Frequently Asked Questions in Interview as well SAP Certification

General Questions

1 In IMG, activities for which SAP cannot deliver default settings?
2 At what level the regulation of employees are defined in SAP?
3 To integrate the PA and OM we use a switch, specify?
4 In which feature T-Code's are maintained?
5  What is the use of a feature? A feature can be used to determine the default values & the screen sequence when HR Master Data is maintained in the Infotypes.

6 The employee subgroup grouping for CAP allows you to assign different
employees to different
7 Employee subgroup grouping for PCR is done to
8  In which feature, default wage type is defined for Basic Pay Infotype
9 The wage type that starts with'/' is known as
10  Permissible check for wage type is performed for each
11 In SAP one can control the initiation of actions when maintaining an  infotype by
12 How to know the user authorizations
13  Position inherits the task of which object
14 How do you transfer data from PA to PD?
15 RHINT30 Used for what?
16 Feature PACTV performs
17  What is the use of Feature NUMKR?
18 What is the use of control record
19 Are you able to perform more than one action in the same day?
20 Whether System will allow the Hire and Terminate actions on the same day?
21  While performing the hire action, Customer don't want to go further with out entering
22 the data into the Infotype i.e  few Infotype data's are mandatory .how to proceed?
23  What is the functionality of time constraints?
24 Customer doesn't want to give display authorization for few fields in the infotypes.
How to resolve this issue.
25  To implement SAP Payroll what are the mandatory modules for HR
26 What is the difference between Master data and transactional data.
27  Employee able to hold two personnel numbers?
28  How to access HRP1000 table
29 What are the different types of holidays?
30  How to find a bug in a report
31 What is personnel calendar?
32 What are the types of break schedules?
33 Customer required a variant for monthly WS generation with Thursday half day
34  Holiday and Friday & Saturday's are weekly off.
35  Define day types
36 To generate a work schedule what are the parameters required.
37 What is the use of a counting rule?
38 Define base & accrual entitlements?
39  How to generate Absence Quotas?
40 What is the relationship between a job and position ii OM
41 What are the Characteristics of a wage type?
42 What is the advantage of a schema?
43  What is the use of QUOMO
44  What is the procedure to develop a new report?
45 What is the use of structural authorizations?
46  Differentiate between cluster table and internal table
47  Module pool programming
48 How to transport a variant for a report to production System
49  What are the activities needs to be completed before transferring the applicant
data to  Personnel administration
50 What do you know about the R/3 architecture?
51 Define personnel Area & Personnel Subarea
52 Give some examples for Employee subgroup
53  what is retroactive accounting
54 When you perform a Off-cycle payroll
55  What is the significance of DME
56 How to create a work schedule for a part time employee
57 How to transfer employee salary from HR to FI
58 If you want to rerun the payroll for a specific employee what is the procedure
59  Define processing class, evaluation class & Cumulation classes
60 How you calculate the overtime
61  how to calculate transport allowance for employees who has worked as per work
schedule & who took few leaves ( employer don't want to pay transport allowance
where the employee was absent)
62  Difference between positive and negative time
63 Mention the processing types in Time evaluation
64 Give brief information about time wage types & balance reflects into cluster tables
65 Where you will find error messages
66  what are the infotypes  data involved in Time evaluation
67 Time events & Time pairs are stored in which tables
68  How to valuate the time wage types
69  Derive the wage type with 50% & 25%
70  How to change the employee basic pay from wage type MM20 to 5231
71  What is the use of counting classes?
72  What is the use of Day Rules?
73 W hat are the partial period factors
74  In which tables Payroll constant will be stored & through which T-Code you are
able to view the records.
75  Write the formula for partial period factor for /802
76 What is the use of factoring in Payroll.
77  Are you able to run a payroll for ex-employee?
78 What do you know about Averages in payroll?
79 Through which T-Code you are able to create a remuneration statement
80  Explain bank transfers & Check processing
81  What are the time recording methods.
82  How to implement a decentralized scenario into an organization
83  How to get the master data from SAP to SAP & Non-sap
84 Qualification catalog consists of which objects
85  What is the key feature for IT0003 which is maintained by system automatically?
86  How to hold two different bank accounts foe an individual employee to distribute salary
87 What are the key aspects defined for dynamic actions
88 Employee subgroups are used in Time to control what
89 What is the purpose of assigning a Daily Work Schedule class
90  How is a day type determined in a day type rule.
91 What is the use of a Quota multiplier in a Counting rule.
92  What are the methods by which Quota can be accrued.
93 When do you use a reduction rule for an absence quota.
94 Elements of enterprise structure are
95  What type of information payroll accounting area provides the payroll driver
96   Infotypes are logical groups of
97 Work Schedule is generated from
98 Which infotypes act as a payroll administration for the individual employee
99 What are the applicant activities?
100  Explain ASAP methodology
101 What are the logical databases belongs to HR module.
102 What are the modules for wage type characteristics (indirect valuation)

