Question Bank for S

Module SrNo Question Category Level of

Question
Master Data
PP 1 What is Production Planning? Domain Basic

PP 2 Organization structure in SAP PP? Configuration Basic

PP 3 Master Data in SAP PP? Process Basic

PP 4 What Is BOM? Process Basic

PP 5 What is Work center? Process Basic

PP 6 What is Routing? Process Basic

PP 7 What is Production version? Process Basic

PP 8 what are the types of Master Views for Production and Planning? Process Medium

PP 9 Mention what are the keyfields found in MRP View 1? Process Medium
PP 10 Explain MRP Type? Process Medium

PP 11 what is PLANNING TIME FENCE ? Process Basic

PP 12 What is LOT SIZE ? Process Basic

PP 13 Type of Lot size Process Medium

PP 14 What are PROCUREMENT TYPE ? Process Medium

PP 15 What is SPECIAL PROCUREMENT TYPE? Process Medium

PP 16 What Is BACKFLUSH ? Process Medium

PP 17 What is SCHEDULING MARGINKEY? Process Medium

PP 18 What is PLANNING STRATEGY? Process Medium

PP 19 What is AVAILABILITY CHECK? Process Medium

PP 20 What Is use of BOM Explosion/Dependent requirement in MRP4 Process Medium

view?

PP 21 What is PRODUCTION SUPERVIOSOR? Process Basic

PP 22 use of PRODUCTION SCHEDULING PROFILE? Process Basic

PP 23 T-Code for Create, change and Display Bom ? Transaction Basic

PP 24 Role of SAP Bill of Materials (BOM) in SAP PP ? Process Medium

PP 25 Usage of BOM in MRP ? Process Medium

PP 26 Usage of BOM in Costing ? Process Medium

PP 27 Usage of BOM in Production Consumption? Process Medium

PP 28 What are Types of Bill of Material ? Process Medium

PP 29 What is BOM Explosion? Process Expert

PP 30 why the work scheduling view is required for semi-finished and Process Medium
finished products?

PP 31 What is Group BOM? Process Medium

PP 32 What Is Mrp Controller Means? Configuration Medium

PP 33 What Is Mrp Group And What Is The Use Of It? Configuration Medium

PP 34 What is mean by standard value key and activity types? Process Basic

PP 35 What is mean by base Quantity? Process Medium

PP 36 Which BOM item category you have used? Domain Basic

PP 37 What is the difference between BOM group and Group BOM? Process Medium

PP 38 Difference between Routing and Reference operation set Process Basic

PP 39 How can you create production order without routing and BoM? Configuration Medium

PP 40 How many BOM's can be created? Transaction Basic

PP 41 How do you check if any work center is overloaded? Transaction Medium
PP 42 What structure do your BOMs have? How many levels are there? Configuration Basic
How many components are there on each level

PP 43 Can’t one material be assigned to more than one operation in a Configuration Basic
routing?

Production planning
PP 1 Mention what are the production process in SAP? Process Basic

PP 2 What are the steps of Production Execution Process? Process Medium

PP 3 Explain how can you create production order without routing and Process Medium
BOM?
PP 4 Explain what happens to planned after it has been converted into Process Medium
production order?
PP 5 Explain what is PRT (Production Resource Tools) in SAP PP? Process Medium

PP 6 What is the t-code for changing production order and to display Transaction Basic
production order?

PP 7 In SAP-PP what are the costing parameters? Transaction Medium

PP 8 What are the ‘BOM Categories’ Supported by SAP? Process Medium

PP 9 What is known as ‘Demand Management’? Process Medium

PP 10 We need to do GI of components to production order using Back- Configuration Expert

flush. The component stock is managed in Batches. The Batch to
be back-flushed?

PP 11 What are the different costing parameters under Production Transaction Medium
Planning?

PP 12 What do you understand by Material staging? Transaction Medium

PP 13 How do you check if any work center is overloaded? Transaction Medium

PP 14 Types of Work Center Scheduling? Process Medium

PP 15 what are the Approaches to Scheduling? Process Medium

PP 16 What is Make to Order? Process Medium

PP 17 What is Make to stock ? Process Medium

PP 18 What are panning strategies in MTS and expalin ? Process Expert

PP 19 What are panning strategies in MTO and expalin ? Process Expert

PP 20 Planning With Final Assembly? Process Medium

PP 21 Master Production Scheduling (MPS)? Process Medium

PP 22 How planned independent requirements are reduced after they Domain Expert
are produced with planning strategy 10?
PP 23 How planned independent requirements are reduced after they Domain Expert
are produced with planning strategy 11?
PP 24 What you have to maintain in finished product, when you want to Domain Expert
use planning strategy 11?
PP 25 What is the difference between planning strategy 40 - Planning Process Medium
with final assembly & 50 - planning without final assembly?

PP 26 What is the difference between planning strategy 40 - Planning Process Expert

with final assembly & 10 - make to stock?

Material Requirement Planning

PP 1 What is MRP List and what is the use of it? Process Expert
PP 2 What is the use of Stock Requirement List? Process Expert

PP 3 What is the use of MRP PP evaluations? Process Medium

PP 4 What are Steps of MRP RUN ? Process Expert

PP 5 What are the control parameters for MRP RUN? Process Medium
PP 6 Type of Processing Key ? Process Expert

PP 7 What is Planning Process? Process Expert

PP 8 What is Pick list? Process Expert

PP 9 What is Pull list Process Expert

PP 10 What are Prerequisite for Pull list? Process Medium

PP 11 What is scope of planning? Configuration Medium

PP 12 What is the transaction code to run MRP for sales order and for Transaction Basic
WBS?
PP 13 If there are some errors in goods movements, and less stock of Process Medium
material consumed, how can i solve that problem in SAP

PP 14 We have two components ( ‘X’ & ‘Y’ ) in a production order in a Process Medium
process oriented production process. When 50 numbers of
component ‘X’ are issued, we need the system to automatically
issue 100 numbers of component ‘Y’ based on the ratio of 1 to 2.
Where do I specify these ratios?

PP 15 We are trying to create Purchase Requisition from MRP run. We Process Medium
have material, info Record, Source list, Demand in place. MRP is
always creating plan order. Why
PP 16 We want the system to run a single level MRP automatically on Configuration Expert
receipt of sales order. How to configure triggering event based
MRP?
 Production order & excution
PP 1 What are all the settings done for configuring the integration of PP Configuration Expert
with FICO?

PP 2 What is the Planning Horizon? Process Medium

PP 3 We get an error message “Control parameters for scheduling not Transaction Expert
defined” while creating test production Orders. Why?

PP 4 what is the purpose of using Capacity Planning? Process Medium

PP 5 Explain what happens to plan after it has been converted into Process Medium
production order?
PP 6 What is meant by authorization? Process Basic

PP 7 Which Transaction code is used to cancel the Production Order? Transaction Medium

PP 8 What do you understand by Sales and Operational planning? Process Medium

PP 9 What is Plan cost, Actual cost and Target cost? Process Expert

PP 10 How do you check the costing details in Production Order? Process Medium
PP 11 What is the difference between MD4 and MD05? Process Medium

PP 12 What Are Traffic Lights In Mrp? Transaction Medium

PP 13 What Is Costing? How It Is Affected The Pp? Process Expert

PP 14 Can Mrp Be Carried Out For One Particular Level Of A Bom? Process Expert
PP 15 If There Are Some Errors In Goods Movements, And Less Stock Of Transaction Expert
Material Consumed, How Can I Solve That Problem In Sap ?

PP 16 Explain Why There Is Need Of Production Version? Process Medium

PP 17 Explain What Is The Meaning Of Exploding A Bom? Transaction Medium

PP 18 What Are All The Different Manufacturing Scenarios In Pp? Process Medium

PP 19 What is mean by Co Product and By product with example? Domain Medium

PP 20 What are settings, we maintain for Co-Product and By Product in Process Medium
SAP?

PP 21 What is the difference between by-product and co-product and Process Medium
how do you differentiate them in a BOM?

PP 22 Can we have more than 6 standard values in standard value key? Process Medium
PP 23 Name few common tables and their description in PP? Transaction Expert

PP 24 To create order type which basic steps required? Configuration Expert

PP 25 For Batch management which basic configuration steps required in Configuration Expert
SAP PP?

PP 26 We need to do GI of components to production order using Back- Configuration Expert

flush. The component stock is managed in Batches. The Batch to
be back-flushed

PP 27 What are the different ways for Creation/Conversion of planned Transaction Medium
order to production order?

