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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Supplementary Invoice in SD SAP

Have created one proforma invoice & transferred stock to my branch / depot at Delhi. This is my mother invoice with MRP, say, Rs. 100/-. Now the MRP is increased from date: 01.08.2007 with Rs. 107/-. I need to pass on the additional Excise duty for difference amount Rs. 7/-.
Is it possible to generate supplementary invoice in SAP SD module?
If yes, then how to create it? Please help me how could I resolve the problem.

To the best of my knowledge you cannot generate an excise invoice without reference to goods movement.
If you want to ensure the customer is debited for the relevant amount, please generate a credit memo and an excise JV to ensure that the relevant accounting entries are passed. However tracking is possible only through text fields.

Cin /excise invoice in sales and distribution

excise registers ETC
1.
In Indian Taxing procedure, Excise Duty plays a vital role in manufacturing cenario’s. Excise related configuration is known as CIN configuration. CIN Configuration is a topic in itself.

Some info on CIN Configuration (it may not appear as understandable below, but if you check on screen, it will be understood better):
Country Version India comes with four pricing procedures as follows:
• JINFAC (Sales from manufacturing plants)
• JINEXP (Export sales)
• JINDEP (Sales from depots)
• JINSTK (Stock transfers

CIN:

IMG > Logistics - General > Tax on Goods Movement > India > Basic Settings >
Maintain Excise Registrations

Use
In this IMG activity, you maintain the data relating to your excise registrations.
Activities
Enter each of your excise registrations, specifying a four-character code for each
Excise Registration IDs
In this activity, you maintain excise registration IDs. You create one ID for each of your business's excise registrations.

Activities
For each excise registration in your business create a registration ID, and state:
• Which taxes the registration covers (additional excise duty, special excise duty, and cess)Fields for any taxes that are not covered will be hidden in transactions involving excise duty.
• The maximum number of items to be printed on each excise invoice
• Whether you are allowed partial CENVAT credits

Maintain Registration ID NUMBER, Excise code number, excise registration number

Excise Registration Number
A number assigned to each premises or location that has registered as a manufacturer with the excise authorities.
Every entity with an excise registration number is required to keep its own excise books.

ECC Number
Specifies the organization's ECC number.

Excise Registration Number
A number assigned to each premises or location that has registered as a manufacturer with the excise authorities.
Every entity with an excise registration number is required to keep its own excise books.

Excise range: Specifies the excise range in whose area the excise registration is located.

Excise Division
Specifies the excise division in whose area the excise registration is located.

Excise Collectorate
The code of the excise collectorate in whose area the excise registration is located.

Indicator for confirming AED usage
Additional Excise duty Percentage. These are leviable under the additional duties of excise act. These duties are in addition to basic excise duty and special excise duty.
Example
Additional Excise duty is leviable in case of textile products, tobacco and sugar.

Similarly for SED CESS

Number of Items in Excise Invoice
Shows the maximum number of line items that the authorities allow per excise invoice.
Dependencies
This information is used when you create an excise invoice in Sales and Distribution (SD) for factory sales and for other movements.

This information is used to split the transfer postings' items into multiple subcontracting challans.

Excise register set description
Description of the excise registers set.

Partial CENVAT Credit
Indicates that the excise registration ID is allowed to credit only a portion of its input excise duty to its CENVAT account.
Dependencies
When you post a goods receipt, the system splits the input excise duty on the material into its deductible and nondeductible amounts. It posts the deductible duty to the appropriate CENVAT account, and adds the nondeductible duty to the material value.

This information is also shown when you post the vendor's excise invoice.

Maintain Company Code Settings
Use
In this IMG activity, you maintain the data relating to your company codes.
Document Type for CENVAT Postings
It controls, which document type the system uses when making CENVAT postings in Financial Accounting (FI). Here ED is document type for cenvat posting.

Indicator for providing debit account overwriting
Debit Account Overwrite Indicator. X - Indicates debit accounts can be overwritten. Use In excise journal voucher transaction. It provides the flexibility to the user to enter the debit account of his choice depending on the nature of transaction.

Automatic balance Indicator

Excise year start month
The calendar month marking the beginning of the excise year
Use
This start month represents the month for the start of the excise invoice number range. The month 04 is entered here indicating April of the calendar year as the start month for excise invoices. Any change by the Excise authorities regarding start month should be taken care of by an entry in this field and initialization.

Excise invoice selection procedure
Excise invoice selection type. To indicate the method opted by the company for selecting the excise invoice. It can be either earliest or latest invoices that were received.

Number of excise invoices to be selected
Indicates the number of excise invoices that needs to be selected in the excise invoice selection.

Days to be considered for excise invoice selection
Number of days from document date for excise invoice selection.
Example
If the value of this field is 20 and today is 28-03-97. The excise
invoice selection will show the related invoices only for the
period 08-03-97 to 28-03-97.

Document type for TDS FI posting
Financial accounting document type for TDS posting.

Document type for FI posting on Utilisation
Financial accounting document type for TDS posting.

Indicator for item level excise duty round off
This indicator is to be used for deciding whether Item level excise duty amount rounding off is required during procurement cycle. If marked 'X' then the excise duty amount will be rounded off to the nearest rupee at the Purchase order level. This will not round off the CENVAT credit to be taken. If the duty amount is less than one rupee then no rounding is done

Rounding off of Excise duty for outgoing excise invoice
You can round off the Excise amount to be paid during an outgoing Excise invoice by marking this indicator as 'X'. The rounding is done at the item level for each item where the amount is greater than 1 Rupee.

Immediate Credit on Capital Goods
Instructs the system, when you verify a goods receipt for capital goods, to immediately post half of the input excise duty to the appropriate CENVAT accounts.

The rest is posted the CENVAT on hold account, for use in the following year.

CVD Clearing Account
Specifies which G/L account the system credits when you take a CENVAT credit on countervailing duty in the Incoming Excise Invoices transaction.

Exchange rate type
Key representing a type of exchange rate in the system.
Use
You enter the exchange rate type to store different exchange rates.
Example
You can use the exchange rate type to define a buying rate, selling rate, or average rate for translating foreign currency amounts. You can use the average rate for the currency translation, and the bank buying and selling rates for valuation of foreign currency amounts.

Exchange rate type to be used for Export excise duty converts
When you are creating an Excise invoice for export sales then the exchange rate for duty calculation will be picked up using this Exchange rate type.

Maintain Plant Settings
Use
In this IMG activity, you maintain excise information relating to your plants.
Plant Settings
In this activity, you maintain excise information relating to your plants.
Activities
For each plant:
• Specify whether it is a manufacturing site or a depot.
• Assign it an excise registration ID.
You can assign the same ID to more than one plant, if required.

Depot
Indicates that the plant in question is a depot.
Dependencies
Depots are required to prepare register RG 23D, and follow different procedures for goods receipt and invoice generation.

Number of goods receipt per excise invoice.

Multiple GR for one excise invoice, Single credit
Multiple GR for one excise invoice, Multiple credit

Maintain Excise Groups
Use
In this IMG activity, you define your excise groups. For each excise group, you can also control how various excise invoice transactions will work.
Excise Groups
In this activity, you define excise groups. An excise group allows you to maintain a separate set of excise registers and excise accounts. The RG 23A, RG 23C and PLA serial numbers are created for an excise group.

Recommendation
Under normal circumstances, excise authorities require every business to maintain only one set of excise registers and one set of accounts. But through exemption from the authorities, multiple books can be maintained.

If your company has only one set of excise registers, then you need to maintain only one excise group.

Activities
1. Create one excise group for each set of registers that you need to keep.
1. Assign the excise groups to plants.
2. Maintain whether this Excise group is for a depot or not.
3. If you receive only one consignment for an Excise challan then you can leave GR's per EI as blank. If you receive multiple GR's for a given Excise challan and would like to avail multiple credit mark the GRs per EI as 'Multiple GR's for one excise invoice, multiple credit'. Alternatively if you want to availa the credit only after all the goods receipts have been made mark it as ' Multiple GR for one excise invoice, single credit'.
4. If you want to automatically create Excise invoice during Sales cycle at the time of billing the tick the indicator 'Create EI'
5. During depot sales if you do not want to do RG23D selection and posting separately and would like to complete RG23D selection in one step mark the indicator 'RG23D Auto post'. This will post the selected records into RG23D automatically. You cannot cancel the selection later.
6. If the indicator 'Default GR qty' is marked system will default the Excise challan quantity on to the Goods receipt if the Excise invoice number is given in the pop-up.
7. If the indicator 'Folio no create' is marked system will generate Folio numbers for RG23D during receipt of excise invoice into depot.
8. 'Automatic posting' when ticked will post the Excise invoice other movements automatically along with creation in single step.
9. 'Create Part1 for Block Stock' when marked will create a Part1 during the receipt of material into Blocked stock .
10. 'Create Part1 for STO' when marked will create a Part1 during the receipt of material through inter plant transfers.
11. 'Create Part1 for consumption stock' when marked will create a Part1 during the receipt of material into consumption stock.
Excise Group
Governs which set of excise registers a business transaction will be included in.
Following is the relation between excise group, plant and registration.

