SAP Modules Interview Questions and Answers / FAQs

SAP is made up of individual, integrated software modules that perform various organizational system tasks.The SAP Modules Interview Questions and Answers consists the most frequently asked questions in SAP Modules / Solutions.

4. SAP Modules questions

4.1 What is the difference between updated project and end to end project. please explain

Some organisations select to implement SAP module by module, thus gets updated as per their convenience / schedule. This is called as updated project. Some organisations simply plan all integrated functional modules and decide to go-live with all functional modules and take their entire operations on SAP. This is called as End to End SAP implementation project.

4.2 What is Ranking order in automatic payment programme ?

Its the priority assigned to each house bank which helps Automatic Payement program choose the house bank for payment in case there are more than one bank satisfying the payment program. If a payment program ends up selecting more than one(say 4) bank for payment, the ranking of the banks helps it select one bank from the list of (say 4) selected banks.

4.3 What is SAP APO?

SAP APO stands for Advanced Planner and Optimizer, which is one area of SCM and application component of MySAP product. Its is designed to provide solutions for companies in Demand planning, network design, supply network planning, production planning and global available to promise, transportation and scheduling.

4.4 What are the support tickets given in SAP fico module? please give some examples.

Support tickets are basically the problems that arise in day to day usage of SAP. So any sap fico consultant who is resolving the day to day production issues is actually supporting the tickets.

4.5 How is bank reconciliation handled in SAP?

The following are the steps for BRS:
1. Create Bank Master Data - This can be created through T.Code FI01 or you can also create the house bank through IMG/FA/Bank accounting/Bank account
2. Define House Bank
3. Set up Bank selection payment programe- IMG/FA/ARAP/BT/AUTOIP/PM/Bank selection for payment prg.
a. setup all co codes for payment transaction - Customer and vendors
b.setup paying co codes for payment transactions
c.setup payment method per country
d.setup payment method per co code for payment transaction
e.setup bank determination for payment transaction
Please go for Cheque mangement using T code FCHI (IMG/FA/ARAP/BT/OP/AutoOp/PaymentMedia/CheckManagement) and for void reasons FCHV. You can create Bank Reconcilliation statement by TC FF67 (SAP/AC/Treasury/CashManagement/Incomings/ManualBankStatement) . Don't forget to keep the opening Balance as zero. Use FBEA for post process.

4.6 How do you configure electronic bank statement?

Following is the sequence of configuration to be done for Electronis Bank Statment(EBS):
1. create Tranaction types( which helps you group all the house baks with same External transaction code).
2. assign them to house banks.
3 create and define posting rule keys .
4 assign them to external transaction codes. external transaction codes are bank specific codes for buisness tranactions( which it issues in each EBS) each one for each type of payment. eg. transfer order, foreign transfer,bill of exchange etc.
5 define posting specification for G/L posting as well as subledger posting
6. define account symbols(which determines the G/L account to be posted to) and assign them to posting keys.

4.7 How do you configure manual bank statement?

configuration is required during electronic bank statment not in mannual bank stament. In mannual bank statment you just have to enter the data on screen and save it.

2.8 What is dunning?

Dunning is actually the process by which you “bill” or “invoice” a customer for past due items. With regards bad Checks for example dunning procedure could follow these steps:
• Step 1: Phone call to customer on receipt of bad check – at this stage, perform the journal posting outlined in section on Returned Checks
• Step 2: Letter to customer (+10 days)
• Step 3: Letter to CO (+7 days)
• Step 4: Legal letter to customer (? DD139) (+13 days)
• Step 5: Issue DD139 (+10 days)
• Step 6: Follow-up on DD139 (dispersing officer) (+45 days)
• Step 7: Write-off (after 6 months)
Steps 2-6 above will be handled by dunning levels in SAP.
Configuration before dunning can be carried out
1. Defining Dunning Area
2. Define Dunning Keys
3. Define Dunning Block Reasons
4. Dunning Procedure
• Define Dunning Procedure (T. Code – FBMP), To set up a Dunning Procedure, the following must be specified: number of Dunning Levels (1-9) Dunning Texts, Standard Text can also be included in the Dunning Texts. Dunning Procedure major parameters: Dunning Interval, Number of Dunning Levels, Grace Period
5. Assign Dunning Procedure to Customer / Vendors Accounts (T. Code – XD02)
6. Define Correspondence Types (T. Code – OB77)
7. Assign Company Codes to Correspondence company Codes
8. Assign Programs for Correspondence Types (OB78)
9. Dunning Run: Transaction Code: F150
Menu Path: accounting > financial accounting > accounts receivable > periodic processing > dunning.
Note: Whenever you schedule more than one dunning run a day, the "Identification" number must change. You may run several dunning runs on the same date but the "Identification" name must be different as well as certain parameters such as the “Dunning Date” and “Documents Posted up to” date.

