.
d) Document overview.
27) Can you create a PO with two plants?
Ans. Yes, (but both the plant should belongs to same Purchase organization)
28) How to default the values while creating PO.
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Ans. With the help of personal setting.
29) What are the fields in PO in which you can use both name and keys?
Ans. This is valid for field vendor, Material group, plant, storage location.
30) When a purchase order is kept in Hold status?
Ans. We an use the hold function to store incorrect or incomplete purchase order in
SAP system, you can then continue
31) Which process is not possible if PO is in Hold
Ans. The following functions are not possible in case of purchase order that is on
hold:
a) Message output ( Printing or transmission of the PO in Message form),
b) Release ( Approval, clearance for Issue)
c) Posting of a goods receipt.
d) Posting of an invoice.
32 ) What is park document and which process are not possible if document in Park
state.
Ans. If u wants to create a purchasing document, the document may be complete
from the material management points of view but some financial information may
still be missing at that point in time (FI View). In this case, you can then
provisionally save(park) the purchase document and continue processing it at a
later point in time before saving.
The following function is not possible in the case of parked purchase order:-
a) Posting of goods receipt
b) Posing of an Invoice.
33) In which methods a message can be issues?
Ans. Message can be issues in the form of (Printing, Email, fax or EDI).
34) What are the purchasing documents for which messages can be issues?
Ans. PR,RFQ, PO, Contact, Scheduling Agreement.
35) What is a background jobs.
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Ans. It means processing in determined interval.
36) Only one GR can be posted against a PO.
Ans. No, Multiple GR can be posted.
37) What is an open item in PO?Ans. Open item is still to be delivered Qty in PO for which GR has to be done. It can
be seen in Delivery scheduled tab of Item details.
38) Will there any accounting document generated at the time of Goods receipt for
consignment PO.
Ans. No, Accounting document is generated when material withdrawal from
consignment stock to own stock.
39) What is the document generated at time of valuated GR?
Ans. Material document and FI document.
40) What is a movement type and how its indicate?
Ans. Its a tree character key used to defined goods movement.
42) How many no. of document can be view in overview tree.
Ans. 10
43) Can the users influence (change) the document overview?
Ans. No.
44) What document is generated after the posting of Invoice?
Ans. A) Invoice document(MM Document) B) accounting document.
45) Is it compulsory to do IV (invoice verification) with reference to PO.
Ans. No. it can be done through delivery note.
46) Why it is advisable to do MIRO with reference to a PO.
Ans. Order prices from the PO document are copied and GR quantities also copy.
47) What happen if there is difference between invoice amount and expected
amount in PO?
Ans. The invoice gets blocked for payment if the amount not falls within thetolerance limit.
48) Which transaction can you enter using MIRO?
Ans. Invoice, Credit memo, subsequent debit, subsequent credit.
49) What are the important fields for vendor master?
Ans. General Data, company code data, purchasing data...
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50) what are the information which gets automatically populated into purchase
document from vendor master?
Ans. Order currency, Terms of Payment, minimum order value, schema group
vendor. Pricing data control. GR based invoice verification. Vendor address, Inco
terms,
51) by which t-codes we can maintain the purchasing data of vendor?
Ans MK01 ,MK02 ,MK03.
52) What is T-code by which we can maintain the accounting data of vendor?
Ans XK01, XK02,XK03.
53) In which kind of vendor there is no separate master data exists.
Ans. One time vendor.
54) How can u enable a vendor to play multiple roles?
Ans. By maintaining the partner roles.
55) Can a vendor be blocked for a quality reason if yes then in which condition?
Ans. Yes it can be blocked for quality reason, only when the quality management is
active for material.
56) Which department can use the material master records?
Ans. Sales, Purchase, Accounting, production, planning, QM, warehouse, storage
Departments
57) Is it necessary to extend a material to view Basic Data?Ans. No
58) Which data are not copied while creating VMR by reference?
Address Data, Bank detail, vendor name, business partner
59) What are the important partner function/ roles?
Ans. Ordering address, vendor, forwarding agent, goods supply
60) What do you mean by MRP PROFILE?
