SAP SD INTERVIEW QUESTION ANSWER

Pricing is determined by combination of Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, Division, Customer Pricing Procedure and Document Pricing Procedure.

It should be legacy data to SAP. What it means is you want to transfer all the customer and materials and all other information from Older (legacy system) to new SAP system. You can do it using many tools, most noticeably MDMs.

Account Determination: Sales View, Sales Organization, Distribution Chanel, Chart of Accounts, Account Assignment Group for Customer and Material and Account Keys.

MARA – Material highest level data
MBEW – Data referring to accounting
MVKE – Data referring to sales
MARC – Data at the plant level
WLK1 – Listing information
MARD – Data storage locations

SE16 (or) SE11.

Bring your cursor to the field in a transaction and press F1 and then technical info.

VBAK – Order header
VBAP – Order Item
VBEP – Order schedule line
LIKP – Delivery Header
LIPS – Delivery Item
VBPA – Partners
VBFA – Document flow

Customer group is 2 digit numbers that is configured within IMG and allows logical grouping of customers. For example you may want to group International customers, Domestic customers or military customers separately.

A drop shipment is based on an order from a customer to a Distributor. The distributor initiates the shipment by Informing the wholesaler.

Yes, VD51 is the transaction or inside VA02 also you can add customer material information records.

This is a unit of measure used as a basis for all the transactions, all movements of quantities will be converted to that base unit of measure which is specific to an article.

Sales area is the geographical aspect of that particular Company code, from there we can generate the reports.

Basic data, additional basic data, Accounting views, MRP views, Purchasing views, Storage views, forecasting views, sales views and in IS Retail there is also a Listing view and POS view.

MM01

1.  SHIPPING POINT
2. PLANT
3. STORAGE CONDITION
4.  STORAGE LOCATION

MM41 for creating article in SAP IS Retail and MM01 in SAP Industry solution for creating a material.

Master data responsible for representing all information related to products or services that a company produces or sell.

No. Shipping point is the destination of the goods, how we can ship the goods. It is like mailing letter without TO address.

Smart form – it is a form. Basically it is using in output.

Header responsible for all the documents Item for materials Schedule line for quantity and delivery.

We assign particular material master to particular Plant it picks up from there.

Without delivery invoice is not possible.

Company Has Launched a new product, for a that material you Want to have a promotion for this you will creating a sales deal and assign it to sales promotion and you maintain condition groups.

It shows date of calculation of pricing procedure for that Particular document. So that in future you can see the date On which pricing calculated for that particular doc.

Account Group is like a control Parameter for the customer master. Most of the fields in the customer master are controlled Using Field Selection, which is internal function of Account Group.

Sales Document Type (OR)
+
Item Category Group (NORM)
+
Item Usage (FREE)
+
Higher Level Item Category (TAN)
+
Item Category of Free Goods (TANN)

IMG is required for the purpose of customizing and Configuration. There is no role of functional consultant Without it.

Path: SPRO-IMG-Enterprise Structure-Assignment-SD-Assign Plant to Sales Organization/Dist.Channel
T.Code: OVX6

Currencies, countries etc. This data is application independent.

Sales area is a combination of s.org, dist channel & Division. Division is a logical grouping of products. So u Cannot extend material to other sales areas. But u can Extend customer to other sales areas through common Distribution channel & division.

Shipping point is a mandatory Organizational unit for outbound delivery process.

Condition Index is used to search all the conditions Records for a particular condition type (eg PR00). We Activate condition index in the customizing screen of the Condition type.

Once we can release the task, then only we can release the Change/customizing request.

Product attributes is nothing but the features of product.

Yes, we can have multiple packing for a single delivery.

Edi – it helps for data transfer.
That means from sap or non sap to sap.

We have to create in new plant as we have followed for First plant, where as in first plant system will give Internal number but for second plant we have to mention Material number.

1. master data
2. transction data.

In credit management we stop the pgi by through credit limit or through customization.

