Chapter 2 - Data in an Enterprise System

Question 1

What are the functions performed in a plant? (4)

Answer 1

1. Products and services are created
2. materials are stored and used for distribution
3. Production planning is carried out
4. service or maintenance is performed

Question 2

What are the 4 most common material types and its SAP acronym

Answer 2

Raw materials (ROH)
semifinished  (HALB)
finished goods (FERT)
trading goods  (HAWA)

Question 3

What are some examples of transaction data?

Answer 3

comibation of org data, master data, and situational data, like who, who, when and where

Question 4

3 types of traction documents - what are they?

Answer 4

FI documents,
CO documents,
materials documents

they are virtual docs because they reside in the ES and are printed only occasionally

Question 5

2 reporting options - what are they

Answer 5

1. simple lists in the transactional environment (OLTP online transaction processing)
2. analytics (OLAP online analytic processing)