Important T-codes in SAP MM

Material Master:
MM01	Create Material master
MM02	Change Material master
MM03	Display material master
MM50	Extend Material views
MMPV	Close periods for Materials
MM06	Flag for deletion- Material
MM17	Mass maintenance- Material
MM71	Archive/ Delete Material
MM72	Display archive
Vendor Master
MK01	Create Vendor (Purchasing)
MK02	Change venor (Purchasing)
MK05	Vendor block (Purchasing)
XK01	Create Vendor (Central)
XK02	Change venor (Central)
XK05	Vendor block (Central)
XK06	Flag for deletion (Central)
XK99	Mass maintenance (vendor record)
Info Record
ME11	Create Info record
ME12	Change Info record
ME15	Flag for deletion
MEMEASSIN	PI record Mass maintenance
Source List
ME01	Maintain source list
ME0M	Maintain source list- By material
ME05	Generate source list
ME06	Analyze source list
ME07	Recognize source list
Quota Arrangement
MEQ1	Maintain quota arrangement
MEQM	Maintain quota arrangement- By material
MEQ6	Analyze quota arrangement
MEQ7	Delete quota arrnagement
MEQ8	Monitor quota arrangement
Batch Data
CT04	Define batch characteristics
CL02	Define batch classes
MSC1N	Create batch
MSC2N	Change and classify batch
Message Conditions
MN01	Create message condition(RFQ)
MN02	Change message condition(RFQ)
MN04	Create message condition(PO)
MN05	Change message condition(PO)
MN06	Display message (PO)
MN07	Create message condition(Scheduling agreement)
MN08	Change message condition(Scheduling agreement)
MN10	Create message condition (delivery schedule)
MN11	Change Message condition(delivery schedule)
Reorder point planning
MD14	Convert planned order to purchase requisition
MD15	collective conversion to purchase requisition
MD12	Delete individual planned Order
MD20	Create planning file entries
MDAB	Planning file entries in the background
MD01	Total Planning (Online)
MDBT	Total Planning (Background))
MD03	Single item,single level planning
MD08	MRP Recognisation list
Requisition
ME51N	Create requisition
ME52N	Change requisition
ME53N	Display requisition
MEMASSRQ	Mass maintenance requisition
ME56	Assign source of supply to the requisition
ME57	Assign and process
Request for Quotation (RFQ)
ME41	Create RFQ
ME42	Change RFQ
ME43	Display RFQ
ME9A	Print RFQ
ME47	Maintain quotation
ME49	Price comparison
Scheduling Agreement
ME31L	Create Scheduling agreement
ME32L	Change Scheduling agreement
ME9L	Print Scheduling agreement
ME38	Maintain delivery schedule
ME9E	Print delivery schedule
Purchase Order(PO)
ME58	Create PO via assignment
ME59N	Create PO automatically from purchase requisition
ME21N	Create PO
ME22N	Change PO
ME9F	Print PO
MEMASSPO	PO Mass maintenance
Goods Receipt:
MIGO	Good Receipt
	Goods Issue
	Stock Transfers
Invoice Matching
MIRO	Enter Invoice and Maintenance
MRBR	Release blocked invoices
MR8M	Cancel Invoice
Stock Movements
MB1A	Goods Issues
MBST	Cancel/ Reverse goods movement
MB1B	Transfer Postings (Stock and status)
Consignment Stocks
MRKO	Consignment settlement
Physical Inventory
MI01	Create count document
MI02	Change count document
MI21	Print physical inventory document
MI04	Enter count
MI05	Change count
MI11	Recount
MI07	Post differences
MI20	Differences list

SAP Interview Questions and Answers

1. What is the purpose of text determination, account determination, partner determination, output determination, and storage location determination?

Answer1:

Text determination: For transferring information from material or customer to order / delivery or invoice (and anything in between)

Account determination: For transferring financial and costing information to proper financial docs

Partner determination: For determine who is legally responsible for A/c, who the goods are going to and whatever else you waana drive through this functionality.

Output determination: What kind output does a sales/delivery/billing document create and who gets it, where?

For example A partner might get an EDI notification for a sales order just confirmed, whereas a financial/leasing company gets the invoice!

Answer 2:

(a) Text Determination: Any Texts in Material Master/Material Determination/Order/Delivery , etc is meant to convey messages to the subsequent documents for compliance. e.g. “Give Top Priority” message mentioned in Order is meant for Production Dept.