Dependencies
In define excise groups in Customizing.
Then, in transactions involving excise duty, for example, when you post a vendor's excise invoice, you specify which excise group you are using. This information tells the system which G/L accounts to post the excise to.
At the end of the period, when you come to prepare your excise registers, you create different sets for each excise group.

Indicates that the plant in question is a depot.
Dependencies
Depots are required to prepare register RG 23D, and follow different procedures for goods receipt and invoice generation.

GR Per Excise Invoice

Multiple GR for one excise invoice , Multiple credit
Multiple GR for one excise invoice , Single Credit

Create Excise Invoice Automatically
Instructs the system to automatically create a Sales and Distribution (SD) excise invoice immediately you create a commercial invoice or a pro forma invoice.
The excise invoice is created in the background.
Dependencies
If you want to make use of this function, you must also define the default plant, excise group, and series groups in Customizing for Sales and Distribution (SD), by choosing Excise Group - Series Group Determination.

RG23D Sales Creation and posting option
RG23D Automatic Option if selected will create Depot excise invoice by posting the selection of excise invoices in single step.
If this is not selected then you need to separately do RG23D selection followed by PGI and then RG23D verification and posting.
If you need automatic posting of RG23D selection then the Post Goods Issue should have been completed before running RG23D selection.

Default excise qty in GR
If this indicator is ticked then while doing Goods Receipt using 'MB01' system will default the excise invoice quantity on to the Goods receipt document.


Folio number for depo

Posting
If this indicator is marked then while creating Excise invoice for other movements system automatically does the Verify and Post. You need not separately Post the excise invoice

Also we can set indicator for creation of part 1 for:

Blocked stock
Stock transport order
Consignment stock

Maintain Series Groups
Use
In this IMG activity, you define the different excise series groups within your company. Series groups allow you to maintain multiple number ranges for the outgoing excise documents.
Based on excise regulations and exemptions from the authorities you can maintain multiple number series for outgoing documents. But each of these series has to be declared to the excise authorities.
Activities
• Define excise series groups based on type of outgoing document
• Assign series group to excise registration ID
• If no financial postings are required for an Excise invoice in this seris group then you tick the 'No utilization' indicator.
• If the CENVAT has to be paid immediately and you need not wait for the Fort nightly payment then mark the 'Immediate Utilization' indicator.
Example
You could define two series groups, group 001 for excise invoices, and group 002 for 57 F4 documents.

No account postings for CENVAT in sales cycle
No utilization Flag
If you do not need any CENVAT utilization for an excise invoice but would like to just generate an excise invoice then you need to mark this indicator.
IF the flag is checked then system will create an Excise invoice in the given Series group but there will not be any account postings or Part2 postings.
Immediate Utilization of CENVAT
Specifies that when you create an excise invoice, the system immediately pays the amount from CENVAT and creates the Part II entry. Such invoices will not be listed for fortnightly utilization.
If you have both fortnightly and immediate utilization for the same excise group, the account determination within CIN IMG should point to the ED interim account.
Account determination for immediate payment will be done exactly the same as being done for fortnightly utilization program.

Maintain Excise Duty Indicators
Use
In this IMG activity, you maintain the excise duty indicators.

IMG > Logistics - General > Tax On Goods Movement > India > Basic Settings > Determination of Excise Duty >
Select Tax Calculation Procedure
Use
In this IMG activity, you specify which tax procedure you want to use for determining excise duties and sales taxes on input materials in India.
• If you use condition-based excise determination, use a copy of the tax procedure TAXINN.
• If you use formula-based excise determination, use a copy of the tax procedure TAXINJ.
This tax procedure also supports condition-based excise determination, so that you can work with both concurrently.
We strongly recommend that new customers use condition-based excise determination. Note that once you have started using a tax procedure, you cannot switch to another one, otherwise you will not be able to display old documents.

Maintain Excise Defaults
Use
In this IMG activity, you define which tax procedure and pricing condition types are used in calculating excise taxes using formula-based excise determination.
Activities
If you use condition-based excise determination, fill out the CVD cond. field and leave all the others blank.
If you use formula-based excise determination, fill out all of the fields as follows:
• Enter the tax procedure and the pricing conditions that are relevant for excise tax processing.
• Specify the purchasing and sales conditions types used for basic excise duty, additional excise duty, special excise duty, and cess.
• Specify the conditions in the sales order that are used for excise rates.
• Specify the countervailing duty condition type used for import purchase orders.
See also

SAP Library -> Logistics -> Country Versions -> Asia-Pacific -> India -> Materials Management (MM) -> Condition-Based Excise Determination and -> Formula-Based Excise Determination.
IMG > Logistics - General > Tax On Goods Movement > India > Basic Settings > Determination of Excise Duty >
Condition-Based Excise Determination
Use
When you enter a purchasing document, for example, a purchase order, the R/3 System automatically calculates the applicable excise duties using the condition technique.
Features
The standard system comes with two tax calculation procedures. TAXINN is only supports condition-based excise determination, whereas TAXINJ supports condition-based excise determination and formula-based excise determination. Both tax procedures contain condition types that cover all of the excise duties and sales taxes applicable.
Since the exact rates of excise duty can vary on a large number of factors, such as which vendor you purchase a material from, or which chapter ID the vendor stocks the material under, you create condition records for every sort of excise duty.
When you come to enter a purchasing document, the system applies the excise duty at the rates you have entered in the condition records.
Activities
Customizing
for Logistics® India®Make the settings in Customizing Basic Excise Duties Using®– General, by choosing Taxes on Goods Movements Account Settings Determination.®Condition Technique and …
These activities include one activity where you define a tax code for condition-based excise determination.
Master Data
Create condition records for all excise duties that apply, and enter the tax code for condition-based excise determination in each.
Day-to-Day Activities
When you enter a purchase order or other purchasing document, enter the tax code for condition-based excise determination in each line item. The system then calculates the excise duties using the condition records you have created.
When the ordered materials arrive, you post the goods receipt and the excise invoice. The system posts the excise duty to the appropriate accounts for deductible input taxes when you enter the excise invoice.
Creating Condition Records for Excise Duty
1. In the command field, enter FV11 and choose .
2. Enter the condition type that you want to create a condition record for and choose .
The Key Combination dialog box appears.
3. Select the combination of objects that you want to create the condition record for.
On the dialog box, Control Code means "chapter ID."
So, for example, to create a condition record for a tax that applies to a combination of country, plant, and chapter ID, select Country/Plant/Control Code.
4. Choose .
5. Enter data as required.
In the Tax Code field, enter the dummy tax code that you have defined.
6. Save the condition record.

Formula-Based Excise Determination
Use
When you execute a business transaction involving materials that are subject to excise duty, the system automatically calculates the duty for you.
Prerequisites
In order for the system to be able to determine which rate of excise duty to apply, you must have maintained all the access®data on the Excise Rate Maintenance screen, which you can Master Data from the SAP Easy Access screen by choosing Indirect Taxes Excise Rate ®Maintenance.
You maintain the following types of data:
• Plant master data
You assign each of your plants an excise duty indicator. You can use the same indicator for all the plants with the same excise status from a legal point of view, such as all those that are in an exempt zone.
See also the information about manufacturers that are only entitled to deduct a certain portion of the duty (see Partial CENVAT Credit).
• Vendor master data
For each of your vendors with the same excise status from a legal perspective, you define an excise duty indicator. You must also specify the vendor type – for example, whether the vendor is a manufacturer, a depot, or a first-stage dealer. You must also stipulate if the vendor qualifies as a small-scale industry.
For each permutation of plant indicator and vendor indicator, you then create a final excise duty indicator.
• Customer master data
Similarly, you assign the same excise duty indicator to each of your customers that share the same legal excise status.
Again, for each permutation of plant indicator and customer indicator, you then create a final excise duty indicator.
• Material master data
Each material is assigned a chapter ID.
• Excise tax rate
For every chapter ID and final excise duty indicator, you maintain the rate of excise duty.
If your business only qualifies for partial CENVAT credit, you must customize your system accordingly.
Activities
Let us consider an example to illustrate how the system determines which rate of excise duty to apply to a material. Assume you are posting a sale of ball bearings to a customer. The system automatically determines the rate of excise duty as follows:
1. Looks up the customer master data to see what status you have assigned the customer.
Let's assume you've assigned the customer status 3.
2. Looks up the plant master data to see what status you have assigned the plant.
Similarly, your plant has status 2.
3. The system looks up the table under Excise Indicator for Plant and Customer to see what the final excise duty indictor is for customer status 3 and plant status 2: It is 7.
4. The system determines the chapter ID of the ball bearing for the plant.
Let’s assume the chapter ID at plant for the ball bearings is 1000.01.
5. Finally, the system looks up the table under Excise Tax Rate to see what rate of duty applies to chapter ID 1000.01 under status 7.
Define Tax Code for Purchasing Documents
Use : In this IMG activity, you define a tax code for the purposes of calculating excise duty when you enter purchasing documents.
Only carry out this activity if you use condition-based excise determination.
Activities: Create a new tax code, and set the tax code type to V (input tax). Do not make any other settings for it.

