SAP® SD Questions and Answers

Book description


Designed for SAP users as a quick reference or for computer science and business students, SAP SD Questions and Answers includes all the major concepts related to SAP SD functionality, technical configuration, and implementation in an easy-to-understand question and answer format. This organized and accessible format allows the reader to quickly find the questions on specific subjects and provides all of the details to pass certification exams in a step-by-step, easy-to-read method of instruction.

Topics Covered include Invoicing, Distribution Points, Backorder Processing, Account Determination, Material Master, Transaction Codes, Partner Procedures, Rebates and Refunds, Interfaces, Condition Types, Inventory issues, Administration Tables and more!

Table of contents

  1. THE JONES AND BARTLETT PUBLISHERS SAP® BOOK SERIES
  2. TRADEMARK ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO SD MODULE
    1. 1. List the SYSTEM modules that are included in the financial application component.
    2. 2. List the SYSTEM modules that are included in the human resource application (Human Capital Management) component.
    3. 3. List the SYSTEM modules that are included in the logistic application component.
    4. 4. List the components the SD module consists of.
    5. 5. What is the purpose of transaction code in SYSTEM?
    6. 6. What is meant by match code in SYSTEM?
    7. 7. Explain the three main areas of customer master data.
    8. 8. What is the purpose of Implementation Guide (IMG Menu) in the SYSTEM?
    9. 9. How will you maintain a company code in SYSTEM?
    10. 10. What do you mean by Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)?
    11. 11. List the advantages of implementing an ERP system in an organization.
    12. 12. Specify the role of the Sales and Distribution (SD) module in an ERP system.
    13. 13. Explain all modules in the system.
    14. 14. What are the application areas of the R/3 system?
    15. 15. What are the advantages of the R/3 system?
    16. 16. How does the R/3 system integrate all the application modules?
    17. 17. What are the functions of the R/3 system?
    18. 18. What is R/3 system landscape?
    19. 19. What are the databases supported by the SYSTEM R/3 system?
    20. 20. What is the role of an ABAPer in the SD module?
    21. 21. Who can be the business partner in SYSTEM?
    22. 22. Explain BADIs and its relevance.
    23. 23. How do you define BADIs?
    24. 24. What is the Quick Viewer?
    25. 25. What are System Query and InfoSets? How can you create InfoSets?
    26. 26. Which kinds of servers are used to define the functioning of a system?
    27. 27. What is the role of ERP in a business environment?
    28. 28. Define IDES.
    29. 29. What is R/3?
  6. CHAPTER 2 BASIC STRUCTURE—SD MODULE
    1. 1. What is a division in the Sales and Distribution module?
    2. 2. What do you mean by a sales office in the SD module?
    3. 3. What do you mean by a shipping point and loading point in the SD module?
    4. 4. What do you mean by the terms sales office, sales groups, and sales employee in the SD module?
    5. 5. How can you maintain a sales office and sales group in the system?
    6. 6. How can you define or create a shipping point?
    7. 7. What do you mean by business area and how can you assign a business area in the SD module?
    8. 8. What do the prefixes VA, VL, VT, and VF of a transaction code stand for?
    9. 9. What do the suffixes 01, 02, and 03 of a transaction code represent?
    10. 10. How can you configure the sales districts?
    11. 11. How can you assign a shipping point to a plant?
    12. 12. Suppose that a new info structure is created and the update rules are activated for it. How would you then transport it to a production client?
    13. 13. How is the company code created?
    14. 14. What is the relationship between sales organizations and company codes?
    15. 15. Give the name of the central organizational element used in purchasing.
    16. 16. What is the relationship between sales organizations or distribution channels and plants?
    17. 17. What is the relationship among sales organizations, plants, and company codes?
    18. 18. Mention the total number of the shipping points that can be assigned to a sales organization.
  7. CHAPTER 3 MASTER DATA MAINTENANCE
    1. 1. List the transaction codes used to create a customer in the SD module.
    2. 2. List the basic elements of a customer master record.
    3. 3. Which menu path is navigated to access the account groups defined in finance?
    4. 4. State a few examples of common material types.
