Monday, June 2, 2014

Order Management Interview Questions

Following questions I have came across on various blogs and sites and posted for your reference here also

Q: What are the Process Constraints?

A: Processing Constraints allow Order Management users the ability to allow or disallow changes to various Order Management documents like Sales order, Sales agreement etc to avoid data inconsistencies and audit problems. You can access it at OM>setup>Rules>security>Processing Constraints

Q: What is a Pick Slip Report?
A: Pick slip report is generated after release sales order and it is used by warehouse personnel to pick item from various inventories for shipping them to a customer.

Q: At what stage an order cannot be cancelled?
A: If the order is Pick Confirmed, it cannot be cancelled.

Q: When the order import program is run it validates and the errors occurred can be seen in?
A: Order Management Responsibility >Orders, Returns : Import Orders> Corrections

Q: What is the difference between purchase order (PO) and sales order?
A: Purchase Order: The document which is created and sent to supplier when we need to purchase something. (Buying)

Sales Order: The document which is created when customer places an order to buy something. (Selling)

Q: What are primary and secondary price lists?
A: Price list contains information on items and its prices. The pricing engine uses secondary price lists when it cannot determine the price for an item using the price list assigned to an order.

Q: Name some tables in shipping/order/move order/inventory?
A: WSH_DELIVERY_DETAILS,WSH_NEW_DELIVERIES, OE_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL, OE_ORDER_LINES_ALL, MTL_SYTEM_ITEMS_B, MTL_MATERIAL_TRANSACTIONS

Q: How is move order generated?
A: When the order is pick released, it generate a move order to to pick material from various subinventories. You can transact it manually or automatically based on setting in Release orders.

Q: What is ONT stands for?
A: ORDER MANAGEMENT

Q: What does Back ordered mean in OM?
A: An unfulfilled customer order due to non-existence of the ordered items in the Inventory.

Q: What are picking rules?
A: A user-defined set of criteria to define the priorities which Order Management uses when picking items out of finished goods inventory to ship to a customer. Picking rules are defined in Oracle Inventory. If WMS installed then you can define user generated Picking rules and strategies.

Q: What is drop ship in OM?
A: Its a method of directly shipping product from your supplier to your Customers.

Q: What are Defaulting Rules?
A: While creating the order,you can define defaulting rules so that the default values of the fields pop up automatically instead of typing all information.

Q: What are validation templates?
A: A validation template names a condition and defines the semantics of how to validate that condition. Validation templates can be used in the processing constraints framework to specify the constraining conditions for a given constraint.

Q: What are different Order Types?
A: Order Only, Mixed, RMA

Q: Explain the Order Cycle?
A: Book the order > Pick Release > Pick Confirm > Ship Confirm > Close the order

Q: What is packing slip?
A: An external shipping document that is sent along with a shipment itemizing in detail the contents of that shipment.

Q: When an order cannot be deleted?
A: If the Order is Pick Confirmed.


Thanks
Mandeep
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