Textbook Questions Flashcards
Define the Dropship scenario
Company transfers its customer orders and shipment details to either the manufacturer/retailer/wholesales who ships goods directly to customer (compny doesn’t keep goods in their stock)
What is Dynamic Product Proposal?
Can be populated in the “Item Proposal” field of the Business partner master data
Goal is to expedite order entry time. Dynamic product proposal is a system functionality that allows you to use several data sources to default as materials on a sales order (text book page 261)
- materials from sales order history, customer-material information records, listing condition records, exclusion condition records
Product Proposal: is a list of products for a specific customer that is automatically proposed during sales document processing.
Dynamic: system automatically proposes all the materials that the customer regularly purchases as soon as the Sold-to-Party number is entered
What is cross selling?
This is a feature which can be specified in the “PP Cust. Procedure” field of the Business partner master data
Offer additional products to customer when they make an order
________ is an 18-character field that is subdivided into three hierarchical codes. Increasing the number of levels directly increases the complexity when choosing the correct values and can often negatively effect data quality.
Product Hierarchy
What must you do to make the material groups (fields within material master data elements) appear?
Must modify the fields available on the various material master screens.
Go to ‘Change view “Field Selection for Data Screens”: Overview’ and change the field selection status for the fields (can change from ‘hide’ to ‘display’ or ‘required entry’ or ‘optional entry’)
___ is a logistics procedure where an incoming product from a vendor or maufacturer comes packaged into the receiving docks of the warehouse and goes directly to the outbound docks without ever being put away on your warehouse shelves.
Cross docking
What are the three types of ABAP tables?
- Control Table (Control data stores properties of other tables/programs and is used to link table rows)
- Transnational data table
- Master data table
________ Controls the automatic creation of a table along with the condition records. Allowing this data to be fetched without specifying the condition type and condition table number. Used for service pricing.
Condition Index
One use is to maintain and display condition records for multiple condition types of access sequences at the same time (and maintain)
_______ is the master data repository
condition tables
_____1____ is used to define the minimum quantity they need to purchase before eligible for a discount.
_____2____ is used to limit sales conditions by quantity or value. (i.e. define a special price for a customer up to certain quantity or a total dollar value. Once reached limit can no longer take advantage of special rate)
- Rebate Contracts
2. Quantity and value Contracts
When linking a master contract to a quantity contract, it will trigger a reference procedure to copy fields from the master contract into this quantity contract.
true/false: this master contract will therefore appear in the document flow
false: because not using copy control, document flow is not updated with the master contract reference
true/false: you can add another line to the sales order without reference to a contract to represent the delta quantity above the contract target
true
Why within Settlement Data of a rebate agreement is the “settlement material” field used?
Settlement material field is a different material number to be used when issuing credits to the customer under this rebate agreement. Use if you don’t want the rebate credit to appear in material-based reporting and also to reduce the number of lines on the rebate credit billing document. Also affects material-dependent tax calculations
leave this field blank if you want to use the same material used on the original sales invoice
_____ ________ may be used to qualify special circumstances in which we’re adjusting customer rebates
activity reasons
What are ‘delivery groups’ on the line item used for?
‘Delivery Group’ is a freeform numeric value. SAP S4HANA will check for lines with matching delivery group values to form sets of order lines that must be shipped together. (scenarios such as kits)
__1__ uses the same material number for multiple variations of its configuration
__2__ is a material master entry with a material number that represents specific configuration of a material
- configurable material
2. material variant
What is the “value contract matl” used for?
define a default material number to be used on value contracts when the user doesn’t make a selection
What do incoterms represent?
International Commerical Terms defined by International Chamber of Commerce and world trade organzation
Represent the transfer of ownership of goods when they are shipped (who pays for freight)
Ship-to partners are part of the header Partner tab of the ____1_____ document so the order would be split, but ship-to partners are not part of the header of the ____2____
- delivery
- invoice
(therefore you’ll have a single order and single invoice but many deliveries)
What are two issues with maintaining fixed lead times in the material master?
- would commit to delivering any quantity after this amount of days
- the system will attempt to fulfill the promise date as this date is the rule. If product received before this promise date, the system would prevent immediate shipment to avoid premature, early delivery.
\_\_\_1\_\_\_ = sales orders containing lines where you cannot successfully perform backward planning ATP checks \_\_2\_\_\_ = sales order with a confirmed quantity on a future date based on theoretical availability (incoming procurement / lead time) \_\_3\_\_\_ = forward planning cannot determine a material availability date (schedule line has no confirmed quantity)
- Back order
- Confirmed back order
- unconfirmed order
___ is transferred stock requirements to define how available stock will be consumed (consumption strategy) and the appropriate replenishment action to take
MRP (material requirements planning)