Purchasing Interview Questions:

Q. AME is possible in PO approval ??

NO. AME for Req approval

Q. Can we create Position heiracchy for Requisition Approval

Yes

Q. vacation rule has to be created by the same user...if being as a first person in the approver  goup the user not able to create vacation rule and goes on leave...then any other way, by  which we can handle that out of scope

Q. Can I get the recording version of yesterda's session?

No.

Q. Where did we do setups for taxes

Ebiz Tax

Q. Is AME diff in 11i and R12

Conceptually, AME is same or 11i and R12 but the look and feel and navigation is  completely different.

Q. Any profile for confidentiality of Quotation?

No. Anybody with access to quote and quote analysis screen has access to quotations

Q. when we delete approved record, if it is by other user, will he be notified for the same

No.

Q. How to protct cofidentialiy and modification of quot from others

- to prevent access to quote screen

- make the quote screen read only

Q. is there any work flow proces behind this?

no

Q. Can we have PO without RFQ or quotes for that matter.

Yes. We can have PO with RFQ and quotes. But its not a good practice.

Purchase Manager can be questioned why he gave order to some supplier. He will always have 2-3 quotes with him.

Q. but for blanket type of PO do you think quotes are required?

2 ways to determine price for an item

            - Quotations  - document provided by vendor to supply at a price

            - Blanket PO - agreement between vendor and us

Q. If we dont want other buyer can see qout of other buyer even they have access to RFQ screen ??

only related buyer only can see his Quot not other one which is not related to him ??

Personalization. Without personalization, its not possible.

Q. Can we copy Catalog RFQ to Standard quotation?

Yes. Copy Catalog RFQ to Catalaog quote or Standard quotation. Copy Bid RFQ to Bid quotation.

Q. Can you show us Creating PO from Requisition having RFQ as Source Doc.

RFQ cannot be source doc. We can have Quote as Source and we will be creating PO from Req using Quote as Source.

Q. Yes but not for release.

Question not clear

Q. What about negotion process in this ??

Negotiation is possible in Oracle Sourcing. Out of Scope.

Q. Are u going to take Planned Purchase order

Yes. That will be covered later.

Q. Will we cover Schedule release VMIand Consigned.?

Out of scope. Inventory related. Kindly attend Inventory training.

Q. Is there  any analytics available in this release to freeze the minimum quote automatically?

No. Quote analysis and approval is a manual process. No automation is provided.

Q. Can you cover the Advance Pricing intergration in Purchasing?

This will be covered conceptually. There wont be any practicals on the same.

Q. What about Bill of distribution??

Sourcing Rules  - ASL is required. Will cover Sourcing rules later.

Q. Sourcing means for RFQ ??

Selecting the Source of Supply of material.

Sourcing - Sourcing Rules - automatically create PO from requisitions

Q. While using ASL for Commodity theall items listed under that commodity will get imapcted . believe it's true can u confirm .

Yes. I will show you guys a chart

Q. How the Supplier status behave differently in Global & Local ASL?

Local ASL will override Global

Local (M1) - debarred Global - Approved

PO for M1 - will not allow

PO for M2 - should allow

But local is specific to that org not for others. so for M2 it should allowed.

Q. what is category level supplier?

The supplier will be ASL for all items which fall under that category.

Q. then where do we define that?

That is defined in ASL

Q. Where do we define the range of items under that category?

Linked while defining Items

Q. AND is approved for Item not for category so Item shoud be presidance. and it should allowed. Item shoud have more presidance then category.

NO. Category is having higher precedence. So, if a Supplier is debarred for a category then he is debarred for all items under that category.

Q. Can we create Req to Release Item if is not matching on Requisition and BPA. but ASL is set.

Question is not clear

Q. what if allocation for ASL is <100 %

For manual PR, 100% allocation does not matter. 100% allocation is required only for planned orders. For manual PR the PO will be raised against the supplier with highest allocation.

Q. What does Sourcing Assignment signify?

Sourcing Assignment will determine which supplier to source an item for a given ORG

Q. If we have one org then can we do transaction in Master Org

Yes. No restriction. Best practice that we should not do any transaction in Master Inv Org.

Q. What isTCA??

Trading Community Architecture. Covered in AR. This is party, customer relationship and stored in HZ tables.

Q. How intercompany sourcing happens and how PO will be managed in two companies?

Internal Requisition/Internal Sales Orders

Q. What is the need to add the price into price list...when we have given price for the item in Inventory setup?

Price that we mentioned is the Purchase list price. But for OM, it picks the price from Price list.