PP 28 What are report available in PP? Transaction Expert

PP 29 what is the option “Documented goods movements” in production Configuration Expert
order?
PP 30 How do you check the costing details in Production Order? Transaction Basic
PP 31 What is the diffrence between TECO & CLSD? Process Medium

PP 32 What is Auto GR? Process Basic

PP 33 Difference between transaction code COOIS & COHV. Transaction Basic

PP 34 Difference between transaction code COFC & COGI. Transaction Medium

PP 35 Once the Production order is created, how to change the BOM and Domain Medium
routing in that order?

PP 36 What is milestone confirmation? Process Medium

PP 37 How can you restrict release of last operation in production order? Domain Medium

PP 38 List out the basic procedure for dispatching operations in capacity Process Medium
leveling?

PP 39 How to create object dependencies in a BOM FOR A Process Medium

CONFIGURABLE MATERIAL?
PP 40 what is the option “Documented goods movements” on Selection Configuration Medium
of Individual Object Lists (transaction code CO28)?
PP 41 Scheduling times can be defined in the material master record by Process Basic

PP 42 What Is Costing? How It Is Affected The Pp? Process Medium

Implemention
PP 1 ASAP –Accelerated SAP? Process Medium

PP 2 What Is Project Preparation Process Medium

PP 3 What is Business Blueprint (As Is Study & To Be Study) Process Medium

PP 4 What is Realization phase? Process Medium

PP 5 What is Final Preparation? Process Medium

PP 6 What is Go-Live & Support? Process Medium

PP 7 What is LSMW? Process Medium

PP 8 What Are Gaps? Some Examples? Process Medium
PP 9 What is SAP Activate Methodology? Process Expert

PP 10 What are Stages in Activate Methodology? Process Expert

PP 11 What is SAP Activate - Discover phase ? Process Expert

PP 12 What is SAP Activate - Prepare Phase ? Process Expert

PP 13 What is SAP Activate - Explore Phase ? Process Expert

PP 14 What is SAP Activate - Realize Phase ? Process Expert

PP 15 What is SAP Activate - Deploy & Run Phase Process Expert

Question Bank for SAP PP Interviews
Expected Answer

1.Production Planning is the process of aligning demand with manufacturing capacity to create production and procurement s
for finished products and component materials.
2.SAP PP is an important module of SAP. It tracks and makes a record of the manufacturing process flows, for example, the pla
and actual costs.
3.Also, goods movements from the conversion of raw material to semi-finished goods.
4.It is fully integrated with the other SAP modules: SD, MM, QM, FICO & PM

In any live Production Planning module, locations of manufacturing plants and storage within the plants, should be available in
system. Importance of Plant and storage locations in Production Planning- All Production master data is created at Plant level
Production Confirmation process and related goods movement occur at plant and storage location level.
Master data is generally static for any company and is very rarely changed depending on the requirement. There are 5 master
be maintained in Production Planning module. 1) Material Master, 2) Bill of Material (BOM), 3) Work Center, 4) Routing, 5)Pro
version
A bill of material is a complete, formally structured list of the components together with the quantity required to produce the
or assembly.
BOM's are used in material requirement planning and product costing. You can also create up to 99 alternative BOMs for a sin
product.
For product having variants, you can create super BOM, which has all possible
types of components used to manufacture different types of variants and appropriate component is selected based on charac
chosen in sales order.
For example, Product Cycle can contain all types of frames (with different colors and sizes) and desired frame is selected in pro
order based on color and size chosen in the sales order.

A work center is a machine or group of machines where production operations are performed. Work center are used in task lis
operation (Routing).
It contains the data for Scheduling , Capacity & costing.
Routing is nothing but a sequence of operation performed at the Work Center. It also specifies the machine time, labor time, e
the execution of operations.
It is also used for scheduling of operations and used in standard cost calculation of the product.
The production version ia s combination of BOM and Routing data for production. It is a linkage between BOM and Routing an
determines the manufacturing process.
There can be multiple production versions as per different manufacturing process to produce the product.
For production and planning types of Master Views are
1) MRP1 View
2) MRP2 View
3) MRP3 View
4) MRP4 View
5) Work Scheduling View

1) General Data
2) MRP Procedure
3) Lot size data
MRP - Planning procedure “MRP” plans the material according to current requirements. The requirements may be a sale orde
production plan or a sales plan.
MPS - Planning procedure “MPS” also plans the material according to current requirements. The requirements may be a sale o
production plan or a sales plan.
The difference between MRP and MPS planning procedure is that MPS material will be only planned in foreground/interactive
Material which are critical or used in bottleneck resources or influence the company inventory cost can be defined as MRP and
separately.
MRP will not plan MPS item as it needs separate attention of the planner.
CBP - Planning Procedure “Consumption based planning” plans the material based on its historical data or past consumption d
A reorder level of the material will be set based on its past consumption history manually or automatically (by forecast)

Planning time fence is period in days where system will disturb the current planning situation or existing planning situation.
Lot size information here will be used at the time of planning to calculate purchase or production quantity. Lot sizing procedur
classified based on the quantity, time & cost
1.Static lot-sizing procedures - The procurement quantity is calculated exclusively by means of the quantity specifications ente
the material master. E.g. a) EX- Lot for Lot size, b) FX - Fixed lot size, c)HB - Replenishment up to maximum stock level
2.Period lot-sizing procedures - The system groups several requirements within a time interval together to form a lot. E.g. a)T
Lot size, b)MB- Monthly lot size
3.Optimum lot-sizing procedures - The costs resulting from stockkeeping, from the setup procedures or from purchasing are not taken
consideration. The aim of optimum lot-sizing procedures, on the other hand, is to group shortages together in such a way that costs are m
These costs include lot size independent costs (setup or order costs) and storage costs. E.g. a) GR - Groff reorder procedure.

During material requirement planning (MRP), once the SAP system calculated procurement (purchase or production) quantity
next. Determine the procurement method based on “Procurement type”. The following Procurement types are available in th
F -External Procurement
E - In-house Production
X - Both Procurement types (External or in-house)
Depending on the procurement type the system will create either a planned order or a Purchase requisition.

Here we can define the procurement type more precisely. For example, in the external procurement the material may be purc
Subcontractor Consignment stock or stock transfer from other plant. Examples of special procurement types:
10 - Consignment
20 - External procurement
30 - Subcontracting
40 - Stock transfer
50 - Phantom assembly

This indicator applicable for BOM components only. This controls the automatic posting of the components. In Production Pla
can enter backflush in 3 different levels: Routing – Component assignment screen, Material master & Work center.
We can still add some floats in addition to the material lead times (In-house, Planned delivery time) using scheduling margin k
value is in work days. The following floats are available in Scheduling Margin Key
Opening Period: days required for planning to start the production after an order is created Float before Production: days betw
scheduled finish date and order finish date
Float after Production days: between order start date and scheduled start date Release period: days between Start date and O
release date.
In planning section of MRP 3 view, we can define which planning strategy is applicable for the material. SAP has provided a wi
of
planning strategies:Make to order, Make to stock &
Assembly to order, etc.

In production planning we can perform availability check at various places:

1. At the time of production order creation.
2. At the time of production order release.
3. We can activate dynamic availability check at the time of goods issue (optional). Availability check is based on the scope o
that we define in customizing of SAP ERP. In the scope of check, we can define which receipts/stocks elements and which issu
elements are considered when we perform availability check. Here are some examples of receipt/stock elements: Purchase
requisition , Purchase order, Planned orders, Production orders. Safety stock & QI Stocks etc.
Here are some example of issue elements:
Reservation,Sales requirements, Dependent requirement, Sales delivery & Shipping notification.

In this section, we can control how BOM and routing will be selected when we create a production order or a planned order o
these
activities in MRP. If more than one BOM, i.e. an alternate BOM is available for a material, we can control its selection:
By its quantity By explosion date
By production version validity.

A person responsible for the production activity and scheduling for this material
We can define which business transactions need to be executed during Production order processing. For example, printing of
floor
paper which contains operation, raw materials required, and user instructions after release of the order.
CS01 - Create bill of material, CS02 – Change bill of material, CS03 – Display bill of material
In SAP PP bill of materials (BOM) is used for the following functions:

1. Material Requirement planning

2. Costing
3. Material Consumption

1) MRP uses BOM to calculate required raw materials or semi-finished goods (SFG) or components quantity for customer dem
finished materials.
2) MRP performs ‘Net Requirement Calculation’ at all the level of BOM by exploding it to determine the shortage quantity.
1) During finished good (FG) product costing, the SAP system performs costing of its component by exploding BOM.
2) Product costing comprises of raw material, activity and overhead costs. Here, raw material price is maintained in a material
and its required quantity for a particular FG is maintained in BOM.
3) During product costing, the SAP system multiplies quantity in BOM with material master price to determine its cost against
particular FG.

