Livre BOB - Question Chapter 7 Material Planning Flashcards

1
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At which organizational level is material planning generally performed?

A

Plant

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2
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What are the elements that represent master data required in Materials Planning

A

BOM - Routing - Materials

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3
Q

Which of the following represent required views in the material master record for Material Planning?

Accounting
Forecasting
MRP
Work Scheduling
QM
A

MRP

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4
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Explain how each of the following fields in the material master is used:

MRP Type
Procurement Type
Strategy Group

A

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.

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5
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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
A

Operating supplies
Raw material
Finished good

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6
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What does the material type determine?

A

What views are displayed for maintaining the material

How the material number is assigned

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7
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All BOM master records in SAP are single-level?

A

True.

A component in a BOM may also contain its own BOM master record, allowing the user to see a multi-level BOM report.

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8
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What is the difference between the header quantity and the component quantities in the BOM?

A

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.

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9
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In SAP it is possible for a material to have multiple BOMs. These are refered to as versions. Explain

A

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.

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10
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What does the BOM usage field in the BOM header determine

A

It determines the business function for which the BOM is used.

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11
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Which of the following represent valid item categories in a BOM?

A

Stock item
Non-Stock item
Variable size item

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12
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Can a consumable material be included as component in a BOM?

A

Yes, that component would require the item category , non stock item.

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13
Q

In The SAP ECC, planning is managed using a Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) table. The SOP is being replaces by?

A

IBP Integrated Business Planning

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14
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What is a product group?

A

A product group is a group of products with similar planning characteristics.

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15
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The lowest level of a product group hierarchy contains ______________

A

finished products

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16
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With respect to requirements in MRP, which of the following statements are true( two)?

AB Planned independent requirements represent customer orders

AC Customer independant requirements are based on forecasts and plans

AD Planned independant requirements can be based on forecasts and plans

AE Customer independent requirements are sales orders

AF Dependent requirements can be based directly on forecasts and plans

A

AD Planned independant requirements can be based on forecasts and plans

AE Customer independent requirements are sales orders

17
Q

Demand management results in the creation of independent requirements. What does MRP create to meed these independant requirements?

A

Planned orders

18
Q

To plan procurement proposals, MRP performs a supplly v demand calculation known as the Net Requirement Calculation. Which of the following make up the demand side of that calculation.

A

Safety stock

19
Q

The MRP type is used to define how materials are planned. Some materials are planned based on independant requirements , other forms of planning are based on ___________

A

Consumption

20
Q

What are the valid procurement proposals generated my MRP?

A

PO
PurcReq
Schedules lines

21
Q

What is not a feature of MRP live in the following:

Faster run times
Planning at individual plants
More frequent MRP runs possible
Real time insight

A

Planning at individual plants

22
Q

Which control parameters determines scope of the MRP run ?

A

Processing key

23
Q

Which processing key is no longer needed?

A

NETPL

24
Q

What is the difference between stock requirement list and MRP list?

A

MRP list = ONLY valid for the current MRP run

SRL = dynamic and can be refreshed after additional MRP runs