- 1. How to integrate MM With FICO ?
a. By
using transaction code OBYC we can get the details of MM, Fico integration.
b. Go to
IMG settings in financial accounting and do the configuration for MM-FI
settings
c. Value
from MM to FI is defined in OBYC…. on the material master the flows of values
are assigned on the Costing, Accounting, etc tabs where the system helps to
post the necessary stock values into the appropriate GL accounts. Helps to
determine, the GL accounts updated when there is a movement of goods.
- 2. What is the main difference between business area
and cost center ?
Business
area is a place where the product or the produced components are valued in
group or for the total transactions carried out, Right from procurement,
production and sales of goods. Whereas Cost centre is a particular area where
the production or the project is taken up and expenditure is identified
separately with a separate GL account.
- 3. How to create Tax Calculation Procedure ?
Tax
calculation procedures based on the countries depended. One country is using
different of tax procedures. We are creating new country also and at what type
calculation procedures present is running on the country and it is assigned
which country used.
(OR)
Tax
calculation procedures based on the country wise using and which country is
used at what percent and it is used on the country. We are creating new country
also at what percent it is used and it is assigned to using of this country.
- 4. What is the difference between business area and
profit center ?
Business
area is where the total business is valuated as a whole Whereas Profit center
is an area where the company/work place allows the outside agency to use its
machinery for external profits (Ex: A CNC machine which can run 24 hrs a day is
utilized in our company for 15 hrs and the balance 9 hrs is let out for
addition to the company’s profit) is known as Profit Center.
(OR)
Business
area is related term to FI module and Profit centre is related to CO module.
One business area can have one or more profit centers.
- 5. Explain Legacy System Migration Workbench ?
LSMW is
widely used by EDI programmers. EDI Programmers connect the SAP system to Non
SAP system. During this Data migration is a necessity. When data migrates from
source to destination the destination code is different from the source code.
So what LSMW does is* Converts the data in to batch files* Then converts the batch
files in to source code batch files* And then migrates data. Standard
Interfaces like BAPI or Idoc are used in this process.
(OR)
LSMW is
used for migrating data from a legacy system to SAP system, or from one SAP
system to another. Apart from standard batch/direct input and recordings, BAPI
and IDocs are available as additional import methods for processing the legacy
data.
The LSMW
comprises the following main steps:
* Read
data (legacy data in spreadsheet tables and/or sequential files).
* Convert
data (from the source into the target format).
* Import
data (to the database used by the R/3 application.
But,
before these steps, you need to perform following steps:
* Define
source structure: structure of data in the source file.
* Define
target structure: structure of SAP that receives data.
* Field
mapping: Mapping between the source and target structure with conversions, if
any.
* Specify
file: location of the source file.
- 6. What is done by GR/IR regrouping program ?
The
balance in a GR/IR account is basically because of 2 main types of
transactions:-
Goods
delivered but invoice not received – Here the Goods receipt is made but no
invoice has yet been received from the vendor. In such a scenario GR/IR account
will have a credit balance.
Invoiced
received but goods not delivered – Here the Invoice is received from the vendor
and accounted for, but goods have not been received. In such a scenario GR/IR
account will have a debit balance. The GR/IR account would contain the net
value of the above two types of transactions. The GR/IR regrouping program
analyses the above transactions and regroups them to the correct adjustment
account. The balance on account of first transactions will be regrouped to
another liability account and the balance on account of second transactions
will be regrouped to an asset account.
- 7. What are the functionalities available in the
financial statement version ?
In the
financial statement version the most important functionality available is the
debit credit shift. This is more important in case of Bank overdraft accounts
which can have a debit balance or a credit balance. Thus in case of a debit
balance you would require the overdraft account to be shown on the Asset side.
In case of credit balance you would require the account to be shown on the
Liability side.
- 8. What is the difference between profit center
accounting and Profitability analysis ?
Profit
center accounting is basically done for internal controlling purposes. It lets
you determine the profit and loss using the cost of sale approach or period
accounting approach. Here you can find the profit from an “area of
responsibility or person” point of view, this is account based costing. Whereas
in Profitability analysis, market segments based on product, customer, order or
any combination of these are studied to find outs the profit. PA provides
information to the marketing, sales and planning department so that they can
make decisions. PA has two forms account based and CO based.