Ans. It is a key which you can use to store MRP or forecast parameters
61) Can you collectively extend the material to several storage lections in one
transaction?
Ans. Yes through code MMSC .only for one plant
62) When does a storage location is asked for in procurement cycle if not mentioned
in PO.
Ans. GR
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63) if material does not exist in storage loction,can it be received in that particulate
location at the time of GR?
Ans. Yes in customizing IM underCreate storage location automatically
64) Can you change several Material Record at the same time?Ans. Yes through Mass Maintenance Process.
Procurement of stock material
65) Where all condition can be maintained?
Ans. PIR, PO, Contract, Schedule agreement, quotation.
66) Can you store general conditions at general level?
Ans. Yes
67) In which scenario conditions always time In dependent
Ans. PO.
68) In which scenario conditions always time dependent?
Ans. Info record, Contract.
69) Can you have time dependent and time in dependent condition at header and
item level separately?
Ans. Yes.
70) What are price scales and where it is store?
Ans. Price scales are diff prices based on qty, And it is stored in PIR only
71) Give some example of condition type?
Ans. Gross Price, Taxes, Discounts, freight, Excise, customs.
72) Where an access sequence can be assign?
Ans. In condition type.
73) What is access sequence?
Ans. it is a search strategy use to define the sequence in which condition records for
a condition type are read.
74) What is a calculation schema and what constitute it?
Ans. Calculation scheme is a group of conditions, it determines the sequence in
which conditions taken in account. Calculation scheme group is a group of
conditions put together for price determination.
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75) You can define different calculation schemas?
Ans. True, for purchasing org and vendors.
76) In which case you have to enter bank data manually while doing IV?
Ans. Vendor is one time vendor
77) When you have to enter address of vendor at the time of PO
Ans. When vendor is one time vendor.
78) Can u create a PO with reference to any purchase document without purchase
overview?
Ans. Yes.
79) How can you see the diff documents to select from document overview?
Ans. through selection variant
80) What are the documents which cannot or can be displayed through document
overview by double clicking?
Ans. RFQ,Schedule aggrement,contract
PR,PO
Purchase info record81) where we can see the last purchase document?
Ans. in PIR.
82) what are the categories kind of PIR?
Ans. Subcontracting, pipeline, consignment, standard
83) Can PIR we made automatically
Ans. Yes through info update indicator
84) What are the Org levels while creating of PIR?
Ans. Purchase org and plant.
85) What is the requirement for maintaining plant conditions in PIR?
Ans. In customizing (define condition control at plant level).
86) Can be the price from MMR be copy to PO?
Ans. NO
87) In which condition the price from last PO would be adopted?
Ans. When there is no price maintained in PIR.
88) The default price from the PIR to PO cannot be changed
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Ans. False
89) What can be the scenarios to last PO price to be coped in new PO?
Ans. Following are the scenarios
a)The conditions are always copied.
b)The conditions are not copied if the price in entered manuallyc) The conditions are never copied
90) Can the price from the material master be copied to PO?
Ans. No 1)IR 2)Last PO.
91) Can a condition from PO contract or scheduling agreement be copies to the PIR?
Ans. No Only Quotation.
92)What happened in info records if the purchase info update indicator set in PO?
93) how many level can we have for valuation area in material management ?
IndicatorSet
PurchaseOrganization
PurchaseOrganization
and Plant Level
Result
Y Y N PIR Update Org
LevelY N Y Plant LevelY Y Y Plant Specific
data updateY N N Info record
create with a
plant (if
customizinghas plant
condition
requirement)
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Ans. 1)Company code level
2) Plant level.( SAP recommended that you valuate the material at plant level .
Valuation at plant level is mandatory if you want to use either of the PP or
Product cost accounting components or if your system is a my SAP retail
system.
Material Valuation Basics93) On which level the Material can be valued?
Ans. Company code level and Plant level.
94) which type of goods movement are relevant for valuations?
Ans. Any movement which results in change in stock values.
95) Which accounts are posted during the Goods receipt.