4.9 What is the difference between profit center accounting and Profitability analysis ?

profit center accounting is basicaly done for internal controlling purposes. It lets you determine the profit and loss using the cost of sale approach or period accounting approach. Here you can find the profit from an "area of reponsibility or pserson" point of view.this is accound based costing Whereas in Profitability analysis, market segments based on product , cutomer,order aor any comobination of these are studied to find wots the profit. PA provides information to the marketing,sales and planning department so that they can make decisions. PA has two forms account based and CO based. both these are tools for profit managment, and both are alternative. They are not same.

4.10 What are the manufacturing cost of a producting?

In 1st case it is called as intracompany stock transfer and the 2nd case is inter company stock transfer Stock Transfer between plants of same compnay code only includes inventory movement without any pricing and so called Stock Transfer Order where Stock Transfer between plants of different company code is same as a purchase order as along with the inventory there is also accounts transfer (pricing) involved.

4.11 What is the difference between stock transfer between two plants belongs to same company code and to that of different company code?

In 1st case it is called as intracompany stock transfer and the 2nd case is inter company stock transfer Stock Transfer between plants of same compnay code only includes inventory movement without any pricing and so called Stock Transfer Order where Stock Transfer between plants of different company code is same as a purchase order as along with the inventory there is also accounts transfer (pricing) involved.

4.12 In real time, How listing and exclusion is used ?

Listing and exclusion is used in chemical and pharma industries for ex:-Particular customer is not having a valid licence of selling some chemical/Medicines and he is ordering the same. in this case listing and exclusion is usefull

4.12 What is the schema you use in Time Management?

Schema : TC00

4.13 What is the schema you use in Time Management?

Schema : TC00

4.14 In SAP-HR, What is the landscape of your project?

Landscape in SAP consists the following:
1. IDES = Training Server
2. Development Server
* Configuration (200 client)
* Sandbox (210 client)
* Data Change (220 client)
3. Quality Server
* Standby (300 client)
* Testing (310 client)
4. Production Server
* Pre-Production (400 client)
* Real Production (500 client)

4.15 What is the role of abapers? What is the Work Bench?

Abaper is a application programmer who retrives the data from the database and show it to the end-user with the help of report..out of three layers of SAP the abaper position is on Application Layer in which SAP programs are develop and then transported to the Production server... Workbench... The ABAP Workbench contains several tools that allow you to edit specific repository objects. like ABAP Editor , Menu PAinter etc...

4.16 How to integrate MM With Fico?

ALV is Application List viewer. Sap provides a set of ALV (ABAP LIST VIEWER) function modules which can be put into use to embellish the output of a report. This set of ALV functions is used to enhance the readability and functionality of any report output. Cases arise in sap when the output of a report contains columns extending more than 255 characters in length. In such cases, this set of ALV functions can help choose selected columns and arrange the different columns from a report output and also save different variants for report display. This is a very efficient tool for dynamically sorting and arranging the columns from a report output. The report output can contain up to 90 columns in the display with the wide array of display

4.17 What is difference between business area or cost centre?

Business area is a place where the product or the produced components are valued in group or for the total transactions carried out, Right from procurement, production and sales of goods.

4.18 How to create Tax Calculation Procedure?

Tax calculation procedures based on the countries depended. one country is using deferent of tax procedures. We are creating new country also and at what type calculation procedures presenrt is running on the countryand it is assighned which country used.

4.19 What is Legaccy System Migration Workbench? How it can be carried out in SAP SD?

LSMW is widely used by EDI programmers. EDI Programmers connect the SAP system to Non SAP system. During this Data migration is a necessity. When data migrates from source to destination the destination code is differrent from the source code. So what LSMW does is * Converts the data in to batch files * Then converts the batch files in to source code batch files * And then mirgates data. Standard Interfaces like BAPI or Idoc are used in this process.

4.20 What are the fields in purchasing view?

RFQ/Quotation
- Purchase requisition
- Purchase order
- Master data (Info record, Source list, Conditions, Vendors etc.)v - Outline agreements

4.21 How do you create movement types? What are the steps involved? When will you recommend a new movement type?

A movement type can be created using T code OMJJ. Copying an existing movement type and modifying the field contents can create a new movement type. The SAP system is delivered with some pre-defined movement types from 100 to 899. 900 onwards can be used for customized movement types.