    5. 5. List a few common material master views.
    6. 6. How can you create Customer-Material Info Records in the SD module?
    7. 7. Which transaction code and movement type helps in adding stock (from legacy stocks) for the newly created material type into a particular plant after creating a new material type in SYSTEM?
    8. 8. How can you define your own hierarchy types?
    9. 9. How will you create material in both company codes while working on inter company sales?
    10. 10. Which factors do you need to verify if the tax field in the customer master and material master is not displayed?
    11. 11. List the sequence of steps performed by the underlying system to determine tax number and tax classification.
    12. 12. How do you define tax relevancy of master records?
    13. 13. Imagine you are defining tax determination rule for a country which has regional tax code also. How will you define regional code?
    14. 14. What are the transaction codes that are used to create and change the customer master?
    15. 15. Which transaction code is used to view messages in SYSTEM?
    16. 16. What do you understand by transferring the legacy data to SYSTEM?
    17. 17. Specify a way to block the transaction for a material flagged for deletion.
    18. 18. List the master records from which a sales order receives the organizational data for a specific sales area.
    19. 19. Suppose you have to automatically transfer the payment method from customer master to sales order. How can you do that?
    20. 20. Which document do you use to enter shipping conditions and how are these conditions used in determining the shipping point?
    21. 21. Suppose that you have blacklisted a customer and now want to block that customer. How can you do that?
    22. 22. Give the menu path to define the customer hierarchy types.
    23. 23. Give the menu path to set the partner determination for hierarchy categories.
    24. 24. List the items for which you can define the customer hierarchy.
    25. 25. Give the menu path to assign a sales area to the customer hierarchy.
    26. 26. Give the menu path to assign the hierarchy type for pricing by sales documents to the customer hierarchy.
    27. 27. Give the menu path to define the product hierarchies.
    28. 28. Suppose that you create a new customer account group and the system increments it by an arbitrary value. What would you do?
    29. 29. What are the customer tables for SD module?
  8. CHAPTER 4 BASIC FUNCTIONS
    1. 1. List the standard output types in the Sales and Distribution module.
    2. 2. What do you mean by user exit?
    3. 3. What is the need of user exit?
    4. 4. What do you mean by rebate processing?
    5. 5. Imagine you are facing a problem with Logistics Information System (LIS), as a result of which, after client copy, your test system does not update LIS info structures. When you save a delivery, sales order, or billing document, an error message “update was terminated” is displayed. How can you resolve such a problem?
    6. 6. What do you mean by subtotals?
    7. 7. Imagine you have defined a condition type Z004 in accordance with the condition type K004. After creating the Z004 condition type, you try to create a condition record in transaction code VK31 in the section Discount/Surcharges > By Material. While creating a condition record in VK31, the error message “Table 304 is not defined for use with condition type ZEC1” is displayed. How you can resolve such an error?
    8. 8. How can you configure a distribution channel as a default in the transaction field that requires distribution channel data?
    9. 9. Can you perform an availability check on a plant by excluding a storage location?
    10. 10. What is the purpose of a rebate agreement?
    11. 11. List the transaction codes with respect to rebate agreement processing.
    12. 12. What do you mean by payment terms?
    13. 13. What is the purpose of condition indexes and how can you activate them?
    14. 14. What is the role of user exit?
    15. 15. Which transaction code is used to view enhancements in the system?
    16. 16. Which menu path should be followed to view all the enhancements in the system?
    17. 17. List user exits for partner determination.
    18. 18. How do you create user groups?
    19. 19. Describe the relevance of condition technique in sales and distribution (SD).
    20. 20. Which rounding rules are available in the course of maintaining condition types?
    21. 21. How do you begin with defining and assigning pricing procedures?
    22. 22. Imagine that you have allocated a discount condition type Z007. How will you create a condition record for this condition type?
    23. 23. List the sequence of steps used to customize pricing procedure.
    24. 24. What is the relevance of pricing procedure and how is it configured in the SD module?
    25. 25. Which topics in SD have impact on pricing procedure?
    26. 26. How do you activate pricing for item category?
    27. 27. Which menu path do you follow to activate cost determination for item category?