Support to client:

1. implementation method.
2. Correction method.

While creating customer we need to assign the customer to The respective sales area, we should copy from previous Sales area in XD01 through reference.

Sales deal promotion– specific product for a period of time price will be less than MRP.
Price agreement– means an agreement between customer and Vendor for a specific product or with a specific price mentioned in their agreement.

Some of the tables are KNVV, RF02D, KNA1 etc.

Payer is the individual or company who will settle the invoices for products or services sold.

Normally these are defined by the finance team.

Using the account group which is assigned to the customer.

• Out bound delivery— is Post goods Issue (PGI)
• In bound delivery— is Post Goods Received (PGR)
• PGI will come under Sales Area
• PGR will come under MM Module
• PGI decreases physical stock and PGR increases

V_RA.

These customers represent the sales customers within the same client but between different company codes.

Retro active billing means rebate process. When ever the customer reaches the target quantity or volume in specified time Peried.we issues the credit memo for the customer.

The sold to party, the ship to party, bill to party, and the payer record.

We assign movement type in schedule line category.

In third party if a customer places an order if the Material is not available in our company if the order Document is saved automatically purchase is raised.withthe help Of this purchase group is created

Purchase requisition— For production of material raw Materials are required, but materials are not available in Stocks, then the production dept. request send to the MM manage simply request him to arrange Materials for production of finished materials.

VD01, VA01, XD01.

Shipping points are the points from where deliveries are initiated. One shipping point can be assigned to more than one store or plant. A Loading point is just a subdivision of a shipping point and manually entered into the header data of the delivery.

No, you cannot maintain 2 separate pricing procedure for same Material in single order. But u can change the price Manually by selecting the material and then the conditions Tab….u can also see the changed status as manually later.

A sales office is a geographically located unit of a sales organization.

A division is a product group that can be defined for a wide range of products or services. Customer specific arrangements can also be made in a division. A sales organization can have many divisions.

1.  Enterprise structure
2. Partner determination
3. Master data
4.  Business process customization
5.  Pricing
6. Output determination

The transaction coed for extend rebate is “VB D” in that You should fill the field like recipient and rebate Agreement.

Accounting group is simply the classification of customers, Whether its sp, sh, bp, or py, and it also controls the Fields in cmr.

Billing Doc is the broad view Invoice (F2) is one of type of billing doc.

Pricing has the basic price of the item. It also has the Discounts, Taxes, Rebates, & also the Cost of the item.

Account key determine a correct G/L account to be posted the data corresponding G/L accounts. You need to assign a G/L account to account key that is assigned to a condition type in a pricing procedure.

A/c keys determine a correct g/l a/c to be posted the data corresponding g/l a/c. All customer Rebate accounts are posted in accruals.

Inquiry —–>Quotation—–>Sales Order—–>Delivery —–>Transfer Order—–>Post Goods Issue —–>Billing —–>Accounting.

Transfer order is basically picking order where u pick the Material from storage and loading area or picking area.

Sales org., A/c keys, condition type, a/c group for the customer, a/c group for the material.

Before installation of SAP, Data maintained by Company is called Legacy Data. At the time of installation, it is required to transfer Data from Legacy to SAP like Masters (Material/Customer, etc).

Pricing prosier determination—–Pricing is determined by combination of Sales Organization, Distribution Channel, Division, Customer Pricing Procedure and Document Pricing Procedure.

Pricing prosier—-Pricing prosier is the simple prosier of pricing .It identify different- 2 step, counter of condition.

It should be legacy data to SAP. What it means is you want to transfer all customer and materials and all other information from Older (legacy system) to new SAP system. You can do it using many tools, most noticeably MDMs.

Copy Control— is basically meant so that Data is copied from preceding Document to subsequent one. In general case of Standard Order, it will be Copy Control (Order to Delivery) from OR to LF

Pricing is determined by combination of Sales Organisation, Distribution Channel, Division, Customer Pricing Procedure and Document Pricing Procedure.