Assign Tax Code to Company Codes
Use
In this IMG activity, assign the tax code for purchasing documents to the company codes where it will be used.
Only carry out this activity if you use condition-based excise determination.

Classify Condition Types
Use
In this IMG activity, you specify which condition types you use for which sort of tax. Note that this only applies to condition types that you use with the new excise determination method.
The system uses this information when you create a document from another one. For example, when you enter an incoming excise invoice from a purchase order, or when you create an outgoing excise invoice from a sales order, the system determines the various excise duties in the excise invoice using the information that you have entered here.
In addition, when you create a purchasing document, the system only uses the condition types that you enter here.
• For taxes on purchases, use the condition types contained in the tax procedure.
• For taxes on sales, use the condition types contained in the pricing procedures.
Standard settings
The standard system comes with sample settings for the tax calculation procedures and pricing procedures.
Use these settings as a basis for your own.

IMG > Logistics - General > Tax On Goods Movement > India > Account Determination
Define G/L Accounts for Taxes
Use
In this IMG activity, you specify which G/L accounts you will use to record which taxes.
Requirements
You have set up G/L accounts for each of the processing keys listed below.
Activities
Assign an account to each of the following posting keys. The accounts for VS1, VS2, and VS3 are used as clearing accounts during excise invoice verification.
• VS1 (basic excise duty)
• VS2 (additional excise duty)
• VS3 (special excise duty)
• VS5 (sales tax setoff)
• MWS (central sales tax)
• MW3 (local sales tax)
• ESA (service tax)
• ESE (service tax expense)

Specify Excise Accounts per Excise Transaction
Use
In this IMG activity, you specify which excise accounts (for excise duty and CENVAT) are to be posted to for the various transaction types. Enter all the accounts that are affected by each transaction type.
If you use subtransaction types, enter the accounts for each subtransaction type as well.
Activities
Transaction type UTLZ is used for determining accounts only while posting excise JVs and also if the payment of excise duty has to be done fortnightly.
The fortnightly CENVAT payment utility picks up the credit side accounts from the transaction types of GRPO, EWPO, and TR6C for determining the CENVAT and PLA accounts. There is no separate transaction type for fortnightly payment.
Example
Excise TT DC ind Account name
GRPO CR CENVAT clearing account
GRPO CR RG 23 BED account
GRPO DR CENVAT on hld account


Specify G/L Accounts per Excise Transaction
Use
In this IMG activity, you assign the excise and CENVAT accounts to G/L accounts.
When you come to execute the various transactions, the system determines which G/L accounts to post to by looking at the:
• Excise group
• Company code
• Chart of accounts
Furthermore, if you want separate account determination settings within an excise group, you can also use sub transaction types.
Requirements
You have already:
• Defined the G/L accounts
• Defined the excise groups
• Maintained the transaction accounts
Activities
For each excise group, assign the excise and CENVAT accounts to G/L accounts. For most businesses, one set of accounts will suffice for alltransactions.
Note
You need not remit the CENVAT to the excise department immediately, so maintain the credit account for transaction type DLFC as an excise duty interim account. This will be set off when you remit the duty.
Config setting needed to be done in order to get the Excise Details Screen in Material Master.

Even though this functionality is available in enterprise version, a small config step has to be made in Screen Sequences for Material Master.

Following document helps you to do this configuration.

1.à Logistics General à Material Master à Configuring the MaterialàGo to IMG Define Structure of Data Screen for each master Screen Sequence.
2. Select your screen sequence. Usually it would be 21. Select the same and click on Data Screen in the left frame.
3. Once the data screens are exhibited, select data screen no. 15, ie. SSq. 21and Scrn 15, which is “Foreign Trade: Import Data”. Select the same and click on Subscreens in the left frame.
4. Go to the last sub screen i.e. 21-15-6 - SAPLMGD1- 0001 and select the same. Click on tab view subscreen and ensure that the subscreen is blank.
5. Now in the last sub screen i.e. no.6 you delete SAPLMGD1 – 0001 and instead add SAPLJ1I_MATERIAL_MASTER and in the screen no. 2205.
6. Save the setting.
7. Create a Material Master and check whether in Screen Foreign Trade – Import, Excise related subscreen appears.

Assign Invoice List Type to Billing Type

Invoice List type is also a Billing type and is created in Billing type creation configuration menu. Here for Invoice Lists to be created they needs to be assigned to billing types.

This configuration is provided for this purpose. Instructions Follow Menu Path: IMG → Sales and Distribution → Billing → Invoice Lists → Assign Invoice List Type To Each Billing Type
Click

Billing types are available here. The Invoice List type is assigned to billing types. Click and. Effect of Configuration Invoice Lists can be created in system for Billing documents.

Important Tips for Interview for SAP SD

Let me share some important tips for interview for SAP SD:

1. Please be through with the projects you have mentioned in your resume.
2. Remember all the versions you have worked upon.
3. If your projects are in Indian scenario be thorough with CIN/Excise VAT and pricing procedure.
4 For offshore client specially in Europe and NASA prepare yourself for Warehouse/Lean warehouse
5. Third party billing / Intercompany / Make to order are important topics.
6. Cost booking that is accounting enteries after PGI and Billing should be known to you.
7. Mug up all the determinations.
8. Remember your last ticket.
9. Have general awareness about ALE/EDI/IDOC, as this provides added advantage. (not very tough)
10. Please be through with your basics, the process, the pricing and the master data.
11. People who are thorough with route, transportation, shipping always have an added advantage.

The MOST IMPORTANT THING:

Do not try to fool your interviewer, say exactly and only what is asked do not show your excitement and do not speak too much if you know the topic too well, and say a straight NO if you have not worked on something, or don't know about something, pls pls pls don't not go for flukes otherwise you will end up in soup.

What I understand is most of the companies especially in the US are looking for a candidates with
1) good communication skills (SAP is all about interacting with the client, users and team)
2) good business knowledge
3) are you able to convince the client

That comes in next round when you are interviewed to be deputed for any US/Europe project, in this round take care of the
following:
1. Speak slow, I mean normal, because usually Indians speak english too fast.
2. Listen to them carefully, if you are not able to understand their question request them to repeat it, rather than assuming it to be something else and giving a wrong reply.
3. Again I should repeat prepare yourself for warehouse, I mean even general knowledge will help.
4. Say a straight no when you don't know or have not worked on the topic.
5. Always be strong on SD MM FI integrations

What the job responsibilites would be for the Support Consultant? If the Consultant is working in Offshore Support, How the business interaction would be there between the Consultant and Customer? How the Customer Queries were handled successfully sitting from his location.

Job responsibility of a Support consultants is to handle routine tickets, which can be incident (routine problems), change tickets (need configuration change, therefore a change request), normally a support consultant can only advice a change but can't do it , because there is always a change advisory board on client end to evaluate and implement the adviced change.

Business intercation between users and customer can be through mail box utilities, outlook, even telecons and some companies also allow chat.

Usually the customer provides with the number of the document and client/company code and other necessary info. about the process which is facing problem, the consultant tracks the project by logging in to development server and search out for causes, the solution is then sent to user, maybe with snapshot if required.

For those people who asks for for tickets:
1. Tickets are normally raised by end user and carry a priority.
2. Those who are asking SAP gurus to tell them about tickets, pls note that most of the problems except for the basic questions discussed in this group are the tickets themselves, tickets are nothing but the routine incidents the SAP consultants get, if you regularly read the mails in the group you will soon start recognizing tickets.

And the most important thing "Believe in yourself and God, as there is always somebody there to help you".


What is the team size? Duration of the project.

Hardly the team of the sd will be 4 to 5 and entire team of the project will be around 20-24 (all modules like fi/co, sd, mm, pp, hr, qm, pm). If its big project, it will be around 40. Team size means the employees who you are working on sap r/3 implementation.

For the project completion it will take around 8-10 months to get into golive. After that, post implementation for 3 months. After that supporting it depends as project time line for every company is different.

SAP SD Interview Questions

Following are some SD Interview questions that might be asked.