Q. While giving the value in Price list...do we add our all the cost and profit in that

For internal items, the transfer price is calculated based on the cost + the transfer options.

Q. What does create internal order conc request do?

Create internal order request will transfer the IR info to OM interface tables.

Q. Why is the cost zero for Internal Orders?

We did not enter any cost for the item, so the cost was zero.

Q. could you please show this cost thing by raising external sales order?

Out of Scope. OM class is required.

Q. Cost is zero for internal sales order, however you told that it will be 10% addition of the cost of that item then why it is not 10 % addition in the cost?

Q. Why is the cost of the Item zero?

The cost of the Item was zero because we did not enter the cost of the item.

Q. Where do we enter the cost?

We enter the cost while defining the Item.

Q. How does the price default while creating IR?

The price of the item while creating IR, is the cost of the Item.

Q. Can you clarify where we set up zero cost for an Item for IR?

We did not specify the zero for IR. If we do not enter the cost, it will be considered as zero.

Q. Can we change PO Currency?

Yes. We can change PO currency. It defaults from supplier setup but we can change it.

Q. Can you explain what is confirming order ?

Sometimes, the Purchase manager requests for certain items over phone. Then he sends the PO just to confirm the verbal order. If the vendor thinks that this is a duplicate order and delivers double, it could cause problem, so he sends a PO with a message that it is confirming order.

What is Difference Between Blanket release and Planned Release?

Blanket release is against blanket purchase agreement and planned release is against planned orders.

Under what Circumstance we'll use Blanket and Planned Agreement

In blanket, the price of the agreement is fixed but the quantity is not fixed. We get price breaks in Blanket for volume discounts.

In planned, the shipment is tentative. It does not have any price breaks so no volume discounts.

So, blanket is for high volume transactions.

Q. For planned orders, Schedule is available but blanket is for as and when required?

The schedule in planned Orders is just tentative. The actual schedule is determined later.

Blanket can have an effective date range. Planned does not have any effective date range.

Q. Can you cover Advance Pricing?

Not in scope.

Q. What is the way for adding items or modify BPA from supplier point of view..are they need have oracle apps installed with Oracle iSupplier portal?

They will have access to Oracle iSupplier portal which is a web based application. No installation is required.

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51) Display those employees whose manager name is Jones?

        SELECT e.ename superior, e1.ename subordinate
          FROM emp e, e1
         WHERE e.empno = e1.mgr AND e.ename = 'JONES'

52) Display those employees whose salary is more than 3000 after giving 20% increment?

        SELECT ename, sal, (sal + (sal * 0.20))
          FROM emp
         WHERE (sal + (sal * 0.20)) > 3000;
        
53) Display all employees with their department names?
    Select e.ename, d.dname from emp e, dept d where e.deptno=d.deptno


54) Display ename who are working in sales department?

        SELECT e.ename, d.dname
          FROM emp e, dept d
         WHERE e.deptno = d.deptno AND d.dname = 'SALES'


55) Display employee name, dept name, salary, and commission for those sal in between 2000 to 5000 while location is Chicago?

        SELECT e.ename, d.dname, e.sal, e.comm
          FROM emp e, dept d
         WHERE e.deptno = d.deptno AND sal BETWEEN 2000 AND 5000
        
56) Display those employees whose salary is greater than his manager’s salary?
             SELECT e.ename, e.sal, e1.ename, e1.sal
              FROM emp e, e1
             WHERE e.mgr = e1.empno AND e.sal > e1.sal
            
57) Display those employees who are working in the same dept where his manager is work?

        SELECT e.ename, e.deptno, e1.ename, e1.deptno
          FROM emp e, e1
         WHERE e.mgr = e1.empno AND e.deptno = e1.deptno
        
58) Display those employees who are not working under any Manager?
        Select ename from emp where mgr is null;
       
       
59) Display the grade and employees name for the deptno 10 or 30 but grade is not 4 while joined the company before 31-DEC-82?

                SELECT ename, grade, deptno, sal
                  FROM emp, salgrade
                 WHERE (grade, sal) IN (SELECT grade, sal
                                          FROM salgrade, emp
                                         WHERE sal BETWEEN losal AND hisal)
                   AND grade ! = 4
                   AND deptno IN (10, 30)
                   AND hiredate < '31-Dec-82'
                  
60) Update the salary of each employee by 10% increment that are not eligible for commission?
            Update emp set sal= (sal+(sal*0.10)) where comm is null

61) Delete those employees who joined the company before 31-Dec-82 while their department Location is New York or Chicago?
            SELECT e.ename, e.hiredate, d.loc
              FROM emp e, dept d
             WHERE e.deptno = d.deptno
               AND hiredate < '31-Dec-82'
               AND d.loc IN ('NEW YORK', 'CHICAGO')
              
62) Display employee name, job, deptname, and loc for all who are working as manager?