Sales Document types and Delivery Document Types.

Common Distribution Channel and Common Division are maintained so that if any master data like customer or material maintained with respect to one distribution channel can be used in other DCh. It prevents the multiplication of master record.

Scheduling Agreement— is the agreement between consumer and Company having fixed delivery dates and fixed quantity.

Contract— is the agreement between company and consumer for certain period of time.

PMIN is a Condition type to define minimum prices. It can be Control minimum prices below which a material should not be sold to the customer.

Dunning procedure is used in credit management if Customer does pay back his amount, then using this dunning Procedure Company sends reminders to customer then after That company has to take legal action.

Schedule line category is nothing but delivery date and Delivery quantity is must.

Sales document can be blocked at three places depending on The customer risk categories, they are:

1. Sales order level (high risk customer).
2. Delivery level (medium risk customer).
3. Goods issue level (low risk customer).

Manual entries can be posted in the normal G/L account and the same is not possible in the Reconciliation account, as these are automatically updated.

Yes.

Account Group, Item Category.

Basically access sequence finds the exact condition record in cond.table by search statuary with the help of exclusive indication.

The partner type is an indicator which informs you of the type of partner, for example, partner type customer “KU”.

1. In paste: 25% extra more -it’s inclusive
2. When you buy paste you get a brush free, it’s exclusive.

1. Step,
2. Counter,
3. Condition type,
4. Description,
5. Form,
6. To,
7. Manual,
8. Mandatory Statistics,
9. Print Subtotal,
10. Requirement,
11. Alt condition type,
12. Alt condition base value,
13. Act key and,
14. Accruals.

A plant is a manufacturing unit and it is a place where Materials have to be kept. Storage location is a place in plant, where in materials Has to be stored.

Because that customer is not create that sales area.

The system is giving error because material is not available in plant so check the material mb1c.

We can maintain individual customer credit limit in customer Master. In t.code (fd32).we can define the total credit limit For sales area and credit limit for individual sales area.

Because we not maintain the base price of material. So that we use vk11 for base price.

INQUIRY  —–>QUOATATION —- >ORDER —–>DELIVERY BILLING.

Many to One.

Just go to sales Document Type (VOV8), Check for Sales Order – > Delivery Type -> Billing type assignment and correct accordingly.

Yes.

In rush order if a customer places an order delivery will Take place immediately billing will be letter.

In cash sale if a customer places an order delivery and Billing will be on the same day.

From Sales Order.

Contract is the business sale cycle and schedule line is the cust.sale cycle.

By assigning credit control area to specific sales area.

ERP—- ERP is a package with the techniques and concept for the integrated management of business as a whole enterprise. ERP is software designed for basic process of company software.

SAP—-sap is an enterprise information and management package in word wide use of this package it makes possible to track and manage. Is an ERP package. SAP can be fit it any language. Using of sap means there is no need to maintain SAP is able to integrate all functional organizational units.

SAP are usually use because SAP there are no. of technical reasons no. of company are planning to implementation Sap highly configurable, secure data, minimum redundancy, maximum consistency.

Master Data MM: Material Master, Info Records, Source List, Vendor Master.

Master Data SD: Customer Master, Condition Records, Metrical Determination, Item Proposal.

Plant is created by MM Consultant. IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Sales and Distribution -> Assign sales organization – distribution channel – plant.

Yes , it is possible by the exclusive free goods.

This assignment ensures that goods from different Plant can be dispatched from different Shipping Points.

IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Logistics Execution -> Assign shipping point to plant.

Plant is created by MM Consultant.

IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Logistics – General -> Define, copy, delete, check plant.

You can delete the order but there should not be any transcations on the particular order.

Shipping Point is the Organizational element, which is responsible for shipping the Materials to the Customers.

IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Logistics Execution -> Define, copy, delete, check shipping point.

