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.

Billing Document not released to accounting / Accounts determination: To resolve the error, you can analyze account determination in the billing document. Process: Goto T.Code: VF02 & Enter Invoice number Next (On the top most strip) goto Environment Next (Select Environment) go to Account determination Next (In Account Determination) select Revenue Account Determination (first option) This will list all the condition types in the Billing document & analyze each condition & check for which G/L accounts is not determined. Possible errors: 1. VKOA not maintained for required combination Solution: Maintain the combination in VKOA. 2. Account Assignment of Customer / material not maintained in Customer / Material Master (If maintained in combination in VKOA). Solution: Option 1 (Standard solution): step 1: Cancel Billing Document --> Reverse PGI --> cancel Delivery --> Cancel Sales Order step 2: Maintain Customer master / Material Master correctly. step 3: Recreate sales Order --> Delivery --> PGI --> Invoicing. Option 2: Force the Account Assignment Group of Customer / Material through Debug in change mode of Billing document, which will release Billing Document to Accounting. 3. Account Key not maintained in Pricing Procedure: Impact: This may create accounting document, but if condition type, which are to be posted to account, but do not have account key maintained in pricing procedure, it will not be post the relevant condition type to G/L account. 4. Billing Document not being released to accounting -In Material Master, there is some link between Profit Centre & MRP Type. If one of it is not maintained, erratically few documents get stuck while releasing Billing Document to accounting. Few of course get posted. Solution1: Cancel Billing Document --> Reverse PGI --> Cancel Delivery --> Block the sales Order & Create new sales Cycle all over again after rectifying Material master. Solution 2: (Temporary Solution) In Debug mode in Billing, force the Profit Center in Billing Document with the help of Abaper. But ensure Material master is rectified. From FI Side, you require to check that all the G/L account has been maintained through T.Code: FS00. G/L account being Master data has to be created in each client to upload through LSMW / SCATT / BDC. In Billing Document in change mode (in the first screen where we enter Billing Document number), on the top most left hand corner, take a dropdown on Billing Document & select Release to accounting. Here you can get the under mentioned possible message: 1. G/L account not found 2. Cost Element not maintained for G/L account. In both the above cases, FI consultant requires to take corrective action.

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. *-- Suresh Kumar

"SAP-SD/SCM" candidate available Sai Technologies Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:06:34 -0700
Sweta Bora Certified SAP SCM Order Fulfillment SAP experience: 5 years Total experience: 8 years Summary: Involved in 2 Full Life Cycle Implementations using ASAP Methodology, Upgrades & Production Support Projects as SAP SD consultant and Project Coordinator Involved with Business Process re-engineering/process improvement, Multitask oriented and the ability to prioritize to meet deadlines. Sound working knowledge in SAP SD, Order-to-Cash, Master Data, Pricing, Rebate, Contracts, Good working knowledge on to Logistics Execution mainly in Shipping. Good exposure of Data Collection and Analyzing the Business Process. Knowledge in working with the Inter Company and Cross Company Orders and Third Party Orders. Participated in cross module integration with FI during the OTC cycle and Account Determination. Working knowledge with the Outbound Interfaces while working with Billing, Shipping like Order to Delivery and Availability Check. Worked on various Enhancements and USER_EXITS, Reports, Functional Specifications, authorization and user creation, Resolving problems and trouble shooting. Excellent communication, organizational and team work skills. Knowledge in FI and MM modules. Education: Master in Computer Application, India Advanced Diploma in IT, India Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) , India Diploma in Project Management , India Diploma in Industrial Safety , India Certified SAP SCM-Order Fulfillment

Information Systems Skills Platform: Windows NT/XP/2000 Enterprise Software: SAP SD,LE,FI,MM Language: C++, Visual Basic, HTML, Packages: MS Office,Adobe RDBMS: MS Access, SQL, Oracle 8i Software development tools and methodology Project Mapping: MS Project, Project Management System (Customized Software)