Ans. Stock account and GR/IR account. If freight charged on material then Freight
clearing account also posted. Price difference also be posted if standard price
valuation activated.
96) In which case valuation data for material is maintained at plant level.
Ans. As per Questin 92.
97) What is the requirement if you want to user PP or Product cost accounting?
Ans. Valuation should be at Plant level.
98) How we determined wither a material is valuated or not valuated?
Ans. Based on Material type.
99) What are the two ways through which material can be managed by inventory
management?
Ans. Quantity and Value.
100) What does a valuation class do?
Ans. For automatic account determination if its used to determined which stock to
be updated during the goods movement of material.
101) where the valuation class is maintained in Material Master?
Ans. Accounting 1 View.
102) Can a valuation class be assigned to different material type.
Yes.
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103) what are the two process of price control for material valuation?
Ans. Moving average and standard price.
104) Where are the variance of standard price posted?
Ans. Price difference account.
105) if price control is standard the system never calculate the Moving average
price?
Ans. No. is calculate you can check in accounting 1 view of Material Master.
Procurement of Stock material Stock type, valuation and GR in
warehouse.
106) what u means by stock overview?
Ans. The stock overview is an analysis that delivered information about the stock
situation of an individual material.
107) stock overview can be display for which organization level?
Ans. Client, company code, plant, s location.
108) Quality inspection stock cannot be consider for any purpose ?
Ans. False. It can be consider for Planning but withdrawal and consumption not
allowed.
109) How much quantity can be withdrawn for sampling and scrape from QI stock?
Ans . One
110) What is movement type to release the quality inspection to unrestricted
stock?
Ans. 321 ( and 322 reversal from unrestricted to QI stock.) page no, 212.
111) what is the movement type for transfer the material unrestricted stock to block
stock?
Ans. 344 ( and 343 from blocked stock to unrestricted block)
112) what is the movement type for Quality inspection to blocked stock ?
Ans. 350 and 349 from blocked stock to Quality inspection.
113) What steps should be taken to withdrawn goods from block stock and quality
inspection stock for consumption and withdrawal?
Ans. We first have to carry out the transfer posting to unrestricted stock.
114) will a material movement in a single plant affect account.
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Ans. No. because there is not value changes.
115) how can a posting of uncorrected document can be reverse.
Ans. First cancel the existing document by transaction cancellation by MIGO
transaction.
116) Can u switch to another company code at the time of invoice verification?
Ans. Yew we can change the company code at the time of invoice verification.
117) At the time of invoice verification document posting ,Only invoice document
can be seen.
Ans. No. By certain changes (user parameter IVFIDISPLAY) we can view both the
invoice doc and accounting doc.
Delivery cost :
118) feature of planned delivery cost?
Ans. They are included in stock valuation in moving average methods.
119) what happened if the delivery cost invoiced is more than actual planned?
Ans. The system carried out the subsequent debit
Planned Delivery cost Moving average Price
material
Standard Price material.
When the goods receipt is
posted, the stock isvaluated at total
procurement cost (Value
+ Freight)
When goods receipt is
posted the stock isvaluated with the product
of Quantity multiply with
standard price.Unplanned Delivery cost Stock account is valuated
at order price. Any
differences in invoice
prices Is posted to stock
account. In case the value
is less than its not posted
to stock account but the
price difference account.
When goods receipt is
posted , the stock is
valuated with the product
of quantity times standard
price. Any difference vis a
vis the procurement cost
is posted to a price
difference account.
120) when the unplanned delivery cost is updated in stock account in material
which has moving average price material?
Ans. At a time of invoice verification.
121) Where does the unplanned delivery cost is posted to in standard price?
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Ans. To price difference account.
Chapter 4
Procurement of Consumable material.
122) Material master is cannot be used at the time of procurement for
consumption?
Ans. False, no material master can be used in procurement of consumable item.
Material master can be used in two ways a) NLAG non stock material that is not
relevant for inventory management at all (no quantity and value update)
b) UNBW (non value stock but inventory management on quantity basis)
123) what is the material type in which only quantity basis inventory management
possible.
Ans. UNBW None valuated stock.
