SAP SD Questions part -2

1.What are the responsibilities of a functional consultant in an implementation project?
a) Responsibilities in implemention project 
- Preparing the functional specification documents.
- Review and approval of functional specifications.
- Designing a road map and setting approval from client.
- Changing existing configuration whenever needed.
- Setting up configuration for new enhancements.
- Handling basic issues of MM module.
b)Responsibilities in support project
- Handling customization, configuration, and enhancement related issues 
- Handling tickets on Day to Day basis
- Monitoring S&D reports on daily basis required by clients
- Preparing functional specification documents 
- Preparing end user training Documents 
2.What are the responsibilities of a technical consultant in an implementation project?
Preparation of techinical specifications, getting apporvals from functional consultant and PM,assitance to functioal consultant.
3.What are the main and sub modules in SAP?
MM,FICO,PP,ABAP
4.What is ERP and SAP?and why inplementing SAP in an organization? Explain the special features of SAP over other
ERPs?
SAP is an ERP package.  SAP can be fit it any language.  It is used to get exact data with a fraction of section which will be use fully for management to take correct decision in a short span of time.  Using of sap means there is no need to maintain the
middle management in the organization because the CEO of the company is able to direct the executives direcltly with the system.  SAP is able to integrate all functional organizational units togethere and retrieve exact data needed by management. Therefore, investing on middle management will become less. and the user will be able to acess instance reports using the logistic informaion systems in SAP.
5.Explain the business flow of an implementation project?
- Project prepration
- Business blue prints
- Fit gap analysis
- Realization
- Golive
- Support
6.Explain breifly about your role in current/previous project? (If you have one)
Team member
7.Explain your functional experience prior to SAP?
For this yo will give explanation depends of your previous experience.
8.Can you explain the modern technologies in SAP?  Do you use this in your current project?
I think the ans is APO, BW, CRM, if its wrong pls guide me any body.
9.Explain the terms "AS IS" and "FIT GAP ANALYSIS"?
Business blue print stage is called as is process.  Fit gap means, before implementing the SAP all the business data is in the form of documents, we cannot keep this data as is in the SAP.  There should be a gap.  So by filling this gap, we make configuration with the help of these documents.  This is called as fit gap analysis.  In this stage, we should analysis the gap between as is and is as process
10.What are the responsibilities of "CORE TEAM" and "FUNCTIONAL TEAM" in an implementation?
Core Team are the power users who are selected for the SAP implementation.  The Functional Team gather the initial implementation requirement from these core team users who will be the bridge between the SAP Functional Team and their department users with the expert work knowledge.