Career Profile 1. HEWLETT PACKARD, GARDEN CITY, NY Duration August 2007 Till Date Role SAP SD Consultant (Project Coordinator) Environment SAP R/3 4.7 2. ZYDUS CADILA, AHMEDABAD, INDIA Duration January 2006 July 2007 Role SAP SD Consultant (Project Coordinator) Environment SAP ECC 5.0 3. JOHNSON CONTROL INC., MILWAUKEE, WI Duration April 2005 December 2005 Role SAP SD Consultant (Team Member) Environment SAP R/3 4.6C 4. DOW CORNING CORP , MIDLAND, MI Duration August 2003 March 2005 Role SAP SD Consultant (Team Member) Environment SAP R/3 4.6C 5. ACI PHARMA, HANOI, VIETANAM Duration January 2001 June 2003 Role Business Developement Excutive Experiences: HEWLETT PACKARD, GARDEN CITY, NY August 2007 to Till Date Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a market leader in the IT industry, they invent new products and deliver solutions that drive new business value for customers. Project Profile: The project called One focused on the complete replacement (with SAP R/3) of the companys legacy Great Plains business application used by its wholesale business units. The implementation was supported the following business processes in Sales and Marketing Order to Cash (Sales & Distribution) and Supply Chain Management (Forecasting, Procurement, Warehousing, Production Planning. Nature of Assignment: SAP Implementation

The Project responsibilities Comprise of SAP-R/3 SD Configuration along including the following: Mapping: Requirements gathering and analysis, map the business requirements in SAP with existing business of Carrier Business. Prepare As-Is & To-Be & Business Blueprint and present to the client.

 Configuration: Set-up of SD, MM, FI configuration. Prepared the configuration document. Sales: Preparation of Enterprise Structures, Sales Order Processing with focus on Indirect sales, Master Data Preparation (Customer/Price Master/Sales View of Material Master), Sales Document Type, Item category, Schedule Lines, Scheduling agreements, SD-MM Interface Pricing: Condition Technique & Records, Pricing Procedures, Account Determination based on the condition type, chart of accounts sales organization, customer and material account groups, account key and G/ L account number. Shipping: Creating & Processing Outbound deliveries, Picking, Goods Issue. Billing: Create/Cancellation billing documents, Credit/Debit Memos, Account Determination, SD/FI Interface Credit / Risk Management: Defining and Assigning Credit Control Areas. EDI: Designing of 850, 855, 810, 852, 867 EDI transactions. Interfaced with the third party and formulated the specification document. Others: Configuring text determination for sales/delivery/billing documents, Preparation of Design Specifications for Customized Reports; Process/User documentation; Conducting Trainings; Status reporting to the project manager, Test Plans. ZYDUS CADILA, AHMEDABAD, Jan 2006 July 2007 INDIA

Zydus Cadila is an innovative global pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of healthcare products. The groups operations range from API to formulations, animal health products and cosmetics. Project Profile: The scope of the project was to Implementation of SAR R/3 to bring one common set of business processes and systems across the business units. It involves complete Consultancy from Functional study of the requirement with Coordination with various groups, Impact Analysis, Preparing Specifications for new ABAP/4 components, interfacing SAP/other legacy applications and developing new reports out of SAP R/3 Database. Nature of Assignment: SAP Implementation

The Project responsibilities Comprise of SAP-R/3 SD Configuration along including the following: Enterprise Structure: Configuring the enterprise structure including defining the Sales organization, Division, Distribution Channel and Business Areas, and assigned rules for Business Area Determination. Sales: Configuring end to end Business processes with sales document types, item categories, delivery document types and billing document types including the copy controls and routines to take care of requirements and data transfer routines, Schedule Lines, Sales Order Blocks, Performed and studied Transfer of Requirements (TOR) and

Availability Check (using ATP logic), SD-MM Interface. Master Data Preparation: Configuration, Selection of fields applying suppressed, mandatory and optional functions Customer and defined Account Groups for Customers, Partner Functions and Partner Determination Procedure for Customer Master, Sales View of Material Master, number ranges. Shipping: Creating & Processing Outbound deliveries, Picking, Goods Issue, configuring Shipping point determination, Work lists & Report. Output Determination: Configuration of new outputs and setting up triggers for sales order/deliveries/billing. Others: Preparation of Design Specifications for SAP Scripting, Customized Reports & User Manuals; Test Scenarios & sign-offs; Presentations; Conducting Trainings; Knowledge sharing; Team Development JOHNSON CONTROL INC., MILWAUKEE, WI April 2005 to December 2005 The company provides innovative automotive interiors that help make driving more comfortable, safe and enjoyable. For buildings, it offers products and services that optimize energy use and improve comfort and security. Johnson Controls also provides batteries for automobiles and hybrid-electric vehicles, along with systems engineering and service expertise. Project Profile: The scope of the project is to provide application support to facilitate all Johnson Control Inc in US running on same SAP instance to execute the business successfully. It involves complete Consultancy from Functional study of the requirement with Coordination with various groups, Impact Analysis, Preparing Specifications for new ABAP/4 components, interfacing SAP/other legacy applications and developing new reports out of SAP R/3 Database. Nature of Assignment: Application & Operational Support

