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SAP MM Certification Questions, Answers, and Explanations
By Jordan Schliem

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SAP MM Certification Questions, Answers, and Explanations 1 Motivation 12
Introduction 14 The SAP Guru has Spoken! 14 Part I: Conceptual Questions 15
Question 1: What MRP procedures are available in MMCBP (Consumption Based Planning)? 16 Question 2: Under what conditions are “planned orders” created? What may planned orders be converted to and how is that conversionaccomplished? 17 Question 3: What are the organizational levels of the Enterprise Structure in R/3? 18 Question 4: What are the different ways to organize purchasing organizations? 19 Question 5: What are “Special Stocks”? 20 Question 6: What are some of the options available to transfer materials from one plant to another? 21 Question 7: What are some of the common Stock Transport Order MovementTypes? 22 Question 8: What is the difference between a Purchase Order and a Purchase Requisition? 23 Question 9: What is an “indirectly created” Purchase Requisition? 24 Question 10: What is an RFQ and how is it different from the Quotation Form? 25 Question 11: What are the transactions that will result in a change of stock? 26 Question 12: When would it be prudent to post goods movements viathe Shipping Application? 27 Question 13: What is a Reservation? 28 Question 14: Can you manually generate a Purchase Requisition referencing a Purchase Order or a Scheduling Agreement? 29

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Question 15: How is GR/IR account related to Inventory? 30 Question 16: How do planned and unplanned consumption affect MovementTypes? 31 Question 17: What are Departmental Views? 32 Question 18: Is Material Data valid for all organizational levels? 33 Question 19: Why would you want to create physical inventory sheets to perform an inventory cycle-count on a material or materials? 34 Question 20: What is the difference between a Blanket Purchase Order and the Framework Order? 35 Question 21: What is Release Procedure? 36Question 22: If you have a multi-line-item PO, can you release the PO item by item? 37 Question 24: What is a price comparison? 39 Question 25: What is a Source List? 40 Question 26: What are the various “steps” in the MM Cycle from material creation through invoice? 41 Question 27: Give some examples of the information relating to a material’s storage/warehousing? 42 Question 28: What are thevarious features of Consignment Stocks? 43 Question 29: What is a Quotation? 45 Question 30: What is the Source List? 46 Question 31: What is an Invoice Verification? 47 Question 32: What are the different types of Invoice Verification? 48

Part II: Configuration Related Questions 51
Question 34: How do you create a movement type? When will movement type numbers be odd? 52 Question 35: How do...