47.Question: Explain STO Inter process?
Answer: Inter STO is like transfer of goods between two plants with different
company codes and at this time billing will happen and accounting documents
gets posted.
Here the material should be maintained in both
the plants with sales view and it will be worked by MM and SD consultant.
Backend settings:
we need to maintain the customer code for the
receiving plants and sales organization with receiving plants.
Maintain delivery type and checking rule-
delivery type is NLCC
Now maintain document type with supplying plant
and receiving plant.
After all these settings, shipping tab will
popup and SD team will do OBD and wrt that PGI will be done and billing, lastly
MIGO will be done for the PO.
48.Question: Explain Invoice, credit memo and subsequent
adjustment.
Answer: Invoice: Invoice is a document where we will
take reference for payment of goods that we received, and it contains the
information of goods we are paying and tax with planned and unplanned delivery
costs.
Planned costs: if the costs mentioned in
invoice as well PO, then the costs are called as planned costs.
Unplanned costs: if the costs we are paying at
invoice time and not mentioned in PO or GR, then those costs are maintained in
MIRO as unplanned costs and paid to vendor.
Credit Memo: if any case the goods are failed
in quality in quality testing then we use to return the goods with another PO
and create MIGO and credit note wrt return PO to collect costs from vendor.
Subsequent adjustment: we have
Subsequent debit
Subsequent credit
Subsequent debit: if we are paying to vendor
with extra invoice then we will use subsequent debit for the payment, suppose
vendor forgets to collect the taxes for the previous PO, then vendor will send
extra invoices for the purpose of subsequent debit.
Subsequent credit: if we already paid to vendor
for the invoice and we see as per the contract we paid extra then we will be
asking a subsequent credit.
49.Question: Explain Asset procurement?
Answer: Asset procurement is an MM-FI-PP
Integration
As a MM consultant our part in Asset procurement
is less and FI team use to generate the asset number and provide to PP team for
the PR purpose and MM team use to create PO and MIGO.
50.Question: MRP with examples?
Answer: MRP provides their types of stocks planning
by system automatically.
1.Safety stock
2.Planned independent stock
3.Forecast based planning
51.Can we block a material master view?
Yes, we have customized blocking codes and for
everything as per views and we can create in Logistics general-material
master-material status
Project related Questions:
2. ASAP Methodology:
Asap methodology its an accelerated SAP
methodology where we use to follow while implementation of project for the
smooth functionality of project and time saving.
Its an SDLC method where we need to follow the
process while we are implementing new SAP project.
We have 5 phases.
1. Project preparation
2. Business blueprint
3. Realization
4. Final preparation
5. Preproduction / Go live support
1. Project preparation: As an associate
consultant I didn’t involved in the project preparation, where only project
manager and my manager were involved and discussed about their module requirements
and mainly server’s requirement and clients in servers and how many interfaces
required estimation
2. Business Blueprint: In this phase I
have involved where not as a lead but as an associate I involved in
understanding their current process in few concepts like purchase requisition
and order, PIR, SL, Quota and old process of creation of contracts.
I have created the AS-IS document for above concepts and for major
concepts AS-IS was created by senior consultants.
We also mapped to To-be process for all the concepts in word document,
along with this integration requirements study and necessary plan for
integration as per there requirements and if any requirements were not able
achieve in SAP then we will mention in GAP analysis and works with technical
consultant for the enhancement.
We will take sign from the client that AS-IS and TO-BE will be agreed to
configuration.
3. Realization: in this phase we will
do all configurations that we defined in the business blueprint.
Material types/Field selection/Vendor account groups/Partner functions/purchase
order document types with field selection/release procedure groups with
classification
Inventory- STO related things, account determination/required valuation
classes/new material stasis/IDOC’s, All integrations
All TR’s will be generated for the configurations and tested in
unit/Integration testing.
UAT documents from super users
4. Final preparation: in this phase all
TR’s will be moved from quality client to production client and all number
ranges and release strategy/LSMW/Mass maintenance/Posting periods
We will call all this as cut over activities
All material and vendor master data
UAT documents from end-users and training on the project.
5. Golive/Support: we should support in
terms on training and minor errors.
3.Question:
LSMW/BDC/BAPI explanation?
Answer: LSMW: it’s a legacy system
migration tool, where we use to migrate the data from legacy system to new SAP
system and basically when there is an no customized fields in the data and no
large data then we will go with LSMW process.
BDC-batch
data communication- we will use BDC when there are customized fields are there
in data upload and very large data then we will use BDC.
BAPI-Business
application programming interface- when we have any open PR’s, PO’s and GR’s
then we will use BAPI with help of developer.
Where in
BDC and BAPI, we will prepare excel sheet with data and given to ABAP’er with
all the explanation and they will be adding code and given back to us and we
will perform the uploading.
6.Question:
What are RICEFW with examples?
Answer: Reports, Interfaces, Conversions,
Enhancements, Forms, Workflows.
Reports: As we are working in purchasing
and inventory, reports plays a major role
We have
·
Standard
reports
·
Custom
reports
Every filed
we are entering in SAP will be stored in tables and can be pulled in reports
and few of the reports we cannot achieve because SAP has not provided the
tables for all merge type.
So, we have
custom reports, which are developed by ABAP, where we need to provide the
requirements like filed names of all requirements
Example
for standard report:
If we
require any PO or PR reports for analysis purpose.
