SAP SD INTERVIEW QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS-III

What is pricing procedure?
A pricing procedure is a procedure by where in which you control the execution of condition types in a sequence you would like . It not only executes the condition types but als0 controls the execution of condition type by the use of requirements , altcv. altcbv, account key.
Pricing procedure is a systematic and sequential use of condition types to arrive at a right value of the product.To determine the pricing procedure

SALES AREA (Sales Organization + Distribution Channel +Division) + CUSTOMER PRICING PROCEDURE + DOCUMENT PRICING PROCEDURE

What is condition exclusion?
If we set an exclusion indicator in the definition of condition type during sales document processing the system ignores the other condition type which exits below that in
the pricing procedure and which have same requirement.

Which delivery document type for STO process?
For intracompany STO the delivery doc type is NL(i.e. within the one company code)& for intercompany STO the delivery type is NLCC.

What is difference between the header level condition and item level condition?
Header level conditions are for the whole document, while item level condition is for the particular item only. header conditions do not have access sequences and condition records, too.

What is the link between credit management and subtotals?
see there is the link between credit management and subtotals. The reason why, Business grant credit to the customer. so all the credit amounts of customer must stored in corresponding tables in our sap system. so that In Pricing procedure for the condition type Net value we assign A In the field Subtotal. the table for credits is komp-cmpre

What is Delivery group and what is its purpose?
delivery group is grouping of all sub item to be delivery at one time. mostly used in bill of materials.

What is main purpose of maintaining the master data?
IN SAP we can call these are master data like:
1. Customer master data
2. Material master data
3. Customer material Information record
4. When we are maintaining condition records like pricing
Condition record, rebate condition record.

THE main purpose of maintaining the master data is that when we will create any documents in sales like sales document, the data regarding customer is coming from customer master and the data regarding material is coming from material master, and for example in the sales order the delivery plant is coming from CMIR,OR CUSTOMER MASTER OR,MATERIAL MASTER ,like this...

What is line item?
There are 3 levels in a sales document i.e. header level, item level and schedule line. Line item falls in the Item Level.
1)Line Item relates to material details or the item details such as item number, name of material, quantity etc.
2)The item category of the item which is determined by the system (by combination of Item Category Group from Material Master, Sales Document Type, Usage and higher level item category)is copied at Item Level of the sales documents.
3)Line Item contains the value and quantity also which are not normally found at Header Level.
4)Examples of Line items are : Material, Order Quantity, Material Group, Plant, Shipping Point, Route, Customer Material, Sales Unit, price/discount/tax/freight per unit, etc.
5)Examples of Header data will make Line Item more clear : Sold-to Party, Pricing date, Document currency, Price group, Customer Group, Incoterms, Payment terms, Purchase
Order Number etc.

What is value SAP?
ASAP methodology is a methodology for component-based implementation projects.
Value SAP methodology is a methodology for evaluation, implementation and continuous business improvement.
Solution Manager is a natural extension of Accelerated SAP and Value SAP methodology. SAP SM is mandatory for all Business Suite 2005 and beyond.

What happens when you overrate the customer?
You can opt for any of the following 3 :
1)credit the customer for the amount of short-charged invoice by creating a Credit Memo Request with reference to the previous invoice and create a new sales order with
correct rate
2)you can make a Credit Memo Request for the overcharged amount and make a Credit Note Billing Document to give credit for the difference amount
3)you may make an Invoice Correction Request.

What are the functions performed in a support client? 
the main function is resolving the day to day issues sent by the client. some times enhancements also.And also read the detailed ticket issues

What is the access sequence for header conditions?
for header conditions, no access sequence will be there. the values for header conditions should be entered manually during sales order processing. access sequence is a search strategy which finds the right condition record from the condition table.

