SAPPP顾问面试试题及资料

SAPPP顾问面试试题及资料
SAP PP顾问面试试题及资料
1. Master Data
Organizational Structures
·What are the various organizational structures in the R/3 System?
·Which R/3 organizational structures are used primarily for PP?
·What is the relation between controlling area, company code, valuation area, plant and storage location
唯一地识别一个成本控制范围。

在控制中成本控制范围是最高的组织单位。

如果成本控制范围和公司代码是一个1:1的关系或是一个1:n 的关系，那么成本控制范围和公司代码中的过帐期间必须是相同的。

尽管如此，特殊的期间可以不同。

Material Master
·What is the purpose of different material master views?
·Which views are available?
·Which views are used primarily for PP?
·What is the relationship between material master views and individual organizational structures?
·How does the industry sector influence t he material master maintenance?
When you create a material master record, the industry sector you specify determines
o which screens appear and in what order
o which industry-specific fields appear on the individual screens
·How does the material type infl uence the material master maintenance?
When creating a material master record, the material type determines
o whether the material number is assigned internally or externally
o from which number range interval the material number comes
o which screens are displayed
o the order in which screens are displayed
·What is the difference between external and internal number assignment and how is it set up in Customizing?
·Which other factors can influence the selection of fields in the material master?
·How can MR P profile and forecast profile be used to optimize material master maintenance?
·How can a material master be reorganized (deleted/archived)?
·Which units of measure can affect processing in the material master (base unit of measure, production unit, order unit, etc.)?
·What is the material status used for and on which levels could it be maintained?
·Review the usage of the following settings?
- MRP group
- MRP type
- Reorder point
- Planning time fence
- MRP controller
- Lot size
- Procurement type
- Special procurement type
- Production storage location
- Backflush flag
- Stock determination group
- Bulk material
- Scheduling margin key
- Safety stock
- Strategy group
- Consumption mode and consumption period
- Availability checking group
- Alternative selection flag
- Dependent requirement flag for individual and collective requirements - Production scheduler
- Production scheduling profile
- Underdelivery/overdelivery tolerance
- In-house production time (lot size dependent/independent) - Valuation class
- Price control indicator
- Moving average price/standard price
Bills of Material
·What is determined by BOM usage?
·What technical types of BOM are available?
·Can the technical type of a BOM be changed?
·During which processes will BOM usage and statu s be considered? ·When would it be useful to make use of a Group BOM?
·What is meant by area of validity and effectivity of a BOM?
·Which item categories are available and what are their specifications?·What is a sub-item?
·Under which circumstances could a BOM be recursive and what the usage of the recursive indicator?
·What is the usage of the following BOM settings?
- Explosion type
- Relevant to production
- Relevant to costing
- Material provision indicator
- Bulk material
- Production storage location
Work Centers
·What is a work center category?
·What data can be maintained on the various views (basic, default, capacity, scheduling, costing, etc.)?
·What is the purpose of a standard value key?
·What role does the operation control key play?
What does referencing mean?
·Why to use a work center hierarchy?
What is a pooled capacity?
·Analyze the usage of the following fields?
- Backflush indicator
- Capacity category
- Formulas for determining capacity requirements
- Rate of capacity utilization
- Relevant to finite scheduling indicator
- Overload
- Formulas for scheduling
- Location group (move time matrix)
- Queue times (normal and minimum)
- Cost center
- Activity types
- Formulas for costing
Routings
·What does a routing define?
·How is a routing stru ctured?
·What task list types are available in the R/3 System?
·What is a routing group and group counter?
·What is a routing sequence, and what types of sequence are available?
·What could be reasons to use sequences?
·What are the various options to assi gn materials to routings?
·Under which conditions would it make sense to assign components to operations?·What is a reference operation set?
·How could the lotsize-dependend inhouse production time be calculated and updated into the material master?
Production Resources/Tools
·What types of PRT are available?
·What is the relationship between PRTs and a routing/operation?
Engineering Change Management
·What are the objectives of Engineering Change Management?
·What is the significance of changes with a history?
·Which PP objects can be managed using Engineering Change Management?
·What is the purpose of an engineering change request/order?
·How is a change master record structured?
·What is a revision level compared to engineering change master?
Other Issues
·Which scheduling options are available, and how do they differ from each other?
·Which time components are taken into account during
scheduling?
·How are basic order dates determined?
·How are the scheduled dates determined?
·Which scheduling types are available in lead time scheduling?
·What role do reduction measures play in scheduling?
·What types of scrap can be maintained in PP basic data and how would they be considered during MRP repectively scheduling?
·What is external processing, and what conditions must be fulfilled before external processing can take place?
·What are co-products?
2. Production Planning
General Issues
·What are the various planning levels available in R/3 PP?
·What are the dependencies between Sales and Operations Planning, Demand Management, Long-Term-Planning and Material Requirements Planning?
Sales and Operations Planning
·What is the purpose of Sales and Operations Planning?
·What is the structure of product groups and how could they be used in
SOP/DM/LTP/MRP?
·What is the purpose of proportion factors and aggregation factors within product groups?
·Which planning methods are available in SOP?
·Which sources are available as input data for SOP?
·Which options are available for creating a sales plan in SOP?
·Which option s are available for creating an operations plan in SOP?
·What is …disaggregation??
·How could the result of SOP be passed on to different planning tools within the PP planning environment?
Demand Management
·What is the purpose of Demand Management?
·At wh ich points is Demand Management integrated with Sales and Distribution?
·Explain the main strategies in Make-to-Stock as well as in Make-to-Order planning logic. Pay attention to master data settings.
·What does consumption respectively reduction mean in t he context of planning strategies?
·What role does the individual/collective requirements indicator in the material master have during make-to-order production?
·What is a stocking level, and how can it be influenced?