SAP HR certification questions - Try 1

1 You can create the Project IMG by selecting …
A. Countries and Application components based on Ref. IMG
B. Currencies and Reference activities.
C. By Customizing of IMG.
D. Project Documentation and Project Information
2 In IMG, Activities for which SAP cannot deliver default setting are
a. Non Required Activity
b. Mandatory Activity
c. Optional Activity
3 You need to enter data in ______________________tables to be able to use your company’s data in master data
a. Change tables
b. Cutomising Tables.
d. Critical tables.
e. V-T555D

4 Data Structures such as Field Definitions, Table Structures and File structures, transactions and programs are:
a. Client Specific
b. Client Independent
5 At what level the regulation of employees are defined in SAP?
a. Company code level.
b. Personnel area level.
c. Personnel Subarea level
d. Employee group level.
6 To integrate PA and OM we use a switch:
a. PLOGI PLOGI.
b. PLOGI QUALI .
c. PPINT PPINT.
d. PLOGI ORGA.
7 In SAP one should group in the same pay roll area all the employees for whom payroll is run on …..
a. Same Day.
b. Same employee Subgroup
c. Same Frequency.
d. Same personnel area
8 You must create control record for :
a. each Personnel Area
b. each Personnel subarea
c. each Payroll area
d. each Payrll period
9 The control record:
a. Controls the individual Payroll Stages
b. Defines the payroll past for retroactive payroll
c. Defines the earliest retroactive accounting period for the employee
d. The master data and time data for past payroll runs and current one are unlocked during the payroll run
10 T-Code to maintain a FEATURE is ….
a. PU01
b. PE01
c. PU03
d. PE03
11 The Feature _________________determines default values for payroll area.
a. LGMST.
b. ABKRS
c. VDSK1
d. TARIFF
12 A feature can be activated on running a report
a. RPFEATURE
b. RPFEATR00
c. RPUMKG00
d. RPTKLM00
13 Features are used to…
a. Characterise an Infotype.
b. Control system processes
c. Valuate Wage type
d. Determine default values
e. To generate automatic mail messages
14 Employee Subgroup grouping for PCR is done to
a. Treat the employees differently in Payroll.
b. To establish a distinction between employees that are paid on hourly basis and employees whose pay is based on the number of hours they work per period.
c. To differentiate personnel Subareas
d. To group the employee groups.
15 We enter the values for Capacity utilization level and working hour/period in IT
a. 0008
b. 0007
c. in OM infotypes
d. d. In Ref IMG.
16. The Employee subgroup grouping for Collective Agreement provision allows you to assign different employees to different :
a. Payroll area.
b. Pay scale type.
c. Pay Scale Area
d. Pay Scale Group
e. Pay Scale Level
17. You assign Pay scale type and Pay scale areas to individual…
a. Personnel Area
b. Personnel Sub area
c. Employee Subgroup
d. Pay scale Group
f. Pay Scale Level
18. The Wage Type that stars with ‘ / ’ is known as
a. Dialog wage type
b. Primary wage type.
c. Secondary Wage type
d. Technical Wage type
19. The wage type which are defined by the individual company to depict their specific payroll requirements is
a. Dialog wage type
b. Primary wage type.
c. Secondary Wage type
d. Technical Wage type
20. Permissibility check for wage type is performed for each
a. Infotype
b. Personal Area.
c. Personnel Subarea
d. Employee Group
e. Employee Subgroup.
21. Several infotypes can use one Wage type without defining any permissibility
a. True
b. False.
22 Please mention four wage type characteristics.
1.
2.
3.
4
23. In SAP the system performs Indirect valuation of Wage type in IT
a. 0008
b. 0165
c. 0105
d. 0015
e. 0014
24. To define Default Wage type for the Basic pay infotype(0008),the feature is
a. ABKRS
b. PINCH
c. LGMST
d. TARIFF
25. When an employees leaves a company, which are the infotypes that are not delimited.
a. 0002
b. 0000
c. 0006
d. 0008
26. In SAP one can control the initiation of actions when maintaining an infotype by
a. Personnel action
b. Authorisation
c. Profile generation
d. Dynamic Actions
27. A collection of activities which enables the user to participate in one or more business scenarios for a company is defines as
a. User menu
b. Role
c. Authorization profile
d. Master Data
28. Authorisation Object used during the authorization check on HR INFOTYPE 0001 is
a. HR: Applicant
b. HR: Master Data Personnel Number Check
c. HR: PC Cluster
d. HR: Master Data
30. To maintain The Authorisation Main Switchs the T CODE is
a. PFCG
b. SU01
c. OOAC
d. OOCA
31. The time Logic processes:
a. The read or write access mode
