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WorksheetsIntroduction to Business Processes
Total questions: 98
Worksheet time: 49mins
Which of the following is NOT a typical characteristic of a wholesale channel?
a. It does not include sales taxes in calculating prices in the US.
b. It distributes goods directly to consumers.
c. It requires a minimum volume of purchase.
d. It offers volume discounts.
e. It may designate a specific plant or plants from which deliveries are
made
Which organizational element(s) control(s) the entry of accounting data in the vendor master?
a. Purchasing organization
b. Client
c. Company Code
d. Client and Company Code
e. Client and Purchasing Organization
The key data in the purchasing view of the material master are
a. The purchasing organization, the goods receipt processing time, and the
delivery tolerances
b. The purchasing group, the goods receipt processing time, and the
delivery tolerances
c. The purchasing group, the invoice, and the delivery tolerances
d. The purchasing group, the material master, and the delivery tolerances
e. The price, the storage location, and the delivery date
What is the first step of the production process?
a. Authorize Production
b. Request Production
c. Create Product
d. Receive Finished Goods
e. Issue Raw Materials
_____________ provides tools to manage and store documents securely and to keep track of the multiple versions of these documents?
a. Document Management
b. Enterprise Management
c. Project Management
d. Material Planning
e. None of the above
Which system supports business processes end to end?
a. Management System
b. Accounting System
c. Enterprise System
d. Functional Structure
e. Document System
Which process involves the actual creation of the products?
a. Material Planning
b. Procurement Process
c. Production Process
d. Fulfillment Process
e. Lifecycle Data Management
What is the final step of the procurement process?
a. Invoice
b. Purchase Requisition
c. Purchase Order
d. Payment
e. None of the above
Which of the following is concerned with the storage and movement of materials?
a. Business Planning
b. Silo Effect
c. Project Management
d. Material Planning
e. Inventory and warehouse management (IWM)
Which term refers to all of the activities involved in buying or acquiring the materials used by the organization, such as raw materials needed to make products?
a. Material Planning
b. Procurement Process
c. Production Process
d. Fulfillment Process
e. Lifecycle Data Management
Which one of the following combinations of organizational elements is included in the definition of a sales area?
a. Sales organization, distribution channel, division
b. Sales organization, company code, division
c. Client, distribution channel, division
d. Client, plant, division
e. Sales organization, distribution channel, plant
All of the following are key organizational elements in the fulfillment process except
a. Client
b. Company code
c. Sales area
d. Plant
e. Warehouse
Which process is used to plan and execute large projects such as the construction of a new factory or the production of complex products such as airplanes?
a. Human Capital Management (HCM)
b. Project Management
c. Financial Accounting
d. Management Accounting or Controlling (CO)
e. None of the above
What function does the warehouse perform in the fulfillment process?
a. Prepares and sends the shipment to the customer
b. Communicates data related to the order to other parts of the organization
c. Tracks the order
d. Notifies the customer
e. None of the above
Which process focuses on people within an organization and includes functions such as recruiting, hiring, training, and benefits management?
a. Human Capital Management (HCM)
b. Project Management
c. Financial Accounting
d. Management Accounting or Controlling (CO)
e. None of the above
A purchasing organization is involved in all of the following operations except
Negotiating contracts and agreements
Negotiating pricing with vendors
Evaluating and identifying vendors
Determining storage locations within the plant
Which master data do companies use to determine the prices of their products?
Price comparison
Pricing conditions
Selling price
Wholesale price
Tax allowances
Which of the following statements about business processes is true?
a. They are executed across multiple functions.
b. They are initiated by some type of trigger.
c. They involve multiple steps.
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
Data in the vendor master are grouped into which three segments?
General data, storage data, and purchasing data
General data, storage data, and inventory data
Storage data, accounting data, and purchasing data
Storage data, accounting data, and pricing data
General data, accounting data, and purchasing data
Which process tracks the financial impact of process steps with the goal of meeting legal reporting requirements?
a. Human Capital Management (HCM)
b. Project Management
c. Financial Accounting
d. Management Accounting or Controlling (CO)
e. None of the above
Which process supports the design and development of products from the initial product idea stage through the discontinuation of the product?
a. Material Planning
b. Procurement Process
c. Production Process
d. Fulfillment Process
e. Lifecycle Data Management
Which one of the following is not one of the data types that are relevant to the purchasing process?