(b) Account Determination: is integration between Finance and SD. The A/P along with Account Keys need to be allocated accordingly with combination of Account Determination Group for Customer and Material if required.

(c) Partner Determination: To identify which type of Partner it is so that if required for same Customer different Partner Functions may be required (Ex. Only One Sold To Party per Customer. More than One Ship to Party / Bill to Party / Payer possible. Accordingly different Masters will have to be created. Useful for Despatch of Material in case of Ship to Party, sending Bill in case of Bill to Party and payment follow-up / Dunning in case of Payer.

(d) Output Determination: What type of Output (Fax/Mail, etc) is required, where and in what Format (ABAP Customization may be required in some cases especially Invoices).

(e) Storage Location Determination: depends on Plant, Shipping Point and Storage Conditions

2. What are the five imp fields to be maintained in account determination?

Account Determination: Sales View, Sales Organisation, Distribution Chanel, Chart of Accounts, Account Assignment Group for Customer and Material and Account Keys.

3. What is meant by transfer of data from legacy code to sap Legacy Code?

Answer1:

It should be legacy data to SAP. What it means is you want to transfer all customer and materials and all other information from Older (legacy system) to new SAP system. You can do it using many tools, most noticeably MDMs.

Answer2:

Before installation of SAP, Data maintained by Company is called Legacy Data. At the time of installation, it is required to transfer Data from Legacy to SAP like Masters (Material/Customer, etc). It can be done in various ways like BDC, LSMW, etc.

4. What do you do really in pricing determination and what are the main differences between pricing procedures?

Answer1:

Pricing is determined by combination of Sales Organisation, Distribution Channel, Division, Customer Pricing Procedure and Document Pricing Procedure.

Answer2:

We determine how the prices are calculated, taking into account sales area(sales org, distribution channel, division), document type and customer(generally sold-to-party).

The main differences between pricing procedures would be the differences as mentioned above, from the point of view of field entries. Coming to the output and the procedure, suppose the condition types used will be different and hence the following whole procedure. One pricing procedure determination to the others, which data control these differences

SAP Interview Questions

1.    What is ERP? –

ERP is a package with the techniques and concepts for the integrated management of business as a whole, for effective use of management resources, to improve the efficiency of an enterprise. Initially, ERP was targeted for manufacturing industry mainly for planning and managing core business like production and financial market. As the growth and merits of ERP package ERP software is designed for basic process of a company from manufacturing to small shops with a target of integrating information across the company.

2.    Different types of ERP?

SAP, BAAN, JD Edwards, Oracle Financials, Siebel, PeopleSoft. Among all the ERP most of the companies implemented or trying to implement SAP because of number of advantages over other ERP packages.

3.    What is SAP?

 SAP is the name of the company founded in 1972 under the German name (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is the leading ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software package.

4.    Explain the concept of “Business Content” in SAP Business Information Warehouse?

 Business Content is a pre-configured set of role and task-relevant

information models based on consistent Metadata in the SAP Business Information Warehouse. Business Content provides selected roles within a company with the information they need to carry out their tasks. These information models essentially contain roles, workbooks, queries, InfoSources, InfoCubes, key figures, characteristics, update rules and extractors for SAP R/3, mySAP.com Business Applications and other selected applications.

5.    Why do you usually choose to implement SAP?

There are number of technical reasons numbers of companies are planning to implement SAP. It’s highly configurable, highly secure data handling, min data redundancy, max data consistency, you can capitalize on economics of sales like purchasing, tight integration-cross function.

6.    Can BW run without a SAP R/3 implementation?

 Certainly. You can run BW without R/3 implementation. You can use pre-defined business content in BW using your non-SAP data. Here you simply need to map the transfer structures associated with BW data sources (InfoCubes, ODS tables) to the inbound data files or use 3rd part tool to connect your flat files and other data sources and load data in BW. Several third party ETL products such as Acta, Infomatica, DataStage and others will have been certified to load data in BW.

7.    What is IDES?

International Demonstration and Education System. A sample application provided for faster learning and implementation.

SAP MM Interview

Q.1 What is meant by scales? 

We can fix a price in the info record for range of qty from 1-100 prices Rs.100 & if the order qty is 101- 500- the prices is Rs.90.

Also scales cannot be used directly in PO but can be pulled into the PO from various master data like info record, quota arrangement etc.