What are the highest organizational units in SD, MM, PP and FICO?
SD----sales organization
MM----plant
PP----plant
FICO-----company code

What is the functionality of negative posting in billing document?
Reverse and adjustment postings can also be marked as negative postings. Negative postings are used to reduce the transaction figures in G/L, customer, and vendor accounts. This allows you to give the transaction figures (following the reversal) the status they would have had without posting the reversed document and its reversal document. This type of reversal is called a negative posting.
Its nothing but an adjustment. Lets say you have creates a bill of 10 bucks and latter you realize its not correct and the billing amount should be 8 bucks. To change the billing amount you have to create a negative bill worth -2 bucks. Its a negative bill or in other words its an adjustment of credit type. Similarly debit type adjustments are also there.

What is mean of Rebate processing?
Rebate is nothing but a special discount which is given on to specific customer on certain sales volume with in specific period of time. Rebate may given on a specific customer, if he do the targeted business within the validity periods,
OR
its for specific material and customer, if this customer does the targeted business volume for that particular material within the validity periods.

A rebate is a discount which is granted subsequently to a rebate recipient on the basis of defined sales volume within certain period.
There are three processes on rebate.
1:- Configuring Rebate
2:- Setting of rebate agreements
3:- managing rebate agreement & payments

But before the processing the rebate you need to activate
the following fields
:- in Payer master record
:- Sales organization
:- Billing document type.

You have following rebate agreement types for your customer.
1:- Material rebate
2:- customer rebate
3:- customer Hierarchy rebate
4:- Material group rebate
5:- Independent of sales volume.

How is shipping point determined?
shipping conditions + loading group + Delivery plant = Shipping point

What is difference between transport and task?

What is the client specific data?
Client specific data refer to the data that can be accesses only when we log in to that Client
Client specific data:
a) Business data--Master data of business partners, products, pricing etc
b) Transaction data: Sales orders, delivery, billing documents etc
c) Customization data: All the IMG activities that are saved with Customizing request number form the client specific data

What is ABAP debugging?
Finding the errors in ABAP program and rectifying the error at run time is done using ABAP debugging.
The ABAP debugger is the development workbench tool, which allows you stop a program during its execution when a particular condition is met.

How subtotal in pp is related to credit limit? 
subtotal field(A) in the pp contains the total value and this value is checked with the credit limit of the customer.



What is the difference between discount and rebate?
Rebate: an incentive to be given to a customer. clubbed with qty purchased by a customer within the period specified (say one month)-conditional.
Discount doesn’t depends upon the turnover it is fixed. and can only differ from customer to customer

What will you do in blue print stage?
Business Blue print is a detailed documentation of the requirements gathered from client. it represents the business process requirements of the company. It is an agreed statement of how the company intends to run its business within SAP system.

How will access the data in to production?

What is Group condition?

What is cut over strategy?

Cutover strategy or cutover plan is the activity done in ASAP methodology, while transferring the data from the legacy system to the sap system. At this point of time the billing will be stopped, all the open orders, contracts, pricing data will be transferred as per the cutover plan which is provided by the implementation partner. Whatever you want to do on the system u need to do before or after this activity.

What is the relation between PGI and TOR?
Depending up on TOR PGI takes place let me explain how it takes place when a requirement comes this is been transferred to MRP through TOR. Depending up on the availability of the material transfer of order takes place in which the requirement sits in the storage location from there picking and packing process takes place and finally PGI activity takes place.
In general

IN GENERAL TERMENOLOGY TOR IS THE ACTIVITY WHICH TAKES
PLACE BEFORE CREATING A DELIVERY DOCUMENT AND PGI PROCESS
TAKES PLACE AFTER CREATING A DELIVERY DOCUMENT.

How is route determined?
Determination of the route is dependent on the following factors:
(1)Departure Country and departure zone-it gets determined from shipping point.
(2)Shipping Condition:-it is determined from sales doc. type or from SP (Customer master).
(3)Transportation Group:- it is determined from Material master.
(4) transportation Zone:- ship -to -party.
(5)Receiving country.
(6)Weight group (optional).