1. What is the purpose of text determination, account determination, partner determination, output
determination,storagelocation determination
2. What are the five imp fields to be maintained in account determination
3. How to create excise invoice and what is it
4. What is meant by transfer of data from legacy code to sap
5. What do you do really in pricing determination, and what are the main deifferences between
one pricing procedure determination to the others, which data control these differences
6. What type of reports generally a support consultant maintain and report
7. What are interfaces used generally an indian organisation which is in retail business
and and which is in banking business and oil business.
8. What is the purpose of shipping point determination not menu path
9. What and where types of copy controls we change
10. How to and where to maintain copy controls
11. What is purpose of maintaining common distribution channels and common divisions

Q.No.11

Common Distribution Channel and Common Divison are maintained so that if any master data like customer or material maintained with respect to one distribution channel can be used in other DCh. It prevents the multiplication of master records.

Eg: A customer is created for say sales area 1000/20/00 then the same customer can be used in sales area 1000/30/00 if we maintain 20 as common distribution channel. Hence no need for extending the customers...the same for materials also.

Rajendra Babu

As of what I know answer to question 5 would be:

5. we determine how the prices are calculated, taking into account sales area(sales org, distribution channel, division), document type and customer(generally sold-to-party).

The main differences between pricing procedures would be the differences as I mentioned above, from the point of view of field entries.

Coming to the output and the procedure, I suppose the condition types used will be different and hence the following whole procedure.

Uday

1. What is the purpose of text determination, account determination, partner determination, output determination,
storage location determination

Text determination: For transferring information from material or customer to order/delvery or invoice (and anything inbetween)

Account determination: For transferring financial and costing information to proper financial docs

Partner determination: For determing who is is legally resposible for A/r, who the goods are going to and whatever else you waana drive through this functionality.

Output determination: What kinda output does a sales/delivery/billing document create and who gets it, where?. For example A partner might get an EDI notification for a sales order just confirmed, whereas a financial/leasing company gets the invoice!

2. What are the five imp fields to be maintained in account determination

Go to IMG and find out

3. How to create excise invoice and what is it.

I've never worked in india so I dunno

4. What is meant by transfer of data from legacy code to sap Legacy Code ?

It should be legacy data to SAP. What it means is you want to transfer all the customer and materials and all other information from Older (legacy system) to new SAP system. You can do it using many tools, most noticeably MDMs.

Vivek

Regarding q-3,

As per Indian tax system, Excise duty (16%) is payable by each manufacturing unit on the value of manufactured goods / on the value added. The manufacturing plant is supposed to submit an excise duty report on fortnightly / monthly basis. Various registers (RG1, RG23A, RG23C, PLA) are maintained for that purpose, which record all the transactions including movement of goods, cenvat credit available and cash balance available.

In SAP, we use transaction j1id for configuration and j1iin, j2i7, j1i5, j2i5, j2i6, j1ip for creating, extracting and printing excise invoice.

Jitesh

1. (a) Text Determination: Any Texts in Masterial Master/Material Determination/Order/Delivery , etc is meant to convey messages to the subsequent documents for compliance. e.g. "Give Top Priority" message mentioned in Order is meant for Production Dept.

(b) Account Determination:is integration between Finance and SD. The A/P along with Account Keys need to be allocated accordingly with combination of Account Determination Group for Customer and Material if required.

(c) Partner Determination:To identify which type of Partner it is so that if required for same Customer different Partner Functions may be required e.g Only One Sold To Party per Customer. More than One Ship to Party/ Bill to Party/ Payer possible. Accordingly different Masters will have to be created. Useful for despatch of Material in casae of Ship to Party, sending Bill in case of Bill to Party and payment followup/Dunning in case of Payer.

(d) Output Determination: What type of Output (Fax/Mail, etc) is required, where and in what Format(ABAP Customisation may be required in some cases especially Invoices).

(e) Storage Location Determination: depends on Plant, Shipping Point and Storage Conditions

(2) Account Determination: Sales View, Sales Organisation, Distribution Chanel, Chart of Accounts, Account Assignment Group for Customer and Material and Account Keys.

(3) I will check and let you know within week.

(4) Before installation of SAP, Data maintained by Company is called Legacy Data. At the time of instalation, it is required to transfer Data from Legacy to SAP like Masters (Material/Customer, etc). It can be done in various ways like BDC, LSMW, etc.

(5) Pricing is determined by combination of Sales Organisation, Distribution Channel, Division, Customer Pricing Procedure and Document Pricing Procedure.

(6) Depends on Customer requirements.

(7) Its not clear.

(8) So that Shipping Point is determined automatically once the settings for the same are done.

(9) Copy Control: is basically meant so that Data is copied from preceding Document to subsequent one. What subsequent Document is required is to some extent determined by Customer Requirements as well as Document Types. e.g. In general case of Standard Order, it will be Copy Control (Order to Delivery) from OR to LF .

(10) Check for yourself in IMG (Sales Document types and Delivery Document Types)

Shailesh

What is the difference between the Avaialbility check 01 (Daily requirement) and 02 (Individual Requirement) in material master?

01 and 02 are the checking group. Availability check is carried out with the help of these checking group and checking rule. Checking group 01 and 02 are maintained on the material master.

01 - Individual requirement -For this system generates transfers the requirement for each order to the MRP .So that MM can either produce or procure.

02- Collective requirement.-In this all the requirements in aday or in a wek are processed at a time. System stores all req and passes on to the MRP in MRP run.In this system performance is high however you can not do the backorder processing whereas in other you can do

Interview Question and Answers on SAP SD

1.What are the responsibilities of a functional consultant in an implementation project?

a) Responsibilities in implemention project

- Preparing the functional specification documents.
- Review and approval of functional specifications.
- Designing a road map and setting approval from client.
- Changing existing configuration whenever needed.
- Setting up configuration for new enhancements.
- Handling basic issues of MM module.

b)Responsibilities in support project

- Handling customization, configuration, and enhancement related issues
- Handling tickets on Day to Day basis
- Monitoring S&D reports on daily basis required by clients
- Preparing functional specification documents
- Preparing end user training Documents

2.What are the responsibilities of a technical consultant in an implementation project?

Preparation of techinical specifications, getting apporvals from functional consultant and PM,assitance to functioal consultant.

3.What are the main and sub modules in SAP?

MM,FICO,PP,ABAP

4.What is ERP and SAP?and why inplementing SAP in an organization? Explain the special features of SAP over other
ERPs?

SAP is an ERP package. SAP can be fit it any language. It is used to get exact data with a fraction of section which will be use fully for management to take correct decision in a short span of time. Using of sap means there is no need to maintain the
middle management in the organization because the CEO of the company is able to direct the executives direcltly with the system. SAP is able to integrate all functional organizational units togethere and retrieve exact data needed by management. Therefore, investing on middle management will become less. and the user will be able to acess instance reports using the logistic informaion systems in SAP.

5.Explain the business flow of an implementation project?

- Project prepration
- Business blue prints
- Fit gap analysis
- Realization
- Golive
- Support

6.Explain breifly about your role in current/previous project? (If you have one)

Team member

7.Explain your functional experience prior to SAP?

For this yo will give explanation depends of your previous experience.

8.Can you explain the modern technologies in SAP? Do you use this in your current project?

I think the ans is APO, BW, CRM, if its wrong pls guide me any body.

9.Explain the terms "AS IS" and "FIT GAP ANALYSIS"?

Business blue print stage is called as is process. Fit gap means, before implementing the SAP all the business data is in the form of documents, we cannot keep this data as is in the SAP. There should be a gap. So by filling this gap, we make configuration with the help of these documents. This is called as fit gap analysis. In this stage, we should analysis the gap between as is and is as process

10.What are the responsibilities of "CORE TEAM" and "FUNCTIONAL TEAM" in an implementation?

Core Team are the power users who are selected for the SAP implementation. The Functional Team gather the initial implementation requirement from these core team users who will be the bridge between the SAP Functional Team and their department users with the expert work knowledge.

Some SAP SD Interview Questions I

1. What exactly is automatic posting can you explain?

1. Automatic posting could be, posting of accounting documents to FICO once invoice is created which can also be controlled manually. Automatiaclly detremine the freight while pricing in ship doc. and post to the relevant account to fico. usually automatic posting is posting of documents to FICO based on variuos account keys and account groups.

2. How many clients we will create in land scape (like in development server, quality server, production server )
if we are creating more than one in each server what is exact use of that client.

