ERP Midterm

What is the final step in the fulfillment process?

Receipt of payment from the customer

Which program is the "operating system" for an entire company's business processes?

SAP NetWeaver

Which term relates to the technical capabilities that allow systems to connect with one another through standardized interfaces called Web services?

Service-Oriented Architecture

Which of the following is an important report in the production process?

Stock requirement list

Backflusing is:

The goods issue posting for components is performed automatically at the time of order completion confirmation.

Which of the following does a routing identify on a production order ?

The operations needed to produce a material

Which of the following is not an outcome of a goods issue to a production order?

A goods receipt is automatically recorded

Which one of the following best describes a work center?

A location where value-added work needed to produce a material is carried out

What document is NOT created during the billing step of the fulfillment process if profitability analysis is active?

A material document

Which process is used to manage money owed bycustomers for goods and services purchased from the company?

Accounts receivable accounting

Which of the following organizational levels is associated with the method used to distribute materials to a customer?

Distribution channel

Which of the following organizational levels is associated with a company's product line?

Division

A planned order is the formal authorization to commence production.

False

Independent requirements come from demand at a highler level in the bill of material.

False

Which process tracks the financial impact of process steps with the goal of meeting legal reporting requirements

Financial Accounting

Which of the following terms refers to materials with similar characteristics?

Material Group

Which of the following terms refers to an organizational element that performs multiple functions and is relevant to several processes?

Plant

How does GBI Global sell its merchandise?

Via a network of specialized dealers

Financial accounting (FI) documents, management accounting or controlling (CO), documents, and material documents are referred to as

Virtual Documents

The shipping step concludes with _________

goods issue

How many company codes can a plant belong to?

one

What type of materials is purchased from a vendor?

trading goods

Output conditions include all of the following types of data except

Output mode

What is the final step of the procurement process?

Payment

Which process is concerned with recording data associated with bank statements?

Bank ledger accounting

Pre-sales activity includes all of the following except

Customer purchase orders

Which system supports business processes end to end?

Enterprise System

In process industries like chemicals and beverages, the bill of materials is also known as a(n)

. Formula

Which of the following is(are) used to capture specified transaction data in an aggregated and summarized form that enables users to analyze the data as needed.

. Information Structures

Which of the following is concerned with the storage and movement of materials?

. Inventory and warehouse management (IWM)

Which of the following master data is used in numerous processes?

. Material Master

What term describes two simultaneous series of operations needed to build components for a finished product?

. Parallel sequences

Which of the following is used to integrate several client-server applications and create enterprise mash-ups, or composite applications?

. Web Services

In the fulfillment process, a plant is

A facility from which the company delivers products and services to its customers

Which of the following statements regarding the fulfillment process is NOT true?

A sales order must be created with reference to a quotation.

All of the following can serve as a work center except

A shipping dock

All of the following are examples of a shipping point except

A storage rack

Which of the following is a key process in financial accounting?

Accounts receivable accounting

Which term refers to the technical structure of the software, how users interact with the software, and how the software is physically managed on computer hardware?

Architecture

Material master data are grouped into views. Which one of the following combination of views is relevant to the fulfillment process?

Basic data, sales organization data, sales plant data

What term identifies the list of materials needed to produce one or more units of a finished good?

Bill of materials

Which of the following is not a step in the production process?

Billing

____________ are internal divisions of an enterprise that are used to define areas of responsibility or to meet the external reporting requirements of an enterprise segment.

Business ares

Which one of the following best defines material staging?

Component materials are moved from storage and prepared for use

The creation of a production order results in several outcomes including all of the following except

Confirmation

What step in the production process is used to enter data in to the SAP ERP system when the operations needed to produce a materials are completed?

Confirmation

When the finished goods have been produced the SAP ERP system allows a user to record which of the following?

Confirmation

Which one of the following is NOT a type of organizational data relevant to the production process?

Credit control area

Which system connects a company's ERP system to those of its customers?

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

_____________ provides tools to manage and store documents securely and to keep track of the multiple versions of these documents?

Document Management

____________ is concerned with recording the financial impacts of business processes as they are executed.

Financial accounting (Fl)

Materials that are created by the production process from other materials are referred to as

Finished Goods (FERT)

Which of the following is NOT a key step in the fulfillment process?

Invoice verification

Which of the following is NOT a typical characteristic of a wholesale channel?

It distributes goods directly to consumers.

Which of the following statements about SAP R/3 is true?

It is an end-to-end enterprise system

_____________enables an organization to optimize its product development process, from design to market, while ensuring that it complies with industry, quality, and regulatory standards?

Lifecycle Data Management

Which process supports the design and development of products from the initial product idea stage through the discontinuation of the product?

Lifecycle Data Managment

Which process uses historical data and sales forecasts to plan which materials will be procured and produced?

Material Planning

___________ is concerned with matching the demand for materials in the organization with the supply.

Material Planning

What operation in the routing is sometimes necessary to prepare materials for use in production?

Material staging

If a company has adopted the make-to-stock strategy, what is the trigger for the production of goods ?

Need to increase inventory

Which of the following is(are) used to represent the structure of an enterprise?

Organizational Data

At what level are material requirements planning (MRP) and work scheduling data defined?

Plant level

Which one of the following represents the correct order of process steps for the fulfillment process?

Pre-sales activity, sales order processing, inventory sourcing, shipping, billing, payment

What function does the warehouse perform in the fulfillment process?

Prepares and sends the shipment to the customer

Which master data do companies use to determine the prices of their products?

Pricing conditions

Which of the following types of data is NOT included in a billing document?

Pricing conditions

Which term refers to all of the activities involved in buying or acquiring the materials used by the organization, such as raw materials needed to make products?

Procurement Process

Which of the following systems helps companies administer the processes of research, design, and product management?

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Which process involves the actual creation of the products?

Production Process

Which process is used to plan and execute large projects such as the construction of a new factory or the production of complex products such as airplanes?

Project Managment

Which of the following organizational levels is NOT relevant to the fulfillment process?

Purchasing organization

Materials that are purchased from an external source (a vendor) and used in the production process are known as ______________

Raw Materials

What steps are involved in the accounting portion of the procurement process?

Receiving the invoice and sending payment

Which term is generally used to describe the ways that users can view and analyze data to help them make decisions and complete their tasks?

Reporting

What is the first step of the production process?

Request Production

Which of the following statements about business processes is true?

They are executed across multiple functions. They are initiated by some type of trigger. They involve multiple steps. A: all of the above

Which of the following statements regarding customer master data is NOT true?

They include data that are needed to make postings in CO.

____________reflect(s) the consequences of executing process steps.

Transaction Data

Which of the following identify tasks that are scheduled to be completed in a process?

Work Lists

The highest organizational level in SAP ERP is the

client