b. The validity of BEGDA – ENDDA of a data record
c. User’s period of responsibility
32. Double Verification Principle:
a. specify authorizations so that one employee can maintain data
b. are of 2 kinds – symmetrical and asymmetrical Verification Principle
c. In Asymmetrical one user maintains data while the other user approves of it by locking / unlocking
d. Symmetrical Verification principal both users have same authorizations. One user can maintain and lock / unlock the data he maintains.
33. General Authorization checks:
a. check for SAP controls access to Human Resources Infotypes
b. Are defined by evaluation path, object type and object ID
c. Are grouped together in a authorization profile.
d. Authorization profiles are generated using profile generator
e. Are assigned to the user in the user Master record
34. Following are true:
a. same personnel number is used when a employee who has left reenters the company
b. for retiree you must assign the employee group and employee subgroup to retiree
c. when a retiree works in another contractual position he is assigned the old personnel number
d. when employee leaves the company you must delete his personnel number so that he does not get processed for payroll
e. when employee reenters a company the status is set to reentry
35. In personnel Administration, the Organizational Key is used to –
Please choose the correct answer
a) Define further authorization checks for security purposes
b) Determine which data can be entered in the applicable infotypes
c) Determine which administrator is assigned to the employee
d) Describe the division of a company into different employee groups
e) None of the above
36. The controlling area is the business unit where Cost Accounting is carried out. The relationship between Controlling Area and Company Code can be defined as:
a. No relationship exists between Company Code and Controlling area
b. Many company codes can belong to one Controlling Area in one enterprise for cost accounting.
c. One is to One relationship exists.
d. None of the above
37. In a business scenario, whereby, there exists a single client, but with numerous company codes:
a. It is possible to have shared data across all company codes.
b. You can maintain company Code specific data for each company code.
c. It is not possible to have data on the client level, which can be used by all company codes.
d. None of the above
38. Identify the correct statements relating to the Implementation Guide.
a) When creating a project IMG the application areas and countries are selected from the Enterprise IMG
b) The number of implementation activities can be reduced by creating Project IMG views, such as the view for “mandatory activities”
c) The Enterprise IMG includes all customizing activities for all R/3 applications
d) The SAP Reference IMG is generated for the application modules to be implemented in a company and for the different countries
e) Customizing transactions can be accessed from the Enterprise IMG, SAP Reference IMG, Project IMG and the Project Views
39. The Personnel Subarea:
a. defines indicators to default the Pay Scale Group and Level
b. is assigned to a Public Holiday Calendar, legal person and statistics group
c. Control features are not effected by the country grouping
d. Groupings are done for organization of Pay scale, wage type and time management structures
e. Are grouped for appraisals
40. Employee Subgroups:
a. Groupings for PCR restrict the validity of the compensation bandwidths to the specific employee subgroups
b. Groupings for work schedule restricts some work schedules for some Employee subgroups
c. Do not have groupings for wage types
d. Groupings for PCR controls how the system processes the employee for payroll
e. Can be assigned additional characteristics for activity, employment and level for training for statistical purposes.
41. The following statements are correct:
a. The variant B of module TARIF valuates a wage type based on pay scale group, level and specific wage type
b. The indirect evaluation modules PRZNT and SUMME are based on how the Base Wage type evaluation table is set up.
c. The base wage types used in valuation for PRZNT must always be stored in the table revise pay scale groups and levels
d. In indirect variant of PRZNT the system determines the value internally and uses it as the basis for further calculations. The base wage types can be valuated directly or indirectly in this case.
e. Conversion possibilities such as Reduction method, rounding type and rounding divisor can be used to change the amount of the directly valuated wage types

