BA 301 SAP Exam

Name: ______

The following exam consists of two sections. The first section consists of a hands-on SAP exercise. The second section is short answer based on the three SAP tutorials from class.

Section 1: Beach Cruiser Production

To complete this section of the exam you will be producing model LX Beach Cruisers in your SAP company.

Starting with Part 3(you will need to complete parts 3-5) of the Material Production with SAP tutorial, complete the production of your Beach Cruisers scheduled for 12/28/2005(do not change the number produced from the scheduled number). Complete the production just as you did for the seat back, but replace the seat back material code with the Beach Cruiser LX material code (BC-LX). Remember to read the directions carefully. Record the number of Beach Cruisers available after displaying your Beach Cruiser model inventory (last task of Part 5). The number of Beach Cruisers you will see in your inventory will be more than you just created.

Number of Beach Cruisers in inventory: ______

Section 2: Short Answer

Answer the following questions in the spaces provided. If necessary, you may refer to the tutorials for help.

  1. Why would a company create a rough-cut plan during sales and operations planning instead of just scheduling production outright?
  1. If SAP already knows how many of each product is scheduled to be produced, what is the value of a posting a completion confirmation manually?
  1. Why would a company want to use a product group during production planning instead of planning for each product individually?
  1. Name two reasons why a vendor’s purchasing information record would need to be changed.

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  1. What is the value of converting a planned order to a purchase requisition, and then converting a purchase requisition to a purchase order (instead of just creating a purchase order)?
  1. What is a vendor purchasing information record used for?
  1. What are two reasons why the posting of a goods receipt requires human interaction?

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