SAP SD INTERVIEW QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS-II

What is an integration point between SD AND MM?
Link Between SAP SD, MM & FI
The link between SD and MM :-

1. When you create sales order in SD, all the details of the items are copied from Material master of MM.
2. MRP and availability check related data is also taken from MM although you control this data in SD also.
3. While you create inbound/outbound delivery with reference to a sales order, the shipping point determination takes place with the help of the loading group, plant data, shipping conditions etc. This also refers to Material Master.
4. The material which you are entering in a sales order must be extended to the sales area of your sales order/customer otherwise you cannot transact with this material.

There are many such links between SD and MM.

Now the link between SD and FI :-
1. Whenever you create a delivery with reference to a sales order, goods movement takes place in the background. eg.In case of standard sales order, you create an outbound goods delivery to the customer. Here movement 601 takes place. This movement is configured in MM. Also, this movement hits some G/L account in FI. Every such movement of goods hits some G/L account.
2. The accounts posting in FI is done with reference to the billing documents (invoice, debit note, credit note etc) created in SD. Thus this is a link between SD and FI
3. Tax determination: In case of a tax determination also, there is a direct link between SD and MM .
SD Integration points with other modules SD module is highly integrated with the other modules in

SAP. Sales Order
Integration Points Module
Availability Check - MM
Credit Check - FI
Costing - CO/ MM
Tax Determination - FI
Transfer of Requirements - PP/ MM

Delivery & Goods Issue
Integration Points Module
Availability Check - MM
Credit Check - FI
Reduces stock - MM
Reduces Inventory $ - FI/ CO
Requirement Eliminated - PP/ MM

Billing -
Integration Points Module
Debit A/R - FI/ CO
Credit Revenue - FI/ CO
Updates G/L - FI/ CO
(Tax, discounts, surcharges, etc.)
Milestone Billing - PS

Return Delivery & Credit Memo -
Integration Points Module
Increases Inventory - MM
Updates G/ L - FI
Credit Memo - FI
Adjustment to A/R - FI
Reduces Revenue - FI

What are MRP types?
Material Requirement Planning is concept of planning for the demand, whether we need the material
- to be planned internally
- to be procured externally
- to be planned in external system (ex APO
- No planning
- time based planning

What is use of customer group?
Customer group is used for generating statistics and also used to give group pricing, and discounts etc...

What is the difference between incomplete order and backorder processing?
Incomplete orders are the orders which have not maintained Completely as to full fill the business requirement to place the order ( as defined in incompletion proc by
business).
The backorder is the order in which has not confirmed in Full or not confirmed at a requested delivery date. (Certain delivery date)

What are the Steps for the End-user Training in SAP-SD module?
1.we will decide who are the team members of end users
2. Arrange one common place for training
3.In a day with pre planned material and using development system with some hard copies of various transaction codes which will use by end users will distribute to them and ask them to practice
4.it is generally like a in house training which may remains for 2 day's
5.after the training we will give them hard copies of list of transaction codes with narration which are relevant to their modules like SD related and PM related etc

Why does the customer master have different views?
The main purpose of the customer views is for each dept to determine the roles effectively in customer
GENERAL DATA- deals with all the details regarding the customer
COMPANY CODE DATA- deals with financial aspects.
SALES AREA DATA- deals with sales; billing; shipping details along with the partner determination

What is t-code for listing the blocked documents?
VKM1 is for blocked document, VKM2 Released Doc.

What is batch split?
If a material is managed in batches then you can carry out a batch split for every component. This means that if you Split a batch, you assign more than one batch to one
Component. In this case, each batch is displayed as a Separate component in the component overview.
Batch splits can only be triggered manually in the Production order.

The following requirements must be met for batch splitting:
(1)The material master record of the material must specify That the material is managed in batches.
(2)Batches must exist for the material.

What is Product attributes?