124) In which Material type inventory management not possible at all.
Ans. NLAG non stock material.
125) Stock material always be procured for Inventory only?
Ans. No. it can be used for consumption also.
126) when the account assignment category is cost center what information it will
be asked for.
Ans. It will ask for cost center as well GL account.
127) In the account assignment category K(consumable) GL account always has to
be put manually.
Ans. No. it can be put automatically through customization.
128) In account assignment category A(Assets) GL account not necessary to put in
the PO?
Ans. Yes, because its included in assets itself.
129) can u create your own account assignment category or change in existing one.
Ans. Yes, through customization.
130) Is multiple account assignment possible in PO?
Ans. Yes (GR become non valuable)
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131) if you choose multiple account assignment categories, the qty are distributed
only by percentage.
Ans. False (it can be Qty and percentage both)
132) If Partial invoice is send by the vendor in case of multiple account assignment,what happen in that case?
Ans. The partial invoice amount can be distributed among the a/c assignment item
of a PO on prepositional basis.
133) Is it possible to derived the partial invoice indicator automatically.
Ans. Yet through customization.
134) Can distribution of account in multiple account assignment by value
basis.
Ans. Yes ( By SAP ERP 6.0 package 5).
135) which account assignment category is needed for stock material PO.
Ans. None.
136) from where the valuation data of a stock material is determined.
Ans. Valuation class which is material master recorded in Account View.
137) Can stock material is used for consumption.
Ans. Yes.
138) Quantity is never updated in process of consumption material.Ans. False, it is possible in UNBW.
Purchase requisition:
139) What does the direct purchaser requisition mean?
Ans. Its mean that PR created manually by requisitioned department.
140) What does indirect PR means and how many why it can be created.Ans. It means that purchase requisition from another SAP component created
automatically.
It can be created by following ways.
1) MRP
2) Maintenance order
3) Production order .
4) With network.
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( Note It can also come from SAP supply chain management or SAP Supplier
Relationship management.)
141) In purchase requisition there is multiple account assignment, you have to
distribute them by Qty and percentage methods.
Ans. False (Initially PR distribute it in equally portion automatically)
142) Is account assignment U- Unknown is allowed in PR of consumable material?
Ans. Yes.
143) is account assignment U-Unknown allow in PO.
Ans. Yes, in case of external services or blanket.
144) Is there any valuation price mention in PR.
Ans. Yes. If its a valuated material price get copy from material master.
145) what information does the status tab in PR gives.
Ans. Its give the information, its ordered, not ordered. Or converted in outline
agreement.
146) How can you know wither PR was created manually or automatically?
Ans. through Creation indicator on contact person tab in item details area.
147)What happen to a PR when you assign a source of supply.
Ans. It help short list the vendor and put automatically at the time of PO creation
with reference to this PR.
148) Does the valuation price from the PR item is transfer to PO when item has
material master record.
No. PO price is purposed automatically only if
a) Price is maintained in conditions in PIR.
b) If there PO already existing with same material vendor.
149) from where the PO will propose the price when PR without a material master
is converted to PO?
Ans From the valuation price of PR.
150) what is confirmation?
Ans. Confirmation is notification for vendor about the estimated arrival and qty of
order material such as order acknowledgment, loading or transportation,
confirmation and shipping information.
151) how does confirmation help?
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Ans. It unable to plan the material requirement more accurately by providing very
reliable information able the delivery in the time span between the PO date and the
expected delivery date.
Valuable and non valuable GR
152)For a Consumable material GR is always non valuated?
Ans. False It can be valuated and non valuated both
153) can you do away with GR entry in consumable Procurement
Ans. Yes By deselecting GR indicator in PO
154) Where can you see GR non valuated Indicator
Ans. In the PO in item detail under delivery Tab
In the PR in item detail under valuation Tab
155) When does the consumption posted in non valuted GR.