SAP HCM Question Series - 1

1. What are info types ?
2. What are personnel actions? What is the transaction for executing personnel actions?
3. What are the important info types for a hiring action?
4. What is IMG? What is its importance? What are the functions you can execute using IMG?
5. What is customizing? What does customizing support?
6. How do you create a Project IMG? What are project views?
7. What are the IMG attributes?
8. What is an enterprise structure?
9. What is a personnel structure?
10. What is the highest level of the enterprise structure?
11. What is company code? Is it defined in HR? If not where is it defined?
12. What are personnel areas and its functions?
13. What are personnel sub areas and its functions?
14. How is an employee in the HR Master data linked to a company to which he belongs?
15. Can a personnel area be assigned to many company codes?
16. What are the indicators defined by personnel sub areas?
17. How do you categorize the employee groups?
18. What are employee subgroups and what are the indicators set up using employee subgroups?
19. Employee groups are two character and employee subgroup are two character representations in the IMG. Do you support this statement?
20. In the HR Master data where are planned working times for an employee seen?
21. Do I need to give country assignment to personnel sub areas in customizing? If true support the statement and if not what’s true?
22. What are the various objects in an organizational plan?. How does any company use an organizational plan?
23. Describe the following
1. Tasks
2. Job
3. Position
4. Organizational unit
5. Cost Center
24. Which of the above objects belong to HR?
25. How do you integrate OM and PA? If integration is active what happens when a position is entered in IT 0000.? What else does the system default? Can these values be changed? What is this called?
26. Are cost center assignments hierarchical? Where do you assign these in OM?
27. What are attributes of objects? Is vacancy a common attribute for all objects?
28. What are the other additional organizational assignments?
29. Name the three administrators? How do you default these in IT0001?
30. What is organizational key? How many bytes/characters does it constitute? How can it be defined? What is it mainly used for?
31. What are employee attributes and how are they classified?
32. What are features? What is the transaction for features?
33. What are the features to default and in which info type
1. Work Schedule Rule
2. Pay Scale Data
3. Wage Type Model
4. Administrator groups
34. Number Range Intervals
35. What is ABKRS?
36. What are the two ways of maintaining features?
37. What is the info type to store personal data for an employee?
38. Where are the default values for working hours per period taken from in IT 0008?
39. Why is employee subgroup grouping for pcr significant for payroll?
40. What does collective agreement provision determine? How do you depict different payments in the system?
41. What does employee subgroup grouping for CAP allow you to assign?
42. What is payscale type and payscale area?
43. You assign payscale types and areas to
1. Company code
2. Payroll area
3. Employee subgroup
4. Personnel subarea
44. What are wage types? How wage types are broadly classified?
45. How do you set up wage types?
46. What are slash wage types?
47. Why are wage type groups used? Give some examples of wage type groups.
48. What is transaction pu95?
49. Where in the IMG do i ensure that the wage types are associated with the enterprise and personnel structure.?
50. Where are all wage types stored?
51. Are all wage types permissible for all info types ? If Yes or NO support statement?
52. What are the wage type characteristics that can be defined?
53. How do you valuate wage types? Where do you configure this in the IMG?
54. What are module name and module variant?