Material master
Vendor master
Sales master
Purchasing info records
Conditions
A FI document includes a header and an items section. Which of the following data are included in the items section?
Document number
Account
Storage location
Document date
Document currency
___________ is concerned with matching the demand for materials in the organization with the supply.
a. Business Planning
b. The Silo Effect
c. Project Management
d. Material Planning
e. None of the above
Within the plant-level purchasing organization, also known as a plant-specific purchasing Organization,
Each plant has its own purchasing organization
One purchasing organization is responsible for multiple plants
Only one purchasing organization for all plants
One purchasing organization is responsible for all company codes in the enterprise
Two or more purchasing organizations are responsible for each plant
Which of the following is an intersection or combination of material data and vendor data?
Condition type
Purchasing info record
Stock transfer
Third-party order
Search term
Which element of the requirements determination process involves creating the requisition?
Data
Task
Trigger
Outcomes
None of the above
Which action triggers sales order processing in the fulfillment process?
Delivery of goods to the customer
Receipt of goods from a vendor
Receipt of a customer purchase order
Receipt of payment from customer
Picking goods for shipment
Which of the following organizational levels is associated with a company's product line?
Sales organization
Sales area
Distribution channel
Sales group
Division
Which process uses historical data and sales forecasts to plan which materials will be procured and produced?
a. Material Planning
b. Procurement Process
c. Production Process
d. Fulfillment Process
e. Lifecycle Data Management
Which of the following is NOT a key step in the fulfillment process?
Sales order processing
Inventory sourcing
Shipping
Invoice verification
Pre-sales activity
Which of the following statements about a plant is not true?
A plant can be assigned to more than one company code
A company code can have more than one plant
A plant is a key organizational element in purchasing
A plant can be assigned to only one company code
A plant must have at least one storage area
Output conditions include all of the following types of data except
Output type
Transmission medium
Transmission time
Output mode
In the fulfillment process, a plant is
A manufacturing facility only
A facility from which the company provides after-sales support
A facility from which the company delivers only services to its customers
A storage area
A facility from which the company delivers products and services to its customers
Which item category would you use to have your vendor ship goods directly to your customer?
Consignment
Third-party
Stock transfer
Standard
Transfer posting
Which of the following types of data is NOT included in a billing document?
Data from the customer master
Data from the sales order
Data from the delivery document
Organizational data
Pricing conditions
Which of the following goods movements need not involve a physical movement of materials?
Goods receipt
Goods issue
Stock transfer
Transfer posting
None of the above (all involve physical movement of materials)
What steps are involved in the accounting portion of the procurement process?
a. Receiving the materials and the invoice
b. Creating the purchase requisition and sending payment
c. Creating and sending the purchase order
d. Creating the purchase requisition and receiving the materials
e. Receiving the invoice and sending payment
Which of the following account assignment categories is used when the company acquires a fixed asset?
Cost center
Asset
Order
Sales order
Project
Pre-sales activity includes all of the following except
Customer inquiries
Quotations
Mailing campaigns
Customer purchase orders
Tracking customer contacts
Materials that are acquired to be used within the organization are referred to as
Stock materials
Transfer materials
Vendor materials
Consumable materials
What is the final step in the fulfillment process?
Delivery of goods to the customer
Receipt of payment from the customer
Receipt of a customer purchase order
Receipt of goods from a vendor
Picking goods for shipment
All of the following are examples of a shipping point except
A rail depot
A loading dock
A storage rack
A mail room
A designated group of employees
Which process is concerned with recording data associated with bank statements?
Bank ledger accounting
Fixed asset accounting
General ledger accounting
Accounts receivable accounting
None of the above
SAP can utilize which of the following media to communicate with a vendor?
Web services
EDI
Fax
e. All of the above
Which of the following organizational levels is associated with the method used to distribute materials to a customer?
Sales organization
Sales area
Distribution channel
Sales group
Division
The fulfillment process is integrated with all of the following processes except
Procurement
Inventory and warehouse management
Asset management
d. Material planning
Which process is used to manage money owed by customers for goods and services purchased from the company?
