SAP PP Interview Questions - TutorialsPoint
SAP PP Interview Questions - TutorialsPoint
Dear readers, these SAP PP Interview Questions have been designed specially to get
you acquainted with the nature of questions you may encounter during your interview
for the subject of SAP PP. As per my experience good interviewers hardly plan to ask
any particular question during your interview, normally questions start with some basic
concept of the subject and later they continue based on further discussion and what you
answer −
SAP Production Planning is one of key module in ERP and deals with planning processes
like capacity planning and material planning and execution of production order, bill of
material and goods movement. SAP PP module handles master data that is required for
BOMs activity, work center and routing and keep it in a separate component.
Discrete production is known as industry where produce materials changed with each
lot and costs are calculated as per orders and lots.
In Repetitive production, product is not changed for longer time period and production
is done as total quantity and not in the form of individual lots.
First step is to convert a planned order to production order. When you create a
Production Order, type is defined in SAP PP system.
Issuing goods is required for providing the goods to execute the Production order. Once
goods are issues, document number can be updated in the system.
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All the sub processes are executed in accordance with required operations to confirm
the production as per Production order.
Once production order execution is completed, goods produced w.r.t Production Order
are received and placed in storage area.
What are the different elements in Org structure under SAP Production Planning?
Which all modules SAP PP is integrated with? Explain the integrated activities
that are performed with each module under PP?
To perform Production Planning and Control activities, SAP PP is closely integrated with
other SAP ERP modules: SAP Sales and Distribution SD, SAP Material Management MM,
Quality Management, Finance Accounting and Project System.
You can find list of below activities from Production Planning that are related to other
SAP modules and integration with other modules.
Cost Estimation
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The component attached to network are planned at plant level and are reserved
as plant stock.
What are the different master data exists under Production Planning?
Material Master
Work Center
Routing
What is BOM?
Bill of material master data is related to material requirement planning and provides the
list of components to produce the product.
To produce a product with different variants, you can create super Bills of Material that
has list of components to manufacture different variants of a product and selection of
component depends on details mentioned in planning order.
Material BOM
When a Bill of Material is created for a material is known as a material BOM in the SAP.
Material BOMs are mainly used to represent the structure of products manufactured
within your company.
Sales Order BOM is used when you specially tailor the make-to-order production of
products as per requirements of the customers. To meet the customer requirements,
you make sales order specific modifications to various assemblies.
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BOM type depends on the size, validity dates and production method.
You can use material Bill of material for the material available in PP module and
equipment Bill of Material are used in Plant Maintenance module.
As mentioned you can create super BOM for different variants of a product.
What is Work Center under Production Planning? Why do we use Work Center?
Work center consists of master data related routing of products. It contains data related
to scheduling, capacity planning and production costing.
All the manufacturing activities are performed in Work Center. Work center can be used
to monitor these activities −
Scheduling
You can schedule the operations in Production order as per operating times in Routing
and formulas mentioned in work center.
Production Costing
You can also check production costing as per formulas mentioned in work center. A
Work center is also linked to cost center and it defines the cost of operation in
Production Order.
Capacity Planning
You can find current capacity and future capacity requirements stored in work center.
Routine defines the list of activities to be performed for production process. Routing
defines sequence of activities performed at work center. Routing plays in important role
in calculating production cost, machine time and labor time.
Routing is used for scheduling and costing of operation for raw and finished products.
This is planning strategy where stock is produced without sales order. It is used to meet
customer demands in future.
When you use Planning strategy 10, only PIR quantity is considered for MRP run and
sales order are completely ignored. In this PIR requirement type LSF and is reduced
when you deliver stock to customer.
When you use Planning strategy 40, for MRP run maximum of 2 PIR and Sales order can
be considered and PIR is reduced when enter the Sales order. PIR requirement type is
VSF in this case.
In this planning strategy, finish products are not produced until you receive sales order
from a customer. For MRP run, you only consider Sales order.
In MTO strategy, you only produce sales order stock and products are delivered as per
sales orders from specific customer.
You use Planning strategy 20 for make to order MTO process and planning strategy 25
is used to produce product variants when there is request for variant products from
customer.
MRP run or planning run is an engine which is used to fill demand and supply gap.
Issues & Receipts are called MRP Elements. Issues include PIRs, Dependent
Requirements, Order Reservations, Sales Orders, Issuing Stock Transfer Orders, etc.
and receipts include Production Orders, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Open
Production Orders, Receiving Stock Transfer Order, Schedule lines, etc.
What are the different parameters that are required to run MRP?
MRP parameters are required to run material requirement planning to meet Planned
Independent Requirement PIR and to use Routing information. Different MRP
parameters can be used −
Processing Key
NetChange −
In this run system consider those material which has undergone some changes from
the previous MRP run.
This run considers the requirement in predefined planning horizon and not like net
change which check the future requirements.
