Unit 4 Materials Planning

Front 1

What are the organisation levels for materials planning?

Back 1

Client
Company Code
Plant
Storage Location

Front 2

The MRP and work scheduling views must be maintained by ____

Back 2

Production

Front 3

The 'basic data' in the material master is stored on what organisational level?

Back 3

Client

Front 4

The MRP, work scheduling, and accounting views are related to what organisational level?

Back 4

Plant

Front 5

Consumption-based planning provides materials based on ____

Back 5

historical consumption

Front 6

More significant and high valued materials (A goods) are classified as ____

Back 6

MPS

Front 7

What determines the quantity of materials produced without break or shifting?

Back 7

Lot-sizing procedure

Front 8

What are the two types of procurement?

Back 8

In-house production
External procurement

Front 9

____ refers to the duration of in-house production for a particular material

Back 9

In-house production time

Front 10

____ refers to the duration of external procurement for a particular material

Back 10

planned delivery time

Front 11

Planned delivery times are independent of order quantity - true or false?

Back 11

True

Front 12

The behaviour of planned independent requirements is controlled by _____

Back 12

the strategy group

Front 13

The control of ATP checks is carried out using ____

Back 13

the availability check group

Front 14

A production procedure is defined by a ____

Back 14

production version

Front 15

The business processes and functions that can be assigned to a material is defined through ____

Back 15

the material type

Front 16

List and describe the 4 standard material types in SAP ERP

Back 16

FERT: finished products
ROH: raw materials
HALB: semi-finished products
HAWA: trading goods

Front 17

What is a bill of material?

Back 17

The composition of all materials used for the production of a particular product

Front 18

BOM in SAP ERP are multi-level - true or false?

Back 18

False. It is single-level

Front 19

The BOM consists if ____ and ____

Back 19

BOM header
BOM items

Front 20

Whereabouts in the BOM structure do all the settings valid for the entire BOM

Back 20

BOM header

Front 21

List and describe the 4 types of BOM items (item categories) in a BOM structure

Back 21

1. stock items: are managed in warehouse and used for production

2. non-stock items: are assigned directly to a manufacturing order

3. variable-size items: contains variable size data

4. document items: contains a supplemental document that describes manufacturing

use SNVD to remember

Front 22

Each item of a BOM does not need to be assigned to a item category - true or false?

Back 22

False

Front 23

Which of these item categories requires a material master and which does not -

Stock items
Non-stock items

Back 23

Stock items - requires material master

Non-stock items - do not

Front 24

The definition of routings takes place where?

Back 24

Routing groups and Group counters

Front 25

A routing can contain 3 types of sequence, they are?

Back 25

Standard sequence
Parallel sequence
Alternative sequence

Front 26

Which type of sequence should be carried out when work steps should be performed simultaneously?

Back 26

Parallel sequence

Front 27

The time elements for routings are called?

Back 27

Standard values

Front 28

What is the link between profit planning and manufacturing (demand management)?

Back 28

Sales and operations planning (SoP)

Front 29

Demand management manages independent requirements - true or false?

Back 29

True

Front 30

What type of requirements is created by sales planning or concrete sales orders?

Back 30

Independent requirements

Front 31

What type of requirement is an item requirement, and determined by bill explosion?

Back 31

Dependent requirements

Front 32

Demand management aims at determining which ____ of a finished product and at which ____

Back 32

Quantities
Time

Front 33

What type of order describes the concrete order of a customer?

Back 33

Sales orders

Front 34

Manufacturing is executed in ____

Back 34

Production

Front 35

SoP provides a method for ____, ____, and ____

Back 35

sales planning
production planning
feasibility estimated

Front 36

The two planning levels in standard SOP are?

Back 36

Product group level
Material level

Front 37

The proportion factor in a product group is used for ____ of a sales plan from a higher level to a lower level

Back 37

Disaggregation

Front 38

The ____ allows for the development of sales and production plans

Back 38

Planning table

Front 39

How are sales or production plans, created at one level, reach the lower levels?