General ledger accounting
Accounts receivable accounting
Fixed asset accounting
Bank ledger accounting
All of the above
The data in the customer master are divided into the following three segments:
Plant data, accounting data, and sales area data
General data, financial data, and sales zone data
General data, accounting data, and shipping area data
Client data, accounting data, and sales zone data
General data, accounting data, and sales area data
What is a storage location?
The place where raw materials are received
The place within a plant where materials are kept until they are needed
The place where materials are collected for staging and inspection
The place within a plant where machines are installed for production purposes
The place within a plant where finished goods are kept for sale
The shipping step concludes with _________
Goods issue
Picking
Packing
Goods receipt
Goods delivery
Which term represents the costs associated with creating and selling products and services?
Assets
Expenses
Liabilities
Equity
None of the above
Which term represents what a company owns, such as cash, inventory of materials, and buildings?
Liabilities
Equity
Assets
Revenues
None of the above
Which element is not a part of the typical company code data in general ledger accounts?
Tax-related data
Field status groups
Line item display
Reconciliation account data
None of the above
Which term represents what a company owes to others, including money owed to vendors and loans from financial institutions?
Liabilities
Equity
Assets
Revenues
None of the above
Which element of a purchase order includes communicating with the vendor?
Trigger
Data
Task
Outcome
None of the above
Which of the following is used to report data needed to meet legal and regulatory requirements?
Assets
Equity
Tangible document
Financial statement
None of the above
Which item is included in the header of a purchase order?
Order quantity
Vendor
Delivery date
Price
None of the above
Which term is a general ledger account that consolidates data from a group of related sub-ledger accounts?
Subsidiary ledger
Sub-ledger
Reconciliation account
Line item display
None of the above
Which of the following best describes the operative chart of accounts?
Contains the operational accounts that are used to record the financial impact of an organization’s day-to-day transactions
Used to enable companies to meet special country-specific reporting requirements
Contains accounts that are used by multiple companies to consolidate their financial reporting
Contains only accounts payable transactions
Contains only accounts receivable transaction
Which term refers to an ordered listing of accounts that comprise a company’s general ledger?
General ledger
Balance sheet
Bank ledger
Chart of accounts (COA)
None of the above
Which of the following is used to implement multiple ledgers and use each ledger for different purposes?
Financial accounting document
Subsidiary ledger
Sub-ledger
Parallel Accounting
None of the above
Financial statements can be generated from which of the following?
Operative COA
Country-specific COA
Both operative and country-specific COAs
Neither operative nor country-specific COAs
Which of the following is a key process in financial accounting?
Sales order processing
Accounts receivable accounting
Credit management
Income verification
All of the above
Which of the following is not a mode of acquiring an asset for a company?
Acquiring internally via the production process
Acquire from a vendor using the purchasing process
Acquire from a vendor without using the purchasing process
Selling equipment
Acquiring without a vendor
A company can use which of the following to select a vendor from a list of potential suppliers ?
Source list
Company code
Vendor master
Material master
None of the above
All of the following are transaction types that occur during the life of an asset except ___________ .
Acquisition
Depreciation
Allocation
Retirement
Which type of asset has a non-physical form?
Master asset
Tangible asset
Informal asset
Intangible asset
None of the above
________ are internal divisions of an enterprise that are used to define areas of responsibility or to meet the external reporting requirements of an enterprise segment
Cost centers
Depreciation areas
Business areas
Sub-ledgers
None of the above
General data in a vendor master contain all of the following except:
Name
Address
Communication
Payment terms and methods
Search term
Which of the following document types is not utilized during the Purchasing process?
Material documents
Fl documents
CO documents
Picking document
Invoice
Which term represents the monies a company earns by selling its products and services?
Liabilities
Assets
Expenses
Revenue
Equity
Which one of the following is not a model of the purchasing organization?
Enterprise level
Company level
Client level
Plant level
Cross-plant
Which of the following types of data is NOT included in a quotation?
Material master
Customer-material info records
Customer master
Vendor master
Pricing conditions
Which of the following is concerned with recording the financial impacts of business processes as they are executed?
Management accounting
Financial accounting (Fl)
Controlling (CO)
Bank ledger accounting
None of the above
Which type of asset has a physical form?
Master asset
Tangible asset
Informal asset
Intangible asset
None of the above
Which of the following records the impact of a transaction step on financial accounting?
