SAP SD Interview Questions And Answers Pdf

1. What is the use of a partner function in SAP Sales and Distribution?
Answer: Partner function allows you to identify which functions partner has to be performed in the business process. Consider the simplest case, where all the customer functions are performed by partner customer. As these are mandate functions they have to be defined as obligatory functions in the SD system.

2. What do you understand by Sales Order processing?
Answer: Sales order processing describes a function related to the wholesale part of organizational business. Common functions under sales order processing –
Availability of the articles purchased
Checking for incomplete data
Checking the status of the sales transaction
Calculation of pricing and taxes
Schedule the deliveries of goods
Printing of documents or e-transfer of documents

3. Name at least 5 different types of transformations used in mapping design and state the use of each?
Answer: Source Qualifier — Source Qualifier represents all data queries from the source, Expression = Expression performs simple calculations, Filter — Filter serves as a conditional filter, Lookup — Lookup looks up values and passes to other objects, Aggregator – Aggregator performs aggregate calculations.

4. How can a transformation be made reusable?
Answer: In the edit properties of any transformation there is a checkbox to make it reusable, by checking that it becomes reusable. You can even create reusable transformations in Transformation developer.

5. Explain what is sql override for a source table in a mapping?
Answer: The Source Qualifier provides the SQL Query option to override the default query. You can enter any SQL statement supported by your source database. You might enter your own SELECT statement, or have the database perform aggregate calculations, or call a stored procedure or stored function to read the data and perform some tasks.

6. What is lookup override?
Answer: Ails: This feature is similar to entering a custom query in a Source Qualifier transformation. When entering a Lookup SQL Override, you can enter the entire override, or generate and edit the default SQL statement. (online training institute)

7. What are applets? How is it different from a Reusable Transformation?
Answer: A mapplet is a reusable object that represents a set of transformations. It allows you to reuse transformation logic and can contain as many transformations as you need. You create applets in the Mapplet Designer.
It’s different than a reusable transformation as it may contain a set of transformations, while a reusable transformation is a single one.

8. How to use an oracle sequence generator in a mapping?
Answer: We have to write a stored procedure, which can take the sequence name as input and dynamically generates a nextval from that sequence. Then in the mapping, we can use that stored procedure through a procedure transformation.

9. Where are the source flat files kept before running the session?
Answer: The source flat files can be kept in some folder on the Informatica server or any ether machine, which is in its domain.

10. What is SAP Sales and Distribution?
Answer: SAP SD handles all the processes of order to delivery. It executes the business processes used in selling, shipping, and billing of product and services.
Inquiries & Quotes

• Sales Orders
• Sales Return
• Consignment
• Contract & Scheduling Agreements
• Credit & Debit Memo requests
• Rush Orders & Cash Sales
• Back Orders

11. What is the difference between a Sales activity and a sales document?
Answer:
Sales Activity:
Sales activities are categorized as Presales and post-sales –
This includes when you sell material rather you do your preparation for sales with the customer…
Sales Call, Phone Call, Sales Letter, and post-sales like support and relationship, etc.
Sales documents –
These documents are considered under sales, where you sell the materials to the customer and are created in the SAP system to manage the sales process.
Example – Sales orders, Quotations, etc.

12. Variant Pricing I need to have an additive price based on a variant characteristic selected and then provide a discount for each of the characteristics. I must discount the correlating characteristic, not the gross value. price —–Char 1 = 1.00 Char 2 = 2.00 Char 3 = 3.00 gross price = 6.00 discount —–Char 1 = 10% of 1.00 = .10 Char2 = 20% of 2.00 = .40 Char3 = 15% of 3.00 = .45 total discounts = .95 The discount may vary by customer. How do I find out how configure this?
Answer: You can find out how to configure this by taking a look at the documentation for “$SET_PRICING_FACTOR,” in LO-VC.

13. What are different sales document in SAP system? How to create a sales document?
Answer:
There are different types of sales document that can be defined in the SAP system –

• Credit Memo
• Debit Memo
• Standard Order
• Delivery Returns, etc.
• To define a Sales Document

14. Explain what is condition types? What is the path to define condition type in SAP for pricing?
Answer: The representation of certain aspects related to your daily pricing activities is referred to as condition types.
The path for condition type for pricing is
SAP IMG path: SPRO > SAP Reference IMG > Sales and Distribution > Basic Functions > Pricing > Pricing Control > Define Condition Types.

15. Pricing Procedure for Industrial and Domestic Customers We have two types of customers industrial and domestic. The domestic customers have a price list. For industrial customers, the price is calculated on the basis of the percentage of the cost. Since there is a possibility that industrial customers might also buy domestic products at any given point of time, we are forced to make one pricing procedure. Is there another solution?
Answer: You can create a VOFM subroutine (transaction code VOFM-> Formulas-> Condition value) and set this subroutine in your procedure as transaction code V/2 in field AltCTy (Condition formula for alternative calculation type). In the ABAP coding, you can describe all of your requirements.