Supply Chain Solutions Final Exam

Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP ERP)

 Enables a company to support and optimize its business processes

 Helps the organization run smoothly

 Real-time environment, Scalable and flexible

 Collections of logically related transactions within identifiable business functions

Organizational Data

-Company Code

-Plant

-Storage Location

Distribution Channel

-Purchasing Organization

-Clients

 Transaction data is the system record of business event.

 Depending on the business event, different master data and organizational data will be referenced

 For example, during a sales order business event, the following data is stored

• Organizational level: client, company code, sales organization

• Master data: customer, material, pricing (condition)

• Situational data: date, time, person, amount

Master Data

-Person

-Material

-Customer

-Vendor

-Work Center

-General Ledger Accounts

-Stored for a long time and rarely changed

Transaction Data

-Purchase Order

-Invoice

-Quotation

-Sales Order

-Transportation Order

Documents

 Transactions are data sets that are generated if a business transaction was executed.

 Is a record of the business transaction

 Includes all relevant predefined information from the master data and organizational entities

     Example: 

Sales Document • Purchasing Document • Material Document • Accounting

Document Document Flow

 The document flow as well as the order status allow the setting of the status at any point in time

 SAP revises the status every time a change in a document takes place

SAP S/4HANA

S/4HANA is the digital core of the company that enables digital transformation.

 SAP HANA is an In-Memory Database that allows you to process data very fast

 But SAP HANA can do way more with its different processing engines

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Edition

 Deployment in the private cloud, maintained by SAP

• SAP provides system and controls maintenance

• Automatic participation in quarterly innovation upgrades

• In-App extensibility with limited ABAP

• Current release cycles

• SAP ERP embedded

SAP S/4HANA: On-Premise

 Traditional licensing with customer control of deployment and maintenance

• Private control of deployment and maintenance

• Hardware at companies location

• Privately controlled data

• Fewer release cycles

• Individual requirements possible

• Traditional ABAP extensibility up to core modification

In-Memory Database

• Column Store

• In-Memory Processing

• Compression

• Parallel Processing

• Works with in-memory 

Fiori

• Hardware independence

• Mobile devices

• Has a new and modern design

OLAP + OLTP together

• Real-time analytics on current data

• Consolidated forecasts including actual and planned cash data

• Work with new technology

Traditional Database Architecture

• Normalized data modeling third normal form

• Avoid unwanted redundancies 

• Avoid inconsistencies and anomalies

Disadvantages

 Frequent use of redundant data to increase the performance of e.g. data aggregation

 Higher effort to update redundant data

Principles of the S/4HANA Data Model

• Storage of data in denormalized form

• Single source of data

• No longer need for redundant data storage for tasks such as aggregation • Processing of aggregation and analytics on the fly

• Check for inconsistencies and anomalies due to denormalization are no longer a critical task

SAP Fiori offers three application types:

 Transactional Apps: • Access to tasks like create, change or display process with guided navigation

 Analytical Apps: • Visual overview about business data

 Factsheet: • View essential information about objects and contextual navigation between related objects

On which of the following key concepts is SAP S/4HANA mainly based?

Simplified data model

Guided configuration

Completely SAP Fiori-Enabled user interaction

Which of the following are top capabilities in the Real-Time Inventory Management use case from an IT perspective?

No aggregate tables

Reduced memory footprint

Highest possible data consistency

Which types of integration are currently available between SAP S/4HANA and other cloud solutions from SAP?

Hybris

Ariba

Successfactors

order-to-cash process

Which of the following processsteps in the order-to-cash process happens in the SD module.

Create Customer Inquiry

Which of the following processsteps in the order-to-cash process takes place first.

Create customer inquiry

Are customer numbers clearly assigned to exactly one customer in an SAP system?

Yes, a request for quotation is legally binding.

Every material out-of-stock is in unrestricted use.

False

Material stock is reduced by the picking of material.

False

Customers are

Debtors of deliveries and services

Vendors are

Creditors of accounts receivable trade.

Which of the following components is part of a sales document.

Document header and document items.

Document feed is not in SAP system.

The document header consists of data…

That is valid for the complete sales document.

The document number is generated automatically while compiling the document.

True

Which of the following can trigger the picking of material?

Customers and production orders.

Deliveries can only be picked completely.

True

Customer master data are temporary data.

False

Movement Type 101 describes...

The goods receipt for a purchase order

Which one of the following steps take place at the beginning of the purchasing process?

Create Purchase requisition

Which of the following steps in the purchasing process is part of the FI module?

Create invoice receipt from vendor.

Where are vendor master records used?

Vendor master records are used in Financial Accounting and in Procurement.

A request for quotation is leaglly binding.

No

Which of the following components does a BOM contain for a particular product?

Description, Quantity, and Unit of measure

BOMs can only be displayed in variable lists.

False

A routing is a series of successive operations carried out to produce a final product.

True

Routings only contain informations about which steps have to be completed and the time allocated to the work process.

False

Which of the following processsteps takes place in the module PP in the integrated manufacturing process?

Review demand management

Which of the following processes takes place in the integrated manufacturing process at the beginning?

Create sales and operation plan.

On which level of aggregation does a product group support planning?

On the highest

Demand Management is the tool used to disaggregate planning data from high-level plans down to the detailed planning level.

True

What is the correct sequence in a production process?

Convert a planned order into production order.

What happens in an SAP System when a planned order is converted to a production order?

Scheduling, availability check and reservation of material according to the BOM. 

Which of the following statements about a storage location in an SAP System is incorrect?

Storage location and sections are synonyms

A quant is used to identify the material stock of a particular category at a storage location.

True

Different materials (quants) cannot be stored in the same section.

True

Which of following processes does not take place during the warehousing process with external goods in the Warehouse Management module?

Ship materials

Stock transport order, dummy orders and frame orders are order types.

True

Each transfer order in an SAP System is an order.

True

The creation of an customer order reduces the stock of material in unrestricted use.

False

An activation of the inventory document leads to the blocking of all storage areas listed in the document in the following step.

True