1) When production order is created for an assembly or FG, its BOM components are copied to the order.
2) At the time of goods issue against order, the system posts the consumption based on this BOM components in an order.
There are 3 different types of BOM that are used in SAP PP:

1. Simple BOM
2. Multiple or Alternate BOM (technical type ‘M’)
3. Variant BOM (technical type ‘V’)

BOM explosion means break down of an assembly from a higher level to components in lower levels. The SAP system breaks d
assembly by means of its lower level codes. Lower level codes will be assigned by the system automatically when an item is lin
the BOM. When one material is appearing in several assembly BOM at different levels, the system represents the lowest low l
code.
We need to maintain working scheduling view in order to make that finished or semi-finished goods available for production a
assign production scheduler and production scheduler profile in this view, if not maintained conversion of planned order to pr
will not be possible.
An alphanumeric character string used to uniquely identify a BOM.
Use. If you assign a “meaningful” number to a BOM group, this gives you an additional way of accessing the BOM.
The system stores the following under a BOM group:
1. all the alternatives in a multiple BOM
2. all the BOMs entered for a variant BOM

The MRP controller is a person or a group of persons responsible for monitoring material availability. You can use the number
here, for example, to select the planning results per MRP controller.
Every material that is relevant to the planning run must be assigned an MRP controller number in the material master record.
In this step, you can carry out the total maintenance of the MRP groups and you can allocate a material type to an MRP group

The MRP group is an organizational object that can be used to allocate special control parameters for planning to a group of m
You can maintain MRP groups if planning control per plant is not precise enough for your requirements and you want to alloca
certain material groups different control parameters from the plant parameters. For this purpose, MRP groups are defined wit
specific control parameters and are assigned to the material in the material master record (MRP 1 screen).
For example, the following control parameters can be set for the total planning run:
the creation indicator for the plarequisitions, MRP lists, and so on)
the planning horizon
the consumption mode

Activity type is noting but during production we perform operations, So to calculate the operation cost we required activity ty
Machine time, labour time etc and which we clubed togather in Standard value key, We can maintain max 6 Activity types in s
value key.
Base qty is nothing but the minimal qty to produce the any quantity.which we maintain in BOM
Stock Item
Non stock item
Variable-size item
Text item
Document item

Group BOM - A BOM without plant is called Group BOM.

If you create a material BOM without reference to a plant, the BOM is valid throughout your company. To do this, you leave th
field blank. The system checks whether material masters exist. There are no system checks for plant data.

BOM Group - A collection of bills of material that lets you describe a product or a number of similar products.

The following bills of material comprise a BOM group:

All the variants of a variant BOM
All the alternatives of a multiple BOM

Routing defines a list of activities/operations that are required to be performed, in which sequence and machine they have to
performed, and what are activity times required in order to produce an assembly or a semi-finished product.

Reference operation set (ROS) is part of SAP PP master data which contains frequently used operation sequences for assembl
subassemblies. The main function of SAP reference operation set is to avoid the need to enter operations and machine details
time when creating a new assembly.
Without BOM and routing you can create a production order by changing the config in OPL8 ( order type dependent paramete
routing optional.
You can create up to 99 Bills of Material.
Trough transaction code CM01 you can check capcity load on work center.
BOM IS A multilevel,
we can assign bom level by level cs11,
level 1 bom header material assembly levelcontains components which also have bom contains
level 2 bom sub assembly level
last lower level is level 3 components level

One material from a BOM CANNOT be assigned to different Operations. It can be done by defining the material for so many tim
required in the BOM

There are three types of production process in SAP

Discrete Manufacturing
Repetitive Manufacturing
Production- Process Industries

Production Execution steps include

1) Converting planned order to production order

2) Releasing the production order
3) Goods issue for production order
4) Confirmation of production order
5) Goods receipt against production order

Without BOM and routing you can create a production order by changing the config in OPL8 ( order type dependent paramete
routing optional. When we try to create an order using C001 it may ask for a sales order.
When planned order is converted to the production order, the planned order are offset by production order. The planned ord
reference can be seen in the production order.
PRT (Production Resource Tools) are moveable operating objects used to perform repeated activities in plant or production
maintenance, for example, documents such as drawings or programs for which document management functions are used. Va
other PRT components include

1) Engineering drawings
2) Jigs
3) Fixtures
4) Measurement Instruments

T-code to change the production order = C002

T-code to display the production order = C003

In SAP-PP, the costing parameters are as below
1)Work Center: Activity types and the formulas, cost center
2) Routing: The time, activity types
The following are the various Categories of BOM:
1) Equipment BOM
2) Material BOM
3) Sales Order BOM
4) Document Structure
5) Functional Location BOM
6) WBS BOM

In SAP PP, demand management is performed by Planned Independent Requirement (PIR). Planned Independent Requiremen
provides input for production planning. A PIR contains one planned quantity of product and one date for material or a planned
is split over a span of time period. Planning strategies help in deciding the kind of demand program. If production is triggered
orders, then it is known as ‘Make-to order’ production; it is not then it is known as ‘Make-to-Stock’ production.

With the following settings, the batches are selected the moment the production order is released.

1: Set up batch determination the way that the batches in the batch selection are sorted the right way. e.g. sorted by the expi
2: Use automatic batch selection in disp view.
3: Ensure that the components are allowed to be back-flushed (material master/ work center) is selected by FIFO from the issu
storage location.

Work center : Activity types and the formulaes, cost center

Routing : the time ,activity types

In Production order dependent parameters we are defining the Variant, result analysis key, settlement profile In the controllin
26 we will be defining the rates per hour depending on the rates it will reflect the cost calculating from the routing.

Material staging is called when you transfer the material from your main store to production location.
Capacity Planning is done to balance the load at work center and you can calculate production capacity based on requirement
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 wo
centers.
To check Capacity Loads
Use T-Code CM01 or go to Logistics → Production → Capacity Planning → Evaluation → Work Center View → Load.

1) Basic scheduling - Data from the material master is used for scheduling
2) Lead time scheduling - Data from the routing is used for scheduling
3) Finite scheduling - Data from the routing in addition to the existing load (on a day to day basis) on the work center is used fo
scheduling

1) Forward scheduling. - Scheduling type in which the operations an order are scheduled forward starting the planned start da
2) Backward scheduling. - Scheduling type in which the operations of an order are scheduled backward starting from the plann
date.
3) Today scheduling. - “Today” scheduling is forward scheduling starting from the current date.

1) The cycle can not start till we get any sales order.
2) After we get the sales order for the final product dependent requirements are generated through M.R.P.
3) After the production execution the stock produced is for that particular order, it can not be shared by any other order.
1)The cycle starts without any sales order.
2) We get Planned Independent Requirement on the basis of data
3) Dependent requirements are generated for items through M.R.P.
4) After the production execution the stock produced is not for any particular sales order, it is warehouse stock.
Strategy 10,11,40 Etc - Stategy 10 - net requirement planning in which stock and receipts are considerd and PIR will consume a
goods issue from unrestricted stock.
Strategy 11- Gross requirment calculation in which stocks are not consider only receipts are considerd and PIR will consume aft
receipts.
Strategy 40 (Planning with Final assembly) - when there is requiirment on sales order as well as PIR.

Strategy 20 and 50 etc.

Strategy 20 - It is pure make to oder strategy, stock will be reserved for the specific sales order
Strategy 50 (Planning without final assembly) - It is used to reduce the downtime it plans sfg material/assembly part by creatin
and when we get the sales order for the FG material we made last operation and sell it.

1) Planning is done at the finished product level

2) Procurement and production are initiated after the planning stage
3) Sales orders consume planning quantities
4) Planned quantities that are not used increase warehouse stock
5)Additional requirements automatically adjust demand program
6) Availability check is based on available-to-promise (ATP) logic.