In this run, system consider only those material which has undergone some changes
from their last MRP run.
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Regenerative Planning −
In this run, system consider all the material irrespective of changes and it is time
consuming and not common in Production planning.
Scheduling
Basic Scheduling −
It only calculates basic dates for orders in MRP run and in house production time for
material master in use.
In this MRP, production dates are defined by lead time scheduling for planned orders.
Is it possible to create Production order without Routing and Work center? How?
What do you understand by Long term Planning? Can we perform Long term
planning for shorter time period?
Long term planning in SAP PP is used to check future demands at all Bill of Material
level. You can check the current capacity and vendor ability to provide the material in
required time period.
This is not actual run but is used to see if all capacity requirement can be fulfilled and
you can also transfer simulative area to operative area if requirements are fulfilled.
Also note that it is not necessary that you perform simulative planning in long duration,
it can be for short term and there is no time restriction.
What is Production Order? How do you determine the list of components and
operational data in the order?
A Production order is used to define the material to be produced, plant location where
production has to be done, date and time of production, quantity of goods required. A
Production Order also defines which components and sequence of operations are to be
used and how the order costs are to be settled.
BOM and routing data of the materials are copied into the production order which
determines the list of components and operational data in the order.
First step is to convert a planned order to production order. When you create a
Production Order, type is defined in SAP PP system.
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Issuing goods is required for providing the goods to execute the Production
order. Once goods are issues, document number can be updated in the system.
All the sub processes are executed in accordance with required operations to
confirm the production as per Production order.
Capacity Planning is done to balance the load at work center and you can calculate
production capacity based on requirement of product as per available capacity.
You can perform Capacity Leveling using Planning table and orders are processed as
define in work center to meet the Production process.
When do you perform Goods Receipt under PP? What is the movement type?
Good receipt is performed when material is produced as per Production order and goods
is placed at storage location. The stock quantity is increased and movement type 101 is
entered.
Planned order are offset by production order and you can see the planned order details
in the Production order.
When do you perform a Goods issue under PP? What is the movement type?
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In SAP PP, goods issue is done when raw material is consumed to produce material as
per Production order. When goods are issued, system decreases the inventory of
components at the storage location in Production Planning system.
Can you reverse Goods issue? What is the movement type for Goods issue
reversal?
Goods issue reversal is used when you cancel the goods issue for an order. Goods issue
can be cancelled till order status is confirmed CNF in system.
You can use Stock overview to check the available stock at any point of time. Stock
overview can be checked using T-Code: MMBE
Planning horizon is used to define the period for the Net change planning in the
planning horizon.
When you create a test Production order, you get an error message- Control
parameters for scheduling not defined, what could be the reason?
Before Production Order creation, you have to define Order Types, dependent
parameters, backorder scheduling, and level.
MD04
This is used for Stock / Requirement list this is dynamic list which reflects even any
small change is made in Master Data, Planned Order & Production order etc. for
respective material for which you have executed stock / requirement list.
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MD05 is used to view MRP list which displays results of last MRP run for the material for
which you have executed MRP list.
You can check this in CO02 select Cost → Analysis and you can check the cost of
Production Order.
SOP is forecasting tool that allows you to set the sales, production, and other supply
chain targets based on existing, future, or historical data. SOP is most commonly used
for finished goods.
Enter order number and click on tick mark at the top. You will be prompted to confirm
the action.
Capacity Planning is done to balance the load at work center and you can calculate
production capacity based on requirement of product as per available capacity.
You need to check capacity load on work center and if any work center is overloaded,
we need to move orders to different work centers.
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Name few of the tables under Production Planning that contains detail about
BOM?
SAP Quality Management is part of SAP R/3 system and is integrated with other SAP
modules like SAP Material Management MM, Production Planning PP and Plant
Maintenance. QM is integral part of logistic management and is used to perform quality
functions at incoming material, in process manufacturing process and raw material as
well in the facility.
Material staging is called when you transfer the material from your main store to
production location.
This is used to record work process in the system and to get the requirements of
repetitive, mass or flow manufacturing.
Stock transfer This is known as the transfer of stock for the usage in the same
company.
Stock transport This is known as change of title of stock in the name of the buyer.
Work Center
Routing
What is the Transaction code for changing and displaying Production Order?
You want to change the details in Production Order, you can do this by using below
code.
What are the common tables under Production Planning for MRP and REM?
Table Description
Table Description
What is Next?
Further you can go through your past assignments you have done with the subject and
make sure you are able to speak confidently on them. If you are fresher then
interviewer does not expect you will answer very complex questions, rather you have to
make your basics concepts very strong.
Second it really doesn't matter much if you could not answer few questions but it
matters that whatever you answered, you must have answered with confidence. So just
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feel confident during your interview. We at tutorialspoint wish you best luck to have a
good interviewer and all the very best for your future endeavor. Cheers :-)
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