What is difference between SD account key and FI account key?

Account key is created and provided by FI. Account key determines the
G/L account to which the amount is to be posted. SD defines account key
in pricing and FI uses it for posting taxes.
To the maximum both are one and same to find the right G/L account through condition technique .SD Account key will be from Pricing procedure and the FI Account key is from the tax procedure. as far as my knowledge is concerned both the Key purpose is same.
Acct keys are defined in FI only, SD people only use them, say in pricing. But ultimately they r used for posting the amounts to relevant GL accounts only


What is a variant and its use?

How is credit control determined?

Credit control is determined in the combination
COMPANY CODE + CUSTOMER RISK CATEGORY + CREDIT GROUP =
CREDIT CONTROL AREA
One Company code can be assigned too many credit control areas And multiple company codes are not assigned to one credit Control area.

What are the parameters in FD32?
FD32 Maintains credit management records here we can give the amount of the customer WHAT IS HIS credit limit.
U can see address of the customer, Central data, status and payment history of the customer.


What is the difference between routine and requirements?
I know requirement in SD point of view
1. Requirements are used in different area of SD, for example requirement in pricing procedure, it restrict the access of the condition type. for example the rebate condition type bo01 has the requirement 24 it means that this condition type should appear in the billing document. Routine means the program written for the requirement.ie the logic written in the ABAP code.

What is condition supplement and why is it used?
A condition supplement is a group of conditions that should be applied every time a certain condition is found. for Eg: If u define a material price, u will enter condition records for that material and the corresponding price. If u also want to give discount to that material every time the price is determined, u can enter the discount condition type as a condition supplement. So whenever the price is determined for the material, it will automatically includes the discount condition records.

What is the difference between milestone and periodic billing?
Periodic: - full amount in each bill till contract period
Milestone: - partial amount in each bill till full amount is billed.
Milestone billing is a billing plan type where the customer have to pay the amount in parts within the billing date e.g. suppose the bill amount of the customer is 1000 usd, the customer can pay 200usd,300usd as mentioned on the Agreement whereas in periodic plan type the customer have to pay the amount in a regular periodic interval.i.e. The customer have to pay the 1000usd in 1 year then the amount payable by the customer is 1000/12.

What is the landscape?

What is the difference between Static and Dynamic Credit Check?

They both are belong to automatic credit check
The only difference is Dynamic contains a time/horizon/attach period .This time period used by the system where we specify time in months .EX: 2 months .System will use this period to take open orders, open deliveries etc. to get credit exposure .Within this attached time period not after this specified period, u have to do delivery after this horizon period say 3 months latter the delivery date so system will not calculate this date

static check will carry out the open sales orders +open deliveries +open billing + open items,

dynamic check= static check+ time horizon

What are the issues u have faced in integration testing?

GL ACCOUNT CANNOT BE DETERMINED DURING INVOICING MOVEMENT TYPE NOT FOUND DURING DELIVERY STORAGE UNIT NOT FOUND IN THE BIN ERROR DURING TRANSFER ORDER CREATION FOR DELIVERY
ROUTE NOT DETERMINED DURING DELIVERY TOR CANNOT BE DONE DURING DELIVERY ETC...

What is a field catalog?

What is the difference between condition type EK01 and EK02?
Ek01- the result of unit costing can be used as base for price (pr00) determination.
Ek02- the result of unit costing simply taken as a statistical value

What is the Function of item category group?
The item category group determines how a material is processed in the sales order. It defines, for example, that pricing does not take place for a free of charge item, such
as a business gift; or that inventory management is not carried out for a service. When processing sales and distribution documents, the system uses the item category
group to determine the item category. The system determines the item category based on the item category group of the material and the current business transaction, and proposes
it in the respective document.

When creating the material types non-stock material and
services, DIEN is proposed in both cases for the item category group, because the order processing for both material types is identical: for example, pricing is carried out for both, but no availability check.