    28. 28. What is the relevance of the condition exclusion group?
    29. 29. How do you maintain condition exclusion group?
    30. 30. How do you assign condition types to the exclusion groups?
    31. 31. What do you understand by condition supplement?
    32. 32. Explain the tax determination process in brief.
    33. 33. How do you define tax determination rules in SD?
    34. 34. How do you define dependencies of revenue account determination?
    35. 35. How do you maintain requirement and formulas?
    36. 36. Where and when are requirements and data transfer routines available to be assigned within the system?
    37. 37. List the divisions of data transfer routines.
    38. 38. How do you define and assign account keys in SD?
    39. 39. How do you set price limits in SD?
    40. 40. Imagine you are maintaining a pricing procedure. In which circumstances will you use the “From” and “To” columns?
    41. 41. List the transaction codes related to condition record selection by condition type.
    42. 42. What is access sequence in material determination?
    43. 43. How do you maintain access sequence in material determination?
    44. 44. How do you define/maintain checking group?
    45. 45. How do you maintain condition type for material determination?
    46. 46. How do you maintain condition tables for material determination?
    47. 47. List the steps for a condition technique.
    48. 48. Explain material listing and exclusion.
    49. 49. Define Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Transfer of Requirements (TOR).
    50. 50. How do you configure transfer of requirements?
    51. 51. Differentiate individual and collective requirements.
    52. 52. List the key transaction codes relating to integration between logistics in MM and SD.
    53. 53. List a menu path to access stock requirements lists.
    54. 54. What are the data on which the transfer of requirement is dependent?
    55. 55. What are the criteria you need to ensure for the availability check and transfer of requirement to be carried out?
    56. 56. What are the requirement classes and requirement types?
    57. 57. How do you define requirement class?
    58. 58. What is requirement type?
    59. 59. List the search strategy that the underlying system uses to determine the requirement types.
    60. 60. Define the role of availability check in SD.
    61. 61. Define the types of availability checks.
    62. 62. What are the advantages of individual requirements over summarized requirement?
    63. 63. What is the disadvantage of individual requirement over summarized requirement?
    64. 64. How do you define/maintain procedure for each schedule-line category?
    65. 65. Which types of stock are available to select from while carrying out the availability check?
    66. 66. What is the relevance of the “Product allocation found changes to the confirmation” message?
    67. 67. What is the relevance of the “No feature combination exists …” message?
    68. 68. What is a change request? How is it done?
    69. 69. How is a request released?
    70. 70. What is automatic posting in FI?
    71. 71. What is the item category and the item category group?
    72. 72. What are outline agreements?
    73. 73. What is a quantity contract?
    74. 74. What activities are exempted from the quantity contracts?
    75. 75. How is a quantity contract created?
    76. 76. How can a quantity contract be set up?
    77. 77. Which are the contracts that appear in the Implementa tion Guide (IMG) menu?
    78. 78. Which table is used to list the partner functions in a delivery?
    79. 79. How is the pricing procedure determined? How can you define the right pricing procedure in the sales order?
    80. 80. How would you resolve the problem “MSWT is missing” even when it is present in the RVAA01 procedure?
    81. 81. How is the item text copied from sales order to delivery?
    82. 82. Why is text determination used in SD?
    83. 83. Why is the partner determination done in SD?
    84. 84. Why is the output determination used in SD module?
    85. 85. List the five important fields that need to be maintained during the account determination.
    86. 86. How is the pricing procedure determined?
    87. 87. What do you mean by the copy control?
    88. 88. Specify the purpose of maintaining the common distribution channels and the common divisions.
    89. 89. Why is availability check required?
    90. 90. Which kind of requirements does the checking group 01 and 02 represent?
    91. 91. Suppose in case of output determination, you have generated a condition table with a condition record. In the condition table, the access sequence is assigned to the output type. However, when a billing document is created, the blank output screen appears. During determination analysis, “Note 524 Access not made (Initialized Field)” error occurs. How can this error be resolved?
    92. 92. Which user exit can be used to copy data into the planning table?
    93. 93. List the forms of number ranges in SD.
    94. 94. What is the purpose of using copy control?