Use the independent requirements from Demand Management plan to create the Master Production plan.
Master Production Scheduling (MPS) creates planned order proposals for each master schedule item and generates the depen
requirements for the first-level components in each product’s bill of material.
The master planners review and update the suggested master production schedule before generating a detailed production sc

Planned independent requirements are reduced automatically after delivery is made to the particular sales order

Planned independent requirements are reduced automatically after goods receipt is made to the particular production order

Need to set the Mixed MRP indicator to "2 - gross requirement planning" on the MRP 3 screen

Planning without final assembly(50): As make-to-order production, planning without final assembly (strategy 50) enables you
manufacture products specifically for a customer. However, with this planning strategy, certain assemblies should be produce
procured before the sales order for the finished product is received. The material is produced up to the production level below
assembly. That is, the assemblies and components are stocked in the warehouse until the sales order is received. Final assemb
triggered upon receipt of the sales order.

Planning with final assembly(40): In strategy 40, the main focus is on flexibility in reacting to customers’ demands.
Production, including final assembly, is triggered by the planned independent requirements before the sales order is received.

Make to Stock(10): Sales order can not consume the planned independent requirement(PIR) and after MRP run planned order
create only for the PIR.
Planning with final assembly(40): Sales order immediately consume the PIR and after MRP run planned gets create seperately
& sales order.

The system creates MRP lists during the planning run according to how you set the creation indicator. These lists contain the p
result for the material. The MRP list always displays the stock/requirements situation at the time of the last planning run and i
provides a work basis for the MRP controller. Changes that are made after the planning date are not taken into consideration,
list is static. MRP lists are stored in the system until they are either deleted manually or replaced by new lists from a subseque
planning run.
In the stock/requirements list, the most up-to-date stock and requirements situation is displayed. The main difference betwee
MRP list and the stock/requirements list is that each time the stock/requirements list is called up, the system selects the vario
elements and displays the most up-to-date situation. You thus always see the current availability situation of the material in th
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.The screen layout of both lists is basically the same. The system automatically runs the rescheduling check directly w
lists are created and puts forward rescheduling proposals. The number of exception messages displayed in each list is roughly
same. The only difference lies in the fact that, due to the nature of the list, no exception messages can occur for newly planne
elements in the stock/requirements list. Directly after the planning run, both lists contain the same information. As soon as a c
relevant to MRP is made, the system updates the information in the stock/requirements list. As stock/requirements lists are su
change, they cannot be set with a processing indicator.

his role contains a function for evaluating the MRP result. This function can be used to find information about the availability o
material and to identify any material shortage situation.
1) Net Requirement Calculation.
2) Lot-Size Procedures / Calculation.
3) Procurement Types / Proposal.
4) Scheduling.
5) BOM Explosion.

Processing Key,Create Purchase Requisition,Schedule line, MRP list,Planning Mode Scheduling

1.Planning Run Type - NETCH
In this run, the system considers those materials in the planning run from their last MRP run in the total horizon.
But then it depends if there was any change in Change in stock . Creation of PR’s; PO’s; etc. Any changes pertaining to receipts

2.Planning Run Type - NETPL

In this run, the system considers those materials in the planning run which have undergone any change in the planning horizo
defined.
Here the number of materials to be taken for MRP Run can be restricted by defining the planning horizon.

3.Planning Run Type – NEUPL

It plans all the materials for the MRP Run irrespective of the changes they undergo.
This plan is not so widely used. It takes a long time to obtain the final result.

•The system checks the planning file

•The system calculates the net requirements for every material.
•The system calculates procurement proposals.
•Scheduling happens.
•The system determines the type of procurement proposals.
•During MRP run, the system checks some critical situations which need to be worked manually and hence it creates exceptio
messages.
Materials can be placed in a reservation stock type provided for the production order in exactly the same quantity as the requ
quantity.
These parts are provided for the production order at a physical storage location or dynamic storage location (Production order
stock before it is physically transferred to a new storage location.
CO27 - Pick List is used for Collective Good's Issue for a number production orders in plant or for a specific Order Type.

With this type of material staging ,we create transfer requirements in two ways:
i) Automatically when an operation is released.
ii) Manually.
Examples:-Large ,expensive parts such as shafts, housings.

The Pull list controls the internal material flow of supplies to production (in-house manufacturing).
It is assumed that the components required by production have already been produced in-house or procured externally, and n
simply have to be transferred from their current storage location to the production storage location (Material
staging within the plant).

Pull list takes into account the dependent requirements generated from the planned orders of the parent parts and stocks of t
component is checked at the production storage location.

The pull list is primarily responsible for planning material staging (Checking the stock situation at the production storage loca
calculating missing parts and also initiating replenishment for them) by creating a work list in the form of replenishment eleme

The actual staging is carried out by a warehouse clerk, for example, and is supported by transactions which are carried out
subsequently, based on the replenishment elements via direct stock transfer or using stock transfer reservations.

The issue storage location should come from the master data to the dependent requirement which has come from the planne
Issue storage location needs to be maintained in BOM or Material master.
The T code for Pull list is MF60.
Examples:-material staging based on planning ,direct stock transfer.

Scope of planning configuration is to string together multiple plants or MRP areas for the planning run. This feature can simpl
planning job if all plants or MRP Areas use the exact same settings.
MD50 - Make to order planning multi level
MD51 - Project planning multi level
According to me COGI is basically a SAP standardised system which will tell you that what is the error in some cases it can recti
too.But if the entry is done manually by MIGO you
have to bring back or cancell the movement or move the stock to desired material and then refresh COGI
You can define the ratio in BOM and material may be issued with reference to BOM.

Check the procurement type in MRP view of material master. Check ‘Create Purchase requisition’ indicator while running MRP
want purchase requisitions to be created in the opening period, select the for MRP control parameter ‘create purchase requis
‘1’
This can only be run if the material master has planning strategy 41 (made-to-order) in the MRP2 view. We need to run for oth
types. We have to create a user exit in the sales order processing (VA01) to start MRP based on data from our sales transactio
1. Do availability check. You will get missing parts list. Procure those missing parts. Then confirm the production order. One m
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-fin
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 Func
menu, you will get Read PP Master Data. This means that you want the system to re-update the production order with the late
structure.
4. Assigning of Cost center to work center. Assigning Activity type to work center, Standard Cost estimate, Costing Run, Order
settlement, Product costing.

In this step, you define the planning horizon. This planning horizon specifies the period for the “Net change planning in the pla
horizon”.
In this kind of net change planning, only those materials that have undergone a change that is relevant to MRP within the plan
horizon are included in the planning run. Such materials receive a net change planning indicator in the planning file. You make
specification for a plant. You can define an alternative planning horizon for MRP groups.

Before you attempt creating Production orders, configure your

Order types- Transaction Code OPHJ
Order type Dependent parameters – Transaction Code OPL8
Capacity Planning supports planning in all phases
Long term rough-cut planning
Medium-term planning
Short term planning
It can be integrated with various SAP applications like SAP-SD, PP, PP-SOP, PP-LTP, PP-SFC, etc.

When planned order is converted to the production order, the planned order is offset by production order. The planned order
reference can be seen in the production order.
Authorizations are the transactions given to the end-users or the developers for only some areas to work, info types, transacti
org units, and others depending on the requirement of the client or the developing enterprise. Check this at PFCG code.
Use T-code: CO13
Enter order number and click on tick mark at the top. You will be prompted to confirm the action.
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. SPO consists of following two components −
Standard SPO it is predefined in the system.
Flexible SOP You can configure it in multiple ways.

Plan Cost = Planned Quantity X Planned Price

Actual Cost = Actual Quantity X Actual Price
Target Cost = Actual Quantity X Planned Price
You can check this in CO02 select Cost → Analysis and you can check the cost of Production Order.
MD04 -This is used for Stock / Requirement list this is dynamic list which reflects even any small change is made in Master Dat
Planned Order & Production order etc. for respective material for which you have executed stock / requirement list.

MD05 -is used to view MRP list which displays results of last MRP run for the material for which you have executed MRP list.

