SAP MM Interview Questions And Answers

   SAP MM Interview Questions

  1. How can materials be permanently deleted from material master?
   The procedure for deleting materials permanently from the materials master is as follows:

• Use transaction MM70 – Material Master->Other->Reorganization->Material->Choose
• Build variant with selection range of material master records to be selected for deletion and maintain run parameters. Execute
• Use transaction MM71 – Material Master-> other-> Reorganization->Material->Reorganization
• Build a second variant
• Maintain run parameters and execute

  It is also important to remove the records manually from information records, POs, PRs, reservation, and the like to successfully delete the material.

   2. Will Source List automatically appear in Material Master as default if maintained at plant level using OME5?

PO can only be released if you have maintained the source list of the material after maintaining source  list in OME5. The source list for all the materials in the plant is to be maintained if a source list at plant level is maintained. Also, info records can be used to do that automatically.

   3. What is the use of configurable material?

Configurable material is used when there a number of combinations of parts that go into the making of a product. Essentially, it is just permuting and combining parts of the same material. If we go and allot codes to each such combination, we will require a huge number of codes. We could use KMAT to maintain a generic product code.

    4. We have one company with a plant and another company with a sales organization. Which is better option between these – PO or Stock Transfer Order?

We can do cross company stock transport orders.

• We’ll have to configure using transaction OMGN
• We’ll have to maintain sales organization and customer data in customizing. That will depend on the sending and receiving plants
• We need to maintain the supplying plant as a vendor and attach the plant to the vendor in the Vendor Master
• We have to ensure that material type is HALB or HAWA
• We’ll have to ensure that the company with sales organization has a plant to take care of stocking
• We’ll have to take care that the PO used is NB and not Stock Transfer PO
• Also, configure SD for inter-company billing to enable picking up the pricing procedure for billing
• Finally, carry out delivery through process delivery due list and billing through process billing due list

 5. What types of special stocks are available?

   Following are the special stocks available:

• Subcontracting
• Consignments
• Pipeline
• Project
• Sales Order
• RTP
• Stock Transfer
• Third Party

   6. Differentiate between a contract and a scheduling agreement

A contract agreement is where all the different pricings of different plants are maintained. A Release Order is created according to the Outline Agreement. In a release order, we cannot make a detailed delivery schedule, and neither can we create any release documentation. We can, however, create time-dependent conditions. In a scheduling agreement, the plant location must be entered. In this case, only the only the delivery schedule line needs to be created through Transaction ME38 or MRP running. Delivery schedule lines are created according to one’s specific requirements.

   7. Define scales

Scales are used to fix prices in the info records. For a quantity ranging from 1 to 1,000, the price will be Rs. 150, and for quantities ranging from 101 – 500, the price will be Rs. 140. This is, of course, an example. We cannot directly use scales in PO, but we can pull them into the PO from other master data.

   8. How can all material be extended to a new plant?

The SAP program – RMDATIND is used to create /update material master record. And we can use it to extend all material to a new plant.

   9. What does OBYC do?

OBYC is for configuring automatic postings. Postings automatically go to G/L accounts in case of Invoice Verification and Inventory Management, where transactions are related to Financial and Cost Accounting.

   10. What are batches? How are the searched?

When stocks of material are subdivided according to categories, then they are called batches. Like units producing food make use of batches to indicate production date, and the like. Batches are searched by using the standard search facility – match code F4 (based on the naming of the batches, or batch classification, or batch characteristics).