55. Explain significance of TARIF , SUMME and PRZNT in regards to indirect valuation?
56. Briefly explain the two different ways to perform pay increase?
57. In dynamic pay increase what are variants A, G, D, E, T , C and R?
58. What are the info type attributes?
59. What are system controls?
60. What is DYNPRO ? What are the main elements of a screen?
61. What naming conventions are the info types subject to?
62. Where are the info types relevant to retroactive accounting for payroll and time management defined?
63. What are the significance of field triggers in retroactive accounting?
64. What do you need to do in the IMG to specify certain info types for certain countries only?
65. Where can you store a passport photo of an employee? Where do you do the settings in the IMG?
66. What is TCLAS = A and TCLAS = B?
67. Where can you change the attributes of individual screens?
68. What are infotype menus or info menus? Are they user group dependable?
69. What setting do i need to make for a SAP user to see that he has the relevant infotype menus?
70. Where do I assign the IG (infogroup) to the personnel action type? Are infogroups user group dependable?
71. What is IGMOD?
72. For a country reassignment action what setting do i need to do in the IMG?
73. What are additional actions? What are the ways in which i can activate additional actions for an employee? Where are additional actions stored? Can we see the infotype record where additional actions are stored directly?
74. What is the significance of status indicator in personnel actions?
75. What are MSN20, MSN21 and MSN32 in relation to personnel actions?
76. Where do you define the action reason in the IMG?
77. What is user group dependency of the action menu?
78. With a leaving action what is the employment status changed to?
79. What are dynamic actions? What can they trigger?
80. What is PAMA? What is M0001?
81. What are general authorizations?
82. What are structural authorizations?
83. How are authorizations defined? An authorization object can define maximum 15 fields that occur in an authorization? True or False?
84. What is an authorization profile? How are users authorizations determined?
85. What is a role? How the access to transactions, reports and web based applications included in a role defined?
86. Roles can be found under generic name SAP_HR*? True or False?
87. What is a profile generator?
88. How do you create users?
89. What are the ways of setting up general authorization checks?
90. What are the two types of double verification principle? Explain with example?
91. Authorization main switches are stored in Table T74SO or T76SO or T77SO? To permit extended authorization check along with master data check what settings need to be done?
92. Describe in brief the period of responsibility with reference to a user giving examples?
93. What are P_ORGIN and P_ORGXX?
94. What are evaluation paths?
95. To implement structural authorizations you need to have existing the PA module? True or False?
96. What do C, S, P and O stand for?
97. What do mean by the terms
1. Status vector
2. Display depth
3. Period
4. Function Module
98. Describe in brief giving examples how period of responsibility is determined for the general authorization check in a structural authorization check?
99. What are PD profiles and SD profiles? What do they do?
100. What do you mean by planned times? Where are these stored for an employee?
101. What do you mean by actual times? Where are these stored for an employee?
102. What do you mean by deviations? Where are these stored for an employee?
103. What do you mean by negative time and positive time? Where do you use time evaluation?
104. What is RPTQTA00? What does it do? What is RPTIME00?
105. What is time management status 7? What is it used for?

Wage Types

Wage types are used to assign payments and deductions as well as to control the payroll program. You need wage types to pay employees.

