Materials Requirement Planning Self-Test Knowledge

1. Your organization is implementing SAP ERP Material Planning.  Your team is creating bills of material (BOM).  You explain to your team that the bill of material contains the assemblies or components which are to be included. 
There are 2 correct answers to this question.  More than one answer is correct.  Please choose the correct answers.

a. Bills of material are created and maintained as multilevel bills.
b. The base quantity, in the BOM header, specifies the amount of the finished product that the item quantities refer to.
c. All components listed in the BOM line items require a material master record.
d. BOM usage determines the business applications for which a BOM can be used.
 

2. You are explaining SAP ERP Material Planning to your colleagues.  They are interested in learning about the functions of material requirements planning (MRP).  Which of the following statements correctly describe the features of MRP?
Note: There are 2 correct answers to this question.  More than one answer is correct.  Please choose the correct answers.

a. MRP can be run at the plant level.
b. MRP will first use forward scheduling to calculate the requirement's date.
c. Regenerative MRP planning will plan only those materials that have been subjected to an MRP change.
d. The suggested procurement quantity results from the lot sizing procedure that is set in the material master.
 

3. What organizational levels are relevant for material planning?

a. Client
b. Company Code
c. Plant
d. Storage location
e. Purchasing Organization
f. Shipping Point
 

4. What master data is relevant for material planning?

a. Material
b. PRT
c. Bill of Material
d. Routings
 

5. The MRP views of the material master are relevant at what organizational level?
 

6. The Accounting views of the material master are relevant at what organizational level?
 

7. The material type of a material determines which of the following?

a. Default procurement type
b. The strategy group
c. Material number
d. Material views available
e. Relevant general ledger accounts
f. Business processes and functions allowed
g. The MRP type
 

8. Which of the following are valid procurement types?

a. External
b. Internal
c. External and Internal
d. Consumption based
e. Production
 

9. Which of the following potential MRP types?

a. MRP
b. Consumption based
c. No planning
f. Planning with assembly
 

10. What does the material type control?

a. Number assigned to the material
b. The screens that appear in the material master record
c. Default price control
d. Department specific data that can be maintained
e. Allowed procurement type
f. GL accounts to be updated
g. Default MRP Type

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Suggested Answers:

1) b, d

2) a, d

3) a, b, c, d

4) a, c, d

5) plant

6) plant (materials are valued at the plant)

7) a, c, d, e, f

8) a, b, c

9) a, b, c

10) a, b, d, e, f

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