1. What exactly is automatic posting can you explain?
1. Automatic posting could be, posting of accounting documents to FICO once invoice is created which can also be controlled manually. Automatiaclly detremine the freight while pricing in ship doc. and post to the relevant account to fico. usually automatic posting is posting of documents to FICO based on variuos account keys and account groups. 
2. How many clients we will create in land scape (like in  development server, quality server, production server ) 
    if we are creating more than one in each server what is exact use of that client.
2. Client landscape : Basic layout : dev -testing- production also 
- Sandbox env. for trial and error 
- Development env. for actaully creating transports(CTS)
- Global env.  If you have global implementations at different client locations (eg; canada, US, UK) (for testing purposes with actual master dataas well)
- Testing env.(for regression testing purposes before moving to prodcution, integration etc..)
- Prod. env. the actual production system 
The clients could be variable and could be created to a specific env. usually a dev. where abap, functional would mess around. say :
    client 100-functinal consultants
    client 300- abapers
    client 400- other users(like super etc)
3. How we will configure export sales in sd (respect to plants assign  and sales process)?
4. How we can do invoice split depending on item category in which scenario we will use?
4. You first need to go for copying controls either from sales to billing (invoice) or delivery to billing or billing to billing
use transactions (vtaa,vtaf,vtla,vtfa,vtfl,vtff) all possibilities for copy controls. this basicly is flow of doc to doc. (may it be sales to billing, del to bil, or bil to bil etc..)
-> this is where you see the Item category and you control whether split is possible or not with the indicator"B". eg:  representing split in invoice based on item category.  The field here "data VBRK/VBRP" (headre/item)whcih actually is used for splits or combining different deliveries. create a splitting rule using VOFM (you need access key to get here).  Here you define comparisions for the fields at header table and item tables and the comparision fields say  SPART"division". "purchase order "BSTKD Instance: 5 sales orders combined into 2 deliveries and the split at the invoice would be 5 individual billing with respect to fields PO and DIv. of each sales order would let you create 5 billings. You need to define the exact "field" in the comparisions both at header and item level that could lead to invoice split. the key here is the field that is different
from header to item will cause split at the item level. 
5. Can any one explain how we will configure milestone billing , periodic billing and which scenario we will use?
5. Menu path:
IMG->sales &distr->Billing->billing plans->define billing plan types.
You set the start date and end dates if applicable to the type of billing you are using. What time to be billed (end of month, start of month etc..) 
Milestone is a billing plan type where a customer is billed for the amount distributed between the dates until total value is reached eg: if the total billing amountis 1000 USD for a year.  You will bill the customer in different amounts say 200, 500, 300 at different intervals as per customer agreement. 
On the other hand Periodic billling is billing the customer for the total amount(here 1000 USD) at regular intervals peridically until the customer agreement is reached. eg: 1000/12 for a 1 year agreement and say billed at the 1st day of every month. 
6. What are some pricing routines and sd functional specs?
6. Form routines for prcing and variuos other functions can be maintained form routines are something todo with ABAP code.
Go to (VOFM) where all requrements whcih are represented by form routines can be maintained.  Requrements are available to be assigned where access sequenses are used (for determination procedures, here pricing). 
Once the tcode VOFM is accessed you will see requrements and go select "pricing" again you need access key to create your own or copy a routine. 
Say you want header price not to have effect the item pricing, you need to go to the program to change abap code to meet the requirement. this specific requirement you created will be assigned in the pricing proc. determination "requirements field"
usaully with a number beyond 600.   Note: make sure you activate your routine for its effect to take place.
What is the movement type you used in consignment process?
 ### 632, 633, 634, 631
   
Can team size be 40 in a project? Is there any generalized team size no. for any project? If we tell my team size is 40 in that what no. we can say sd people are? 
 ## Team size cant be forty, Theres no genralized size of team. Never 
40 sd consultants work together on same project. 
   
What is ALE?
 ## Application Linking and Enabling - Generally ABAPers work on it.
   
What is meant by condition technique: can we say it is the combination of condition types, access sequence and condition tables? 
 ## yes
   
Where do we can find pricing procedure indicator in sd ?
 ## Pricing procedure is where we maintain all Conditions (like PR00, K004, mwst, kp00, etc) 
   
Where do we assign calender in the master records?
 ##  In IMG screen Global Settings.
   
What is the importance of customer account groups?
 ## We maintain the customer account to maintain payment terms and incoterms. Lets say, if SP is only booking order but the goods should deliver in foreign country and for which SP is not going to bare the excise and other taxes then the SH party or payer will tke teh responsibity then the tax is calculated based on account groups.
   
What are incoterms? Where do we fix them? Where do you find in regular process?
 ## Incoterms or international comm. terms and u find in CMR - Sales area Data - billing Tab.
   
How can you make some of the fields as key field in generic tables?
 ## Some fields in all tables have a indicator on it.To see, then go to SE11, display VBAK, u will find MANDT on top, if you see after description 2 tick marks, those are key fields.  Gernerally, these key fields are used in writing any Program or Interface. The key fields will extract data of non key fields . 
   
What is the standard group condition routine in condition type, what is its importance?
 ## Its better u read Group Conditions in PR00.
   
How do you control entry possibility of condition values at order through condition type settings?
 ## You can maintain the maximum and minimum value for all conditions.
   
What are the customizing settings in pricing procedure for tax condition type?
 ## Check out the standard pricing procedure RVAA01 - MWST.
   
A bunch of data need to be imported. A huge no.of creations are required, how it is possible in SAP?
 ## thru LSMW, BAPI.
   
What is the difference between PGI cancellation and returns order?
 ## PGI cancellation is done before the transportation of goods. But return order means its already transported reached customer during transit if materil is spoiled or broke or the goods r not delivered as per customer requested date.then customer send the goods baack to company.
   
What is the integrated areas in SD AND FI, SD AND MM, SD AND PP in both implementation and support projects?
 ## SD & FI - Possible in Account Determination, for posting the conditions to revelant G/l account like all prices goes to one particular g/l account. Also in Credit Management, Taxes.
   
