SAP PP Interview Questions

Most important SAP PP Interview Questions

1. What is MTS and MTO and the difference between them?

•  MTS : In Make to stock the products are produced irrespective of the customer requirement and delivery given from the warehouse stock

• MTO: In Make to order the products are produced for the customer requirement and delivery given from the customer stock

2. Different types of consumption based planning.

• Reorder Point Planning
• Forecast Based Planning
• Time Phased Planning

3. What is MPS and difference between MRP and MPS?

• MPS is master production schedule. 
• MPS is used to plan the critical items in terms of the demand and price whereas MRP is used to plan all type of dependent items 

4. Explain the Difference between the Discreet and REM.

Discrete Manufacturing	Repetitive Manufacturing
Order Based Production	Period Based production
Order based cost controlling	Period based cost controlling
Complex routings	Simplified routings
Products changes frequently	Product unchanged for a longer duration
Components staged with reference to order	Components are staged at lines periodically

5. Difference between PP and PI.

• PP is used where the final product possible to dismantle. e.g; Automobile,  Electronics industry etc
• PI is used in the industries where final product is not possible to dismantle. e.g; Cement, Pharma, FMCG etc 

6.  How can I exclude one storage location stock from MRP?

7. What is the Difference between TECO and CLSD?

TECO	CLOSED
TECO means Technically complete	Completely Closed
Order is complete from logistics point of view	It is financially closed
Goods movement are possible	Goods movement are not possible
When the order is TECO all the open items like reservations etc will be closed	When the CLSD (Closed) it means that no business function is possible. If there are some open items like inspection lots, Purchase requirements, Purchase orders then an order cannot be Closed

8. What is Backflush, the places where backflush options are available?

 Automatic goods issue is called back flushing. System automatically posts the goods issue when we confirm the operations of the production order.

We can activate backflushing from following screens;

• MRP View 2
• Work Center
• Routing
• Production Order

9. What are the MRP master data?

• MRP type                                        
• Schedule margin key
• Planning calender
• Lot Size Data
• Safety stock Data
• Procurement Data
• Scheduling Data
• Discontinuation Data

10. What is MRP group?
MRP groups is a group of materials, used to define planning parameters when the plant parameters are not enough for the MRP of materials.

11. What is MRP Area
 MRP Area represents an organizational unit for which material requirements planning is carried out independently”

MRP Area is functionality for special planning process that enables you to carry out planning not only at plant level but also at different planning levels (eg, storage location & sub-contractors). There are 3 types of MRP areas in SAP

• Plant MRP Area
• MRP Areas for storage location
• MRP Areas for Subcontractors

12. What is MRP Profile and MRP Group?

13. When you run MRP, What steps it Perform in Back ground or How do you schedule BG job for MRP

14. Which MRP types you have used?

15. What is Planning time Fence?

16. What is the difference between the fixing type 1, 2, 3, 4?

17. What is time phased Planning?

18. Difference between Manual reorder point and Automatic reorder point.

19. What are the lot size you have used?

20. In the monthly lot size proc, how to generate lot at the end of Period?

21. Different types of scrap or difference between types of scraps.

22. Special Procurement type 40 – proc. form alt. plant

23. What is Phantom Assembly?

24. What is collective order. Pre requisite of the collective order?

25. What is Schedule Margin key.  How floats works in scheduling?

26. What are the strategy groups you have used?

27. What is requirement class and requirement type?

28. What is the SPRO Path for requirement class and req. type?

29. Difference between different strategy groups.

30. What is Individual and collective requirements and differecne between them in MTO scenario?

31. What is REM or What is REM profile

32. Have you used Pull list or back flushing in REM?

33. What is SOP and types of SOP?

34. Explain Flexible Planning procedure or How many levels of Flexible planning.

35. What is Material status and which view of the material master it is available?

36. What is Production scheduling Profile and use of it?

37. Difference between byproduct and co-product.

38. What are the Important tables in PP, QM?

39. Can we create a production order without BOM and Routing?

40. What is planned consumption and unplanned consumption?

41. What are the different type of BOM usage?

42. Which BOM item category you have used?

43. Difference between Item categories or what is variable size item or non stock item.

44. What is alternate item group?

45. What is recursive BOM

46. What is alternative BOM, or diff between BOM group and Group BOM?

47. Difference between Routing, Ref op set, Rate routing and Ref rate routing.

48. Steps to configure Production order type.

49. What are the parameters are there in Order type or in dependent para. config?

50. Once the Production order is created, how to change the BOM and routing in that order?

51. How do you do capacity planning ?

52. How do you carry out capacity leveling?

53. What do you mean by pooled capacity?

54. Can you dispatch capacity for a single work center?

55. What is finite scheduling?

56. How do you integrate HR (employee) with PP?

57. How can you create production order without  routing and BoM?

58. Explain what is PRT – how many types of PRT is used?

59. How to create PRT master record?

60. What is trigger Point. What are the setting required to trigger one action?

61. What are the levels of batch, explain batch determination process?

62. Question related to Production order status or status profile?

63. Explain LTP.

64. Integration between PP and SD module.

65. Integration between PP and PM module.

66. Integration between PP and QM Module.

67. Integration between PP and MM Module.

68. Explain Kanban.

69. Explain Planning file entry.

70. Difference between NETCH, NETPL and NEUPL.

71. Difference between MD01, MD02 and MD03.

72. What is scope of planning?

73. What do you do to run MRP  for just one MRP Controller?

74. Explain customer Independent requirement .

75. What is the transaction code to run MRP for sales order?

76. What is the transaction code to execute forecast, and explain types of forecast model?

77. What parameters you maintain in “plant parameters” in configuration?

78. SPRO path for order, confirmation or requirement class.

79. Difference between MD04 and MD05.

80. What are the key fields in MRP views?

81. What is Variant configuration?

82. Different types of Object Dependencies.

83. What is Auto GR?

84. Explain Availability check.

85. Explain different inspection type you used .

86. Explain In-process inspection.

87. Explain source inspection.

88. What is the use of QM control key?

89. What are the types of MIC?

90. What is the purpose of Catalog? how you reverse UD?

91. What is Inspection Points?

92. Explain DMR.

93. Difference between plan cost, Actual cost and target cost.

94. Difference between standard cost and variable cost.

95. What is primary cost and secondary cost?

96. How system calculate the actual cost?

97. What is activity type and how it works in costing?

98. Explain the process of Material costing.

99. Why and how you calculate WIP?

100. Explain transaction code KO88 or CO88.