    95. 95. What is contract grouping?
    96. 96. Is it required to create a condition record for the customer and material defining the scale while creating the customer rebate?
    97. 97. How can you create a pricing procedure that calculates the price for the industrial customers when they also purchase the domestic goods?
    98. 98. How does the system show storage condition? How can the storage condition be defined?
    99. 99. Suppose that you have customized the customer’s credit limit in your company in such a way that when a customer exceed his/her credit limit, the system responds to you. What is the name of this management in SYSTEM, and what data do you use for this management?
    100. 100. Give the menu path to assign credit limit to customers.
    101. 101. In SYSTEM there is functionality, which is used to manage the customer credit limits. That functionality can be assigned with one or more company codes. By using the company code, the system decides that organizational unit when a sale occurs. What is the name of that functionality?
    102. 102. Give the menu path to create a credit control area.
    103. 103. Define the risk category.
    104. 104. Give the menu path to assign a company code to a credit control area.
    105. 105. Is it required to assign a sales area to a credit control area? If yes, then give the menu path to assign a sales area to a credit control area.
    106. 106. List the places where a credit check can occur.
    107. 107. List the credit management checks that the system uses to check the credit.
    108. 108. Suppose that you have to define the risk categories for various customers, then which system module you use to define the risk categories. Which menu path can you use to define the risk categories?
    109. 109. Once the risk categories are defined, you need to define the credit groups. Which system module do you use to define the credit groups? Give the menu path to define the credit groups.
    110. 110. Is it required to assign a credit group to the sales and delivery document types? If yes, then which menu path do you use to assign a credit group to the sales and delivery document types?
    111. 111. The automatic credit management is controlled by the combination of two items. What are those items and what is this control called? How can you maintain this control?
    112. 112. What is a static credit limit check?
    113. 113. What is dynamic credit check?
    114. 114. Give the menu path to define the forms of payment guarantee.
    115. 115. Give the menu path to configure the payment guarantee procedure.
    116. 116. Give the menu path to define a customer determination schema.
    117. 117. Give the menu path to define the document determination procedure.
    118. 118. Suppose you have to create a block to stop transferring the goods requirement from the sales document to the plant. Which block do you create for this purpose?
    119. 119. Give the menu path to define the status groups for the incompletion log.
    120. 120. List the items for which you can create incompletion logs.
    121. 121. Give the menu path to define incompletion procedures.
    122. 122. Is it possible to assign an incompletion procedure to an object? If yes, then give the menu path to assign an incomplete procedure to an object.
    123. 123. List the documents, activities, and records for which the system automatically determines partners.
    124. 124. Give the menu path to set up the partner determination.
    125. 125. Suppose you want the system to copy a text line from the customer master record to a sales document automatically. How can you make the system do that?
    126. 126. Give the menu path to configure the text determination procedure.
    127. 127. List the text objects for which the sales and distribution module is used in the text determination.
    128. 128. What is an output?
    129. 129. Give the menu path to maintain the output determination for the sales documents.
    130. 130. List the sales and distribution related output determination activities.
    131. 131. List the transaction codes to create, change, and display the output condition records.
    132. 132. Give the menu path to define forms.
    133. 133. Give the menu path to define the form texts.
    134. 134. How is the transaction code CTO4 related with characteristics?
    135. 135. What is excise tax, and how is it related to the system?
    136. 136. What are the pricing procedures of CIN?
    137. 137. How are the data related to excise registrations maintained?
    138. 138. How is the contract configuration setting opened?
    139. 139. What are the major settings in the contract configuration setting screen?
    140. 140. What is the service and maintenance process?
    141. 141. Which is the standard sales document type for the service contract?
    142. 142. What are service items?
    143. 143. What is a standard service item category?
    144. 144. What is the standard material type for service items?
    145. 145. What is the value contract?
    146. 146. What is an assortment module?
    147. 147. What is a master contract?
    148. 148. What is contract grouping?
    149. 149. What is referencing requirement?
    150. 150. How would you define referencing?
    151. 151. What is standard application logic?
    152. 152. What is workflow? Name the person who can assist you while configuring a workflow for a system.
