Introduction and Master Data

Question 1

6 applications of mySAP Business Suite

Answer 1

• mySAP ERP
• mySAP Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• mySAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• mySAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
• mySAP Product Lifestyle Management (PLM)

Question 2

T-Code template for corresponding section
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Sales master data
Sales support
Sales
Shipping
Transportation 
Billing
Foreign trade

Answer 2

VS00
VC00
VA00
VL00
VT00
VF00
VX00

Question 3

Matchcode

Answer 3

Comparison key: Allows you to locate the key of a particular database record by entering a field value contained in the record

Ex: pressing F4 in the customer number field in sales order which brings up dialog box to select specific customer based on different criteria

Question 4

Customer Master Data
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Basic Data

Answer 4

Data remains the same for the customer regardless of which organization
Ex: Customer address, Contact details

Question 5

Customer Master Data
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Organizational Data

Answer 5

Customer Data related to your organizational structure. You can have different data for different sales area, even though you’re taking an order from the same customer and using the same customer number

Ex: Customer May prefer stock to be delivered from plant XY01 when an order is placed in a specific sales area. Customer may then wish for stock to be delivered from a plant closer to their location XY02 when an order is placed in another sales area

Question 6

Customer Master Data
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Company Code Data

Answer 6

A Customer master record must also have company-related data. This data is used for financial accounting purposes. A customer master record may exist for more than one company code, for example you have more than one company in your organization and the customer can buy from any of the companies

Ex: reconciliation account

Question 7

Sales Area

Answer 7

The sales organization + distribution channel + division

Question 8

Customer Master Data

Answer 8

There are additional forms of customer master data

Question 9

Sales Organization

Answer 9

An organizational unit which sells and distributes products, negotiates terms of sale and is responsible for transactions
• Can only belong to one company code
• You can define your own sales document types to be limited to within a sales org

Question 10

Distribution channel

Answer 10

Channel through which materials or services reach customers

Question 11

Division

Answer 11

Product line

Question 12

Sales Office

Answer 12

• Geographical sales groups
• assigned to a sales area
• can be assigned to multiple sales area
• optional organizational element

Question 13

Sales Group

Answer 13

The staff of a sales office

• optional organizational element

Question 14

Salespersons

Answer 14

Individual personnel master records used to manage data about salespersons
• You can assign a salesperson to a sales group in the personnel master record

Question 15

Company Code

Answer 15

Legally independent unit and entity in Accounting
• Organizational unit
• a business can have multiple CCs
• one or more sales organizations are assigned to a CC

Question 16

Plant

Answer 16

A logistics organizational unit where materials are produced or goods and services are provided
• where production, procurement, and materials planning are executed
• a material may exist in more than one plant
• stock is delivered to a customer from a plant
• availability check is carried out in a plant
• requirements are passed from the sales document into the stock requirements list(a list of production or procurement requirements) of a plant
• one or more plants are assigned to a CC
• one or more storage locations assigned to a plant

Question 17

Storage location

Answer 17

A storage area for the stock in a plant

Question 18

Plant 2

Answer 18

• can only exist within one company code
• plant, it’s building, equipment, and stock belong to the legal entity represented by the CC
• plant may have more than one shipping point

Question 19

Shipping point

Answer 19

Place where deliveries are processed within the plant
• May be assigned to more than one plant
• can be divided into several loading points
• deliveries are created for shipping points
• criterion for delivery creation
• top level or organization in shipping

Question 20

Deliveries

Answer 20

• usually created using a background job, running the delivery
• initiated from one shipping point

Question 21

Loading point

Answer 21

An optional subdivision of a shipping point

Ex: A shipping point has 5 loading bays, so you can create 5 loading points to represent each loading bay
• manually entered into the header data of the delivery document

Question 22

Business Area

Answer 22

A subdivision of a company code for accounting purposes

• Business areas can be assigned based on the plant and division or based on the sales area