Red = the stock is not available

Yellow = the stock is in average level stock
Green = the stock is available
Determining the material costs of a product:
When you calculate production costs using a quantity structure, the system automatically determines the BOM and all the BO
that are relevant to costing, in order to calculate manufacturing costs.
Yes it can be done by running for specific materials (Single Material Single Level).
COGI is basically a SAP standardized system which will tell you that what is the error in some cases it can rectify it too. But if th
done manually by MB1A, MB1B, MB1C and MIGO you have to bring back or cancel the movement or move the stock to desire
material and then refresh COGI.
In production version, we assign the BOM and ROUTING combination. And in case of alternate BOMs , it clears which alternati
has to be selected automatically.
it is the process of multiplying the requirement by the usage quantity and recording the appropriate requirements throughout
product tree.
There are different scenarios in SAP PP module.
1) Make to stock
2) Make to order
3) External processing (Subcontracting)
4) Rework processing
5) Prodcution in another plant

Co-Product is noting but while producing the main product we gets the another product and By Product is noting but we get s
waste material during producitng the main product.
E.g. Cruid Oil - RM, Petrol - Main product, Alongwith Petrol we get Co-Product - Diesel,Kerosin and By-Product - Water.
For Co - Product - In Material master MRP 2 View we click on Co product and maintain the joint production setting also in BOM
component data we click on Co- Product and maintaining the value by -ve sign.
For By Product - We mainting the value in BOM by -Ve sign.
In case, of Co-product costs are settled with an apportionment structure. In case, of By-product the price of this by-product is
to the order or the material stock account of the lead material being manufactured. Co-Product as well as by-product are defi
BOM Components/Items. Both of them have negative quantities. ( Not all negative quantity items fall under these categories!
BOM is created for FERT, you can see one indicator in COMPONENT DETAILS screen for co-product. You need to define the co-
with this special indicator

One way to achieve this is to create another operation step using the same work center. However this shall be with a control k
not a milestone. When the milestone operation is confirmed, the previous operations up to the next milestone are automatica
confirmed. To get the desired number of standard values , all the ‘non milestone’ steps can be built depending on the need.
• CRHH - Work center hierarchy
• CRHS - Hierarchy structure
• CRHD - Work center header
• MAPL - Allocation of task lists to materials
• PLKO - Task list – header
• PLPO - Task list operation / activity
• STKO - BOM - header
• STPO - BOM – item
• MAST - Material to BOM link
• AUFK - Production order headers
• AFKO - Order header data PP orders
• AFPO -Order item
• AFRU -Order completion confirmations
• PLAF - Planned orders
• RESB -Material reservations
• PBIM - Independent requirements for material
• PBED -Independent requirement data
• PBHI - Independent requirement history

1) Create Order type – OPJH

2) Order type dependent parameters – OPL8
3) Availability check – checking control – OPJK
4) Confirmation parameters – OPK4
5) Scheduling parameters – OPU3
6) Production Scheduling profile – OPKP
7) Production scheduler – OPJ9

1) Define the Condition Table (OPLD)

2) Define Access Sequence
3) Create the Search Strategy
4) Create the Search Procedure T Code: OPLG
5) Assign Search Procedure in Order Type Dependent parameters (OPL8)
6) Create the Batch Search Strategy using the T Code: COB1
7) Selection Class can be created using the T Code: BMC1/CL02
8) Sort Rule can be created using the T Code: CU70

With the following settings, the batches are selected the moment the production order is released.

Set up batch determination the way that the batches in batch selection are sorted the right way. e.g. sorted by expiry date
Use automatic batch selection in disp view.
Ensure that the components are allowed to be back-flushed (material master/ work center) is selected by FIFO from the issue
location

1. We can crate the production order manualy by using t code CO01.

2. Conversion of planned order to production I. By double clicking on the planned order in Stock requrement list II. By Using t
CO41, III. By using Mass Code COHV
COOIS - Order Information System
Use Transaction code OPL8 to customize by choosing the order type, select all the checkbox under “Documentation of goods
movements” at the bottom of the page to get list of documents posted for respective production order.
You can check this in CO02 select goto --> cost --> Analysis and you can check the cost of production order.
When the order is TECO all the open items like reservations etc will be closed.
When the CLSD (Closed) it means that no business function is possible. If there are some open items like inspection lots, Purch
Purchase orders then an order cannot be Closed.

You can specify in the control key of an operation, that the system should automatically post the finished material to stock wh
operation is confirmed. A posting is also carried out for a partial confirmation.
An automatic goods receipt can only be posted for one operation per order. You should therefore make sure that only one op
the order (normally the last operation) has a control key that specifies automatic goods receipt.

COOIS can only be use for production order information purpose

COHV is for mass processing of production orders
COFC - you can gather information about errors in cost determination.
Errors are, for example, missing activity prices, invalid cost centers, or incorrect assignment of an activity type to a cost center
COGI - you can reprocess goods movements that failed when posting confirmations.
With the help of function Read Master Data in production order BOM & Routing can be changed.
If data is changed in the routing, in the work centers affected or in the BOM after order creation then these changes are not
automatically taken into account in the production order.
Thus you can read in the master data (BOMs and routing) again into a created or released production order.

A type of completion confirmation in which several operations in a processing sequence are automatically confirmed. An oper
marked as a milestone operation using its control key.
If you confirm an operation that is marked as a milestone, the system automatically confirms all preceding operations.
With the help of trigger points you can release all operations up to and including the next operation with a release stop indica

1.Either the user determines the date of dispatch or else it is specified by scheduling
2.A dispatching sequence needs to be determined if several operations need to be dispatched
3.The systems checks for
1.The dates to which operations are to be dispatched
2.The work center to which operations are to be dispatched
4.Finite scheduling is performed
5.Operation check is performed
6.Status for the operation is set as "dispatched."
7.System carries out midpoint scheduling

Go to Extras -> Object Dependency -> Assign For this, you need to create Characteristics and Class (of Class Type 300) earlier

seeTransaction code OPL8 to customize by choosing the order type, select all the checkbox under “Documentation of goods
movements” at the bottom of the page. Create a new Production order, make GI to it, and run the report
entering the in-house production time. This value can be updated from the routing by the system.# entering the setup, tear do
processing, and interoperation times. If these values are maintained, the system determines the in-house production time on
of lot size
Determining the material costs of a product:

When you calculate production costs using a quantity structure, the system automatically determines the BOM and all the BO
that are relevant to costing, in order to calculate manufacturing costs.
1.It helps to design SAP implementation by effectively optimizing Time ,People,Quality& other resources through proven met
2. It focus on Tools & Training wrapped up in a five phase process oriented roadmap for guiding implementation. Road Map St
1.Project Preparation
2.Business Blueprint
3.Realization
4.Final Preparation
5.Go-Live & Support

1) Retrieval of Information & Resources.

2) Obtaining senior level /stack holder support.
3) Identifying & defining clear project objectives & efficient decision making process.
4) Creating suitable environment for change & reengineering & building a qualified & capable project team.

1) Extracting information about the company which are in the form of questions & answer database(QADB) & Issue database.
2) Each business blueprint document essentially outline future business process & business requirements.
Functional expert begin to configuring SAP system through base line configuration, fine tuning configuration ,configuration tes
knowledge transfer .
1) In this phase data migration is completed.
2) Also functional & workload or stress testing are conducted to ensure the accuracy of the data & stability of the system.
3) Preventive maintenance checks are also performed before Go-Live phase.
4) Planning & documentation is also done for preparation of Go-live strategy.

1) It includes functioning of SAP systems i.e. Business process & technology & preparation for on going support including main
contracts documented process & procedure which are essential.
The LSM Workbench is an SAP System tool that supports you when copying data from non-SAP systems.
The GAPS are some issue in blue print that SAP cannot capture or prividing the client bussiness process
SAP activate methodology is one simple, modular and agile framework for implementation or migration to SAP S/4HANA.
We can use methodology on our own, with an SAP Partner or with SAP Directly.
Its built on its predecessors ASAP Methodology and SAP Launch Methodology.
There are 3 main components to SAP Activate methodology.
1.Best Practices: Readily configured business processes based on industry best practices.
2.Methodology: SAP Guidance to accelerate implementation and optimization.
3.Guided configuration: Tools to help activate best practices content and make customized adjustments.

SAP Activate is available for on-premise and cloud editions of SAP S/4HANA and supports all 3 types of transactions.
1. New Implementation
2. System Conversion
3. Landscape Transformation

SAP Methodology consists

1.Discover
2.Prepare
3.Explore
4.Realize
5.Deploy & Run phases

SAP Activate - Discover

This Discover phase will help you consider and experience SAP S/4HANA before starting a project to implement SAP S/4HANA.
In this phase, you develop strategies and road-map you use on the implementation journey.
Experience SAP S/4HANA with preconfigured SAP Best practices-based Cloud and On-premise trials.
SAP Activate - Prepare
Project is initiated and planned, including quality and risk plans.
System environment is set up, including best practices with ready to run processes.
SAP Activate - Explore
Customer team explores SAP solution functionalities while the system integrator explores customers business.
Together, they use fit/gap workshops to identify the configuration and extensions that best meet the customers’ requirement
SAP Activate - Realize
Together, teams configure and extend the system based on prioritized requirements captured in explore phase
Configuration and build are done in iterative cycles with regular validations and feedback from business
Structured testing and data migration activities help ensure quality.