Ans. At the time of IV
Blanket Purchase order
156) What is the document type and item category for from work order
Ans. Document type FO
Item categories B
157) What are the feture of blanket PO
Ans.1)There is no GR and Service entry
2)No RFQ or contarct may be created
3)you can use Account assignment category U
4) No material master
5) Addition or multiple A/C assignment possible at the time of IV6) Check on validity period limit in IV
158) While creating blanket PO can you fix price of individual material or service
Ans. No in the blanket PO price of the individual material not recorded in Po as we
already fix the limit.
159) What are the key advantages of Blanket PO.
Ans. Help in reduction processing Cost by following way
1) Different material or service procure over longer period with a single PO.
2) Issue of seprate PO not necessary.
3) There is no GR and service entry process.
160) In which case you manually specify the account assignment data, when
processing the invoice?
Ans. When we have entered U-Unkonw account assignment cat. In PO its so
because there is no GR process.
161) wither an account. Assignment data can be changed during the invoice
verification?
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Ans. Yes.
162) Can a validity period be mentioned in line item of FO.
Ans. No. it can be defined at header level.
163) Can u inventories the material in FO?Ans. No. as no material master is used.
164) you might mtl in Blanket PO.
Ans. No, it always have to be short text.
165) is material group necessary to be mention in BPO?
Ans. Yes.
166) what is the item categories ?
Ans. The item categories enable to map the different procurement process.
167) which factor decided what kind of item categories we can use.
Ans. Account assignment and document type.
168) Example of standard item categories.
Ans. B: Limit , K : consignment , L: subcontracting, M: Material unknown, S :
third party,
T: text, U: stock transfer, W: Material Groupm, D: services.
169) can u change the short description of individual item categories.Ans. Yes through customization.
170) can we make a blanket PO with No limit,
Ans. Yes, but we have to mention expected values.
171) What are the item categories controls.
Ans. Material number. Material stocked, account assignment, goods receipt,
Invoice receipt.
Procurement of external Service172) can there be condition in service master
Yes
173) In which module a part from the purchasing(MM POR) can the service
master be a use
It can be use PP,PM and CS.
174) can you enter further condition in purchasing document itself
Yes
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175) what are diff level available in service master condition
At service level of service (Market price or own estimate)
At the level of service, vendor and purchasing org.
At the level of service, vendor, Purchasing Org, and Plant
Ordering Service176) How can unplanned service be manage
By Specifying a limit for Service in Service PO
177) Which Function enable you to create service specification and set value
level for unplanned service
Item Category D
Service entry and invoice verification
178) A/c Posting are made when entry are saved
False Posting are made when service are accepted.
179) Can release procedure be set for service entry sheet
Yes
180) when entering service you can also always enter the unplanned service
False it depend whether limit set for PO
181) what is the transaction code for service entry sheet.
ML81N
Reporting and Analysis Function(Logistic Information System)
182) What is SAP List Viewer and ALV grid Control
It is function which standardize and simplify the handling of lists in sap
SystemFollowing function are also part of:
a)Unifor design of all the list and tables.
b)cross application, standardize function with uniform icon
c)Simple creation or changing the layout
183) On which level the information of lis are supplied from diff. operating
application
OLTP (Online transaction processing)
184) Which is the level just ahed of OLTP.
Logistic data warehouse
185) What are the Function of LIS
Standard Analysis
Flexible Analysis
Early warning system
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Basics of cunsumtion based planning
186) How does a MRP help?
Ans. By insuring material availability
187) what is the possible procurement element of MRP run.?
Ans. Planned order, PR, scheduling agreement, schedule line.
188) Can a planned order and PR be deleted or changed or rescheduled?
Ans. Yes, these are the initial planning elements.
189) can planned ordered be converted into production order? And when ?
Ans. Yes. When planning has finished.
190) Can planned order created individually?
Ans. Yes.
191) How its possible to automatically create the scheduling agreement schedule
line?
Ans. If a SA exist for a material, and its indicated as MRP relevant in the source list.
192) Can u exclude any material of storage location in a plant.
Ans. Yes by creating an MRP area which exclude that storage location.
193) what are the planning level for consumption based planning.
Ans. Plant, and individual MRP area.
194) Which are the three different type of MRP area.
Ans. Plant, Storage location, Subcontractor MRP area.