In the SAP system there are two main categories:

- Primary or dialog wage types
- Secondary or technical wage types
In the standard delivered SAP HR system you can find many sample wage types both dialog (codes starting with letter eg. Mxxx) and technical ones.
Customer defined dialog wage type codes must start with digit.
You can recognize technical wage types as they have a slash (/) as the first character in the code name.
Technical wage types are not part of the employee's master data. System defines their value during payroll processing.
Wage types characteristics can be set under following SPRO path:
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type
New wage type
To create new wage type you must copy existing one. SAP HR contains model wage types. If these sample wage types meet some of your company's requirements you can use the wage type copier. You then use these copies as your wage types and can modify them so that they meet your specific requirements.
REMEMBER: Customer defined dialog wage type codes must start with digit. The wage types that you create via the copy method are included in all of the wage type groups and tables as the original wage type from which you copied. You can use the log to check what was copied.

Transaction for wage types coping:  OH11 or use SPRO path:

Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Create Wage Type Catalog
 
Permissibility for infotypes You can set up the system so that only certain wage types are permissible for infotypes. You can do this under following SPRO path or using view V_T512Z (transaction SM30):
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Check Wage Type Catalog -> Check entry permissibility per infotype
 
When you configure a wage type, you can determine whether it can be entered once or more than once per payroll period.

Groupings
 
Personnel subarea groupings can be used for primary wage types to define wage type permissibility. These groups can be used to determine which wage types can be entered for which employees.

There are two types of groupings:

* employee subgroup groupings
* personnel subarea grouping

Two main values for employees subgroup groupings are:
* 1 – for hourly paid employees
* 3 – for monthly paid employees

You define wage type permissibility for each personnel subarea and employee group under SPRO path or using view V_511_B:

Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Check Wage Type Catalog -> Define Wage Type Permissibility for each PS and ESG

Wage Type Characteristics

These characteristics describe way of entering of wage types, but they do not describe how they behave in payroll.

You can define followings:

• Validity period
  
• Operation indicator
  
• Minimum and maximum wage type amount
  
• Whether or not the wage type amount should be included in the basic pay total
  
• Default units of time/measurement, minimum and maximum number
  
• Input combinations for number and amount
  
• Indirect valuation and its characteristics

You define this under SPRO path or using view V_T511:
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Check Wage Type Catalog -> Check Wage Type Characteristics

Default Wage Types

The system can suggest a default wage type for basic pay (IT0008), to do this appropriate wage type must be included in a wage type model. Here you define the default wage types and the sequence how they should appear in the infotype Basic Pay and whether you can overwrite the defaulted wage type or not.
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Revise Default Wage Types

After setting wage type model, LGMST feature need to be defined. Feature LGMST has two return values: firstly, the maximum number of enterable wage types in the Basic Pay infotype (IT0008), and secondly, the wage type model the system is to use, which was defied above.
To access feature LGMST use following SPRO path or transaction
PE03: Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Enterprise Structure for Wage Type Model

Valuation of Wage Types

There are two valuation types:

• DIRECT - the amount used to valuate the wage type is entered in the infotype manually
  
• INDIRECT - system automatically calculates the amount of the wage type amount based on simple configuration and enters it in the infotype. You can use indirect valuation for infotypes Basic Pay (0008), Recurring Payments/Deductions (0014), Additional Payments (0015).

How to set indirect valuation

First you need to make appropriate settings in Wage Type Characteristics:
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Check Wage Type Catalog -> Check Wage Type Characteristics or view V_T511.
Choose the wage type for which you want to use indirect valuation. In the group box Indirect valuation choose the indirect valuation module, which specifies which valuation table is used for indirect valuation. Then specify module variant, which controls read access to the table. To get information about all modules that could be used, use Help pressing F1 on the field Indirect valuation module.
Following are most popular modules:

• TARIF - uses pay scale data from the pay scale groups and levels to sets the amount of wage type in Basic Pay (IT0008) infotype
  
• PRZNT and SUMME - system calculates certain wage types as a percentage (PRZNT) or sum (SUMME) of other wage types

For some modules you need to set how calculation should go. It can be done by simple configuration:
Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Payroll data -> Basic Pay -> Wage Type -> Define Valuation of Base Wage Types

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Personnel Cost planning material

Want to Learn more about PERSONNEL COST PLANNING you can use this document.