2. Client landscape : Basic layout : dev -testing- production also
- Sandbox env. for trial and error
- Development env. for actaully creating transports(CTS)
- Global env. If you have global implementations at different client locations (eg; canada, US, UK) (for testing purposes with actual master dataas well)
- Testing env.(for regression testing purposes before moving to prodcution, integration etc..)
- Prod. env. the actual production system
The clients could be variable and could be created to a specific env. usually a dev. where abap, functional would mess around. say :
client 100-functinal consultants
client 300- abapers
client 400- other users(like super etc)

3. How we will configure export sales in sd (respect to plants assign and sales process)?

4. How we can do invoice split depending on item category in which scenario we will use?

4. You first need to go for copying controls either from sales to billing (invoice) or delivery to billing or billing to billing
use transactions (vtaa,vtaf,vtla,vtfa,vtfl,vtff) all possibilities for copy controls. this basicly is flow of doc to doc. (may it be sales to billing, del to bil, or bil to bil etc..)
-> this is where you see the Item category and you control whether split is possible or not with the indicator"B". eg: representing split in invoice based on item category. The field here "data VBRK/VBRP" (headre/item)whcih actually is used for splits or combining different deliveries. create a splitting rule using VOFM (you need access key to get here). Here you define comparisions for the fields at header table and item tables and the comparision fields say SPART"division". "purchase order "BSTKD Instance: 5 sales orders combined into 2 deliveries and the split at the invoice would be 5 individual billing with respect to fields PO and DIv. of each sales order would let you create 5 billings. You need to define the exact "field" in the comparisions both at header and item level that could lead to invoice split. the key here is the field that is different
from header to item will cause split at the item level.

5. Can any one explain how we will configure milestone billing , periodic billing and which scenario we will use?

5. Menu path:
IMG->sales &distr->Billing->billing plans->define billing plan types.
You set the start date and end dates if applicable to the type of billing you are using. What time to be billed (end of month, start of month etc..)
Milestone is a billing plan type where a customer is billed for the amount distributed between the dates until total value is reached eg: if the total billing amountis 1000 USD for a year. You will bill the customer in different amounts say 200, 500, 300 at different intervals as per customer agreement.
On the other hand Periodic billling is billing the customer for the total amount(here 1000 USD) at regular intervals peridically until the customer agreement is reached. eg: 1000/12 for a 1 year agreement and say billed at the 1st day of every month.

6. What are some pricing routines and sd functional specs?

6. Form routines for prcing and variuos other functions can be maintained form routines are something todo with ABAP code.
Go to (VOFM) where all requrements whcih are represented by form routines can be maintained. Requrements are available to be assigned where access sequenses are used (for determination procedures, here pricing).
Once the tcode VOFM is accessed you will see requrements and go select "pricing" again you need access key to create your own or copy a routine.
Say you want header price not to have effect the item pricing, you need to go to the program to change abap code to meet the requirement. this specific requirement you created will be assigned in the pricing proc. determination "requirements field"
usaully with a number beyond 600. Note: make sure you activate your routine for its effect to take place.

Some SAP SD Interview Questions II

Some of the interviewed questions and answers are as follows:

What is the movement type you used in consignment process?
### 632, 633, 634, 631

Can team size be 40 in a project? Is there any generalized team size no. for any project? If we tell my team size is 40 in that what no. we can say sd people are?
## Team size cant be forty, Theres no genralized size of team. Never
40 sd consultants work together on same project.

What is ALE?
## Application Linking and Enabling - Generally ABAPers work on it.

What is meant by condition technique: can we say it is the combination of condition types, access sequence and condition tables?
## yes

Where do we can find pricing procedure indicator in sd ?
## Pricing procedure is where we maintain all Conditions (like PR00, K004, mwst, kp00, etc)

Where do we assign calender in the master records?
## In IMG screen Global Settings.

What is the importance of customer account groups?
## We maintain the customer account to maintain payment terms and incoterms. Lets say, if SP is only booking order but the goods should deliver in foreign country and for which SP is not going to bare the excise and other taxes then the SH party or payer will tke teh responsibity then the tax is calculated based on account groups.

What are incoterms? Where do we fix them? Where do you find in regular process?
## Incoterms or international comm. terms and u find in CMR - Sales area Data - billing Tab.

How can you make some of the fields as key field in generic tables?
## Some fields in all tables have a indicator on it.To see, then go to SE11, display VBAK, u will find MANDT on top, if you see after description 2 tick marks, those are key fields. Gernerally, these key fields are used in writing any Program or Interface. The key fields will extract data of non key fields .

What is the standard group condition routine in condition type, what is its importance?
## Its better u read Group Conditions in PR00.

How do you control entry possibility of condition values at order through condition type settings?
## You can maintain the maximum and minimum value for all conditions.

What are the customizing settings in pricing procedure for tax condition type?
## Check out the standard pricing procedure RVAA01 - MWST.

A bunch of data need to be imported. A huge no.of creations are required, how it is possible in SAP?
## thru LSMW, BAPI.

What is the difference between PGI cancellation and returns order?
## PGI cancellation is done before the transportation of goods. But return order means its already transported reached customer during transit if materil is spoiled or broke or the goods r not delivered as per customer requested date.then customer send the goods baack to company.

What is the integrated areas in SD AND FI, SD AND MM, SD AND PP in both implementation and support projects?
## SD & FI - Possible in Account Determination, for posting the conditions to revelant G/l account like all prices goes to one particular g/l account. Also in Credit Management, Taxes.

SD & MM - Possible in Batches, Material Requirement Planning.

SD & PP - Possible in Material Requirement planning.

SAP Sales and Distribution Frequently Asked Question

Master Data

Q: Some materials have been blocked for procurement and production. Even though deletion flag is set for a material/plant level, the order can be still entered ( with a warning message). Is there a way to block such transactions for a material flagged for deletion?

A: Sales Status field in the sales organization view of the material master may be used to block any transaction for the material.

Q: We can define our own exchange rate types and use them instead of the defaulted types, 'M', 'B' and 'G'. How can we overwrite default types in SD?

A: Exchange rate gets copied from the customer master record. Exchange rate types are to be maintained for the customer in the sales screen of the customer master record.


Shipping

Q: The PL00 condition is fine in delivery. But when we try to print to either the screen or printer, an error V1032 occurs. Why?

A: In order to use the Packing list PL00 (packing slip in delivery) you must do 'Packing' in the delivery note (edit->packing)

Q: we have to enter a shipping point while creating a delivery. Is it possible to create delivery without shipping points?

A: When you are releasing a sales order, choose Sales document -> Subsequent functions-> Create delivery, then the shipping point will be brought in from the sales order. In all other scenarios you have to key in the shipping point. The above described scenario will only work if all items on the sales order are to be shipped from the same shipping point.


Billing

Q: SAP allows a non-inventory item and an inventory item to be in the same document till delivery but splits at the time of creation of billing document. Can we combine a non-inventory item with an inventory item in one invoice? Can we treat it as a value item in sales order so that it is priced and then make it as a text item in delivery documents so that it appears in the same invoice and does not split?

A1: Make the non-stock material deliverable, but not pickable. Both items will carry into the delivery, and therefore appear on the same invoice.

A2: Change the copy rule for orders->invoices and deliveries->invoices to specify that invoice combination is permitted. However note that for system to create combined invoices, PO number, payment terms, sales organization, and distribution channel must be identical. Else undesirable combinations may be created by the system.


Pricing Conditions

Q: It is impossible to price at the material level (matnr) , when a material has a pricing reference (mvke-pmatn) set up against it in the master data. Pricing always look for the pref, even if a price is set up against the material and not the pref. How can we price by material and pref?

A: The field used to look up at the price is defined in Access sequence. You may find a step with PMATN as material number. If you insert a step with MATNR then the system will first look for the material, if not found (use the exclusion tick box) it will look for the pref.


Customizing

Q: We generated a new condition table. Assigned the condition to access sequence. Created a condition record. Access sequence is assigned to the output type. But when we create a billing document, output screen comes up blank for the output type. When we look up Determination Analysis, we get an error "Note 524 Access not made (Initialized Field)". What else is required to be done?
A: Assign output determination procedure to the header of the document and the output type.

Q: How can we set up to have the VAT# be accepted in the Ship-To Master File Data Control screen?
A: IMG->Fin. Acct.->AR and AP ->Customer acct->Master Record -> Prepare to Create Customer-> Define Acct. Group.

Q: We want to explode Bill of Material automatically at time of Order entry and explode an Equipment BOM in the sales order. What are the setting required?
A: Use an item category that is configured for bills of material for having a sales BOM to explode automatically.
Standard SAP item categories are :
TAQ - Pricing and inventory control take place at the BOM header level
TAP - Pricing and inventory control take place at the BOM item level
These can be automatically derived using the item category groups ERLA and LUMF, respectively.

Q: How can we make the Customer Group 1 (or 2, 3, 4, 5) a mandatory field?
A: Logistic General-> Logistics Basic Data: Business Partners -> Customers -> Control -> Define account groups and field selection for customer

Choose Customer Acct. GR. (double-click). -> Field Status: Sales data (double click) -> sales (double click) .Check the radio button against Customer Gr as REQ. ENTRY. Save the settings to make customer GR entry mandatory .

Q: Is there an user exit to copy the data into planning table?
A: Use user exit MCP20001 and include ZXSOPU01.


Others

Q: We get a report screen: "Goods issue: Problem Log" during the delivery process when activating Post Goods Issue button. We want to include our own error message to this list if the selected batch is not on a customer defined table. What is the best way?