MWST is Tax Condition Category which will be Assigned to Country IN.

you can assign as many sales groups as desired to the sales offices. Any one sales group can belong to several sales offices.

IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Sales and Distribution -> Assign sales group to sales office

Listing— only the materials which is applicable to the Customers.
Exclusion— The materials which is not applicable to the Customers.

IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Sales and Distribution -> Assign sales Office to Sales Area.

you define the sales offices in your company. The definition of sales offices is optional. For each sales office, you can determine the printer for output based on the sales documents in different ways.

IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Sales and Distribution -> Maintain Sales Office.

1. activate rebate in customer master data
2. selling material should be activated in MM data
3. sales org. should be activated
4. billing doc should be activated

All the sales are made from a particular sales Area. For creating a Sales Order Sales Area is compulsory.

IMG ->Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Sales and Distribution -> Set up sales area.

IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Sales and Distribution -> Assign division to sales organization.

Sold to party is relevant for credit limit.

Division is a way of grouping materials, products, or services.
IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Logistics – General -> Define, copy, delete, check division.

Material determination, pricing determination, Output determination, Account determination.

This assignment ensures, a Sales Organization can supply Materials to Customers through this Distribution Channel.

IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Sales and Distribution > Assign distribution channel to sales organization.

Condition table defines the combination of fields (the key) that identifies an individual condition record.  Access sequence is a search strategy that the system uses to find valid data for a particular condition type.

Distribution Channel is the way, in which Products or Services reach Customers.
IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Sales and Distribution -> Define, copy, delete, check distribution channel.

Condition type is a representation in the system of your daily pricing activities. Fixed Amount & Percentage.

This assignment ensures all the sales made through this Sales Organization are accounted for in the assigned Company Code (Company Code is created by FI Consultant).
IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Assignment -> Sales and Distribution -> Assign Sales Organization to Company Code.

Ship*to party.

Sales Organization is an organizational unit responsible for the sale of certain products or services.
IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Sales and Distribution -> Define, copy, delete, check Sales organization.

In Condition Type Details Screen.

Company is created by FI Consultant.
The credit control area is an organizational unit that specifies and checks a credit limit for customers. A credit control area can include one or more company codes. It is not possible to assign a company code to more than one control area. Within a credit control area, the credit limits must be specified in the same currency.
IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Financial Accounting-> Define Credit Control Area.

By creating pricing Reports.

Company is created by FI Consultant.
The company code is an organizational unit used in accounting. It is used to structure the business organization from a financial accounting perspective.
IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition -> Financial Accounting -> Define, copy, delete, check Company Code.

VPRS.

Pricing, Rebate.

Customer, Sales Document Type and Sales Area.

Yes. Field specific.

FI & SD.

Erb— is the sales deduction account key used for rebate processing.

Eru— is the accruals key used in pricing For rebate processing it is used for difference in sales Revenues.

Sales order or delivery.

PGI cancellation— is done before the transportation of goods.

Return order— means it’s already transported reached customer in requested date.

Only sales order.

Incomers or international comm. terms and u find in CMR – Sales area Data – billing Tab.

Yes.

Project preparation ——–>Business blue prints, Realization——–>Support.

Credit check, Tax calculation, and Cost estimate.

Yes,but delivery split will be resulted.

Through availability check and TOR you can close the back Order process.

Normally tickets will come to the helpdesk which were sent By End-users thru client specific internal mail id, then we will take up the tickets ans then access the production Server according to the ticket.

Hardly the team of the SD will be 4 to 5 and entire team of the project will be around 20-24 (all modules like fi/co, SD, mm, pp, hr, QM, pm). If its big project, it will be around 40. Team size means the employees who you are working on sap r/3 implementation.

For the project completion it will take around 8-10 months to get into golive. After that, post implementation for 3 months. After that supporting it depends as project time line for every company is different.

A third generation set of highly integrated software modules that performs common business function based on multinational leading practice. Takes care of any enterprise In R/3 system all the three servers like presentation; application server and database server are located at different system.

