Terp10 Sap Erp Unit 4 - Sap Material Planning

Front 1

The Material Planning process uses the following organization units

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Client
Company Code
Plant
Storage Location

Front 2

Master data used by Material Planning includes: (3 Items)

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Material Master
Bill of Materials (BOM)
Routings

Front 3

The Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Execution (Work Scheduling) views must be maintained in the Material Master for manufacturing?

Back 3

True

Front 4

In material master, the basic data contains

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Material
Description
Unit of measure

Front 5

In material Master, the MRP view contains

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Procurement type
MRP controller
Lot size key

Front 6

In the material master, the work scheduling view contains

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Lot size times
In-house production time
Tolerance data

Front 7

In the material master, the accounting view contains

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Price control
Prices

Front 8

Independent requirement is a

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finished product

Front 9

Dependent requirements are

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raw materials
semi-finished products

Front 10

What are examples of material types?

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Raw materials
Operating supplies
Semi-finished products.
Finished products

Front 11

Material type is the most important value assigned to material. What are the reason why?

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Screens appearance
Department specific data
Material number assignment
Procurement types
General ledger accounts that are updated

Front 12

Bill of material are single-level only? (T/F)

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True

Front 13

Bill of materials contain another BOM?

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True

Front 14

A BOM can contain documents and text items in addition to stock items?

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True

Front 15

A mult-level BOM structure is explored automatically by

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MRP and Product Cost Planning

Front 16

You must assign an item category to every component in a BOM. What are item categories?

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Stock item
Non-stock item
Variable size item
Text item
Document item
Class item
Intra material

Front 17

Routing contains the steps necessary for production and can be transferred to SAP Advance Planning and Optimization (APO) in the form of production process models (PPM)? (T/F)

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True

Front 18

Routing also contains the ____ _______ that are relevant for scheduling operations.

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Time Elements

Front 19

Material planning is divided into the following steps.

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Sales and Operation Planning (SOP)
Demand Management
Sales Orders (Make to Order)
Material Requirements Planning
Results for Production Execution

Front 20

A product group can be thought of as a

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Product family with similar characteristics

Front 21

The standard SOP planning table has a row for?

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Sales plan
Production Plan
Stock level
Target stock level
Day's supply
Target day's supply

Front 22

Sales plan can be created several ways in MRP

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Transfer from Sales Info System (SIS)

Transfer from Controlling / Profit Analysis (CO/PA)

Using history to forecast

Transfer from another product group

Manual Entry

Front 23

The production plan can be created in several ways

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Synchronously to sales
Target stock level
Target days supply
Inventory to zero
Manual entry

Front 24

Time periods in the planning table could be days, weeks, months or customized? (T/F)

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True

Front 25

Many options exist to disaggregate

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1. Production plan
2. Sales plan

Front 26

What are the three consumption modes in planning?

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1. Backward Consumption (before customer requirement)
2. Forward Consumption (after customer requirement)
3. Backward/Forward Consumption

Front 27

The consumption mode and consumption periods can be defined in the

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material master or
for each MRP group

Note: If no values are defined then system defaults to backward consumption for 999 days.

Front 28

Master Production Scheduling (MPS) is an optional step in the planning process? (T/F)

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True

Front 29

What is used to create planned orders for top level items to satisfy independent requirements from demand management?

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Master Production Scheduling

These items are planned first before the MRP.

Front 30

Planning for material can be of what two basic types?

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1. Material Requirement Planning
2. Consumption Based Planning such as Reorder point, Forecast-based or Time-phased

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Consumption-based planning is based on the past and uses forecast or statistical procedures to determine the future requirements?

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True

Front 32

You can carry out the planning run on what two levels?

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1. Total planning for the Plant
2. Individual material

Front 33

What are three scopes for the planning run?

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1. NEUPL - regenerative planning (All revelant materials)
2. NETCH - Net change for total horizon
3. NETPL - Net change for planning horizon

Front 34

Planned order are used to plan?

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The in-house production of material.

Front 35

A planned order is converted to a?

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Production order (PP) or a process order (PP-PI)

Front 36

What are the options for executing a MRP run?

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1. Single item planning
2. Total planning online
3. Total planning in background

Front 37

During the implementation of the Material Planning component in SAP, you need to explain how organizational levels organize data in SAP. Which of the following are relevant to material planning?

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Client
Company Code
Plant
Storage location

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Master data is essential to support various functions in Material Planning.

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Material
BOM
Routing

Front 39

The material type is the most important value assigned to a material. A client is in the process of creating a material master record for a new material and needs to know how the material type influences the functions allowed for that material. You explain that a material type will influence which of the following?

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1. Number assigned to the material
2. The screens that appear in the material master record
3. Department-specific data that can be maintained
4. Allowed procurement type
5. GL accounts to be updated

Front 40

Various planning strategies can be used in material planning. One of these strategies is planning with final assembly (strategy group 40) in which incoming sales orders consumes independent requirements. You explain to your colleagues that the settings for this can be controlled in the material master using which field?

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Consumption mode

Front 41

A client is preparing to run MRP. They inform you that several materials in their BOM are procured from external vendors and they want to know what options are available for planning the procurement of these materials. You are explaining the MRP control parameters to them and inform them of the following options.

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1. Create purchase requisitions
2. Create planned orders
3. Create schedule lines
4. Create purchase requisitions only in the opening period

Front 42

During implementation of the material planning component in PP, a discussion ensues regarding the material planning process. You are asked to explain the various levels in this process. As part of your explanation, you include which of the following?

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MRP
CO-PA
MPS

Front 43

You are preparing to run MRP. Before you do, you need to set the control parameters for MRP. Which of the following are parameter settings?

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1. Processing key
2. Consumption mode
3. Create schedule lines
4. Create MRP list
5. Planning mode

Front 44

During the MRP run, a net requirements calculation takes place. A colleague has asked you to explain how this calculation takes place. You explain that MRP looks at both supply and demand when determining the net requirements. When demand exceeds supply, a shortage exists. Which of the following describe the supply side elements used during this calculation?

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Stock
Purchase orders
Firmed purchase requisitions
Firmed planned orders

Front 45

A client has inquired about the planning process. You explain the process begins with the Sales and Operations Plan (SOP). In order to better describe the process, you need to identify items that can be used as input into the SOP. Which of the following will you include as input into the SOP?

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Another product group
SIS
CO-PA
Manual

Front 46

A client needs to plan a material that is of low value, but has a demand that is relatively known and constant. They ask for help in determining the best procedure for planning this material. You explain that the planning for this can be set in the material master using a MRP type. Which of the following would be best suited for this material?

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Consumption based planning

Front 47

Your organization is implementing SAP ERP Material Planning. Your team is creating bills of material (BOM). You explain to your team that the bill of material contains the assemblies or components which are to be included in the production of a material. Which of the following correctly describe the features of bills of material?

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1. The base quantity, in the BOM header, specifies the amount of the finished
product that the item quantities refer to.

2. BOM usage determines the business applications for which a BOM can be used.

Front 48

You are explaining SAP ERP Material Planning to your colleagues. They are interested in learning about the functions of material requirements planning (MRP). Which of the following statements correctly describe the features of MRP?

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1. MRP can be run at the plant level.
2. The suggested procurement quantity results from the lot-sizing procedure that is set in the material master.