    153. 153. What are scheduling agreements?
    154. 154. What is the planning delivery schedule?
    155. 155. What are the various sections of the planning delivery schedule?
    156. 156. What is a correction delivery?
    157. 157. How is the scheduling agreement created?
    158. 158. What is a rebate agreement?
    159. 159. How are the rebate agreement types defined?
    160. 160. What are the rebate argument types as per standard system guidelines?
    161. 161. List the components of rebate processing in System.
    162. 162. How can you define a change request? How can you release a saved change request?
    163. 163. Give the menu path to create the tax calculation procedure.
  9. CHAPTER 5 SALES
    1. 1. What do you understand by intercompany customers and one-time customers?
    2. 2. Explain the terms Minimum Order Quantity and Minimum Delivery Quantity.
    3. 3. Imagine you want to trace the changes made in the sales order in context of the changes to the partner function in the sales order. How can you do the same?
    4. 4. What is the difference between confirmed quantity and the order quantity?
    5. 5. How can you assign movement type?
    6. 6. What is the menu path to reject and cancel the sales order items?
    7. 7. How can you copy text from the sales order header to the billing document header?
    8. 8. Suppose, in a particular case, customer requirements for the sales order do not appear in the MD04 transaction. How can you resolve such a problem?
    9. 9. What transaction code is used for printing addresses or details of all customers at a single point of time?
    10. 10. What do you mean by backorder processing?
    11. 11. What is the functionality of the update button in the VA01 transaction at item level of conditions?
    12. 12. Describe the ways to include a new field in the VA01 sales order.
    13. 13. What is material determination?
    14. 14. How do you maintain substitution reasons?
    15. 15. How are the sales orders deleted?
    16. 16. What are the order and target quantities?
    17. 17. How can a release order be created?
    18. 18. Can you create more than one customer hierarchy for the same payer? If yes, then how?
    19. 19. A sales document is divided into three levels. List those three levels.
    20. 20. What is a sales order?
    21. 21. Write the statement to display your own error message when the selected batch is not available on a customer-defined table.
    22. 22. Define an item proposal.
    23. 23. What is a quotation?
    24. 24. When is the cash sale process used?
    25. 25. When is the rush order process used?
    26. 26. A pop-up screen appears with a message “for this customer there are open quotations”, when you create a sales order using VA01. How can you disable this pop-up?
    27. 27. Write down the steps to decide a fixed discount for all possible values. For example, for each $75, discount amount should be $5. It means for $150 the discount amount should be $10, for $225 the discount amount should be $15, and so on.
    28. 28. How can you assign a sales representative as a partner by using the MASS transaction?
    29. 29. How can you change a position in a sales order with bapi_Salesorder_change?
    30. 30. How can you update a system to generate an error message when a user tries to enter two sales orders with the same reference to the customer’s purchase order?
    31. 31. How can you issue items from a storage location that has negative stock?
    32. 32. Give the menu path to define shipping conditions using the sales document type.
    33. 33. What is the use of a loading group? How can you define the loading groups?
    34. 34. Define backward scheduling.
    35. 35. List the various business functions that are performed to meet the delivery date.
    36. 36. Suppose you have received a sales order on the 10 th and the requested delivery date for the material is the 17 th. When you check the stock, you find that the material is not available on the 10 th; rather, it is available on the 15 th. Now because the material is not available on the 10 th, you cannot deliver the material on the 17 th. On this condition, SYSTEM starts scheduling the process to find out the next earliest delivery date. What is this scheduling process called?
    37. 37. List the factors that need to be considered when deciding the routes.
    38. 38. Give the menu path to define the order block reason.
    39. 39. How can you create a list of the incomplete Sales documents?
    40. 40. List the activities for which you can set up the partner determination.
    41. 41. How is the consignment stock created?
    42. 42. What is the consignment stock?
    43. 43. What are the consignment steps?
    44. 44. How can you view the consignment stock allotted to the customer?
    45. 45. What is a consignment issue?
    46. 46. What is consignment returns?
    47. 47. Why is the consignment not returned into plant stock?
    48. 48. What is customer pick-up?
    49. 49. Name the standard overview for consignment.
