SAP IS-Retail Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations
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SAP IS-Retail Interview Questions Answers and Explanations
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Question 2: IS-Retail Buy One Get One Free
Question 3: Transaction MM43 in Industrial System
Question 5: Cost of Bulk Breaking
Question 7: Vendor Hierarchy without IS-Retail
Question 12: Unit of Measurement
Question 13: Defining Material Groups
Question 15: Stock Initialization - using 2lis_40_s278
Question 17: Additional EAN Scanning in Picking or Packing
Question 18: Physical Inventory
Question 19: PBS-tool and Industry Solution Retail
Question 21: HR in Retail Industry
Question 22: Material Percentage
Question 23: Can a Sales Order BOM be triggered through POS Sales Interface
Question 29: Keeping up to Speed
Question 31: SAP IDoc to ASCII File
Question 32: SD Business Content
Question 33: Delivery Note Creation Log
Question 34: User Exit for MM42/43
Question 35: Recommendation Courses for an Upgrade
Question 39: Deltas for APO from Info Cubes
Question 40: Automatic Document Price Adjustment
Question 41: POS Outbound Trigger
Question 42: Regarding Help.sap.com on SAP BW
Question 43: One-time Vendor not Allowed in Material Master Record
Question 44: IS-Retail 'Requirement Planning' Run
Question 46: PSA-tables (How much space do they take)
Question 47: How to send Master Data Manually via IDoc
Question 48: How to Create New Price List Type
Question 49: Barcode System for SAP
Question 51: Retail-Difference between Mer.Cat. Ref. Article and Ref. Article
Question 52: Display Components
Question 53: Switch IDES to Retail
Question 54: Material Group Hierarchy
Question 55: Material Group Hierarchy Level
Question 56: New Fields in New Sub Screen of Material Master
Question 59: Organization Structure
Question 60: Valuation at Company Code Level - Effect in P
Question 61: COPA in Retail System
Question 62: SAP WAS 6.x with Enterprise 47X200 SR1
Question 64: Direct Deliveries to Stores in IS-Retail
Question 65: How to Handle Advance Payment at POS Inbound
Question 67: Delivery Address for Customer in PO
Question 69: Difference between SD/MM and IS-Retail
Question 71: How to Limit the Number of Items (lines) in PO
Question 73: IS-Retail-Retail IDES or Pre-configured System
Question 74: Display Sets Issue
Question 75: More IS-Retail Questions
Question 76: Loyalty Card in IS-Retail
Question 77: 0 Records while Extraction for 2LIS_02_ITM and 2LIS_02_HDR
Question 78: Edit Material Master Data using LSMW
Question 79: User Exit after PO Save
Question 80: Help with Price List Functionality
Question 81: Is Crystal Report a good Solution for SAP BW 3.1
Question 83: Generic Material Type
Question 84: Setting Retail Switch
Question 85: Export as a Distribution Channel
Question 86: What are EDI 850 and 875?
Question 87: LSMW - Which LSMW for Retail
Question 89: IS-Retail Material
Question 90: What is IS-RETAIL?
Question 91: Using Characteristic in Formula
Question 92: Automatic Activation of Master Data from M Version
Question 94: How to Delete or Inactivate a Storage Location
Question 96: How to set MAP equal to LAST GR/Invoice Verification
Question 97: Screen exit for Material Master
SAP Retail is a completely integrated retailing system. It maps the complete set of business processes required for competitive assortment strategies, different retail formats, and ECR-driven logistics and distribution. It provides all the functions necessary for modeling business processes in a retail company.
With SAP Retail, SAP has endeavored to model the full "Value Chain", all the links in the logistics pipeline from consumer to vendor. Retailers can thus optimize the whole array of business processes and control checks in managing the flow of merchandise and information among vendors, retailers, and consumers.
The business process area "Retailing" comprises the procurement, storage, distribution, and sale of merchandise. SAP Retail supports both wholesale and retail scenarios.
The Retail Information System (RIS) enables goods movements to be planned, monitored, and tracked throughout the whole supply chain.
The key retailing processes include:
Assortment Management
Sales Price Calculation
Promotion Management
Allocation
Requirements Planning and Purchasing
Goods Receipt
Invoice Verification and Subsequent Settlement of End-Of-Period Arrangements
Warehouse Management
Picking and Delivery
Billing
Store Supply
The retailing processes enable you to control and coordinate the whole value chain, and thus react swiftly to changes in consumer behavior.
New trends, such as electronic commerce or ECR, flow continually into ongoing development cycles. SAP Retail also allows for changes in legal structures or business practices – franchising, for example. This ensures that retailers not only have a future-proof investment but are able to adapt swiftly to a changing market. The growth of your company is not hampered by system constraints, and you can incorporate changes in the real world smoothly and efficiently into the system.