SAP Activate - Deploy

Final preparations before cutover to production help ensure that the system data and users are ready for transitioning to prod
environment.
The transition to operations includes setting up and launching support, then handing off operations to the organization manag
environment.
SAP Activate - Run
Purpose of Run phase is to continue adoption of implemented solution across the organization. During this phase, customer a
users, enables their business users to execute the business transactions, manages regression testing for quarterly upgrades, an
activate additional functionality as required.
 List of Values for Module/Software List of Val

MM Material Management Methodology

Domain

PM Plant Maintenance Process

Configuration

Transaction
MM Material Management Methodology
Domain
PM Plant Maintenance Process

Configuration

Transaction
MM Material Management Methodology
Primavera Project Scheduling
RIB/Synchro 5D Tools
BI-BO Dashboard
SAS Analysis Tools
QM Quality Management
REFX Flexible Real Estate
WM Works Manager
SD Sales & Distribution
ECM(OT) Enterprise Content (OT)
DMS Document Management
FLM File Lifecycle Management
CRM Customer Relations
SCM Supply Chain
2D Drawing
3D Modelling
S-Workflow SAP Workflow
O-Workflow Non-SAP Product Workflow
PP Production Planning
 List of Values for Category LoV for Level Band

Implementation methodolgy Basic I

Domain specific, Must know concepts Medium II and above

Solution definition Expert III and above

IV & V

All
Implementation methodolgy Basic I
Domain specific, Must know concepts Medium II and above
Solution definition Expert III and above

IV & V

All
Implementation methodolgy Basic I
 Question Bank for SAP QM Interviews
Module SrNo Question Category

Master data
QM 1 SAP QM Overview? Domain

QM 2 What is Quality Planning? Process

QM 3 What is Quality Inspection? Process

QM 4 What is Quality Notification? Process

QM 5 Which Master data is important in QM? Process

QM 6 Importance of Material Master (QM View)? Process

QM 7 Importance of Master data – Inspection Method Process
(QS31/QS32/QS33/QS34)?

QM 8 Importance of Master Data – Catalog (QS41/QS42)? Configuration

QM 9 Importance of Master Data – Selected Sets (QS51/QS52)? Configuration

QM 10 What is Master Inspection Characteristics Transaction

(QS21/QS22/QS23/QS24)
QM 11 Type Of MIC ? Transaction

QM 12 Quantitative Characteristics - Control Indicators? Process

QM 13 Qualitative Characteristic - Control Indicators? Process

QM 14 Integration of MIC? Process

QM 15 What is Sampling Procedure and Sampling Scheme? Process

QM 16 What is Inspection Plan (QP01/QP02/QP03)? Process

QM 17 What is Quality Info Record (QI01/QI02/QI03)? Process

QM 18 What is the use of Sampling Type? Transaction

QM 19 What is Valuation mode in Sampling Procedure? Transaction

QM 20 Where do you use Sampling Procedures? Transaction

QM 21 How do you activate/deactivate Inspection type? Transaction

QM 22 What is the difference between selected sets and code groups? Configuration

QM 23 What is dynamic modification rule? Domain

QM 24 At what level dynamic modification rule(DMR) can be used? Domain

Incoming Materail inspection(Procurement)

QM 1 What is the role of QM in Procurement? Process

QM 2 What way QM helps in Goods Receipt? Process

QM 3 What activities of SAP Material Management are integrated with Process
Quality Management process?

QM 4 How do you manage defects in the material supplied by Process

vendor/supplier?
QM 5 What is the difference between Good Receipts Inspection and Process
Source Inspection?

QM 6 What are Quality info record?, what is the use of it? Process

QM 7 What is the Inspection type for incoming inspection? Configuration

Production
QM 1 How QM fit in Production? Process
QM 2 What activities of Production Planning is integrated with Quality Process
Management process?

QM 3 For inprocess inspection which ispection type Is use? Transaction

QM 4 For production completion which inspection type is use? Transaction
QM 5 For inprocsessinspection what procedure need to do?

Sales
QM 1 What is QM fit with Sales? Process
QM 2 What activities of SAP Sales and Distribution are integrated with Process
Quality Management process?

QM 3 For goods return which inspection type is use? Transaction

QM 4 If you wants to do customer return with stock posting then what Configuration
set up needs to do?

QM Lot excution
QM 1 What is Quality Inspection ? Process
QM 2 Inspection Lot (QA32/QA01/QA02/QA03) Process

QM 3 What is Result Recording in SAP? Process

QM 4 What is Defect Recording (QA32/QF01) in SAP? Process

QM 5 How Inspection Lot Completion (QA32/QA11) is done in SAP? Process

QM 6 What is Quality Notification? Process

QM 7 Type of Quality Notification? And Importance? Process

QM 8 Movement types at stock posting ? Process

QM 9 What is Inspection Types? Process

QM 10 Is It Possible To Cancel The Inspection Lot Once It Has Been Transaction

Created?

QM 11 Is it possible to execute in mass via QA16?

QM 12 Is you aware of the standard SAP function module Transaction

that sets the status of an inspection lot?

QM 13 Is it possible to make the inspection lot quantity to (1) Transaction

all the time?

QM 14 GR for a material was made three Transaction

months back. This material is QM managed. The
quality plan for this material was made this month
only.Hence our QM personnel are not able to clear this
particular GR. How do I go about it?
QM 15 How do I transfer the results from one origin to Configuration
another origin?

QM 16 How do I use Skip lots function? Process

Other
QM 1 What are different standard reports in SAP Quality Management Process
System?

QM 2 Which all modules SAP quality Management QM process is Process

integrated with?
QM 3 Name few common tables and their description in QM system? Process

QM 4 Which inspection type use for Recurring process? Transaction

QM 5 For calibration which inspection type is use? Transaction
QM 6 What activities of Controlling is integrated with Quality Process
Management process?

QM 7 In The Inspection Plan I Have A Characteristic With Upper Limit. In Domain

Which Table Can I Find This Value?
QM 8 Is it possible to create inspection lot without inspection plan? Process

QM 9 how you reverse UD? Configuration

QM 10 What will be inspection lot status after your reverse UD? Domain
QM 11 How system creates automatic notification after inspection lot is Configuration
rejected?
PM Explain Integration of MM with other modules
PM Split valuation - Explain
AP QM Interviews
Level of Expected Answer
Question

Basic Quality Management (QM) is a commonly adopted practice, in all

Industries, to ensure that various materials and equipment's are as
per the pre-defined quality specification.

QM is an integral part of logistic management and it is used to

perform quality functions such as quality planning, quality
assurance, and quality control, at various stages such as incoming
material stage, in-process manufacturing process stage, after
production and at sales and distribution as well.

Key functions performed by QM are,

Quality Planning
Quality Inspection
Quality Notification

Basic Basic master data for Quality Management. Quality planning allows
to plan the inspection of goods from the vendor, raw material,
work-in-process, and final product
Basic In quality inspection we captured results and valuates to make
decision whether results accepted or rejected
Basic In quality notification there is defects identification and includes
corrective actions, activities to be taken by quality department.
Medium Following is the Master Data in SAP QM : -
1) Material Master (QM View)
2) Inspection Method
3) Catalog
4) Master Inspection Characteristics
5) Sampling Procedure and Sampling Scheme
6) Inspection Plan
7) Quality Info record
8) Dynamic modification Rule

Medium The most important field in material master quality management

view is its Inspection Type (e.g 01,02,03,04,05 etc.)
Inspection type determines how an inspection is performed.
When an inspection lot is created, the system uses the inspection
lot origin to determine how the inspection lot will be processed.
Medium You use inspection methods to describe how to carry out an
inspection for an inspection characteristic. You can create master
inspection methods at plant level to simplify and standardize the
inspection planning activities and to standardize the nomenclature.
This allows you to plan inspections systematically, uniformly, and
economically.
Inspection methods can be referenced in master inspection
characteristics and inspection characteristics in a task list.

Expert Catalogs are used to codify frequently used data on defects,

characteristics, activities etc. so that data entry can be
standardized and simplified.
Catalogs help in easy recording and subsequent evaluations.
Catalogs consist of code groups and codes.
The catalog contains unique, non-numerical data in the system that
is defined at client or plant level.Code groups are used to combine
and structure codes within a catalog type. For Example: in Catalog
Type 1 for Characteristic attributes, Code group can be "Color"
and codes can be red, blue, yellow etc.