    50. 50. How would you access the Display Consignment and Returnable Packaging at Customer overview?
    51. 51. What are sales document lists?
    52. 52. What are the common sales document and work lists?
    53. 53. What is the sales document status?
    54. 54. What are the fields of the processing status?
    55. 55. How can you configure a status profile?
    56. 56. How can you configure a status profile to sales documents?
    57. 57. How can you configure a status profile to item categories?
    58. 58. List the tables that are used to display the status of sales documents.
    59. 59. How will you define Incompleteness procedure?
    60. 60. What is general table display?
    61. 61. How is the sales document list configured?
    62. 62. What is document flow?
    63. 63. What are the sales document types?
    64. 64. What is sales order stock?
    65. 65. What is backorder processing?
    66. 66. What are the transaction codes used for backorder processing?
    67. 67. What is trading process?
    68. 68. What is third-party order process?
    69. 69. What is invoice verification? Name the transaction code for it.
    70. 70. What is product group?
    71. 71. Mention two ways to restrict a user from changing fields in VA02 transaction code.
    72. 72. How can you set the ZOBP condition type to allow only the positive values?
    73. 73. Mention the differences between the stock transfer among the plants that have the same company code and the plants that have different company codes.
    74. 74. Explain the relation between the MM, SD, and FICO modules.
    75. 75. List the various types of special stocks.
    76. 76. Give the document flow from Enquiry to Invoicing in SD.
  10. CHAPTER 6 SHIPPING
    1. 1. How can you link the Automatic Packing Procedure with the Delivery Type or Item category?
    2. 2. What is the most important concern that needs to be taken care of when creating delivery notes in different languages?
    3. 3. Define consumption modes.
    4. 4. How is the billing delayed to the next month in a delivery note?
    5. 5. What is the purpose of the shipping point determination?
    6. 6. An error V1032 occurs when we try to print the PL00 (packing slip in delivery). How can this error be avoided?
    7. 7. Write down the menu path for entering Shipping Point in Delivery from Sales Order.
    8. 8. What is the purpose of using the delivery process?
    9. 9. Can you create a delivery document with a reference?
    10. 10. Give the menu path to define delivery document types.
    11. 11. Which delivery document type can be created without reference to the sales order document?
    12. 12. Give the menu path to define the delivery item category.
    13. 13. Give the menu path to configure the delivery item category determination.
    14. 14. List the transaction codes to execute the delivery due list.
    15. 15. How do you describe a shipping point?
    16. 16. Give the menu path to determine the shipping point.
    17. 17. How can you transfer the stock in an organization from one plant to another under one company code?
    18. 18. Suppose that you do not have stock but you can successfully press PGI, which is wrong. How can you configure a system that cannot press PGI without stock?
    19. 19. Suppose that you have to view the serial number assigned in a delivery document. Which report can be used to view the serial number assigned in a delivery document?
    20. 20. In which document can you enter the serial number for material?
    21. 21. What is picking? How can you configure picking?
    22. 22. Why is warehouse management used? How are goods placed in the warehouse?
    23. 23. Why are delivery blocks used and how can they be configured?
    24. 24. Why is packing by item category used and how can it be configured?
    25. 25. What is special stock? Which transaction code is used to view the special stock?
    26. 26. Why is route determination required and how can it be defined?
    27. 27. Give the menu path to define the shipping blocks.
    28. 28. Why are the factory calendars used?
    29. 29. Give the menu path to define the customer calendars.
  11. CHAPTER 7 BILLING
    1. 1. Compare the milestone with periodic billing.
    2. 2. What happens if there is a negative posting in billing document?
    3. 3. Compare billing and invoice.
    4. 4. How can you print an invoice multiple times?
    5. 5. How can you view the due date of the invoice after making a delivery and invoice?
    6. 6. List a few commonly used sales documents that result in order-related billing.
    7. 7. What is the role of a pro forma invoice billing document?
    8. 8. What is the role of the cancellation invoice?
    9. 9. What is the role of an inter company invoice?
    10. 10. What is the difference between inter company sales and intra company sales?
    11. 11. What do you mean by invoice lists?