Used Following functionality in SAP to accomplish various functional change requests: Mapping: Mapping with existing Business Processes Sales: Customization of new sales/delivery/billing document types including the copy controls and routines to take care of requirements and data transfer routines, item categories, Schedule Lines, Blocks, Backorder Management, Consignment Order Processing, Consignment Order Processing, Deal Pricing, Inbound/Outbound EDI, Order Management Blocks, Rebates, route determination etc Price: Customize new pricing conditions using standard Condition Technique in Pricing Procedures, Tax handling(GET Tax surcharges), Handling Discounts/ Surcharges/ Rebates, Use of Condition Exclusion and access sequence to have a common solution of all business groups, Account Determination Tables and Account Keys Shipment: Dealing with issues regarding Logistics execution involving Processing Outbound deliveries, Picking, Goods Issue, warehouse management, configuring Shipping point determination, ,

Advance Shipment Notice, Work lists & Reports. Billing: Dealing with Issues related to Credit/Debit Memos, cancellation of invoices Others: Ensured the timely resolution of day to day user problems by resolving tickets. DOW CORNING CORP , MIDLAND, MI August 2003 to March 2005 Dow is a leader in science and technology, providing innovative chemical, plastic and agricultural products and services to many essential consumer markets. Dow serves customers in more than 180 countries and a wide range of markets that are vital to human progress, including food, transportation, health and medicine, personal and home care, and building and construction, among others. Project Profile: The company was undergoing to add a new business unit as Order Management and also customized Pricing Procedure. This will give better visibility to business through different order structures. The main feature of the project was extension of business on better Price. Nature of Assignment: Upgrade Application The Project responsibilities comprise of SAP-R/3 SD Configuration including the following: Functional specifications :Preparation of Functional design document Sales: Studying the Process flow set-up for Special Order Implementation, Configuring end to end business processes for new order document types, Item Categories, Delivery Document types, billing document types including the copy controls and routines to take care of requirements and data transfer routines, Third Party Process, Debit/credit memo, Return Process, Incompletion logs & Master Data Preparation (Material determination), Number ranges. Interface with FI: Account postings in special contract accounts using Account Determination Keys. Pricing: Condition Technique & Records and new non-statistical Pricing condition , Created Standard Pricing Procedure with different Discounts/ Surcharges/ Rebates using Condition Tables, Condition Types, Access Sequence and Pricing Procedure Determination. Configured Condition Exclusion for particular customer groups to get best price. Pricing included Material Price, Price List, Customer Specific Prices, Customer Discount and Material Discount. Billing: Creating special order billing documents, Cancellation/ Invoice Correction Others: Preparation of User Manuals and Post implementation support, Presentations & Conducting training to the client, Weekly status reporting to the Management. . ACI PHARMA, HANOI,VIETNAM Januar 2001 to June 2003

Business Developement Excutive ACI Pharma is dedicated to manufacturing and marketing of quality pharmaceuticals. Vision of the company is Humane Leadership in the Human Pharmaceutical and the Animal Pharmaceutical Industries. Having good health and longer life has been desire and right of every living being. Established offices in different Zones with all necessary infrastructure and support system. Identified market opportunities, developed client relationships, negotiated sales terms, closed, coordinated and expedited over 150 sales. Prepared financial analysis of potential sales, leasing, and management transactions Developed product-marketing strategies to include research, pricing, profit margins, sales volume targets, marketing collateral, branding efforts, and promotional initiatives Monitored projects progress with the help of in-house developed customized software Project Management System. Organized weekly interdepartmental project meetings for measuring / reviewing the progress against plan and incorporate their agreed modification and communicate the necessary changes and concerned issues to respective executives. Allocated job responsibility and to develop evaluation parameters for different hierarchy of executives with the help of Project Leaders and HODs and also update the Project Management Evaluation System Software to appropriate use. Developed and delivered custom demonstrations and presentations as they apply to prospect/customer problems and needs. To establish laison with different bulk product buyers in Vietnam such as Bach Ninh General Hospital, Lao Cai General Hospital, Quag Ninh General Hospital, Hai Phong Viet Tiep, Pediatric Hospital, Gynecological Hospital, Lang Son General Hospital, Ninh Binh General Hospital, Nam Dinh-General Hospital, Gynecological Hospital and private clinics --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "oraclejobs" group. To post to this group, send email to oraclejobs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oraclejobs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---