195) what are the prerequisites to carryout the requirement planning for a plant in
consumption based planning.
Ans. A)Activate material requirement planning.
B) Carryout the overall maintenance of plant parameter.
C)Maintain the MRP data of material in MMR.
200) Consumtion based planning procedure are based on ?Ans. previous material consumption.
201) Which kind of material is best serve by CBP?
Ans. Low value material which is constantly consumed. (B and C type)
202) what are the MRP procedure available in CBP?
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Ans.1) Reorder point planning.
2)Forecast based planning.
3)Time based planning.
203) what is difference between manual and authormatic reorder point planning?
Ans. In manual reorder planning the MRP controlled determined manually.In automatic reorder point planning the system calculate the reorder planning using
the forecast.
204) when does the net requirement calculation is in reorder level planning
triggered?
Ans. When available stock false below the reorder level.
205) what is the MRP type and where its assigned ?
Ans. It is the key to determined the procedure for planning a material. It is assigned
in material master record in MRP view.
Material master record
206) at which level MRP relevant data stored in Mateial Master record?
Ans. Plant level in MMR.
207) what is MRP profile?
Ans. MRP profile is a key in which you can stored the MRP parameter that dont
depend on the Material master record. Its a collection of field for configuration of
MMR.
208) How a material status/properties is fixed?
Ans. In the customizing in the material type.
Reorded point planning.
209) what are the points to be considered when defined the reorder points.
Ans. 1) Safety stock 2) previous consumption or future requirement
3)replenishment led time.
210) what is the on-order stock?
Ans. Its a composed of fixed and firm receipt elements ( PO, Planned order or
production order)
211) when does the system scheduled the procurement proposal?
Ans. After the net requirement calculation and lot size calculation.
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212) how is the PR/PO qty is decided?
Ans from the lot size procedure in MMR.
213) what is date of planning run in material which uses ROP( reorder planning).
Ans. The date of shorted when the ROP is fall short off.
214) on which date forward scheduling start?
Ans. The date of MRP run.
Planning run
215) On which level total planning is run?
Ans. On plant level.
216) what are the methods of total planning run?
Ans. Online and background( it can scheduled once or periodically)
217) what is scope of planning?
Ans. If you want to include the several plant or MRP areas can be done with
scope of planning. And it can include the storage location of different MRP
area.
218) what is the single item single level?
Ans. It is planned only the BOM level.
219) what is the multi level single item?
The system planned all the BOM level.
220) what is interactive single item planning.
Ans. Its suited for the material that urgently required check specially master
scheduled item. The system first displays the current requirement list but
doesnt plant directly. You can use this requirement to manually triggered
planning.
Planning file entries
221) what is planning file and what does material include in the planning file.
Ans. A planning file contain all the material relevant for planning run. As soon
we create the material master with MRP views and valid MRP type.
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222) In which case the material can be part of planning file but not include in
planning run?
Ans. Where the MRP type is ND ( No MRP).
223) what are the processing keys in planning run?
Ans. NEUPL > its a regenerating planning and its planned all the material
in the planning respective of the indicator.( its used first time after SAP goes
live)
NETCH its mean that change planning in total horizon, it include only those
material which have NETCH indicator.
NETPL-> it means net change in planning horizon it include only those
material which have NETPL indicator.
224) can a NEUPL be used for single item planning?Ans. Its is not useful.
225) what setting needs to be done so that PR/ schedule agreement line and
MRP list should appear in Planning run?
Ans. By creating indicator in MRP run (MD01).
226) what is MRP group?
Ans. Its an organizational object with certain central parameter assigned to a
group of material.
Planning Result
227) can planned order be made binding of the company.
Ans. No its a internal document.
228) Planned orders are always generated automatically.
Ans. No. it can be created manually.
229) Planned order can be converted only into a purchase requisition?
Ans. It can be converted to a production order also.
Lot size calculation;
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230) what is the difference between rounding value and rounding profile.
Ans. rounding profile are always configured in customizing where is rounding
value is assigned in material master. Rounding value is unit dependent
where as rounding profile is a combination of unit and value.
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