Expert A selected set contains a combination of different codes at plant

level, You use selected sets to combine codes from several code
groups for processing that are allowed or useful for a particular
application.
Selected sets from the catalog types Characteristic attribute and
Usage decision also contain a valuation for each code, as additional
information (Accepted or Rejected) . Follow-up actions can be
triggered directly from these codes.

Medium You use inspection characteristics to describe the inspection

criteria for materials, parts, and products. You can create master
inspection characteristics at the plant level to simplify and
standardize the inspection planning activities and to standardize
the nomenclature.
A master inspection characteristic can contain general data and
control data.
General Data contains general data such as Name of the
characteristic, assigned inspection methods, classification etc.
Control Data contains information like, Whether the master
inspection characteristic is a qualitative or quantitative, sampling
details, inspection scope, type of values to be inspected for
quantitative characteristics (for example, target value, lower
specification limit, upper specification limit) etc.
Medium There are two types of MIC
Quantitative MIC - A quantitative characteristic is subject to
measurement inspections. You can define tolerance limits and a
target value for a quantitative characteristic.
Qualitative MIC – In qualitative MIC Inspection results are recorded
as codes from inspection catalogs, with the valuation OK or not OK.
You do not define tolerance limits or a target value. Code groups /
Selected sets of Catalog type 1 can be used for recording result
against Qualitative inspection characteristics.

Medium Control indicators contains important data like which limits to

check, what type of sample to use, result confirmation, etc.
Quantitative data contains setting of lower, upper tolerance limit of
a characteristic, decimal places, unit etc.

Medium Control indicators consist of indicators like characteristic attributes,

Sample to check etc.
Catalog consist of assignment of selected set for characteristic
attribute.

Medium Use master inspection characteristics in inspection plans, material

specifications, and certificate profiles.
Link master inspection characteristics to class characteristics.
Store sample-drawing texts in master inspection characteristics.
Assign inspection methods to master inspection characteristics.
Assign selected sets and code groups to master inspection
characteristics.

Medium 1) A sampling procedure defines the rules that specify how the
system calculates the sample size and it contains information about
the valuation of an inspection characteristic during results
recording (attributive, variable, manual, etc.).
2) Sampling Scheme (QDP1/QDP2/QDP3) - A collection of
sampling plans. A sampling plan applies to the sample size based
on a specific inspection lot quantity and defines the criteria for
determining whether and how a sample is accepted or rejected.
A collection of sampling plans. You use a sampling scheme if you
want to −
Determine the sample size on the basis of the lot size, inspection
severity, or combination of inspection severity and AQL (actual
quality level)
Store how a decision is made to accept or reject a characteristic.
Determine the number of physical samples, based on the lot size,
or the number of containers in an inspection lot in sample
management.
Medium 1) Inspection plans are used to define the parameters which are to
be inspected. In SAP, task lists are used for defining, planning and
processing inspections. The inspection plans are used to inspect
materials during Goods Issue, Goods Receipt, etc.

The inspection plans consists of the following major elements -

Header: - General data is defined in the header. General data
includes details like: “Usage of Inspection plan (for Goods receipt,
production, Goods issue etc.)”, status (released, created etc.) etc.
besides a description of the inspection plan.
Operation: - The inspection operations or tasks are specified here
with a short description. The sequence to be followed is also
specified. We assign inspection characteristics, sample, inspection
method, tolerance limits, catalogs etc. to check for that operation.

Basic Quality info records are used to manage the supplier relation in an
organization. When there is continuous defect in the material
supplied by a vendor, you can use Quality Info Records to block a
vendor.
When you create a purchase order, SAP system performs a check
to find if a Quality Info Record is required and is available for
combination of material and vendor.
Quality information record has to be maintained when you use the
source inspection functionality. This means a material has to
undergo an inspection prior to reaching the plant for Goods
Receipt.
Under Quality Info Record, you can set that the inspection is
required when it is procured from vendor A and is not required if
you procure it from Vendor B.

Medium The sampling type defines how a sample is calculated (for example,
fixed sample, 100% inspection, use sampling scheme, percentage
sample). Together with the valuation mode, the sampling type
defines the parameters for sample determination.

Using the sampling type, the system proposes a list of rules for
sample determination. If there is only one rule available, this is
automatically chosen.

Medium The valuation mode defines the rules for accepting or rejecting a
characteristic or sample. The sampling type and the valuation
mode specify which parameters the system uses to determine a
sample size.

Medium Sampling procedures can be referenced in task lists, material

specifications and in the inspection setup. The where-used list
displays the task lists, material specifications and inspection setup,
in which a sampling procedure is used.
Medium Go to Logistics → Quality management → Quality planning →
Logistics master data → Material → Inspection setup.(T-code -
MM02)

Choose "Activate insp. type" or "Deactivate insp. Type.

Medium Selected set contains a combination of different codes at plant

level code group are at the client level
Basic DMR is basically used to vary the inspection scope.
A dynamic modification rule contains the definition of the
inspection stages, the dynamic modification time, and the
conditions that lead to an inspection stage change.

Basic You can store a dynamic modification rule in one of the following
places:

In the inspection plan at the header level

In the inspection plan at the characteristic level
In the inspection setup of the material master record at the
inspection type level

Medium QM controls the release of Vendor for particular material

QM Suggests the vendor with suitable Quality Standards for
procuring goods.
Sends Quality agreements and Technical terms along with enquiry
and Purchase Orders.
Vendor’s Obligation to Quality certificate requirement along with
the delivery

Medium Triggers inspection automatically when goods are received

Triggers, what certificates required by vendor with consignment.
Transfers all the goods received into Quality stock until they are
cleared from QM
Prevents the vendors payment due to quality reasons
Medium You manage the quality details for materials, vendors and
suppliers.

You manage the releases for vendors and manufacturers and also
monitor QM systems for suppliers.

You manage the release status of delivery from vendor.

You can maintain quality agreements and RFP details when you
request for a quotations and purchase orders is raised for vendors.

You can manage quality certificates for vendors.

Using SAP QM process, you can also initiate an inspection at

supplier site before there is delivery due from the supplier

Medium Quality info records are used to manage the supplier relation in an
organization. When there is continuous defect in the material
supplied by a vendor, you can use quality info records to block a
vendor.

When you create a purchase order, SAP system performs a check

to find if a Quality info record is required and is available for
combination of material and vendor.

Quality information record has to be maintained when you use the

source inspection functionality that means a material has to
undergo an inspection prior to the material reaches the plant for
Goods Receipt.

You can set under Quality Info record that inspection is required
when it is procured from vendor A and is not required if you
procure from Vendor B.
Medium Goods Receipt Inspection −
Performed after receiving the goods
Performed at receivers/customers place
Goods receipt for purchase order triggers the inspection lot
creation
Inspection lot is created after receiving the goods

Source Inspection −
Performed before receiving the goods
Performed generally at suppliers place with customers
participation
Quality info record triggers the inspection lot creation. To trigger
the lot open purchase order required for the Material, Plant and
vendor combination.
Inspection lot created before receiving the goods based on the lead
time in Quality Info record. There is also option to create inspection
lot after goods receipt.

Expert Quality info record is used to control the Quality and main
functions are as follows.
Source inspection,Skipping the inspection if the vendors are
provided the 100% good parts, invoice block if it in Quality
inspection, Vendor Block as per the Date and Qty.

Basic Inspection type -01

Medium QM inspection could well integrated with the work scheduling and
production processing activities of the Production Planning (PP)
module.
Inspection is automatically triggered during production.
Partial quantity inspection helps in different treatment of items
with different parameters
Inspection results can be confirmed along Production order or
operation.
Medium You can integrate SAP QM with PP to perform the inspection
planning and work scheduling in SAP system.

As part of SAP quality management process, you handle inspection

characteristics and also define characteristics for the operation.

You can manage quality inspections for manufacturing orders.

Using SAP QM, you can set up the final inspection from the goods
receipt after production process is complete.

You can use QM process to manage partial lots of a material during

production which are different in quality.

You can confirm the quality information as per manufacturing

orders.

Using SAP QM, you can monitor the production quality with the
help of control charts and reports in Production planning.

Basic 03: In-process inspection for manufacturing order

Basic 04: Goods Receipt inspection from Production
Inspection Type 03 – In-Process insp. for Production Order needs to
be activated in the Material Master under QM view and Routing
with QM Control Key (CA01/CA02) Select control key – In-house
production with inspect. chars as shown below for the operation.
Ensure that the control indicator “Insp.char.required” is active for
the control key.

Medium Inspection is triggered on delivery to customer.