            SELECT e.ename, e.job, d.dname, d.loc
              FROM emp e, dept d
             WHERE e.deptno = d.deptno AND e.empno IN (SELECT mgr
                                                         FROM emp
                                                        WHERE mgr IS NOT NULL)

63) Display those employees whose manager name is Jones and also display their manager name?

                    SELECT e.ename sub, e1.ename
                      FROM emp e, emp e1
                     WHERE e.mgr = e1.empno AND e1.ename = 'JONES'
                    
64) Display name and salary of ford if his salary is equal to hisal of his grade?
            Select ename, grade, hisal, sal from emp, salgrade where ename='FORD' and sal=hisal;
            OR
            Select grade, sal, hisal from emp, salgrade where ename='FORD' and sal between losal and hisal;
            OR
             SELECT ename, sal, hisal, grade
              FROM emp, salgrade
             WHERE ename = 'FORD' AND (grade, sal) IN (SELECT grade, hisal
                                                         FROM salgrade, emp
                                                        WHERE sal BETWEEN losal AND hisal);
                                           
                                           
65) Display employee name, job, deptname, his manager name, his grade and make an under department wise?

                SELECT   e.ename sub, e1.ename sup, e.job, d.dname, grade
                    FROM emp e1, salgrade, dept d
                   WHERE e.mgr = e1.empno
                     AND e.sal BETWEEN losal AND hisal
                     AND e.deptno = d.deptno
                GROUP BY d.deptno, e.ename, e1.ename, e.job, d.dname, grade
                OR
                
                SELECT e.ename sub, e1.ename sup, e.job, d.dname, grade
                  FROM emp e, e1, salgrade, dept d
                 WHERE e.mgr = e1.empno
                   AND e.sal BETWEEN losal AND hisal
                   AND e.deptno = d.deptno
                  
66) List out all the employee names, job, salary, grade and deptname for every one in a company except ‘CLERK’. Sort on salary display the highest salary?

            SELECT   e.ename, e.job, e.sal, d.dname, grade
                FROM emp e, salgrade, dept d
               WHERE (e.deptno = d.deptno AND e.sal BETWEEN losal AND hisal)
            ORDER BY e.sal DESC
           
           
67) Display employee name, job and his manager. Display also employees who are with out managers?

        Select e.ename, e1.ename, e.job, e.sal, d.dname from emp e, emp e1, dept d where e.mgr=e1.empno (+) and e.deptno=d.deptno

68) Display Top 5 employee of a Company?

69) Display the names of those employees who are getting the highest salary?
            Select ename, sal from emp where sal in (select max (sal) from emp)

70) Display those employees whose salary is equal to average of maximum and minimum?
            Select * from emp where sal=(select (max (sal)+min (sal))/2 from emp)

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31) Find the first occurance of character a from the following string Computer Maintenance Corporation?
                select lstr('Computer Maintenance Corporation','a' ) from dual;

32) Replace every occurance of alphabet A with B in the string .Alliens (Use Translate function)
                select translate('Alliens','A','B') from Dual;

33) Display the information from the employee table . where ever job Manager is found it should be displayed as Boss?
                select ename ,replace(job,'MANAGER','BOSS') from emp;

34) Display empno,ename,deptno from emp table. Instead of display department numbers display the related department name(Use decode function)?

                SELECT empno, ename, deptno,
                       DECODE (deptno,
                               10, 'ACCOUNTING',
                               20, 'RESEARCH',
                               30, 'SALES',
                               'OPERATIONS'
                              ) dname
                  FROM emp;
                 
                 
35) Display your Age in Days?
            select sysdate-to_date('30-jul-1977') from dual;
           
36) Display your Age in Months?

            select months_between(sysdate,to_date('30-jul-1977')) from dual;

37) Display current date as 15th August Friday Nineteen Nienty Seven?

            select To_char(sysdate,'ddth Month Day year') from dual;

39) Scott has joined the company on 13th August ninteen ninety?
            select empno,ename,to_char(Hiredate,'Day ddth Month year') from emp;

40) Find the nearest Saturday after Current date?
            select next_day(sysdate,'Saturday') from dual;
           
           
41) Display the current time?
            select To_Char(sysdate,'HH:MI:SS') from dual;
           
           
42) Display the date three months before the Current date?

            select Add_months(sysdate,-3) from dual;
           
43) Display the common jobs from department number 10 and 20?

            select job from emp where job in (select job from emp where deptno=20) and deptno=10;
           
44) Display the jobs found in department 10 and 20 Eliminate duplicate jobs?

            select Distinct job from emp where deptno in(10,20);
           
45) Display the jobs which are unique to department 10?
            select job from emp where deptno=10;
           
46) Display the details of those employees who do not have any person working under him?

