SAP Human Resource Interview Questions & FAQs

Interview Questions and Answers for SAP Human Resource

6. SAP Human Resource

6.1 What is the purpose of text determination, account determination, partner determination, output determination,storagelocation determination

Text determination: For transferring information from material or customer to order/delvery or invoice (and anything inbetween) Account determination: For transferring financial and costing information to proper financial docs Partner determination: For determing who is is legally resposible for A/r, who the goods are going to and whatever else you waana drive through this functionality. Output determination: What kinda 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!

6.2 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.

6.3 Difference between /N and /BEND ?

/BEND terminates the batch input processing and sets the session to be failed.
/N terminates the current batch input transaction.

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

It should be legacy data to SAP. What it means is you want to transfer all the 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.

6.5 What do you do really in pricing determination, and what are the main deifferences between pricing procedures?

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 we 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

6.6 What type of reports generally a support consultant maintain and report?

Depends on Customer requirements.

6.7 What is the difference between call transaction and session method?

Session method: The records are not added to the database until the session is processed. sy-subrc is not returned. Error logs are created for error records. Updation in database table is always Synchronous. Call Transaction method: The records are immediately added to the database table. sy-subrc is returned to 0 if succesful. Error logs are not created and hence the errors need to be handled explicitly. Updation in database table is either Synchronous or Asynchronous.

6.8 What is the purpose of shipping point determination not menu path?

So that Shipping Point is determined automatically once the settings for the same are done.

6.9 What and where types of copy controls we change?

Copy Control: is basically meant so that Data is copied from preceding Document to subsequent one. What subsequent Document is required is to some extent determined by Customer Requirements as well as Document Types. e.g. In general case of Standard Order, it will be Copy Control (Order to Delivery) from OR to LF .

6.10 How to and where to maintain copy controls?

Check for yourself in IMG (Sales Document types and Delivery Document Types)

6.11 What is purpose of maintaining common distribution channels and common divisions?

Common Distribution Channel and Common Divison are maintained so that if any master data like customer or material maintained with respect to one distribution channel can be used in other DCh. It prevents the multiplication of master records. Eg: A customer is created for say sales area 1000/20/00 then the same customer can be used in sales area 1000/30/00 if we maintain 20 as common distribution channel. Hence no need for extending the customers...the same for materials also.

6.12 Data conversion experience?

SAP HAS PROVIDED A TOOL NAMED LSMW WHICH CONVERTS THE LEGACY DATA INTO THE REQUIRED SAP FORMAT AND UPDATES THE DATABASE.

6.13 Open datasets, Read datasets ( Reading and writing data to files)?

Date Sets are nothing but files on Application Server,they can even be called as Sequential files.
Open Dataset
Is used to open required file on the application Server.
Read Dataset.
Is used to read the contents required file on the application Server.

6.14 How to do back ground processing in BDC Session method ?

goto sm35
select the option background process

6.15 What is the difference between Upload and WS_Upload ?

The diffrence between WS_Upload and Upload is when you use function Upload it prompts for a dailog box where in you need to key in the file location.Where as in case of WS_Upload you specify the file location in the function input parameters itself

6.16 Update types in Call transaction method. What is the difference ?

At present with SAP we have only modes of updation
1.Synchronus Update.
2.Asynchronous Update.
There is no more Local Update.

6.17 What kind of BDC programs are written ?

There are five types of BDC methods available. They are 1.Batch input session 2.Call Transaction 3.Recording 4.Direct Input and 5.LSMW