Q.2 What is the procedure to delete materials permanently from Material Master? The process for deleting the materials permanently from material master is by using transaction code MM70 and the navigation is:

Material Master>Other>Reorganization>Material>Choose

Then build variant with selection range of material master records to be selected for deletion and maintain run parameters and then execute.

Using Transaction Code MM71 navigates as follows:

 Material Master>Other>Reorganization

Then build the second variant, maintain run parameters and execute.

It is also important to remove the records manually form info records, PO, PR reservation etc for successful deletion of the material.


Q.3 What MRP procedures are available in MM Consumption Based Planning (CBP)?
Various material planning methods are used in MRP (Material Requirements Planning):

1. Reorder point procedure
2. Forecast-based planning  

3. Time-Phased materials planning

These are specified in material creation (MM01) under the MRP 1 tab.


Q.4 Explain the function OBYC?

The Function OBYC stands for Configure Automatic Postings. When the system settings are entered for the Inventory Management and Invoice Verification transactions the automatic posting to G/L accounts. Postings are made to G/L accounts automatically in the case of Invoice Verification and Inventory Management where the transactions are relevant to Financial and Cost Accounting.

SAP Interview Questions

Q.1 What is account modifier in SAP?

Ans: It is a key used in automatic account determination. This subdivides a transaction into sub accounts with the help of three posting keys: GBB, KON, PRD

Q.2 Describe about cut over process in sap.

Ans.           In cut over activity of MM,             1.Upload the Material Master.             2.Upload the Vendor Master.             3.Upload the Excise Master.             4.Upload the Excise Register.             5.Upload the Open P.O.,Shed. Agreement,Contract,Invoice Receipt. Q.3 What is the step by step process in MRP? Ans.            There is different steps in MRP:                 1.  Activate MRP in your plant.                 2.  Create Master Data for MRP (Planning Calender, Quota Setting)                 3. Create Material Master with Views                      like General data 1, Purchasing, MRP1, MRP2,    Accounting 1.                4.In MRP1 fill the following data                     (lot size - EX, Reorder Point, Safety stock, Planning Calender etc).                5. In MRP2 fill the following data (Plan delivery time) and                      after filling the other views save the materials master.               6.  Go to Transaction Code MD03 to run thr MRP.               7.Go to Transaction Code MD04 to view the requirement. Q.4 State the movement type in SAP which does not have a reversal movement type. Ans.           Movement type 121 does not have reversal movement type. 121.         Movement type is used for   Subsequent adjustment for subcontracting         This movement type cannot be entered manually.          With a subsequent adjustment for a subcontract order it is possible to correct the consumption of                 components. In this case, the material produced by the supplier is credited with the excess consumption under-consumption. For this reason, if there is a subsequent adjustment, an item is generated for the produced material using movement movement type 121. Q.5 Explain the purpose of using document types in SAP Ans.         In SAP Document Type defines different methods or procedures for a transaction.         For Example:           Purchase Order is transaction in SAP, but it can be done for different process so there are many                  document type in ME21N, like standard, framework order, stock transport order, dummy purchase order etc. So in different document type we can perform different type of function for a single transaction. Likewise above example there are many type of document in GR and IR. Q.6 We want to change some data like price, data etc in created purchase order. But system is not allowing the same.As a support SAP MM functional consultant what you would do? Ans.        There are settings available in release indicator, saying that, no changes can be applicable once released. If u do want to do changes, you need to set the release indicator settings as 'CHANGEABLE AFTER RELEASE' option Q.7 What is the interaction between SAP MM and ABAP consultant and how do they interact? Ans.          SAP MM Consultant & SAP ABAP Consultants interact with each other mainly for development of smart forms like P.O, Scheduling agreement,contract etc as well as for client specific and non specific reports. Q.8 State basic data required to create PO.What do you maintain in purchasing info record? Ans. Basic data required to create PO is as follows:           Suppier name and address           Item description, Unit of Measurement           Total PO Quantity Unit rate,           Delivery address, payment terms Q.9 In purchase Info records information of different suppliers of the particular item are maintained.        What are basic tables in material master? State the difference between MARA and MARK? Ans. Some of tables used in material master and their explanaion.           MAKT-Material Descriptions           MARA- General Material Data           MARD- Storage Location Data for Material           MAST- Material to BOM Link           MVER- Material Consumption           MVKE- Sales Data for Material           MARC- Plant Data for Material Q.10 Where you maintain in material master the multiple units of measures? Ans.  In  material master, multiple units of measure are maintained in additional data under units of measure tab For More Questions and Answers click on Read more below.