            SELECT empno, ename, job
              FROM emp
             WHERE empno NOT IN (SELECT mgr
                                   FROM emp
                                  WHERE mgr IS NOT NULL);
                                 
47) Display the details of those employees who are in sales department and grade is 3?

                SELECT e.ename, d.dname, grade
                  FROM emp e, dept d, salgrade
                 WHERE e.deptno = d.deptno AND dname = 'SALES' AND grade = 3
                
48) Display thoes who are not managers?
                select ename from emp where job!='MANAGER';
               
49) Display those employees whose name contains not less than 4 characters?
                Select ename from emp where length (ename)>=4
               
50) Display those department whose name start with 'S' while location name ends with 'K'?
                Select e.ename, d.loc from emp e, dept d where d.loc like ('%K') and enamelike ('S%');

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11) Display the various jobs along with total number of employees in each job. The output should contain only those jobs with more than three employees?

SELECT job, COUNT (*)
FROM emp
GROUP BY job
HAVING COUNT (*) > 3;


12) Display the name of employees who earn Highest Salary?

SELECT ename, sal
FROM emp
WHERE sal >= (SELECT MAX (sal)
FROM emp);


13) Display the employee Number and name for employee working as clerk and earning highest salary among the clerks?

SELECT ename, empno
FROM emp
WHERE sal = (SELECT MAX (sal)
FROM emp
WHERE job = 'CLERK') AND job = 'CLERK';


14) Display the names of salesman who earns a salary more than the Highest Salary of the Clerk?

SELECT ename, sal
FROM emp
WHERE sal > (SELECT MAX (sal)
FROM emp
WHERE job = 'CLERK') AND job = 'SALESMAN';


15) Display the names of clerks who earn a salary more than the lowest Salary of any Salesman?

SELECT ename, sal
FROM emp
WHERE sal > (SELECT MIN (sal)
FROM emp
WHERE job = 'SALESMAN') AND job = 'CLERK';


16) Display the names of employees who earn a salary more than that of jones or that of salary greater than that of scott?

SELECT ename, sal
FROM emp
WHERE sal > ALL (SELECT sal
FROM emp
WHERE ename = 'JONES' OR ename = 'SCOTT');


17) Display the names of employees who earn Highest salary in their respective departments?

SELECT ename, sal, deptno
FROM emp
WHERE sal IN (SELECT MAX (sal)
FROM emp
GROUP BY deptno);

18) Display the names of employees who earn Highest salaries in their respective job Groups?

SELECT ename, job
FROM emp
WHERE sal IN (SELECT MAX (sal)
FROM emp
GROUP BY job);

19)Display employee names who are working in Accounting department?

SELECT e.ename, d.dname
FROM emp e, dept d
WHERE e.deptno = d.deptno AND d.dname = 'ACCOUNTING';

20) Display the employee names who are Working in Chicago?

SELECT e.ename, d.loc
FROM emp e, dept d
WHERE e.deptno = d.deptno AND d.loc = 'CHICAGO';


21) Display the job groups having Total Salary greater than the maximum salary for Managers?

SELECT job, SUM (sal)
FROM emp
GROUP BY job
HAVING SUM (sal) > (SELECT MAX (sal)
FROM emp
WHERE job = 'MANAGER');


22) Display the names of employees from department number 10 with salary greater than that of ANY employee working in other departments?

SELECT ename, deptno
FROM emp
WHERE sal > ANY (SELECT MIN (sal)
FROM emp
WHERE deptno != 10
GROUP BY deptno) AND deptno = 10;


23) Display the names of employees from department number 10 with salary greater than that of ALL employee working in other departments?

SELECT ename, deptno
FROM emp
WHERE sal > ALL (SELECT MAX (sal)
FROM emp
WHERE deptno != 10
GROUP BY deptno) AND deptno = 10;

24) Display the names of Employees in Upper Case?
select upper(ename) from emp;

25) Display the names of employees in Lower Case?

select Lower(ename) from emp;

26) Display the names of employees in Proper case?
select InitCap(ename)from emp;

27) Find the length of your name using Appropriate Function?
select lentgh('RAMA') from dual;

28) Display the length of all the employee names?
select length(ename) from emp;

29) Display the name of employee Concatinate with Employee Number?
select ename' 'empno from emp;

30) Use appropriate function and extract 3 characters starting from 2 characters from the following string 'Oracle' i.e., the out put should be ac?
select substr('Oracle',3,2) from dual;

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1) Display the name of employees along with their annual salary (sal*12) the name of the employee earning highest annual salary should appear first?