A: Try User exit - USEREXIT_SAVE_DOCUMENT_PREPARE

Link Between SAP SD, MM & FI

1. In SAP you will always get integration with other modules. SD will interact with FI, MM will interact with SD :-

1a. Looking at MM and SD interaction first, take the scenario of a third party order process. This process uses a purchase order (which is sent to your vendor). Also invoice verification is used further along the process to check that the invoice you send to your customer is the same material and quantity as that which the vendor sends to you (but obviously shipped
directly to your customer).

1b. Billing is an SD function. But SAP needs to know, when processing a customer's payment, to which GL account the payment has to be processed. For instance payment of a UK based material would be placed in a different GL account to that of a non-UK based material. Furthermore, a UK based customer may have a different GL account to that of an Export customer. This is configured in Account Determination.

2. ABAPers are there to essential do some bespoke development. Your integration, or interaction, with them would be when specifying the tables, fields, input fields, a simple process explanation, data mapping (if doing an interface from one system to another) etc. *-- Shahee

The link between SD and MM :-

1. When you create sales order in SD, all the details of the items are copied from Material master of MM.

2. MRP and availibility check related data is also taken from MM although you control this data in SD also.

3. While you create inbound/outbound delivery with reference to a sales order,the shipping point determination takes place with the help of the loading group, plant data, shipping conditions etc. This also refers to Material Master.

4. The material which you are entering in a sales order must be extended to the sales area of your sales order/customer otherwise you cannot transact with this material.

There are many such links between SD and MM.

Now the link between SD and FI :-

1. Whenever you create a delivery with reference to a sales order, goods movement takes place in the bacgground. eg. In case of standard sales order, you create an outbound goods delivery to the customer.
Here movement 601 takes place. This movement is configured in MM. Also, this movement hits some G/L account in FI. Every such movement of good s hits some G/L account.

2. The accounts posting in FI is done with reference to the billing documents (invoice, debit note, credit note etc) created in SD. Thus this is a link between SD and FI

3. Tax determination: In case of a tax determination also, there is a direct link between SD and MM

SD Integration points with other modules

SD module is highly integrated with the other modules in SAP.

Sales Order –
Integration Points Module
•Availability Check - MM
•Credit Check - FI
•Costing - CO/ MM
•Tax Determination - FI
•Transfer of Requirements - PP/ MM

Delivery & Goods Issue –
Integration Points Module
•Availability Check - MM
•Credit Check - FI
•Reduces stock - MM
•Reduces Inventory $ - FI/ CO
•Requirement Eliminated - PP/ MM

Billing -
Integration Points Module
•Debit A/R - FI/ CO
•Credit Revenue - FI/ CO
•Updates G/ L - FI/ CO
(Tax, discounts, surcharges, etc.)
•Milestone Billing - PS

Return Delivery & Credit Memo -
Integration Points Module
•Increases Inventory - MM
•Updates G/ L - FI
•Credit Memo - FI
•Adjustment to A/R - FI
•Reduces Revenue - FI
Tips by: Subha

SD Transaction Code Flow:

Inquiry / Document type IN
Tcode for creation VA11,VA12,VA13. tables VBAK,VBAP

Quotation / QT
Tcode for creation VA21,VA22,VA23. tables VBAK,VBAP

Purchase Order PO
Tcode for creation ME21,ME22,ME23. tables EKKO,EKPO.

Sales Order OR
Tcode for creation VA01,VA02,VA03. tables VBAK,VBAP

Delivery LF
Tcode for creation VL01,VL02,VL03. tables LIKP,LIPS

Billing MN
Tcode for creation VF01,VF02,VF03. tables VBRK,VBRP

To create a sales order we need purchase order number and custmer number. Before that, to create a purchase order we need to have material no, vendor no.

To create vendor tcode is
xk01(create), xk02(change) , xk03(display)
Tables are lfa1.

To create custmer tcode is xd01, xd02, xd03.
Table is kna1.

After creating sales order using this no we can create delivery note tcode is vl01

Why Do We Assign Division to Sales Organisation

In SAP, why do we assign division to Sales organisation not to distribution channel?

In SAP Business Process

Sales Area= Sales Org.+Dist.Channel+Division.

Its Triangular intraction

Sales organization
/ \
/ \
Dist.Channel<----------------->Division

Sales Org controls Distribution Channel and Division

Distribution Channel: The channel that is choosen the organization to make their product reach the end customer.(Network)

Division: Ex: HLL--------> Detergents, Out of Home,Food Products,Health Care Sectors/Departments
TATA Motars: Trucks/Bus,Cars,Heavy Vechiles Etc...

Please note it is not:

Sales organization
|
|
Dist.Channel
|
|
Division

Division is an Oragaizational Unit.

The Division in the Material Master is not an Organizational Unit that can be used to maintain related fields. It is a field which is used to uniquely assign a material to a Division.

SAP SD resume

As an SAP SD Consultant, you need to include the following in your SAP SD Resume. (SAP Sales & Distribution)

1. Organizational Structures (+)
• Organizational Units and
• Organizational Structures in Sales, Shipping and Billing

2. Master Data (+)
• Customer Master
• Material Master
• Field Control for Customer and Material Master
• Customer-Material Info Record

3. Sales (+++)
• Sales Document Processing - Basics
• Sales Document Types
• Item Categories and Schedule Line Categories
• Copy Control
• Partner Control
• Availability Check - Basics
• Outline Agreements
• Special Business Transactions
• Incompleteness Control
• Free Goods and Free-of-Charge Items
• Material Determination, Listing and Exclusion
• Reporting - Basics

4. Shipping (++)
• Delivery Processing - Basics
• Delivery Types and Item Categories
• Picking, Packaging and Goods Issue
• Scheduling
• Routing and Route Determination

5. Pricing (++)
• Pricing Processing - Basics
• Condition Technique
• Condition Records
• Bonus Processing

6. Billing (++)
• Billing - Basics
• Billing Types
• Complaint Documents
• Billing Plan
• Account Determination
• Interface SD/FI
7. Cross-Application Customizing in SD (+)
• Text Processing
• Output Control
• Interface Personalization
8. Solution Manager (+)
• Solution Manager Overview
9. Experience from Implementation (Case Study or Project)* (+)
• Construction of Business Structures (Organizational Units in mySAP.com)
• Integration and Dependencies

SAP FI Resume

There are many things that make an SAP Resume stand out. When you are doing up your resume, you need to indicate the following to let the hiring manager take notice of your resume. If you are a certified SAP Consultant, it is important that you include the SAP logo on your resume or cv. If you don't indicate the SAP logo on your resume, you're losing out big time.

There are a number of things that HR Executive or Hiring Manager looks out in your SAP Resume. You need to indicate the following:

* How many years experience you have on SAP
* Which modules of SAP have you worked on
* Have you been working as a SAP Consultant doing configurations and implementation, or taking on the role of SAP support.
* Are you a SAP Certified Consultant?
* Are you a SAP Consultant, SAP Technical Consultant or an SAP Techno-Functional Consultant?
* Are you a SAP Implementer, SAP Team Lead, SAP Project Manager doing SAP Project Implementations?
* How many SAP project life cycles have you completed. Are they full SAP implementation cycles or just partial SAP modules.
* Have you implemented SAP Rollouts for the region. SAP Rollout means implementing similar SAP modules & configurations for other countries.
* What are the projects that you were involved in?
* For each individual project, indicate the number of SAP Consultants involved and your role in the SAP project
* Where was the project delivered
* Which SAP modules are you trained and certified in
* Which SAP modules are you competent in
* Which version of SAP, is it SAP 3xx, SAP 4.0, SAP 4.1, SAP 4.6A, SAP 4.6B, SAP 4.6C, SAP 4.70, mySAP CRM, mySAP ERP, mySAP FIN ...etc
* SAP modules involved in each project. E.g SAP MM, SAP SD, SAP FICO with SAP ABAP, SAP Basis, SAP BW.
* Most SAP projects are implemented by SAP Consulting firms, therefore it is also important to indicate which company were you working with. (E.g. I was working as a SAP HR Consultant and was tasked to do implementaion for Unilever for their SAP Rollout).

