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I had a Vendor calling me for a Position in PA. This is for Treasury, and on a Lazy friday afternoon the client did'nt have time to go through my 8 pages resume. They had asked me to write something that i know in SAP. In SAP, what anyone could know is a Mole, and what not could be a Mountain. Well here we go.......

This job profile indicates that I am a good fit, the reason why I say is

1. In my latest project, I had the opportunity to work with Financial Supply Chain Management (CFM in ECC5.0) in ECC6.0. Before that I was thinking that SAP Loans Management was the only tool which helps to manage Short term loans, Long term loans that a company owes to thier Business Partners (Banks). Ok, Financial Supply chain management comes with different product types under its Transaction Manager, like Interest rate instruments, Securities, Derivatives, Forex etc. We had done lots of prototype workshop to bring thier exact needs into these different products. Consulting with these tools helped the client to manage thier surplus funds on investing and deficit borrowings from thier partners.

For eg. Interest Rate Instruments were used to manage thier Term Loans, Construction Loans, Line of Credit in a very effective way, Having said that they are able to have the system work out for them the instalments, interest servicing expenses, processing charges, payment deadline, switching to different interest rates (variable) etc.After set up, we had trained the process owners on creation of loan master, settle them, standing instuctions, post accruals and accounting to FI, also use Payment Requests to pay for thier Business Partners. Similar to Payment Run in AP, we have this Payment Transactions for Payment Requests automatic, which picks up the payment requests and pay them off.

There is a lot more I would say...

2. Other part of Treasury, rather most Important, is Cash Management and Liquidity Forecasting. In cash management we have planning levels and planning groups. Planning levels are assigned to those cash relevant GL Masters and Planning Groups are assigned to AP/AR Master Data.

Cash concentration helps us to group all the bank accounts, including clearing accounts (thats where the funds are) and gives you the cash position considering the value date.

Liquidity forecasting on the other hand, takes your open orders, open deliveries, open items (configurable) to project your liquidity considering the baseline date and payment terms.

3. Day to day transactions that you touch in treasury is Bank Posting. It is not finished here yet. Users have to upload the Electronic Bank Statement from different banks for different payment methods. Gone are those days, where in Cheque printing was very hot using classical payment programs like RFFO*. I had worked on generating IDOC's for payment methods and files as well that will be sent to bank (via subsystem) and get the files from the bank in BA12 Format (for lockbox as well) upload them into SAP. We have the EBS Configured, with posting rules to work for them.

Well, having said that, How do I configure them in SAP....... Please call me, I will let you know

Cheers

Vijay

Job Profile

SAP Treasury functional configurator with 3-5 years experience. Remote support allowed with occasional travel to client site in Greensburg, PA required (travel exp will be covered by client). No citizenship restrictions. Experience on ECC 6.0 a plus. Experience in other FICO related modules desired as well. Excellent spoken and written English communications required. Consultant will work as part of a leveraged/remote team on a combination of enhancement and break/fix activities.


We want someone with 20 to 30% experience on TR and less on FICO. He or she must have done some thing more than Basic Bank statement configurations - like securities, loans, payments, collections etc.

Also familiar with IDOCs, interface with banks etc.

Interview Questions # 1

I am planning to post here some of the interview questions which I had faced from Consulting Partners, Clients. I hope this will be helpful for the beginners in COPC to have a feel of what kind of skills exactly the market is waiting for J.. See below

1. What is the relation between routing and BOM and where do you relate them.?

2. How do you get overheads into your standard cost estimates?

3. In std cost estimate, how do you bring values from PP?

4. What is a Price variant?

5. How many costing variants you have created and why?

6. Tell us the BOM structure and what are its functions?

7. How do you cost a lot in middle of production process?

8. What is an activity type and how it is useful in Product Costing?

9. What are the different allocation cycles you worked on, and what are the difference between the three main allocation cycles?

10.What is a material ledger and tell me something about that?

11.Have you worked on Scrap values? How do you facilitate scrap for materials in Production?

12.What are the period end closing activities in Product Costing?

13.Why you need production order settlement?

14.What are the uses of Production Variances?

Allocation Methods in SAP

Simple FICO Process Flows