SAP - Personnel Cost Planning 

Configuration of Actions in Personnel Management

Configuration of Actions in Personnel Management

SAP SOLUTION MANAGER – Overall View

 

Objective(s)

• Define "SAP Solution Manager"
• State the general purpose of SAP Solution Manager
• Identify the multiple usage scenarios of SAP Solution Manager
• List the benefits of using SAP Solution Manager

 

Solution Manager Definition

The SAP Solution Manager is the central application management platform that customers can run in their solution landscape to help them efficiently implement, operate, monitor, and support their SAP solutions.

SAP Solution Manager is thus used for both Implementation and Operational Functions.

The SAP Solution Manager provides tools, content, and a gateway to SAP that helps to:

• Optimize the management of your SAP solution

• Ensure reliability of your SAP solution

• Ensure efficient operations

• Ease implementation and upgrades

• Continuously adapt and improve your solution

Customer's System Landscape

The SAP Solution Manager is a separate, complete Web Application Server installation that is connected to all systems in your solution landscape. These various systems are called satellite systems.

In this way, SAP Solution Manager acts as the central system of your solution landscape, allowing business processes to be implemented, tested, and even monitored in an integrated manner, thus avoiding duplication of effort and information and streamlining your activities.

Why Solution Manager?

 

• Faster implementation and more efficient operation of solutions

• All available implementation and upgrade content is included

• Optimal access to all support services

• Optimal support of all operations, maintenance and improvement activities

• Faster issue resolution through collaboration with Active Global Support

Overview why Solution Manager:

There are several reasons to implement SAP Solution Manager.

First, SAP Solution Manager enables the customer to have a faster implementation of SAP solutions and helps optimize operations once implementation is complete.

Second, implementing SAP Solution Manager gives the customer access to all available implementation and upgrade content.

Third, customers have easy access to all support services that are relevant to operations, maintenance, and improvement activities. This leads to faster issue resolution through close collaboration with Active Global Support.

Solution Manager Usage Scenarios

There are many scenarios in which SAP Solution Manager can be used. Each scenario occurs in one of the three life cycle phases, implementation, operations, and optimization. This is also known as the cycle of continuous improvement.

There are six common scenarios for Solution Manager. They are:

• Implement SAP Solutions

• Monitor SAP Solutions

• Manage the Service Desk

• Link to SAP Services

• Manage Change Requests

• Upgrade SAP Solutions

SAP Report Navigation

SAP Report Navigation

1. Define:     List Report ,  Analysis Report , Report navigation using Selection criteria

1. What is a report variant?
2. How you can create a report variant?
3. How you can retrieve a report variant?
4. How you can download a report to the PC?

Question and answer about PID

What is a PID?

In F1 field-specific help, there is a tab for Technical Information. This tab contains a field’s parameter identifier or PID. Once you have the PID, you can assign a default value to a field.

How can you assign a PID to a user profile?

Follow the menu path System → User profile → Own data to access the Maintain User Profile screen and choose the Parameters tab.

Enter the PID for the field in a blank Parameters field and then enter the value (for example “2006”) in the corresponding Value field.

Save the changes. The new default value will take effect only after you log off and log on again to SAP.

Result: Once the PID is assigned to your user profile, its field will be filled in with the data you assigned whenever you use a transaction that includes that field.

A Caution Regarding PIDs

A Caution Regarding PIDs

The data entered as a default value for the Fiscal year PID will remain assigned until you goes back to change it. This is true for all PIDs you assign to your user profile.

For example, If you have entered entered GJR PID as 2009 for the fiscal year 2010 & if you does not return to update the value for the GJR PID when the year changes to 2011, your Fiscal year field will still populate automatically in all transactions – but with the incorrect year!

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