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15 SAP PS Questions And Answers

1⟩ How LSMW and BAPI works?

LSMW is an encapsulated data transfer tool. It can provide

the same functionality as BDC infact much more but when

coming to techinical perspective most the parameters are

encapulated. To listout some of the differences :

LSMW is basicaly designed for a fuctional consultant who do

not do much coding but need to explore the fuctionality

while BDC is designed for a technical consultant.

LSMW offers different techinque for migrating data: Direct

input ,BAPI,Idoc,Batch input recording. While bdc basically

uses recording.

LSMW mapping is done by SAP while in BDC we have to do it

explicitly .

LSMW is basically for standard SAP application while bdc

basically for customized application.

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2⟩ What are settlement rules?

Settlement rules are nothing but settling the account for a

cost center.Which WBS are account assigned the cost of

corresponding WBS should be settled to the respective cost

center assigned for that WBS.Settlement rule is assigned in

settlement profile in which you will define (like assect)

the rules of settlement.

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3⟩ What is Easy Cost Planning?

It is another function for planning costs at WBS elements

level. It uses the existing Controlling, purchasing or MM

data in the form of costing items. Also you can have

predefined costing models to simplify repeated entries.

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6⟩ How can PS be linked to COPA? How will the settlement take place in this case (when PS is linked to Controlling through COPA)?

Settlement will take place via profitability segmenet .

Level 1 WBS should have settlement rule define to be

settled to PSG and level 2 WBS should be settled to

superior one WBS element .The main one level 1 WBS/ Project

will be settled to PSG , and variance will be posted to

COPA .

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7⟩ What do you understand by Project?

A project is a system which involves 1. project, sub-

project, activities & tasks.

It will have the good integration with the other modules

like MM, Fi/co, & PM modules.

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9⟩ What is milestone triggering?

Whenever the confimation of activities done and if the

milestne is attached with that particular activity the

milstone trigerrs the milstone as per the configuration

done and it will do the nilling through SD module

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10⟩ What is Gantt chart?

It is a graphical representaion which helps in Scheduling

the Project. It can be referred to as a Dash Board which

gives details of the Project in terms Budgeting, Actual

Costs, Planned Work and Actual Work, Remaining Work, % of

Completion. Project Manager can also use this for

restricting the activities in terms of SS,FS,SF conditions

datewise.

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11⟩ What is relationship in SAP PS?

Relationship basically denotes how activities in a

networkorder are related to each other.They can be

classified into 4 categories - SS (Start-Start), SF(Start-

Finish), FF (Finish-Finish), FS (Finish - Start).

For 2 activities say A and B

SS -->> Both A and B start together

SF -->> Start of A coincides with finish of B and so on.

We can also specify the time gap between which these

relationships work. Say in an SS relationship, there can be

a 10 minutes gap between start of A and B and so on.

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13⟩ Explain What is unit costing?

Unit costing is a means of recording all the costs - direct

and indirect - associated with the delivery of services.

Total cost of service provision divided by the total amount

of service provided

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14⟩ What is Project Management?

Project Management is nothing but a Organizing and planning

and scheduling software Project

-Delevered on time

-Software needed

Neede for Project Management is,

-Project Planning

-project Scheduling

-Project Costing

-Monitoring Reviews

-Report Writing and Presentation

Manually it is Documented and Automated it is Microsoft

Project Planner(MPP)

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15⟩ Explain the "Process how do we convert businessinto sap"?

By ASAP Methodology:

It has following 5 phases:

1. As is to be Study Phase: Means study the process of the company which they are using. Or we can say analysis the business process of company.

2. Blueprint phase: In this we have to prepare the flow diagram of the above data which we have collected in first point. Or we can say documentation of the data which we have collected from to be study phase.

3. Realization Phase: Implementing the collected data in SAP system.

4. Final Preparation Phase: In this phase testing has been done on arbitrary data and on actual data. And there are three type of testing is there:

a. Unit Testing: Individual Module Testing.

b. Integration Testing: Whether every module is communicating with each other or not and finally

c. User Acceptance Test: End User is satisfied by the system or not.

5. Go Live and Post Implementation Support: Live usage of system or in Production.

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