    12. 12. What is the difference between milestone billing and periodic billing?
    13. 13. How do you perform a price adjustment when you have inputted an incorrect price in a completed invoice receipt and invoice issue for STO? How is a subsequent credit and debit in SD created for a subsequent credit and debit in MM?
    14. 14. An accounting document is created when you release an invoice to accounting. Imagine that you have canceled the invoice. Is it then necessary for the account module to delete the respective accounting document?
    15. 15. List the user exits for self-billing.
    16. 16. Which setting is used to activate the account setting at the header and item level?
    17. 17. How can you send an invoice by e-mail?
    18. 18. How can you fix the error message “Error in account determination”?
    19. 19. Why is the account determination used by the system?
    20. 20. How can we combine non-inventory and inventory items in one invoice?
    21. 21. Describe two types of credit processes.
    22. 22. When is the debit process used?
    23. 23. What is an invoice correction request?
    24. 24. Give the menu path to define the billing blocks.
    25. 25. What are the FI entries that are posted at the time of PGI and billing?
    26. 26. Define dunning. What do you need to configure before dunning?
  12. CHAPTER 8 SALES RETURN, CREDIT, AND DEBIT MEMO
    1. 1. What is Sales Return?
    2. 2. What do you exactly mean by Credit Note and Debit Note?
    3. 3. Explain the system processing of Sales Return.
    4. 4. Is a shipping point assigned to a plant used during the process of Sales Return?
    5. 5. Can a Sales Return be denied for a credit note to a customer?
    6. 6. Can an additional scheme be issued to a customer through a credit note?
    7. 7. What is a Return invoice?
    8. 8. What is the process of charging the customer in the case that a customer does not return the returnable packaging material?
    9. 9. What is the effect of a sales return on the inventory of material?
    10. 10. How are the goods returned by the customer handled?
  13. CHAPTER 9 MISCELLANEOUS
    1. 1. Explain all the transaction codes related to the sales and distribution module.
    2. 2. Differentiate between the SD account key and FI account key.
    3. 3. What are the constituents of the organizational data in the System?
    4. 4. Why is an outbound delivery, not Provides, the functionality to created by using the VL10D transaction code, even though STO Provides is the functionality to created? When you check STO, the delivery creation date is blank. What can be the cause this problem?
    5. 5. Imagine that you are implementing R/3 in an auction services company. You have two alternatives to treat the services: First is to treat business units as distribution channels and service types as division; second is to use a dummy distribution channel and treat business units as divisions. However, there are problems associated with each alternative. The problem with the first alternative is increasing Sales area number and that master data has to be extended across the Sales areas. The problem with the second alternative is to have different pricing for the same order type. What is the appropriate solution in such a situation?
    6. 6. Imagine you want to save a display variant under the SDO1 transaction code by using the Settings > Provides functionality to display Variants menu path. However, you are not able to save display variant as the save option is disabled. What would you do in such a situation?
    7. 7. How can you change the sales document type of a sales order once you have saved it?
    8. 8. What are the different ways of getting sales output with respect to the sales organization of customers?
    9. 9. Explain the origin of SYSTEM R/3.
    10. 10. Imagine that you are using the Provides functionality to create a quotation for a particular enquiry and try to change the configuration in the quotation. Will you be able to change it? If yes, then explain how you can change the configuration in the quotation.
    11. 11. Which concepts of the SD module are crucial while implementing pricing requirement and formulas?
    12. 12. Define the Determination Procedure.
    13. 13. Is it possible to change the Pricing Procedure once the document is prepared?
    14. 14. A free item that was scheduled to be delivered with the BOM item was not actually delivered, but indicated in the delivery status as delivered. Also, the initial number of free item is 0. How can it be resolved?
    15. 15. Suppose you have two condition types for cost in which one is VPRS and another is customized. The values of both condition types are correctly determined in the sales order. Now suppose that you have to provide the functionality to create the delivery and the billing document, but when you provide the functionality to create them the condition type VPRS is found incorrect with the value “0”. What is the reason behind this?
    16. 16. Give the menu path to include the condition type Z928 in the pricing procedure ZCS928.