SAP FI Resume
Other SAP Resumes


SAP Resumes

* SAP FI Resume | SAP FI Resumes
* SAP CO Resume | SAP CO Resumes
* SAP FICO Resume | SAP FICO Resumes
* SAP SD Resume | SAP SD Resumes
* SAP MM Resume | SAP MM Resumes
* SAP HR Resume | SAP HR Resumes
* SAP PP Resume | SAP PP Resumes
* SAP APO Resume | SAP APO Resumes
* SAP ABAP Resume | SAP ABAP Resumes
* SAP Basis Resume | SAP Basis Resumes
* SAP BW Resume | SAP BW Resumes
* SAP PM Resume | SAP PM Resumes
* SAP WM Resume | SAP WM Resumes
* SAP Project System Resume | SAP Project System Resumes
* SAP Life Cycle Asset Management Resume | SAP Life Cycle Asset Management Resumes
* mySAP SRM Resume | mySAP SRM Resumes
* mySAP ERP Financials Resume | mySAP ERP Financials Resumes
* SAP Mendocino Resume | SAP Mendocino Resumes



Complete SAP Modules:

SAP Basis

* Remote Function Calls (RFC)
* Common Program Interface Communications (CPI-C)
* Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
* Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
* Application Link Enabling (ALE)
* Customising (BC-CUS)
* Client Server Technology (BC - CST)
* Network Integration (BC - NET)
* ABAP Programming and Runtime Environment (BC - ABA)
* Basis Services/ Communication Interfaces (BC - SRV)
* Computing Center Management System (BC - CCM)
* Upgrade General (BC - UPG)
* Change and Transport System (BC - CTS)
* Operating System Platform(BC - OP)
* Database Interface, database platforms (BC - DB)
* Front End Services (BC - FES)
* ABAP Workbench (BC - DWB)
* Documentation and Translation Tools (BC - DOC)
* Security (BC - SEC)
* Controls and Control Framework (BC - CI)
* Business Management (BC - BMT)
* Middleware (BC - MID)
* Computer Aided Test Tool (BC - CAT)
* Ready to Run R/3 (BC - BRR)
* Authorisations System Monitoring with CCMS Workload Alert Monitor

SAP Hardware

* AS400
* AT&T
* Bull
* Compaq Digital
* HP
* IBM
* Sequent
* SNI
* Sun

SAP Database

* Adabas D
* DB2 for AIX
* DB2/400
* Informix
* MS SQL
* My SQL
* Oracle
* Sybase

Operating System

* AIX
* HP UX
* MS Windows NT OS/400
* Sinux
* Solaris
* Unix

ABAP/4 Programming

* SAP Script
* Business Workflow (BC - WF)
* ALE
* EDI
* Business Connector
* Business Server Pages
* Internet Application Server
* Mercator Report Painter
* Dialog Programming
* Repository Information System
* Menu Painter
* ABAP 00
* IDOCS
* LSMW
* Smartforms
* EBP
* ASAP methodology
* ALV reporting
* Report writer
* ABAP Query
* Data Dictionary
* Screen Painter

SAP FI (Financial Accounting)

* Accounts Payable (FI- AP)
* Accounts Receivable (FI - AR)
* Asset Accounting (FI - AA)
* General Ledger Accounting (FI - GL)
* Special Ledger (FI - SL)
* Funds Management (FI - FM)
* Travel Management (FI-TM)

SAP TR (Treasury)

* Cash Management (TR - CM)
* Treasury Management (TR - TM)
* Loans Management (TR - LM)
* Funds Management (TR - FM)
* Market Risk Management (TR - MRM)
* Information System

SAP CO (Controlling)

* Cost Centre Accounting (CO - CCA)
* Overhead Cost Controlling (CO - OM)
* Activity Based Coding (CO - ABC)
* Product Cost Controlling (CO - PC)
* Profitability Analysis (CO - PA)
* Material Ledger (CO - ML)

SAP EC (Enterprise Controlling)

* Consolidation (EC - CS)
* Profit Center Accounting (EC - PCA)
* Executive Information System (EC-EIS)
* Business Planning and Budgeting

SAP IM (Investment Management)

* Investment Programmes
* Investment Measures (orders/products)
* Appropriation Requests
* Corporation Wide Budgeting
* Depreciation Forecast
* Automatic Settlement of Fixed Assets
* Information System

SAP HR (Human Resource)

* Personnel Administration
* Benefits Administration
* Compensation Management
* Recruitment
* Travel Management
* Personnel Development
* Organisational Management
* Training and Events Management
* Personnel Planning
* Time Management
* Incentive
* Wages
* Workflow
* Internet Scenarios
* Payroll
* Information System

SAP SMB

* SAP SMB

SAP BW

* Data Warehousing
* BI Platform
* BI Suite - Business Explorer
* Development Technologies
* ODS Structures
* Info Cube
* Design Build

SAP IS (Industry Solutions) / SAP for Industries

* Aerospace & Defence
* Retail
* Consumer Products
* Defence & Security
* Insurance
* Industrial Machinery & Components
* Logistics Service Providers
* Mill Products
* Higher Education & Research
* Automotive
* Banking
* Telecoms
* Chemicals
* Pharmaceuticals
* Life Sciences
* Mining
* Media
* Public Sector
* Service Provider
* Utilities
* Healthcare
* Oil & Gas
* Postal Services

SAP SD (Sales and Distribution)

* Master Data
* Sales
* Special Business Transactions
* Shipping
* Billing
* Credit Control
* Sales Support
* QM in SD
* Internet
* Transportation
* Foreign Trade
* Sales Information System
* Electronic Data Interchange

SAP Logistics Information System

* Sales Information System
* Purchasing Information System
* Inventory Controlling
* Production Planning and Control Information System
* Plant Maintenance Information System
* Project Information System
* Retail Information System

SAP QM - Quality Management

* Planning
* Inspections
* Control
* Notifications
* Certificates
* Test Equipment Management
* QM-IS

SAP MM (Materials Management)

* Logistics (General)
* Logistics Information System
* Purchasing
* Inventory Management
* Invoice Verification
* Inventory / Valuations
* Materials Planning
* Workflow
* External Services Management
* QM in MM
* Warehouse Management

SAP PM (Plant Maintenance)

* Preventative Maintenance
* Service Management
* Maintenance Order Management
* Maintenance Projects
* Equipment and Technical Objects
* Structuring Technical Systems
* Maintenance Planning
* PM Processing
* Work Clearance Management
* Internet Scenarios
* Customising
* Information System

SAP CS (Customer Service)

* Service Processing
* Service Contracts
* Controlling
* Workflow in Customer Service

SAP PP (Production Planning)

* Make to Order (CR)
* Make to Order (PIR)
* Repetitive Manufacturing
* PP for Process Industries (PP - PI)
* PP - Processes
* Sales and Operations Planning
* Master Planning
* Capacity requirements
* KANBAN
* Production Orders
* Product Cost Planning
* Assembly Orders
* Plant Data Collection
* Information System

SAP CA (Cross Application Components)

* Application Link Enabling (ALE)
* SAP Business Workflow

SAP PS (Project Systems)

* Basic Data
* Operational Structures
* Project Planning
* Approval
* Project Execution and Integration
* Information System
* Work Breakdown Structure

mySAP SRM (Supplier Relationship Management)

* Self Service Procurement
* Service Procurement
* Plan Driven Procurement
* Spend Analysis
* Strategic Sourcing
* Catalogue Content Management

mySAP SEM

* Business Consolidation (SEM-BCS)
* Business Information Collection (SEM-BIC)
* Business Planning and Simulation (BW-BPS)
* Corporate Performance Monitor (SEM-CPM)
* Stakeholder Relationship Management (SEM-SRM)

mySAP CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

* CRM Enterprise
* Field Applications
* E-Commerce
* Interaction Center
* Channel Management
* Industry Specific CRM

mySAP Product Life Cycle Management

* Document Management
* Enterprise Content Management
* Engineering Change Management
* Classification
* Basic Data for Process Manufacturing

SAP SCM (SAP Supply Chain Management)

* SCM Process and Business Scenarios
* SAP Advance Planning and Optimization (SAP - APO)
* SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
* SAP Inventory Collaboration Hub (SAP - OCH)
* SAP Event Management (SAP - EM)
* SCM Basis

SAP Netweaver

* SAP Masterdata Management
* Portal Content
* Information Integration
* Process Integration
* Life Cycle Management
* Knowledge Management
* SAP Visual Composer
* SAP Business Intelligence
* People Integration
* Application Platform
* Security
* SAP Web Application Server
* SAP Business Information Warehouse
* SAP Enterprise Portal
* SAP Solution Manager
* SAP Mobile Engine

SAP SD Interview tips and tricks

Important Tips for Interview for SAP SD

Let me share some important tips for interview for SAP SD:

1. Please be through with the projects you have mentioned in your resume.
2. Remember all the versions you have worked upon.
3. If your projects are in Indian scenario be thorough with CIN/Excise VAT and pricing procedure.
4 For offshore client specially in Europe and NASA prepare yourself for Warehouse/Lean warehouse
5. Third party billing / Intercompany / Make to order are important topics.
6. Cost booking that is accounting enteries after PGI and Billing should be known to you.
7. Mug up all the determinations.
8. Remember your last ticket.
9. Have general awareness about ALE/EDI/IDOC, as this provides added advantage. (not very tough)
10. Please be through with your basics, the process, the pricing and the master data.
11. People who are thorough with route, transportation, shipping always have an added advantage.

The MOST IMPORTANT THING:

Do not try to fool your interviewer, say exactly and only what is asked do not show your excitement and do not speak too much if you know the topic too well, and say a straight NO if you have not worked on something, or don't know about something, pls pls pls don't not go for flukes otherwise you will end up in soup.