Financial accounting document
Parallel accounting document
Sub-ledger
Subsidiary ledger
None of the above
Which term refers to business processes that are not executed by a single
group or function?
a. Silo Effect
b. Cross-Functional
c. Functional Structure
d. Enterprise Systems
e. Organizational Structure
Which term refers to a system in which workers complete their tasks in
separate departments without regard to the consequences for the other
components of the process?
a. ERP Effect
b. Cross-Functional
c. Functional Structure
d. Enterprise Systems
e. Silo Effect
Which term represents a set of tasks or activities that produce desired
outcomes?
a. Business Process
b. Trigger
c. Outcome
d. Enterprise Resource Planning
e. None of the above
________ enables an organization to optimize its product development
process, from design to market, while ensuring that it complies with
industry, quality, and regulatory standards?
a. Business Planning
b. Lifecycle Data Management
c. Project Management
d. Material Planning
e. None of the above
Which of the following statements about SAP R/3 is true?
a. It supports a single function or department
b. It is an end-to-end enterprise system
c. Sharing data between departments is problematic
d. None of the above
All of the following are key organizational elements for which material master
data are defined for the fulfillment process except:
a. Client
b. Distribution channel
c. Plant
d. Sales organization
e. Shipping point
Material master data are grouped into views. Which one of the following
combination of views is relevant to the fulfillment process?
a. Basic data, sales organization data, sales plant data
b. Basic data, company data, sales plant data
c. Basic data, sales organization data, client data
d. Client data, sales area data, sales plant data
e. Basic data, sales area data, warehouse data
Which one of the following represents the correct order of process steps for the fulfillment process?
a. Sales order processing , pre-sales activity, inventory sourcing, shipping, billing, payment
b. Sales order processing, pre-sales activity, inventory sourcing, billing,
billing, payment
c. Pre-sales activity, payment, sales order processing, inventory sourcing, shipping, billing
d. Pre-sales activity, sales order processing, shipping, billing, inventory
sourcing, payment
e. Pre-sales activity, sales order processing, inventory sourcing, shipping, billing, payment
Which of the following organizational levels is NOT relevant to the fulfillment
process?
a. Purchasing organization
b. Shipping point
c. Storage location
d. Sales area
e. Plant
Which of the following statements regarding customer master data is NOT
true?
a. They contain data that are needed to make postings in FI.
b. They are valid for a specific sales area.
c. They include data that are stored at the client level.
d. They include data that are needed to make postings in CO.
Which of the following statements regarding the fulfillment process is NOT
true?
a. One delivery document can be created from multiple sales order
documents.
b. An accounting document is created when a goods issue is posted.
c. A sales order must be created with reference to a quotation.
d. A quotation can generate multiple sales orders.
What document is NOT created during the billing step of the fulfillment
process if profitability analysis is active?
a. An invoice
b. An FI document
c. A material document
d. A CO document
Which of the following is not taken into consideration when determining a
customer's credit exposure?
a. open orders
b. scheduled deliveries
c. open invoices
d. current purchase orders
Which reporting options does SAP ERP system support?
a. Online lists
b. Work lists
c. Analytics
d. All of the above
Which one of the following is not a type of organizational data that is utilized
in the procurement process?
a. Client
b. Company Code
c. Storage Location
d. Purchasing Organization
e. Manufacturing Plant
A purchasing group is an individual or a group of individuals who are
responsible for all of the following except
a. Creating purchase requisitions
b. Negotiating contracts and agreements
c. Requesting quotations from vendors
d. Creating and monitoring purchase orders
e. Planning for material requirements
Which of the following is(are) a form of data within the goods receipt step?
a. Material ordered
b. Quantity delivered
c. Verification
d. Storage location
e. All of the above
Which of the following is a form of invoice verification?
Three-way match
Quality management
Inspection lot
Warehouse management
Which element of the payment step includes selecting a bank?
a. Trigger
b. Data
c. Outcome
d. Task
Which of the following facilitates the integration between vendor master data
and financial accounting?
a. Vendor account number
b. Reconciliation account
c. Accounts payable number
d. Material number
e. Accounts receivable number
Purchasing information systems are a component of which system?
a. Logistics information systems
b. Business intelligence systems
c. Financial information systems
d. Human resource information systems