- 9. What are the Different types of ERP ?
SAP, BAAN,
JD Edwards, Oracle Financials, Siebel, People Soft. Among all the ERP’s most of
the companies implemented or trying to implement SAP because of number of
advantages of other ERP packages.
- 10. How do you configure manual bank statement ?
Configuration
is required during electronic bank statement not in manual bank statement. In
manual bank statement you just have to enter the data on screen and save it.
- 11. Explain the concept of “Business Content” in SAP
Business Information Warehouse ?
Business
Content is a pre-configured set of role and task-relevant information models
based on consistent Metadata in the SAP Business Information Warehouse.
Business Content provides selected roles within a company with the information
they need to carry out their tasks. These information models essentially
contain roles, workbooks, queries, InfoSources, InfoCubes, key figures,
characteristics, update rules and extractors for SAP R/3, mySAP.com Business
Applications and other selected applications.
- 12. Why do you usually choose to implement SAP ?
There are
number of technical reasons numbers of companies are planning to implement SAP.
It’s highly configurable, highly secure data handling, min data redundancy, max
data consistency; you can capitalize on economics of sales like purchasing,
tight integration-cross function.
- 13. Explain the process of BW run without a SAP R/3
implementation ?
Can run BW
without R/3 implementation. You can use pre-defined business content in BW
using your non-SAP data. Here you simply need to map the transfer structures
associated with BW data sources (Info Cubes, ODS tables) to the inbound data
files or use 3rd part tool to connect your flat files and other data sources
and load data in BW. Several third party ETL products such as Acta,
Informatics, Data Stage and others will have been certified to load data in BW.
- 14. What is WF and its importance ?
Business
Work Flow: Tool for automatic control and execution of cross-application
processes. This involves coordinating the persons involved, the work steps
required, the data, which needs to be processed (business objects). The main
advantage is reduction in throughput times and the costs involved in managing
business processes. Transparency and quality are enhanced by its use.
A third
generation set of highly integrated software modules that performs common
business function based on multinational leading practice. Takes care of any
enterprise however diverse in operation, spread over the world. In R/3 system
all the three servers like presentation; application server and database server
are located at different system.
- 16. What are presentation, application and database
servers in SAP R/3 ?
The
application layer of an R/3 System is made up of the application servers and
the message server. Application programs in an R/3 System are run on
application servers. The application servers communicate with the presentation
components, the database, and also with each other, using the message server.
All the data are stored in a centralized server. This server is called database
server.
- 17. What should be the approach for writing a BDC
program ?
Convert
the legacy system data to a flat file and convert flat file into internal
table. Transfer the flat file into sap system called “sap data transfer”. Call
transaction (Write the program explicitly) or create sessions (sessions are
created and processed, if success data will transfer).
- 18. Define internal tables check table, value table,
and transparent table ?
Internal
table: It is a standard data type object, which exists only during the run time
of the program.
Check
table: Check table will be at field level checking.
Value
table: Value table will be at domain level checking ex: scar table is check
table for carried.
Transparent
table: - Exists with the same structure both in dictionary as well as in
database exactly with the same data and fields.
- 19. What are the major benefits of reporting with BW
over R/3 ?
Would it
be sufficient just to Web-enable R/3 Reports? - Performance — heavy reporting
along with regular OLTP transactions can produce a lot of load both on the R/3
and the database (CPU, memory, disks, etc). Just take a look at the load put on
your system during a month end, quarter end, or year-end — now imagine that
occurring even more frequently. Data analysis — BW uses a Data Warehouse and
OLAP concepts for storing and analyzing data, where R/3 was designed for
transaction processing. With a lot of work you can get the same analysis out of
R/3 but most likely would be easier from a BW.
- 20. How can an ERP such as SAP help a business owner
learn more about how business operates ?
In order
to use an ERP system, a business person must understand the business processes
and how they work together from one functional area to the other. This
knowledge gives the student a much deeper understanding of how a business
operates. Using SAP as a tool to learn about ERP systems will require that the
people understand the business processes and how they integrate.