If we take a business scenario in which there are coupons published in newspaper and customer takes the cutting to store to buy articles.
At POS when he presents coupons, POS gets details of coupons from SAP in form of IDoc, based on this, customer can avail a discount of X% on Apparel and Footwear Merchandise Category (MC). This percentage offer is not applicable for other MCs.
Now where and how can we create these bonus buy promotions in SAP (i.e. How are these coupons created and how are they linked to promotions)?
A: These coupons are created in IS-Retail using MM41. Then you can use it in the bonus buy functionality as any other article. To limit the use of coupons to the Apparel and Footwear Merchandise Category you will have to create a material grouping including just these categories. The bonus buy condition will use the material grouping to grant the coupons.
Question 2: IS-Retail Buy One Get One Free
Is it possible to solve the following scenario through SAP- Retail:
If you buy two books, you will get the cheaper one free?
A: The bonus buy functionality in IS-Retail can be used to solve this case. You can create a bonus buy via a retail promotion or via sales condition master data.
If you first create a material grouping with all the articles in the combination, and then you create the bonus buy condition using that material grouping.
Check the bonus buy customizing in IMG ---> Sales and distribution ---> Basic functions ---> Bonus.
Question 3: Transaction MM43 in Industrial System
What is equivalent Transaction of MM43 of the Retail-System in the Industrial System?
A: The equivalent Transaction of MM43 of the Retail-System in the Industrial System is MM03.
What is the use of HPR (High Performance Retail)?
A: HPR in Retail consists of programs specifically on the SAP to POS/BOS interface to improve the runtime of Master data (e.g. Article master/assortment list) IDoc generation. These programs are more efficient than the standard SAP programs. However, the end results are not exactly identical and certain enhancements are also not available in HPR.
Question 5: Cost of Bulk Breaking
If you are purchasing a Sugar Bag of 100 kg and in warehouse, you are packing it in pieces of 1 Kg each. How can you account for the cost that has incurred in W/H (i.e. How can you account for the cost of Bulk Breaking in SAP-IS-Retail)?
A: It can be done through a couple of workarounds. First, using a little bit of PP. You can setup a production order, which consumes the Sugar in bulk bags and produces Sugar in 1 Kg bags. You can do costing on this and settle it to the finished product to get accurate costs. This will handle both the stock movement and also cost calculation.
Alternatively, you can have an additional surcharge condition type (e.g. packaging costs) that applies a fixed amount or % of cost to the specific products whenever the sell price (VKP0) is calculated. This is simpler and a one-off exercise that requires almost no maintenance on a day-to-day basis.
How SAP runs replenishment for the locations in a warehouse, which are used for sales and when the stock is lower in these locations, the stock from other locations are moved there?
A: SAP WM perfectly manages this scenario. This will take several steps:
Define a fixed bin putway strategy for the warehouse/storage type (customizing for WM).
Also, consider the need for a "reserve" storage type from where the "picking" (i.e. "sales" in this case) storage type will replenish.
Define Replenishment control for the warehouse or storage type (customizing for WM).
Here you will define the movement type (you can use 319) for the replenishment and the replenishment method (via report or immediately).
Maintain the material master data (wm view) with the fixed storage, the maximum and minimum quantities (this is the data that will be used by the replenishment process) and the storage strategies (here you will control that from which storage type the material is going to replenish).
Now schedule the run of LP21. This will create all the transfer reqs to replenish the bins.
Question 7: Vendor Hierarchy without IS-Retail
Is it possible to implement vendor hierarchy without IS-Retail?
A: Yes, it is possible to Implement vendor hierarchy without SAP IS-Retail.
You can implement it by creating hierarchy nodes using acct GRP 0012. If you are implementing with a pre-configured client then there is little in the way configuration needed (i.e. You need to configure the following):
Categories
Partner determination
Assign acct GRPS
Assign PORG
Assign hierarchy per Doc type
Is it necessary to have the Retail solution in order to implement "Agency Business"?
A: Yes, IS-Retail should be activated for implementation of Agency Business.
Can the Loans Management component of SAP (CML) be used by retail organizations that have pretty extensive loan activities or it is suitable just for banks?
A: TR-LM is a functionality that is capable to handle internal loans, external loans given or obtained. It is also capable to link internal and external loans (company-sponsored loans to employees). It is not just for bank and if you have SAP All-In-One license you should be able to implement and utilize it without additional fees (except consulting to implement). SAP Knowledge Warehouse gives the detailed idea about Loan Management component of SAP (CML).