Livre BOB - Question Chapter 7 Material Planning Flashcards
At which organizational level is material planning generally performed?
Plant
What are the elements that represent master data required in Materials Planning
BOM - Routing - Materials
Which of the following represent required views in the material master record for Material Planning?
Accounting Forecasting MRP Work Scheduling QM
MRP
Explain how each of the following fields in the material master is used:
MRP Type
Procurement Type
Strategy Group
MRP Type: Determines how MRP will plan materials
Procurement type: Determines whether the material is internally or externally produced
Strategy group: Determines how independent requirement behave - that it, if a sale occurs, is it treated as a forecast sales or a new sales. This has an impact on how material requirement is calculated.
When creating a material master record, you assign a material type. Which of the following are valid material types?
In house production Operating supplies Raw material Finished good Externally procured
Operating supplies
Raw material
Finished good
What does the material type determine?
What views are displayed for maintaining the material
How the material number is assigned
All BOM master records in SAP are single-level?
True.
A component in a BOM may also contain its own BOM master record, allowing the user to see a multi-level BOM report.
What is the difference between the header quantity and the component quantities in the BOM?
Head quantity = defines how many or how much of the header item will be produced.
Component quantities indicate how many or how much of each of the component items are needed to make the quantity specified in the header.
In SAP it is possible for a material to have multiple BOMs. These are refered to as versions. Explain
Many BOMs may exist for the same material. This allows flexibility of producing different output batches of the same material. Also, different plants use different sets of materials to produce the same product.
What does the BOM usage field in the BOM header determine
It determines the business function for which the BOM is used.
Which of the following represent valid item categories in a BOM?
Stock item
Non-Stock item
Variable size item
Can a consumable material be included as component in a BOM?
Yes, that component would require the item category , non stock item.
In The SAP ECC, planning is managed using a Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) table. The SOP is being replaces by?
IBP Integrated Business Planning
What is a product group?
A product group is a group of products with similar planning characteristics.
The lowest level of a product group hierarchy contains ______________
finished products