  SD & MM - Possible in Batches, Material Requirement Planning.
   
  SD & PP - Possible in Material Requirement planning.



Master Data
Q: Some materials have been blocked for procurement and production. Even though deletion flag is set for a material/plant level, the order can be still entered ( with a warning message). Is there a way to block such transactions for a material flagged for deletion?
A: Sales Status field in the sales organization view of the material master may be used to block any transaction for the material.
 
Q: We can define our own exchange rate types and use them instead of the defaulted types, 'M', 'B' and 'G'. How can we overwrite default types in SD?
A: Exchange rate gets copied from the customer master record. Exchange rate types are to be maintained for the customer in the sales screen of the customer master record.

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Shipping
Q: The PL00 condition is fine in delivery. But when we try to print to either the screen or printer, an error V1032 occurs. Why?
A: In order to use the Packing list PL00 (packing slip in delivery) you must do 'Packing' in the delivery note (edit->packing)
 
Q: we have to enter a shipping point while creating a delivery. Is it possible to create delivery without shipping points?
A: When you are releasing a sales order, choose Sales document -> Subsequent functions-> Create delivery, then the shipping point will be brought in from the sales order. In all other scenarios you have to key in the shipping point. The above described scenario will only work if all items on the sales order are to be shipped from the same shipping point. 

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Billing 
Q: SAP allows a non-inventory item and an inventory item to be in the same document till delivery but splits at the time of creation of billing document. Can we combine a non-inventory item with an inventory item in one invoice? Can we treat it as a value item in sales order so that it is priced and then make it as a text item in delivery documents so that it appears in the same invoice and does not split? 
A1: Make the non-stock material deliverable, but not pickable. Both items will carry into the delivery, and therefore appear on the same invoice.
A2: Change the copy rule for orders->invoices and deliveries->invoices to specify that invoice combination is permitted. However note that for system to create combined invoices, PO number, payment terms, sales organization, and distribution channel must be identical. Else undesirable combinations may be created by the system.

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Pricing Conditions
Q: It is impossible to price at the material level (matnr) , when a material has a pricing reference (mvke-pmatn) set up against it in the master data. Pricing always look for the pref, even if a price is set up against the material and not the pref. How can weprice by material and pref?
A: The field used to look up at the price is defined in Access sequence. You may find a step with PMATN as material number. If you insert a step with MATNR then the system will first look for the material, if not found (use the exclusion tick box) it will look for the pref.

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Customizing
Q: We generated a new condition table. Assigned the condition to access sequence. Created a condition record. Access sequence is assigned to the output type. But when we create a billing document, output screen comes up blank for the output type. When we look up Determination Analysis, we get an error "Note 524 Access not made (Initialized Field)". What else is required to be done?
A: Assign output determination procedure to the header of the document and the output type.
Q: How can we set up to have the VAT# be accepted in the Ship-To Master File Data Control screen?
A: IMG->Fin. Acct.->AR and AP ->Customer acct->Master Record -> Prepare to Create Customer-> Define Acct. Group.
Q: We want to explode Bill of Material automatically at time of Order entry and explode an Equipment BOM in the sales order. What are the setting required?
A: Use an item category that is configured for bills of material for having a sales BOM to explode automatically. 
Standard SAP item categories are :
TAQ - Pricing and inventory control take place at the BOM header level
TAP - Pricing and inventory control take place at the BOM item level
These can be automatically derived using the item category groups ERLA and LUMF, respectively.
Q: How can we make the Customer Group 1 (or 2, 3, 4, 5) a mandatory field?
A: Logistic General-> Logistics Basic Data: Business Partners -> Customers -> Control -> Define account groups and field selection for customer
Choose Customer Acct. GR. (double-click). -> Field Status: Sales data (double click) -> sales (double click) .Check the radio button against Customer Gr as REQ. ENTRY. Save the settings to make customer GR entry mandatory .
Q: Is there an user exit to copy the data into planning table?
A: Use user exit MCP20001 and include ZXSOPU01.

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Others
Q: We get a report screen: "Goods issue: Problem Log" during the delivery process when activating Post Goods Issue button. We want to include our own error message to this list if the selected batch is not on a customer defined table. What is the best way?
A: Try User exit - USEREXIT_SAVE_DOCUMENT_PREPARE