SAP PP Interview Questions

 1. Explain what is SAP PP?

Answer: SAP PP process is related to production planning of a company and it encompasses all activities like MRP (Material Requirement Planning), BOM (Bills Of Material), Routing, Capacity planning, etc. but mainly it contains two segments know more at SAP PP online training

Material Planning: Material requirements planning, long term planning,
Execution Planning: Creation of production order, workflow, conformations, technical completion, and good movement.

2. Mention what is the production process in SAP?
Answer: There are three types of the production process in SAP

• Discrete Manufacturing
• Repetitive Manufacturing
• Production- Process Industries

3. List out the activities carried out in Production Planning?
Answer:
Activities involved in Production Planning includes

• Processing material master
• Creation of Bill of Material
• Displaying work center and routing
• Maintaining a planning calendar
• Maintaining production lot
• Maintaining quota file
• Defining the range of coverage profile and profile for safety time
  Defining MRP views

4. Can anybody explain to me why the work scheduling view is required for semi-finished and finished products?
Answer: We need to maintain working scheduling view in order to make that finished or semi-finished goods available for
production as we assign production scheduler and production scheduler profile in this view, if not maintained
conversion of planned order to production will not be possible.

5. What is MRP List and what is the use of it?
Answer: Definition of the MRP List
The system creates MRP lists during the planning run according to how you set the creation indicator. These lists contain the planning result for the material. The MRP list always displays the stock/requirements situation at the time of the last planning run and it also provides a work basis for the MRP controller. Changes that are made after the planning date are not taken into consideration, so the list is static. MRP lists are stored in the system until they are either deleted manually or replaced by new lists from a subsequent planning run. know more at SAP PP training

6. What is the use of Stock Requirement List?
Answer: In the stock/requirements list, the most up-to-date stock and requirements situation is displayed. The main difference between the MRP list and the stock/requirements list is that each time the stock/requirements list is called up, the system selects the various MRP elements and displays the most up-to-date situation. You thus always see the current availability situation of the material in the stock/requirements list. Changes that are made after the planning date are displayed directly, so the list is therefore dynamic. Stock/requirements lists are not saved in a fixed state in the system, but are subject to change and only exist in the working memory. (e learning portal)
Comparison
The screen layout of both lists is basically the same. The system automatically runs the rescheduling check directly when both lists are created and puts forward rescheduling proposals. The number of exception messages displayed in each list is roughly the same. The only difference lies in the fact that, due to the nature of the list, no exception messages can occur for newly planned MRP elements in the stock/requirements list. Directly after the planning run, both lists contain the same information. As soon as a change relevant to MRP is made, the system updates the information in the stock/requirements list. As stock/requirements lists are subject to change, they cannot be set with a processing indicator.

7. Suppose the client wants me the vacancy to be displayed on a website as well as ESS. How should I do it?
Answer: Employee Self-Service enables employees to create, display, and change their own HR-related data in the Enterprise Portal generally related to. Benefits and Payments, Working Time, Career and Job, Employee Search, Personal Data, Travel Management, Corporate Information and Life and Work Events. So the kind of data the employees can edit, change or delete depending upon the authorizations the employees (users and roles) have. The authorization to have access to the vacancies by employees is given, generally, the vacancies will be displayed for all the employees i.e all the employees will have authorizations. know more at SAP PP online course

8. What is the internal recruitment?
Answer: Internal recruitment is the search for internal applicants. when you integrate with personal development, you can use profile match up which help to search for resources internally.

9. What is Purpose of Schedule Margin Key?
Answer: In this step, you specify the floats for determining the basic dates of the planned orders. The floats are allocated to the material via the release period key in the material master record.

10. What is the opening period?
Answer:
Opening period: The opening period represents the number of workdays that are subtracted from the order start date in order to determine the order creation date. This time is used by the MRP controller as a float for converting planned orders into purchase requisitions or into production orders.

11. What is the planning time fence?
Answer:
1. The planning time fence specifies a period within which no automatic changes are to be made to the master plan.
2. The planning time fence is maintained in workdays.

12. What are all the settings done for configuring the integration of PP with FICO?
Answer:
1. Do availability check. You will get missing parts list. Procure those missing parts. Then confirm the production order. One more thing you can do, change customize setting so that user cannot release if parts are missing during order release.
2. Standard cost is the cost which is fixed for a period, variable cost is varying with a period. As for example the cost of semi-finished, finished materials are fixed & the cost of raw materials are varied.
3. You will find in master data tab page of production header data overview, CO02 – Read PP Master Data. Also from the Functions menu, you will get Read PP Master Data. This means that you want the system to re-update the production order with the latest BOM structure.
4. Assigning of Cost center to work center. Assigning Activity type to work center, Standard Cost estimate, Costing Run, Order settlement, Product costing.

13. What is the Planning Horizon?
Answer: In this step, you define the planning horizon. This planning horizon specifies the period for the “Net change planning in the planning horizon”.
In this kind of net change planning, only those materials that have undergone a change that is relevant to MRP within the planning horizon are included in the planning run. Such materials receive a net change planning indicator in the planning file. You make this specification for a plant. You can define an alternative planning horizon for MRP groups. know more at SAP PP online training in hyderabad

14. We get an error message “Control parameters for scheduling not defined” while creating test production Orders. Why?
Answer: Before you attempt creating Production orders, configure your
Order types- Transaction Code OPHJ
Order type Dependent parameters – Transaction Code OPL8
Backorder Scheduling – Transaction Code OMIH
Scheduling Levels – Transaction Code OMIF

15. What is LSMW?
Answer: The LSM Workbench is an SAP System tool that supports you when copying data from non-SAP systems.

16. What do we do in the Realization Phase?
Answer: Provide ARICEF, Configuration Documents, integration test, BPP, UAT, Unit Test and implements some SAP notes.

17. In LSMW which is the most important step?
Answer:

• Maintain Object Attributes
• Maintain Source Structures
• Maintain Source Fields
• Maintain Structure Relations
• Maintain Field Mapping and Conversion Rules
• Maintain Fixed Values, Translations, User-Defined Routines.

18. How to insert an inspection checkpoint at the end of an operation?
Answer: If the in-process sample is to be defined, assign inspection type 03 in the Material Master. Then create MICs and assign them in the Routings. The system automatically generates the Inspection Lots

19. Can we use the same routine for materials undergoing the same process/operations? Can we avoid separate routing for each and every material produced?
Answer: Presume that there are 50 products and the fabrication shop uses a set of 10 machines. If all these products use the same settings of the machines, Reference Operation Sets (task list type S) can be set up for common processes that use the same work centers. However costing, scheduling and capacity will be affected if each product has different setup time and Reference Operation sets can not be used.

A routing for each material number ( type N or R) has to be set up and within that routing, the Reference Operation Set can be used. However, you can try utilizing the KMAT material and product variants invariant configuration to avoid separate routing for each material. know more at SAP PP training course

You may create a routing group. Go into routing creation and enter the plant and the group name. If you want you may name the group, else name is assigned by internal counter). Create the routing with the work centers, operation times, etc. Go to the “Header overview” screen and click on the “Mat Alloc” screen. Fill in the blanks with all the material masters that use this routing.

20. What is the use of MRP PP evaluations?
Answer: This role contains a function for evaluating the MRP result. This function can be used to find information about the availability of material and to identify any material shortage situation. know more at sap pp online training from India