Assignment

Final Take Home Examination on Basic ERP Configuration Concepts

Provide brief but clear and specific answers to the following questions. Consult any sources necessary, including SAP's Help features.

1. What are Purchasing Info Records? What is their role in the purchasing process?

2. In the Procurement Process in SAP ERP describe the main internal control procedure relating to the issuance of checks to vendors.

3. What steps in the Procurement Process have an impact on financial accounting? Explain these impacts.

4. What are the goals of Account Assignment when creating Purchase Orders?

5. Explain EDI and XML as they relate to the automated procurement process.

6. A purchase requisition can result in multiple purchase orders, and multiple requisitions can be combined into one purchase order. Explain circumstances when these two scenarios are possible.

7. What are the main goals of evaluating and managing suppliers? What best practice process is provided by SAP for selecting a vendor?

8. Differentiate between a Release Order and d a Standard Purchase Order.

9. Why did you define and assign a Sales Area to your company?

10. What is the relationship between Shipping Point and Loading Point?

11. Describe the purpose of each sales view you created in your Material Master records.

12. Under what conditions would your company use Cost Plus rather than Standard Pricing procedures?

13. In SAP's pricing procedures what is meant by Access Sequence? Also distinguish between Document and Customer pricing procedures.

14. Describe Static versus Dynamic credit limit checking procedures in SAP ERP.

15. Under what circumstances can Backward Scheduling be used?

16. What is the purpose of the Customer Material Info Record?

17. Why have Scheduling Agreements become so important for component suppliers serving manufacturers?

18. Lay out the major steps in the material planning process.

19. Distinguish between consumption-based planning and materials requirements planning.

20. Differentiate the Stock Requirements List from the MRP list.