What I understand is most of the companies especially in the US are looking for a candidates with
1) good communication skills (SAP is all about interacting with the client, users and team)
2) good business knowledge
3) are you able to convince the client

That comes in next round when you are interviewed to be deputed for any US/Europe project, in this round take care of the
following:
1. Speak slow, I mean normal, because usually Indians speak english too fast.
2. Listen to them carefully, if you are not able to understand their question request them to repeat it, rather than assuming it to be something else and giving a wrong reply.
3. Again I should repeat prepare yourself for warehouse, I mean even general knowledge will help.
4. Say a straight no when you don't know or have not worked on the topic.
5. Always be strong on SD MM FI integrations

What the job responsibilites would be for the Support Consultant? If the Consultant is working in Offshore Support, How the business interaction would be there between the Consultant and Customer? How the Customer Queries were handled successfully sitting from his location.

Job responsibility of a Support consultants is to handle routine tickets, which can be incident (routine problems), change tickets (need configuration change, therefore a change request), normally a support consultant can only advice a change but can't do it , because there is always a change advisory board on client end to evaluate and implement the adviced change.

Business intercation between users and customer can be through mail box utilities, outlook, even telecons and some companies also allow chat.

Usually the customer provides with the number of the document and client/company code and other necessary info. about the process which is facing problem, the consultant tracks the project by logging in to development server and search out for causes, the solution is then sent to user, maybe with snapshot if required.

For those people who asks for for tickets:
1. Tickets are normally raised by end user and carry a priority.
2. Those who are asking SAP gurus to tell them about tickets, pls note that most of the problems except for the basic questions discussed in this group are the tickets themselves, tickets are nothing but the routine incidents the SAP consultants get, if you regularly read the mails in the group you will soon start recognizing tickets.

And the most important thing "Believe in yourself and God, as there is always somebody there to help you".

Tips by : Nitin

What is the team size? Duration of the project.

Hardly the team of the sd will be 4 to 5 and entire team of the project will be around 20-24 (all modules like fi/co, sd, mm, pp, hr, qm, pm). If its big project, it will be around 40. Team size means the employees who you are working on sap r/3 implementation.

For the project completion it will take around 8-10 months to get into golive. After that, post implementation for 3 months. After that supporting it depends as project time line for every company is different.

Basic Process of how Packing Works

Let's say you want to pack a material shirt_jai in test_pack.

Using MM01, create material type=packaging test_pack

[SPRO]
IMG-Logistics Execution-Shipping-Packing-
Define Packaging Material Types
Let's say JPAC. The settings that I chose:
Plant determ. - Plant is entered manually in handling unit
Pack. matl. cat. - Packaging materials
Generate Dlv. Items - blank
Number assignment - Number range interval 'HU_VEKP'

IMG-Logistics Execution-Shipping-Packing-
Define material group for packaging material
Let's say JGRP

IMG-Logistics Execution-Shipping-Packing-
Define allowed packaging materials
JGRP - JPAC

MM02: Check settings for the materials
First, test_pack

Sales:General/Plant -> Matl. Grp. Pack. Matls: JGRP (Note)
Sales:General/Plant -> Packaging Mat. Type: JPAC (Note)
Basic Data 1 -> Material: JMAT

Then, shirt_jai

Sales:General/Plant -> Matl. Grp. Pack. Matls: JGRP
Sales:General/Plant -> Packaging Mat. Type: -
Basic Data 1 -> Material: JMAT

VL01N Outbound Delivery -> Packing
Enter the materials at top and at bottom
(Select shirt_jai and
Edit - Pack)

This is how the basic process of packing works.

The "Packing Process" with an Example

Example:
You created a order for a material(R-1160 - hard disks) for a qty - 120 pieces.

You need to create a delivery and
A)pack 40 pieces each of the material are grouped together into larger cardboard boxes (PK-100 - shipping/packing material) and
B)these 3 cardboard boxes are put into pallet (PK-095).

Solution:
A)Packing 40 pieces each of material (40 x 3 = 120 pieces)

1)Goto [VL02N] to change the delivery, you already created.
Or you can do the following steps while you are creating a delivery also.
2)Go to "pack" icon.
3)In the upper section, enter the "packing material" (PK-100)
4)In the lower section, change the "partial quantity" to 40 of material R-1160.
5)Select both the lines of upper section and lower section and click the green ok. It generates a shipping unit/handling unit number.
6)Now, select both lines of upper & lower section & click the button "per part. qty" (New HU per part qty of material)
Check: click "General Overview" icon to see whether it packed 40 pieces of material in 3 cartons.

B)Packing all 3 cartons in one big carton(PK-095)

1) from above screen, click "pack HUs" (pack shipping unit)
2)enter the packaging material (PK-095) in the upper section and select this line.
3)select 3 lines of PK-100 in lower section since you want to pack them in PK-095.
4)selecting both lines, click "pack" icon.
5)Now all the 3 cartons(PK-100 with 40 pieces each of material) are packed in one big carton (PK-095).
Check: "General overview" icon.

Then "save" the delivery.

SAP SD Deleted deliveries

When you delete a document - It gets deleted from document flow also.

An easy way of finding it is go into va03 and enter any document which hasn't been deleted. Go in to Environment - Changes. Here, you change the document number that has been deleted. When you click execute button, you will be able to see all the changes and deletions as well.

SAP SD Consolidation route and delivery routes

consolidation route :

consolidation route is defined between the development sytem (consolidated system ) and the quality system (integration system )

Delivery route :

Delivery route is the transport route that connects the integration system and the Delivery system ( Production system )

Defining Logon Groups :

we can do this though our GUI and allways make sure that saplogon.ini is backed up , that consists of all the logon data

Logon Load balancing :

It is used to identify the least loaded application server

Domain controller :

it is the central admin of the system

transport domain :

it is the place the transport layer and routes can be configured to access this transaction use stms

Define SD Tax condition type

Taxes as applicable in a country as per material and customer can be configured using pricing condition types for the relevant taxes. Tax rates can be maintained by integration with FI. Departure and destination can also be used in configuring taxes. Specific requirements of local taxes with tax jurisdiction can be mapped by allowing interface with external tax systems like Vertex.

Instructions Follow Menu Path: IMG → Sales and Distribution → Basic Functions → Pricing → Pricing Control Taxes are defined as condition types in pricing Double click on “Maintain Condition Types” Example – Tax determination for US sales documents with tax jurisdiction Country – United States Tax condition type – UTXJ, XR1 to XR6 UTXJ is statistical tax type to pass jurisdiction data to external system. XR1 to XR6 are defined to receive tax rates for local taxes.

On the screen displayed, search condition type UTXJ.

Select condition type XR1 Let us understand how tax condition types are configured for determination in sales documents.

Define Tax determination rules



Let us understand how tax condition types are configured for determination in sales documents.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Customizing Customer Hierarchy in SD

How to configure and maintain the SD Customer Hierarchy?

All the customizing is in SD/Master Data/Bussiness Partner/Customers/Customers hierarchy

1) Define hierarchy type: just put and ID and a name to the new hierarchy.

2) Set partner determination: if you want to user the hierarchy in price determination, then, in the orders, at the header level, you have to have a Partner Procedure with a partner function for each level. In the partner procedure, in each partner function you must indicate the source partner function. With this informacition, in the order, you obtain the bussiness partner for each partner function.

3) Assign acount groups: you indicate which accounts groups are allowed for being part or your hierarchy.

4) Assign sales areas: symple you indicate wich sales areas are allowed in your hierarchy. (Here you can customize common sales areas, just for not having to build de hierarchy in all the different sales areas).

5) Assigning hierarchy type for pricing: you indicate which classes of documentos uses hierarchy in pricing determination.
It is possible to maintain so called customer hierarchies. This might be useful when for example you create a condition discount for a customer that is part of such a hierarchy structure. All subnodes in the hierarchy below that customer, will thus receive the same discount.

Customer hierarchy setup, firstly decide the hierarchy type to be used.

The standard is type A.

You can also assign a partner function to the customer so that the higher level customer in the hierarchy is copied into a sales order as a partner function - but you don't need that right?

Next assign your customer account group to the hierarchy type. And enter the combinations that will be allowed for creating the hierarchy.

You want to assign a ship-to to a payer. So enter the ship to account group and enter the payer account group as the higher level.

You must also make an entry for permitted sales area assignments. So if you want to a hierarchy for customers in the same sales area then enter the sales area and enter the same one as the higher level sales area.

All these settings can be found in the IMG. Under SD - master data - business partners - customers - customer hierarchy

You use for example customer hierarchy when you have an company like Unilever and you agree both on a discount. Unilever does have different locations / businesses and you have to maintain the discount for all customers. If you use a customer hierarchy you can maintain the discount for the partner in the top of the hierarchy and in this way it will be valid for all customers in the hierarchy.

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