Back 39

Disaggregation

Front 40

The behaviour of independent requirements in mRP is determined by their ____ and ____

Back 40

Requirement type
Planning strategy

Front 41

For make-to-order production, what type of requirements is used?

Back 41

planned independent requirements

Front 42

For make-to-stock production, what type of requirements is used?

Back 42

Sales orders ( Customer independent requirements)

Front 43

Which of the following materials can be produced to stock (make-to-stock):

Finished products
Raw materials
Semi-finished products

Back 43

Semi-finished products or assemblies

Raw materials are procured, not produced

Front 44

Sales orders affect requirements by consuming ____

Back 44

planned independent requirements

Front 45

The way sales orders consume planned independent requirements is dependent on the ____ and the ____

Back 45

settings defined for consumptions
consumption periods

Front 46

List and describe the two consumption mode types

Back 46

Backward consumption: consumes customer requirements with planned independent requirements lying BEFORE the customer requirements

Forward consumption: consumes customer requirements with planned independent requirements lying AFTER the customer requirements

Front 47

Where can consumption modes and periods for a material be set in the system?

Back 47

in either the material master or the
MRP group

Front 48

What are Master schedule items?

Back 48

items that influence the company's profits on a large scale and are important to the production procedure

Front 49

What are the two MRP types?

Back 49

MRP
Consumption-based

Front 50

What procedure does consumption based planning use as a simple planning technique?

Back 50

Manual recorder point planning

Front 51

Consumption-based planning is based on ____

Back 51

historical consumption

Front 52

MRP is based on ____

Back 52

current and future sales

Front 53

What is the first effect of a shortfall in stock in using MRP?

Back 53

a purchase requisition (for trading goods) or a planned order (for semi-finished products) is generated.

Front 54

When planning is complete in MRP for in-house production, the system generates a ____ which was converted from a ____

Back 54

production order or process order

planned order

Front 55

For external procurement in MRP, the system creates a ____ or a ____, which is converted to a ____, and then to a ____ when planning is complete

Back 55

planned order or purchase requisition

purchase requisition (if planned order is created)

purchase order

Front 56

What are the two planning types featured in MRP?

Back 56

total planning
individual planning

Front 57

What happens during net requirement calculation?

Back 57

A comparison between stock and fixed receipts AND the safety stock and requirements is carried out

The result of the comparison is the 'quantity available for planning'

Front 58

During net requirements calculation, what happens if the system notices a material shortfall?

Back 58

Procurement proposals are created accordingly - purchase requisitions or planned orders

Front 59

What are the two levels where an MRP run can be conducted?

Back 59

overall planning for a plant and,
for a particular material

Front 60

What are the 5 parameters that need to be entered when calling up an MRP run?

Back 60

processing key
characteristics
whether the run should create MRP lists
planning mode
MRP group

Front 61

What are the 3 types of processing keys?

Back 61

NEUPL: regenerative planning
NETCH:net change for total horizon
NETPL:net change for planning horizon

Front 62

Stock/requirements list contains the status of ____, ____, and ____

Back 62

stock
requirements
receipts

Front 63

What is the difference between stock/requirements list and MRP list?

Back 63

stock/requirments list is dynamic while MRP list is static

Front 64

For in-house production, planned orders are converted into ____

Back 64

production order or process order

Front 65

for external procurement, planning run creates what type of documents?

Back 65

purchase requisitions or purchase orders

Front 66

A product group supports the planning process by grouping products according to ____

Back 66

planning characteristics

Front 67

Which options are available for processing material planning?

Back 67

Single-item planning (single-level, multi-level, or interactive)

Total planning online

Total planning in the background

Front 68

A _________________ is the organizational entity for which balance sheets as well as profit and loss statements can be executed across company codes covering a company’s main areas of operation.

Back 68

Business area

Front 69

The ___________________________________ determines the structure of a balance sheet and income statement as far as which accounts map to which line items on the report.

Back 69

Financial statement version

Front 70

The __________________ GL account is responsible for Purchasing.

Back 70

GR/IR