PP-Interview Questions

1. Tell me about your self?

2. Explain about your recent Project?
3. Client/ Location of your Project?
4. Material Staging in REM?
5. What is REM Profile? How did you create by assistant or manual?
6. What is back flushing in REM and what is T.Code for it?
7. What are all the types in Backflushing and T.Code for it?
8. What are the different places we can give Backflush Indicator?
9. What is Product Cost Collector and its T.code?
10. What are all the costs involved in Product Cost Collector?
11. What is S.O.P? What are the T.Codes for SOP?
12. How many types of SOPs are there?
13. Explain Flexible planning Procedure?
14. What is the data you give in S.O.P screen?
15. What is the standard info set?
16. What is the customization procedure for production orders?
17. What are the details in Production scheduling profile?
18. Explain Production Order Cycle after run the MRP?
19. What is Production Order Settlement?
20. Scheduling Parameters for a Production Order?
21. Do you have any idea about Capacity Planning?
22. How do you carry out Capacity leveling?
23. Can you dispatch capacity for a single work center?
24. What is Planning strategy and how can you customize it?
25. What are MRP Plant parameters and T.Code for it?
26. If no planning strategy, no MRP group given, how can you give the requirement type?
27. If no requirement type has given, can the planned order be generated?
28. Against which you settle Product order cost?
29. Do you have any idea about PP PI?
30. What is importance of PI sheet?
31. Where do you configure process instructions?
32. Master data in REM & Discrete manufacturing?
33. Lot size procedure?
34. In resume you have written evaluation of planning results, how did you do it?
35. What is difference between MD 04 & MD 05?
36. What are the different types of Consumption based planning?
37. What is the difference between Manual Reorder Point procedure and automatic reorder point procedure?
38. Do you know variant configuration?
39. What are all the steps involved in Variant Configuration?
40. Different types of Object dependencies?
41. Overlapping and splitting, where do you assign?
42. What are the problems encountered in your project?
43. How do you write User exit?
44. What is a T.Code for Production order user exit?
45. Where you can find user exit?
46. What are Trigger points and where do you find them?
47. Do you know any thing about PRTs?
48. What are the different places, where we can give auto GR?
49. How do you check capacity of rough cut planning profile?

