100 Most important SAP PP Interview Questions

  1. What is SAP Production Planning?
  2. Why is it used?
  3. Explain Production Planning Lifecycle.
  4. What is Master Data in SAP PP?
  5. What is the purpose of the organization structure under SAP PP?
  6. SAP PP is integrated with several SAP modules. What are those modules?
  7. Define BOM.
  8. What are the characteristics of BOM?
  9. Differentiate between Material and Sales Order?
  10. What is Work Center?
  11. Define Routing
  12. Mention the key characteristics of Routing under PP.
  13. Define Material Requirement Planning under PP.
  14. How can you create a Production Order without Routing and Work Centers?
  15. Define the Production Order. What are the different ways to create a Production Order under PP?
  16. What are Capacity Planning and Capacity levelling?
  17. How to perform Capacity levelling?
  18. What happens when a Planned Order is converted into a Production Order?
  19. How to perform Goods Issues under PP?
  20. Who is an MRP Controller?
  21. Differentiate between MD04 and MD05.
  22. Differentiate between Stock Transfer and Stock Transport.
  23. What are the different costing parameters under PP?
  24. Can we check if a Work Center is overloaded?
  25. Mention what is the production process in SAP?
  26. List out the activities carried out in Production Planning?
  27. Explain what is Routing in SAP PP?
  28. What are the steps of Production Execution Process?
  29. What are the reports generated in product cost controlling information system?
  30. Explain what work centre in SAP PP is and what is the use of Data in Work Centers?
  31. What is the use of MRP PP evaluations?
  32. Mention what is the purpose of using Capacity Planning?
  33. Explain how can you create production order without routing and BOM?
  34. Explain what happens to plan after it has been converted into production order?
  35. Mention what is the difference between stock transport order and stock transfer order?
  36. Explain what is PRT (Production Resource Tools) in SAP PP?
  37. Explain how to create PRT master records?
  38. Mention what is the t-code for changing production order and to display production order?
  39. Explain what PLM in SAP PP is and what is the use?
  40. In SAP-PP what are the costing parameters?
  41. In cost controlling information system mention the fields that are listed in the list screen of the report?
  42. Explain what is the use of SAP Material View and list out other parameters where SAP Material View is applicable?
  43. Mention what are the types of Master Views for Production and Planning?
  44. Mention how MRP (Material Requirement Planning) types are classified?
  45. Mention what are the key fields found in MRP View 1?
  46. List out the basic procedure for dispatching operations in capacity levelling?
  47. Explain what is the need of MRP list if the stock requirement list is already given?
  48. Mention what are the t-codes for creating, changing and summarizing BOM?
  49. Mention what is the use of t-code CS20 in BOM?
  50. What are the reports generated in product cost controlling information system?
  51. What is the use of INFO GROUPS?
  52. What is the difference between by-product and co-product and how do you differentiate them in a BOM?
  53. Explain the uses of the simple maintenance interface?
  54. How do you get the system to update this value from the routing?
  55. We defined SOP in months. However, during SOP transfer to demand management, our independent requirements are appearing in weeks. How can we correct this from weeks into months?
  56. What is the difference between “planned consumption” and “Unplanned consumption”? Can safety stock calculation be done on either of these?
  57. How Time management and payroll are integrated?
  58. Integration between PP and MM Module.
  59. Explain Kanban.
  60. Explain Planning file entry.
  61. Difference between NETCH, NETPL and NEUPL.
  62. Difference between MD01, MD02 and MD03.
  63. What is scope of planning?
  64. What do you do to run MRP for just one MRP Controller?
  65. Explain customer Independent requirement.
  66. What is the transaction code to run MRP for sales order?
  67. What is the transaction code to execute forecast, and explain types of forecast model?
  68. What parameters you maintain in “plant parameters” in configuration?
  69. SPRO path for order, confirmation or requirement class?
  70. Difference between MD04 and MD05?
  71. What are the key fields in MRP views?
  72. What is Variant configuration?
  73. Different types of Object Dependencies.
  74. What is Auto GR?
  75. Explain Availability check.
  76. Explain different inspection type you used .
  77. Explain In-process inspection.
  78. Explain source inspection.
  79. What is the use of QM control key?
  80. What are the types of MIC?
  81. What is the purpose of Catalog? How you reverse UD?
  82. What is Inspection Points?
  83. Explain DMR.
  84. Difference between plan cost, Actual cost and target cost.
  85. Difference between standard cost and variable cost?
  86. What is primary cost and secondary cost?
  87. How systems calculate the actual cost?
  88. What is activity type and how it works in costing?
  89. Explain the process of Material costing.
  90. We want the system to run a single level MRP automatically on receipt of the sales order. How to configure triggering event based MRP?
  91. What is the Recruitment Cycle?
  92. What is costing? How it is affected the PP?
  93. What is the option documented goods movements on selection of individual object lists?
  94. Explain how to create PRT master records?
  95. How to group employees for their allowances in payroll?
  96. What is processing class, where we do them and why?
  97. In cost controlling information system mention the fields that are listed in the list screen of the report?
  98. What is meant by pay scale structure? How did you configure the pay scale structure?
  99. What are some important tables used in PP?
  100. What is time phased planning?
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