    17. 17. The discount given previously for each characteristic may vary from customer to customer. Is there any way to find out how to configure this?
    18. 18. Suppose you are working in area menu maintenance, SE43, where you provide the functionality to create a copy of COND_AV (standard for maintaining condition records in SD) as ZCOND_AV. You have also changed its description, but in the area menu the changed description does not appear. How can you change the description of the area menu maintenance?
    19. 19. Imagine that you have two company codes and a new info structure SOO4 that you have to fill with the data of the first company code. However, at the same time the data from the second company code is also available. How can you stop updating the new info structure with the data of the second company code?
    20. 20. What kind of records are updated by the system when you post goods issued in a delivery?
    21. 21. Why is the automatic credit management done?
    22. 22. Which block is used to prevent the system from creating deliveries by using the delivery-due list function?
    23. 23. Which block stops the System from creating the picking list?
    24. 24. List the most frequently used transaction codes in SD.
    25. 25. How is the sales document list configured?
    26. 26. What are the sales object types?
    27. 27. What are sales document lists?
    28. 28. When and how is blocking of sales process used? What are the transaction codes used for this purpose?
    29. 29. What is the transaction code that can be used to delete a sales order?
    30. 30. What is the transaction code to delete an invoice?
    31. 31. List the ERP packages available in the market.
    32. 32. Define the term consignment stock.
    33. 33. Differentiate between the contract agreement and the scheduling agreement.
    34. 34. What do you mean by availability check?
    35. 35. Explain the following terminologies used in the availability check process in the SD module: Backorder Processing, Rescheduling, Availability to Promise, and Replenishment Lead Time.
    36. 36. Explain the basic elements to be configured during the availability check process.
    37. 37. What do you mean by cross-company stock transfer?
    38. 38. List the conditions needed to perform transfer of requirements.
    39. 39. Specify the menu path to display stock requirement list.
    40. 40. Explain the functions controlled by the help of a blocking indicator.
    41. 41. List the tables used in the SD module.
    42. 42. Explain the five views of the customer-credit master record.
    43. 43. What is a credit-control area, and how is it related to company codes?
    44. 44. Specify the highest level of organizational units in the SD, MM, PP, FI, and CO modules.
    45. 45. Explain the views of the material master record.
    46. 46. What is the difference between an inquiry and quotation?
    47. 47. Explain the five types of messages in the mySAP ERP system.
    48. 48. Explain the possible units of measurement that can be used for a material.
    49. 49. Why are different item and schedule-line categories used?
    50. 50. List the archiving objects for the following objects in the SD module: Sales documents, Billing Documents, Sales activities, Rebate agreements and relevant conditions, Conditions, and Customer master data.
    51. 51. List the tables from where the system archives data when you use the SD_VBAK archiving object.
    52. 52. List the functions and their report programs available for the SD_VBAK object.
    53. 53. List the tables from where the system archives data when you use the SD_VBRK archiving object.
    54. 54. List the functions and their report programs available for the SD_VBRK object.
    55. 55. List the tables from which the system archives data when you use the SD_VBKA archiving object.
    56. 56. List the functions and their report programs available for the SD_VBKA object.
    57. 57. List the tables from which the system archives data when you use the SD_AGREEM archiving object.
    58. 58. List the functions and their report programs available for the SD_AGREEM object.
    59. 59. List the tables from which the system archives data when you use the SD_COND archiving object.
    60. 60. List the functions and their report programs available for the SD_COND object.
  14. GLOSSARY
  15. QUESTION INDEX
    1. Chapter 1: Introduction to SD Module
    2. Chapter 2: Basic Structure—SD Module
    3. Chapter 3: Master Data Maintenance
    4. Chapter 4: Basic Functions
    5. Chapter 5: Sales
    6. Chapter 6: Shipping
    7. Chapter 7: Billing
    8. Chapter 8: Sales Return, Credit, and Debit Memo
    9. Chapter 9: Miscellaneous

Product information

  • Title: SAP® SD Questions and Answers
  • Author(s): Kogent Learning Solutions Inc.
  • Release date: September 2009
  • Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett Learning
  • ISBN: 9780763783037