Business Work Flow: Tool for automatic control and execution of cross-application processes. This involves coordinating the persons involved, the work steps required, and the data, which needs to be processed (business objects). The main advantage is reduction in throughput times and the costs involved in managing business processes. Transparency and quality are enhanced by its use.

Internal & External.

International Demonstration and Education System. A sample application provided for faster learning and implementation.

Yes.

There are number of technical reasons numbers of companies are planning to implement SAP. It’s highly configurable, highly secure data handling, min data redundancy, max data consistency; you can capitalize on economics of sales like purchasing, tight integration-cross function.

Number assignment, Screen Layout.

SAP is the name of the company founded in 1972 under the German name (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is the leading ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software package.

SAP, BAAN, JD Edwards, Oracle Financials, Siebel, PeopleSoft. Among all the ERP’s most of the companies implemented or trying to implement SAP because of number of advantages aver other ERP packages.

Account Group, Transactions.

Certainly. You can run BW without R/3 implementation. You can use pre-defined business content in BW using your non-SAP data. Here you simply need to map the transfer structures associated with BW data sources (Info Cubes, ODS tables) to the inbound data files or use 3rd part tool to connect your flat files and other data sources and load data in BW. Several third party ETL products such as Acta, Informatics, Data Stage and others will have been certified to load data in BW.

Text, Partner, Pricing, Taxes, Output, Delivery.

State how you are looking for a new challenge, more responsibility, experience and a change of environment.

The sequential file is called datasets. They are used for file handling in SAP.

SAP R/3 Source Systems, SAP BW, Flat Files and External Systems.

Relevance for delivery, Availability check, Transfer of Requirements, Goods Movement, Purchasing and Incompletion log.

we can sepcify the dates but with respect to avilability,check and schdule line combination.

Sales document type + Higher level Item category + Item category group + Item Usage.

Item category + MRP type.

Yes.

Sales Document Type, Item Category, Schedule Line Category, Partner Functions, Sales Activities.

Item category group is define the features of item and it represent the’s the function and it how will work in sales process.

Use this vk11 transaction code.

Chart of a/c group, customer a/c group, material a/c group, sales org., and a/c keys.

1. Define the transportation connection points
2. Define the modes of transport and shipping type

Customer Master.

Condition index means keep the all condition records what Ever you maintained for particular condition type. If you want process this you should be active index in Condition type.

By using ASAP Methodology we can implement according to There requirement.

Yes. Print out, Mail, EDI, Fax.

Finished goods.

That is used to move your non-cross client customizations.

Customer is regarded as sold to party when he is acting as Person who is buying goods, products can be shipped, he is Billed, and he is Paying for the invoices generated. You can clarify your doubt while creating a Sold to party, Ship to party, Payer, by using respective account groups,
Ex :Payer will not be having a Shipping Tab in Sales area Data.

Item category group— is used for SD to configure the item Category and how this item behaves in sales order.
General Item category group— determines the category of the Item like, trading goods, service goods, finished goods Etc…

When we use rebate.

Yes u have to go to the MM02 & there go to sales Org 1 tab .Page there u maintain cross distribution chain after that This material is block for sales. If block a material for Plant then u should maintain in MM02 basic data 1 Cross Distribution plant & also if u block a material for Procurement then u should maintain in cross distribution Purchasing data.

Update group check the how many orders are open &order Reference, how many orders are open in delivery and delivery Reference, how many orders are open in billing.

The Change Request is that request when you do some thing New in customizing or configuration in the system.

Example: When ever working with pricing condition record, the Current Support project has only 3 Key combinations, but user Wants to have one more key combination or need to change the Combination means, it is consider as a change request.

ITEM:-In this the system shows all the details of the Item, like material, pricing, or it may be free good, ship-to- Party, batch, etc.

SCHEDULE LINE:-It is about delivery date and delivery Quantity.

None.

How can you go for billing? System will block at order level Or delivery level only.