Example
for Custom report:
If we
require mode of transport in PO, then there are no standard reports to achieve
at that time we created our custom reports with all the required fields.
In the PR
item level, if we want requester field and release data of PR then also, we
don’t have standard report it should be achieved by custom report.
Interfaces:
Interface
will be data that can be shared with other system to SAP with the help of EDI.
Normally we
can see in OCR, output condition once we send the PO through EDI the data
transfer takes place through EDI and receiver system will have sales order
automatically.
CMT-
Contract request, where stakeholders use to create CMT request and as per the
EDI it will flow respective user inbox with the help of workflow.
Approved
vendor form- here we have custom T-code, in which vendor approval form will be
prepared as per the data receive from QA team in plant- CG54
Conversions:
Here while
we are using other tool and moved to SAP then data needs to be converted to
respective format needs to be uploaded in SAP.
For that we
need to use LSMW or BDC or BAPI
Uploading
material master, I used LSMW and regarding scaling prices we requested buyer to
process manually.
Enhancements:
If we want
to do our own functionality within SAP, then we will do enhancement or if
modifications for the existing functionality then also we do enhancement.
It will be
done by SAP ABAPer and we need to support in functionality.
They may
use BDC or BADI process.
For RFQ-
While comparing we require lead time and price from for comparison.
Forms:
Forms are
nothing but printouts where we have standard forms like PO print out like this,
we have our own form for COA, where they use to update in their system and in
this system COA will be printed with required fields.
ABAPer will
prepare this and we need to mention the layout of fields name and table name.
Workflow:
We already
know for release procedure we have workflow and to develop this workflow we
need to work with ABAPer and tell what data needs to be
4.Challenging
tickets for L1/L2/L3/L4?
We will
receive tickets related to Master data updating/Changes/Configuration
errors/New requirement/Enhancement/Modification/testing
L4- When business changes the process/Procedure and set of teams is working
on those requests like it may take 30-45 days’ time for configuration and
testing.
Example: New screen like we have new
modifications for the existing process, where we need to perform like FRICEW.
Example
2: We worked on
contract pricing in which we have taken the requirements of fields that’s
impacting when they do normally for price change and worked on all aspects and
developed pricing T-code and upload method for bulk price load.
L3-When we require any configuration changes to the SAP, after analyzing
the requirement we will change the ticket level to L3. Time for this will be
15-20 days.
Example 1: we developed few forms for our
client requirements, where it’s called COA for every vendor QA team will update
the COA in the production system and through IDOC it will be placed in respective
form in customized T-code. Based on the COA the buyers use to create Contracts
and every they need few changes in forms like- QA team wants new fields in
form.
At this time,
we will work with power users and takes the fields requirements exactly and works
with ABAP’er to get that field placed in forms.
Example
2: For RFQ, we have
only price comparison which we will receive from vendor and, but we need to
comparison of lead time also to be shown in RFQ documents.
We can
achieve by enhancement to the normal screen.
Example
3: For plant they
want source list to make mandatory for purchasing purpose, then we need to make
configuration settings to make source list mandatory for purchasing.
L2-Normal tickets where resolution with MM or SD, where data needs to be
updated or corrected by other teams. Time for the resolution is 18 hours
Example
1: Not able to
perform MIGO for subcontracting cycle- where they use to procure the material
from subcontracting vendor only.
These cases
we cannot perform the goods receipt and we need to do goods receipt for child
material that procuring and after for parent material.
Example
2: Customer code
and sales organization issues in subcontracting cycle, where we need to check
entire configuration for subcontracting.
L1-Normal basic queries but should be resolved within 10 hours and actioned
within 3 hours.
Example:1
Pricing condition
record not pulling in PO, even though they maintained all conditions.
While
updating the vendor master, MDM team will forget to update the schema group in
new vendor.
Example
2: MMPV Errors for
Company codes, where we will do as month end activity. Because for few company
codes it may miss updating closing period.
Example
3: When we have
subcontracting cycle, all the postings has been completed and its under
consumption and user raised a request after 1 month that still stocks showing
in vendor consignment as they already done with MIGO.
To bring
back the under consumption we need to perform 542 MB1B movement and it will not
take automatically.
Example 4:
User wants to
upload the prices in PO, but the format of system is in, and he wants it in.,
so every system we have SU3 settings to change
Example
5: Currency rate
and currency exchange will be raised to MM people, and we will assign to FI
team, they will assign to MM department because PO and master data are related
to MM.
Example
6: When they want
price needs to be changed automatically as per the quantity in MIRO, then we
can achieve by SU3.
5.Question:
Use of BADI and User Exits
Answer: BADI and User Exits are used for
the company related enhancements for the standard SAP screen.
For the
standard SAP screen if we require any modifications with custom developments
then we will use BAdi and user exit
7.Ticketing
tool- Service now previously
and now Manage Engine now.
8.Present
project and responsibility:
Currently
I’m working for project Consilio and I use to handle daily queries received
from focal points and I use to analyze the query by interacting with team and
resolving the issues.
Reviewing
the configurations done PR’s and sending confirmations and maintain SLA by follow-ups
with buyers and stakeholders regarding queries they raised.
Taking UAT
documents from superusers which I did configured and maintain the Solman process
and updating the status in ServiceNow.
