Unit 8 - Design to Operate

What is the result of running MRP?

A Planned Production Order, Purchase Requisition, Scheduling agreement, MRP list, exception list

What is a Planned Independent Requirement?

A plan to produce a material (this is the screen where you enter in how much stock you desire to have over a certain period of months)

What is the link between a routing and a work center?

A routing contains operations that are linked to work centers

What is a Routing?

A sequence of manufacturing steps

What is a routing?

A sequence of operations and work centers that list exactly how a material is to be produced

What is a work center?

A unit of master data that is assigned a cost center and is responsible for costing and capacity planning/scheduling. This is where the work is occurring

What version of COPA uses primary and secondary cost accounts?

Account-based COPA

What are the 4 documents created when a goods receipt is posted?

Accounting document, Controlling Document, Material Document, Material Ledger

What are the 4 documents created when a goods issue is posted to a production order?

Accounting document, Controlling document, Material Document, Material Ledger

What activities can be performed after the release of a Production Order?

Actual Costs posted, Goods Issue, Settlement

What are the effects of automatically confirming a Production Order?

Actual Costs posted, Goods Receipt, Goods Issue

What can automatically be recorded when confirming a production order (AGG!)?

Actual Costs, Goods Receipt, Goods Issue

What does it mean when an order is released?

All of the order requirements have been checked - now it is time to do the work.

What is a production version?

An alternative method of producing a material. Requires a different BOM and Routing

What manufacturing master data is included in the quantity structure?

BOM and routing

What is another term for the time required to complete an operation?

Base quantity

What do work centers control?

Basic data, Standard values, Capacity planning & scheduling, Costing

What are the effects of posting a confirmation for a Production Order?

Captures actual time elements & quantities, updates order status & actual costs

What does a single-level planning mode do?

Checks the materials listed in the BOM.

What does a work center control?

Cost Center (costing), Capacity Planning and Scheduling

What version of COPA uses cost variants?

Cost-based COPA

What are the 2 types of COPA?

Cost-based and Account-based

What does a Planned Independent Requirement do?

Creates planned orders

List all Supply elements evaluated by MRP.

Current inventory, incoming stock, stock transport orders, production orders, planned orders

How is future stock calculated?

Current stock + incoming stock from planned orders/purchase reqs/purchase orders

What ways/dimensions can you measure profitability (CPR)?

Customer Group, Product Group, Region

What does processing key NEUPL do?

Deletes all old versions of production plans and creates a completely new plan

What does "Requirement" mean in the SAP system?

Demand

List the options for running MRP.

Demand Driven MRP, Predictive MRP, Classic MRP, MRP Live

What does a multi-level planning mode do?

Explodes the BOM to look at dependent requirements

(T/F) - A Bill of Material (BOM) is created and maintained as multi-level master data.

F - A BOM is single-level

(T/F) - A planned order can be converted to a purchase order

F - A planned order can be coverted into a purchase requisition

Describe each of the different types of goods movements.

Goods Receipt, Goods Issue, Transfer Posting (change in a material's identity)

What is a procurement type?

Indicator of how the system knows whether a material is produced internally or procured externally

What does a valuation class do?

It is used to determine the general ledger account for the materials stock account

What is a scheduling agreement?

Lists who you are going to buy a material from (sold-to-party)

What is an MRP List?

MRP List is a static list showing the stock at a single point in time when the MRP run occurred

Since the release of S/4HANA, many modes of MRP can be run. What are some methods for simulating or running MRP in SAP S/4HANA?

MRP Live, Demand-driven MRP, Predictive MRP

What does processing key NETCH do?

Makes changes to existing plans, but does not delete them.

What do you have to do to a valid cost estimate to make it effective?

Mark it as a future price and release it

What is a profitability segment?

Operating concern master data that can be analyzed for profitability analysis according to customer group, product group, region

What is another term for a manufacturing step?

Operation

What are the 2 transactions that Credit a production order?

Order Settlement and Goods Receipt

How is a Stock Transport Order represented in an Accounting Doc in FI after completing a cross plant stock transfer?

Plant A & Plant B would balance - (Dr. Inventory A & Cr. Inventory B)

What are the 4 uses of a Product Cost Estimate?

Pricing, Valuation, Profitability Analysis (CPR), Cost Object Controlling

What decides the scope of a MRP planning run?

Processing Key (NETCH & NEUPL)

What is the master data needed for Advanced Planning (PP/DS (Advanced Planning and Detailed Scheduling) (PLR)?

Product, Location, Resource

What master data uses dimensions like customer group, product group, and region?

Profitability Segment

What can we assign to a profit center to statistically analyze company profits and costs?

Profitability segment, cost center, internal order, production order, sales order line item, network activity (WBS element), asset, material

List all Demand elements evaluated by MRP.

Safety stock, sales orders, planned independent requirements, dependent requirements, reservations on stock

What information is contained in an operation?

Sequence, standard values of time, work center, base quantities, activity types

How does the system know to settle the production order?

Settlement Rule

What transactions credit a production order?

Settlement, Goods Receipt

These are the 4 MRP planning modes

Single item-Multilevel, Single-item-Single-level, Single Item - Interactive, MRP Live

Is an MRP Planning Mode Single-item or Multi-item?

Single-item

What is a Stock Requirements List?

Stock Requirements List is real-time snapshot of what is current stock, future stock, and incoming stock and can be refreshed

What does "Stock" mean in the SAP system?

Supply

What does an operation control?

The Work Center in which the operation will be executed in and the standard values of time (time elements) required to complete an operation (base quantity)

What is an independent requirement?

The full, assembled material.

What is a dependent requirement?

The parts that go into the finished material

What does a Lot Size indicate?

The quantity that should be procured or produced.

What is another term for the standard values of time in an operation?

Time Element

What is the overall purpose of MRP?

To ensure that we will not have any shortage of materials

What is a standard cost estimate used for?

To get a dynamic, real-time glimpse into stock levels of materials for sales pricing, controlling, valuation, and profitability analysis

(T/F) - An object, such as a material master, can be assigned to many views

True

(T/F) - Info from Standard Cost Estimate is sent to Profitability Analysis for reporting

True

(T/F) - Performing Goods Receipt (GR) of finished goods into stock from a production order creates MM, FI, ML, and CO Docs.

True

What are the 3 activities run at the end of the month in CO?

WIP Determination, Variance calculation, Order Settlement