Automatically quality certificate is printed along with Delivery
documents
batch can be selected on the basis of specific batch characteristics.
Handles all customer complaints and traces back the problems to
vendors.
Medium You can integrate SAP QM with Sales and Distribution to perform
the following activities −

You can manage quality information related to customer for sales

and distribution process.

In SAP QM system, you can initiate an inspection when a delivery is

created against a purchase order.

You can manage quality in sales & distribution by performing

quality notifications and RCA’s and by processing customer
complaints to improve customer satisfaction.

Basic 06: Inspections for returns from customer

Basic Inspectoin type 05 is a stock relevant inspection type.
T-code VOV6 - there will be schedule line category DN.
go to details of DN.In Business data,check which movement type is
assigned here. change it to 655.

Medium You use the Quality Inspection component to determine whether

your company’s product consistently meets defined quality
requirements. In a quality inspection, you inspect a material or
product, using inspection specifications that have been predefined
in the Inspection planning component

Quality inspection covers the following important functions:

1) Inspection lot creation
2) Results recording
3) Defects recording
4) Inspection lot completion
Medium The system uses the inspection lot to record, process, and manage
information for a quality inspection.
Inspection lots can be created automatically by events triggered in
other components of the logistics supply chain. For example:
Goods movements or stock postings in the Materials Management
(MM) component (for example, goods receipt, goods issue, or a
stock transfer.
Creation of production orders or process orders in the Production
Planning and Control (PP) or Production Planning for Process
Industries (PP-PI) components.
Creation of deliveries in the Sales and Distribution (SD) component.
Creation and release of maintenance orders in the Plant.
Maintenance (PM) component.
Deadline monitoring of batch materials; for example, when the
dates for recurring inspections or shelf life expiration are reached.

Medium In the Results Recording, you record and process results for
inspection characteristics. The inspection lot is the reference object
in results recording.
To be able to record inspection results, the following conditions
must be met:
Inspection specifications (task list) are assigned to the inspection
lot, if inspection is to be done according to configuration, the
inspection specifications are changed correspondingly from the
task list.
Characteristics have been created.
Sample Calculation has been carried out.

Medium While processing an inspection lot, user can record the results for
the inspection in the form of characteristic values or defects. A
defect is any property or attribute of a material, product or process
that does not meet the inspection characteristic specifications. The
defects are recorded with the help of predefined defect codes
maintained in the inspection catalogs.
A defect record may contain all or part of the following
information:
Defect type
Defect location
Defect cause
Corrective action taken
Defect valuation

Defect records can serve as a valuable source of information for

quality control in many different production environments. They
result in improved quality and optimized processes, while reducing
costs and increasing productivity.
Medium After the results have been recorded for an inspection lot and the
inspection is finished, you must reach a decision about the usage of
the inspected material. With the Inspection Lot Completion, you
set the controls that:
Complete an inspection (inspection lot completion
Make the usage decision for the inspection lot
Perform stock postings for inspection lots created on the basis of
goods movements (for example, to unrestricted-use stock, blocked
stock, scrap)
In the transactions for the usage decision, you can display tables
with the following inspection data:
Overview of characteristics
Overview of defects
Overview of stocks for inspection lot

Medium This component contains functions for recording and processing

different types of problems (for example, problems resulting from
poor-quality goods or services, non conformities).
You can use the notifications to analyze the recorded defects and
monitor the correction of these problems. In particular, the
notifications can help you process internal or external problems
such as:
Customer complaints
Complaints against vendors
Company-internal problems
Other user-specific problems

Medium The following quality notification types are predefined in the

system:
Customer complaint
Complaint against a vendor
Internal problem report

You can use a quality notification to record the following

information:
Problem description
Affected reference objects (for example, material, purchase order
or delivery)
Partner information (for example, customer, vendor, or
coordinator)
Defect items
Causes of defect items
Define tasks for the notification or for individual defect items
Log the activities carried out for the notification or for individual
defect items
Follow-up actions for tasks
Medium To Unrestricted Stock – 321
To Scrap – 553
To Sample Usage – 331
To Blocked Stock – 350
To New Material – 309
Return Delivery - 122

Medium The inspection type specifies how an inspection is performed. The

following are important standard inspection types
01 : Goods Receipt inspection for Purchase Orders
02 : Goods Issue Inspection
03 : In-process inspection for manufacturing order
04 : Goods Receipt inspection from Production
05 : Inspection for other goods receipt
06 : Inspections for returns from customer
08 : Stock transfer inspection
10 : Inspection for delivery to customer (with order)
89 : Other inspection (Manual Lot Creation)

Medium You can cancel it by reversing the transaction that created it.
It's also possible to go into the inspection lot in Chance mode and
set the status to “locked”. It will then disappear, but if there's QI
stock linked to it you won't get it out.

You should make sure that the UD codes you use

have the automatic postings setup for it. The selected
set code needs to be set for background postings and
what material status it should post to. Take care of
these and it will take care of the problems.

Medium In general, forcing a change to the system status

is not a very good idea. Instead, you should consider
using a user status. If the system status is not RREC
then, there will be no results to copy.

Medium If you are referring to the Sample Size the answer

is yes.
If you are referring to the Lot Size, then the answer is
no.
For the lot quantity, you can use a sampling procedure
of type fixed and assign the size to 1.

Medium You can reset the Sample Calculation and

Recalculate the change in Start & Inspection end date
in QA02.
In QA02 you can also change the key date on the
second tab so it looks for a plan on that date. If that
plan has already been created, you can then change
the key date to the current date and it will find the
plan.
Medium ECC-This can be done by creating a program attached
to the follow up functions for the UD code. Once the
UD is done the results can be transferred from lot to
lot
S/4 HANA - for this SAP has given standard configuration we can
use that.

Medium This can be done by setting the Control

Inspection lot indicator in the QM view of the material
master to each material document.
it works for DMR at a lot and characteristic level.

Medium You can create reports in QM system to check how many times a
product has been identified with a defect and improvement areas
that your company has to implement. There are number of reports
that can be generated in QM −

Material Defects report - It can be used to check the number of

times an item has been identified with a defect status.

Vendor Defect report - This report is used to show the number of

defected material supplied by a vendor.
This can be checked by examining the inspection lots for goods
receipts, a quality department can highlight vendors who are
material which are failing in inspection.

Customer Defect report - This report is used to show the defects

that were found on inspections for outbound deliveries. This helps
organization to improve the quality of goods delivered and hence
raise the customer satisfaction.

Medium SAP Material Management(MM)

SAP Production Planning(PP)
SAP Sales and Distribution(SD)
SAP Controlling(CO)
Medium QPAM Inspection catalog selected sets
QPMK Inspection characteristic master
QPMT Master Inspection Characteristics Texts
QPMZ Master Inspection charactertics MIC
QMAT Inspection type for material parameters
QMHU shows QM link in Inspection lot and handling unit Item
QMTB Inspection method master record
QMTT Inspection Method texts
QPAC Inspection catalog codes
QMAT Inspection type - material parameters
QPMK Inspection characteristic master
PLMK Inspection plan characteristics
QALS Inspection lot record
QAMR Characteristic results during inspection processing
QAMV Characteristic specifications for inspection processing

Basic 09 : Recurring inspection of batches

Basic 14 : Inspection in Plant Maintenance
Medium You can integrate SAP QM with controlling process to manage the
costs for defect control and non-confirmative costs in production
process.
Basic PLMK - Inspection plan characteristic

Basic Yes, system can create inspection lot with status as CRTD and due
to which result recording is not possible. To do result recording
inspection lot must be in REL status.
Medium Need to create Z program by coping program RQEVAC50.
Expert UD ICCO SPRQ. Here SPRQ means stock posting required.
Medium Notification type need to assign to inspection type in configuration.
 List of Values for Module/Software List of Values for Category

MM Material Management Methodology

Domain

PM Plant Maintenance Process

Configuration

Transaction
MM Material Management Methodology
Configuration
Transaction
Primavera Project Scheduling
RIB/Synchro 5D Tools
BI-BO Dashboard
SAS Analysis Tools
QM Quality Management
REFX Flexible Real Estate
WM Works Manager
SD Sales & Distribution
ECM(OT) Enterprise Content (OT)
DMS Document Management
FLM File Lifecycle Management
CRM Customer Relations
SCM Supply Chain
2D Drawing
3D Modelling
S-Workflow SAP Workflow
O-Workflow Non-SAP Product Workflow
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Implementation methodolgy Basic I

Domain specific, Must know concepts Medium II and above

Solution definition Expert III and above

IV & V

All
Implementation methodolgy Basic I
IV & V
All