·Which types of availability check are available (ATP and check against planning) and what are the characteristics of these checks?
·Explain the link between MRP group, strategy group, strategy and requirement class.
·What settings could be made in requirements classes (on PP as well as on SD side)?
·Explain the purpose of version management in Demand Management?
Master Production Scheduling
·Under which circumstances would you recommend the usage of MPS?
·Compare the functionality of MPS with MRP?
·What is meant by the …firming? of procurement proposals, and how can this effect be achieved?
·What is a planning time fence, and where is it defined?
·What is a manual firming date, and where is it defined?
·How can a planned order be …firmed?, and which firming indicators are available in a planned order?
Material Requirements Planning
·What is the purpose of MRP and how does it fit into the PP planning environment?
·How would you organize MRP runs? Discuss the different options
- MRP for a plant – online
- MRP for a plant – in background
- MRP for a material (individual planning) - online
·Which planning types are available (NEUPL, NETCH, NETPL)?
·Which planning parameters are to be set in the application itself?
·What is the function of the planning file?
·What is meant by single-level planning, multi-level planning?
·What is meant by interactive MRP?
·What are the characteristics of an MRP scenario that is performed in simulation mode?
·What is meant by low-level code and how is it considered in MRP?
·What is a net requirements calculation?
·Which buffers can be taken into account for the net requirements calculation in MRP (quantity buffer: safety stock, time buffer: safety time)?
·What does lot-size calculation entail?
·Which lot-sizing procedures are available in the R/3 System (static, periodic and optimizing procedures)? What are the characteristics of these lot-sizing procedures?
·How does the procurement type defined in the material master affect MRP?
·What is backward scheduling? What are the characteristics of backward scheduling?
·What is t he difference between basic scheduling and lead time scheduling?
·How are the order due dates determined in basic scheduling?
·How are the order due dates determined in lead time scheduling?
·How does the in-house production time defined in the material master affect scheduling?
·How does the scheduling margin key affect scheduling?
·How are BOMs selected in MRP? Which criteria are taken into account during BOM selection?
·What is a …BOM selection ID??
·How are alternative BOMs selected?
·What is a production version?
·How are routings selected in MRP? Which criteria are taken into account during routing selection?
·What is an MRP list? What is a stock/requirements list? How are these lists structured? What are the differences between these lists?
·W hat is the function of exception messages?
·What are planned orders?
·What is meant by the individual/collective conversion of planned orders?
·What is meant by “days? supply” and “receipt days? supply”?
·How can component discontinuation be managed in MRP?
3. Production Order Processing
General Issues
·What are the characteristics of work-to-order production?
·What is defined in a production order?
·What is a document type, an order category and an order type?
·What are the various elements that a producti on order contains?
·Which functions are executed when an order is created?
·What are the various options available for creating an order?
·Describe the system logic during routing selection?
·Describe the system logic during BOM selection?
·At which point in time are reservations generated and what information does it contain?
·What can be achieved by performing the “Read master data” function?
·How could routing sequences be considered during production order creation?
·Describe the conversion of planned o rders into production orders with focus on scheduling aspects?
Order Release
·What happens when an order is released?
·Which operations are made possible and which are prevented when an order is released?
·What is meant by status management?
·What are business transactions?
·What are the differences between system status and user status?
·At which points in time can availability checks be performed? Which settings can be made, and which must be made? On which objects can the availability check be run?
·What is meant by machine commitment?
·What is meant by midpoint scheduling?
Printing
·Which shop floor papers can be printed?
·Which print modes are available (online, update, background)?
·What does “reprinting” mean?
·Which conditions must be fulfilled b efore order documents can be printed?
·Which conditions must an operation fulfill before shop floor papers (and in particular confirmation slips and time tickets) can be printed?
Goods Issue
·Which control indicators influence the behavior of the components in the production order (bulk material, backflush, phantom assembly, etc.)?
·What is meant by picking?
·What is meant by stock determination? Which settings have to be made for stock determination during production order processing?
·What is a goods issu e posting?
·How can goods issues be entered (reference to order, reference to reservation, unplanned, etc.)?
·What is the purpose of movement types?
·What are the effects of a goods issue posting from an integrational point of view (MM, FI, CO)?
·What is m eant by the backflushing of components and how can this be achieved?
Confirmation
·Which conditions must be fulfilled before confirmations can
be entered?
·What is a confirmation?
·Which functions are linked to confirmations?
·Which confirmation procedures are available?
·What data can be entered during confirmations?
·What is a milestone confirmation?
·What is an unplanned milestone?
·What identifies a progress confirmation?
·What role does the control key defined in the operation play during confirmation?
·Is it possible to link a confirmation with a goods movement posting?
·What is a goods receipt?
·What are the effects of a goods receipt posting?
·What is t he relevancy of the “delivery completed” indicator?
·What is the function of overdelivery/underdel ivery tolerance in the material master play?
Order Settlement / Archiving and Deleting
·What is meant by order settlement?
·What causes a production order to be debited/credited?
·What is the difference between prelimenary costing and actual costing?
·Whic h are the usual steps during order settlement?
·What means variance calculation?
·How is an order settled if the header material is a standard price material?
·At which points in time can an order be settled?
·Which conditions must be fulfilled before an o rder can be archived?
·How are orders archived/deleted?
·What is meant by “residence times”?
Order Information Systems
·Which information systems can be used for order management?
·What are the characteristics of the order information system?
·What are var iable object overviews?
·What are the special characteristics of a (multi-level) order report?
·What is the difference between the order information system and the Shop Floor Information System?
·Which functions are available from the order progress report?。