Pattern 2

1. Tell me about your self ?

2. Can you explain about your activities/roles in your domain industry?
3. Explain about your projects?
4. What is the process of Goods issue before and after implementing SAP?
5. When a production order is released, what are the things done in system?
6. What are the levels of production in your project?
7. Do you have implemented Capacity planning there?
8. What is the category of work centers you have created?
9. Who is doing the MIGO transaction?
10. What is the role of MRP Controller?
11. Two or three Production Orders are there for the same day, and goods are not sufficient and then how to proceed?
12. In the production order confirmation, what are the things you confirm?
13. If any difference is there in between planned confirmation dates and actual ones, how will you identify and how will you show
in the system? Do you have any given procedure to do that?
14. If no capacity planning is there, then what purpose you have created the work centers?
15. What is the Backflushing in REM, explain in detail?
16. Do you used Pull list or back flushing in REM?
17. What are the manufacturing strategies do they have before SAP implementation and what are the strategies you have
suggested for them and why?
18. Did you suggest business process re-engineering for them?
19. How do you interlink PP with QM?
20. What is your knowledge in QM?
21. Where to assign the inspection characteristics?
22. If your client has any in process quality control, how to incorporate it?
23. What is your idea in SOP?
24. How many levels of Flexible Planning are there?
25. Do you have implemented any hours accounting for them?
26. How can you see the costing details in Production Order?
27. What is your idea about capacity leveling and how can you dispatch it?
28. You are saying 10 & 11 strategies given for two products; do you have given two different strategies for the same Product? If
not, for the same engine valve why you are describing them as two different products?
29. What is your idea about process industries?
30. Where do you define Process instructions?
31. What are different planning types you have given them?
32. Do you have worked in any support environment?
33. How many tickets used to get daily in your Post implementation support?
34. What are your major activities in post implemented support? Can you explain some issues?
35. What are your roles & responsibilities in implementation?
36. Can you explain me about your deliverables in each phase of implementation in detailed?
37. What is your team size?
38. How many PP Consultants are there in your project?
39. Do you have any idea about Long term planning, Briefly explain?
40. Do you have any idea about Product costing, walk thru?
41. What is MTS and MTO and the difference between them?
42. 2. Different types of consumption based planning.
43. 3. What is MPS and difference between MRP and MPS?
44. 4. Explain the Difference between the Discreet and REM.
45. 5. Difference between PP and PI.
46. 6. Explain PI sheet.
47. 7. What is the Difference between TECO and CLSD?
48. 8. What is Backflush, the places where the backflush is used?
49. 9. What are the MRP master data?
50. 10. What is MRP group?
51. 11. What is MRP Area or How can I excluede one storage location stock from MRP?
52. 12. What is MRP Profile and MRP Group?
53. 13. When you run MRP, What steps it Perform in Back ground or How do you
schedule BG job for MRP
54. 14. Which MRP types you have used?
55. 15. What is Planning time Fence?
56. 16. What is the difference between the fixing type 1, 2, 3, 4?
57. 17. What is time phased Planning?
58. 18. Difference between Manual reorder point and Automatic reorder point.
59. 19. What are the lot size you have used?
60. 20. In the monthly lot size proc, how to generate lot at the end of Period?
61. 21. Different types of scrap or difference between types of scraps.
62. 22. Special Procurement type 40 – proc. form alt. plant
63. 23. What is Phantom Assembly?
64. 24. What is collective order. Pre requisite of the collective order?
65. 25. What is Schedule Margin key. How floats works in scheduling?
66. 26. What are the strategy groups you have used?
67. 27. What is requirement class and requirement type?
68. 28. What is the SPRO Path for requirement class and req. type?
69. 29. Difference between different strategy groups.
70. 30. What is Individual and collective requirements and differecne between them in
MTO scenario?
71. 31. What is REM or What is REM profile
72. 32. Have you used Pull list or back flushing in REM?
73. 33. What is SOP and types of SOP?
74. 34. Explain Flexible Planning procedure or How many levels of Flexible planning.
75. 35. What is Material status and which view of the material master it is available?
76. 36. What is Production scheduling Profile and use of it?
77. 37. Difference between byproduct and co-product.
78. 38. What are the Important tables in PP, QM?
79. 39. Can we create a production order without BOM and Routing?
80. 40. What is planned consumption and unplanned consumption?
81. 41. What are the different type of BOM usage?
82. 42. Which BOM item category you have used?
83. 43. Difference between Item categories or what is variable size item or non stock
item.
84. 44. What is alternate item group?
85. 45. What is recursive BOM
86. 46. What is alternative BOM, or diff between BOM group and Group BOM?
87. 47. Difference between Routing, Ref op set, Rate routing and Ref rate routing.
88. 48. Steps to configure Production order type.
89. 49. What are the parameters are there in Order type or in dependent para. config?
90. 50. Once the Production order is created, how to change the BOM and routing in that
order?
91. 51. How do you do capacity planning ?
92. 52. How do you carry out capacity leveling?
93. 53. What do you mean by pooled capacity?
94. 54. Can you dispatch capacity for a single work center?
95. 55. What is finite scheduling?
96. 56. How do you integrate HR (employee) with PP?
97. 57. How can you create production order without routing and BoM?
98. 58. Explain what is PRT – how many types of PRT is used?
99. 59. How to create PRT master record?
100. 60. What is trigger Point. What are the setting required to trigger one action?
101. 61. What are the levels of batch, explain batch determination process?
102. 62. Question related to Production order status or status profile?
103. 63. Explain LTP.
104. 64. Integration between PP and SD module.
105. 65. Integration between PP and PM module.
106. 66. Integration between PP and QM Module.
107. 67. Integration between PP and MM Module.
108. 68. Explain Kanban.
109. 69. Explain Planning file entry.
110. 70. Difference between NETCH, NETPL and NEUPL.
111. 71. Difference between MD01, MD02 and MD03.
112. 72. What is scope of planning?
113. 73. What do you do to run MRP for just one MRP Controller?
114. 74. Explain customer Independent requirement .
115. 75. What is the transaction code to run MRP for sales order?
116. 76. What is the transaction code to execute forecast, and explain types of
forecast model?
117. 77. What parameters you maintain in “plant parameters” in configuration?
118. 78. SPRO path for order, confirmation or requirement class.
119. 79. Difference between MD04 and MD05.
120. 80. What are the key fields in MRP views?
121. 81. What is Variant configuration?
122. 82. Different types of Object Dependencies.
123. 83. What is Auto GR?
124. 84. Explain Availability check.
125. 85. Explain different inspection type you used .
126. 86. Explain In-process inspection.
127. 87. Explain source inspection.
128. 88. What is the use of QM control key?
129. 89. What are the types of MIC?
130. 90. What is the purpose of Catalog? how you reverse UD?
131. 91. What is Inspection Points?
132. 92. Explain DMR.
133. 93. Difference between plan cost, Actual cost and target cost.
134. 94. Difference between standard cost and variable cost.
135. 95. What is primary cost and secondary cost?
136. 96. How system calculate the actual cost?
137. 97. What is activity type and how it works in costing?
138. 98. Explain the process of Material costing.
139. 99. Why and how you calculate WIP?
140. 100. Explain transaction code KO88 or CO88