                    SELECT   ename, sal, sal * 12 "Annual Salary"
                        FROM emp
                    ORDER BY "Annual Salary" DESC;

2) Display name, salary, Hra, pf, da, TotalSalary for each employee. The out put should be in the order of total salary, hra 15% of salary, DA 10% of salary .pf 5% salary Total Salary will be (salary+hra+da)-pf?

                    SELECT   ename, sal sa, sal * 0.15 hra, sal * 0.10 da, sal * 5 / 100 pf,
                             sal + (sal * 0.15) + (sal * 0.10) - (sal * .05) totalsalary
                        FROM emp
                    ORDER BY totalsalary DESC;

3) Display Department numbers and total number of employees working in each Department?

                    SELECT   deptno, COUNT (*)
                        FROM emp
                    GROUP BY deptno;

4) Display the various jobs and total number of employees working in each job group?

                    SELECT   job, COUNT (*)
                        FROM emp
                    GROUP BY job;

5) Display department numbers and Total Salary for each Department?

                SELECT   deptno, SUM (sal)
                    FROM emp
                GROUP BY deptno;

6) Display department numbers and Maximum Salary from each Department?

            SELECT   deptno, MAX (sal)
                FROM emp
            GROUP BY deptno;

7) Display various jobs and Total Salary for each job?
   
                SELECT   job, SUM (sal)
                    FROM emp
                GROUP BY job;

8)Display each job along with min of salary being paid in each job group?

                SELECT   job, MIN (sal)
                    FROM emp
                GROUP BY job;
               
9) Display the department Number with more than three employees in each department?

                SELECT   deptno, COUNT (*)
                    FROM emp
                GROUP BY deptno
                  HAVING COUNT (*) > 3;

10) Display various jobs along with total salary for each of the job where total salary is greater than 40000?
                
                SELECT   job, SUM (sal)
                    FROM emp
                GROUP BY job
                  HAVING SUM (sal) > 40000;

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Oracle apps’s technical FAQs 6

(ERP) Oracle Applications 11i,Oracle apps’s technical FAQs 5:

56) What are triggers?

---- triggers are similar to procedures, in that they are the named pl/sql blocks with declarative, executable and exception-handling sections, how ever a procedure is executed explicitly from another block via a procedure call, which can also pass arguments.

---- A trigger is executed implicitly when ever a particular event task places. And is nothing but a event.

---- The triggering event is a DML (insert, update, delete) operations on a data base table

----- fires whenever a data event(such as DML) or system event(such as login or shutdown) occurs on a schema or database

Trigger timing : 1) before

2) after

3) instead of ( this is used for views)

Triggering events : 1) insert

2)update

3) delete

Trigger type : 1) statement level

2) row level.

Firing sequence of database triggers

1) before statement trigger

2) before row trigger

3) after row trigger

4) after statement trigger

Ex:

1) Create or replace trigger secure_emp

Before

Insert on emp

Begin

If (to_char(sysdate,’dy’) in(‘sat’,’sun’)) or

To_char(sysdate,’hh24:mi’)

Not between ’08:00’ and ’18:00’)

Then raise_application_error(-20500,’u can insert in the office timings’)

End if;

End;

Ex :- 2) write a program to all transitions with name smith?

Create or replace

Trigger trigger_name

Before insert or update or delete

On emp

For each row

When (old.ename =’smith’ or

New.ename =’smith’)

Begin

Raise_application_error(-20003,’smith’);

End;

57) Difference between triggers and procedures?

Defined with create trigger	Defined with create procedure
The data dictionary contains source code in the user_triggers.	Data dictionary contains source code in user_source
Implicitly invoked	Explicitly invoked
Commit, save point and rollback are not allowed(TCL)	Those are allowed

58) What are LOCKS?

-- Is to reduce concurrency

1) share lock

---it allows the other users for only reading not to insert or update or delete.

2) exclusive lock

--- only one user can have the privileges of insert or update and delete of particular object

--- others can only read.

3) update lock

----multiple user can read, update delete

Lock levels :

1) table level 2) table space 3) data base level.

58) What is template.fmb?

a) The TEMPLATE form is the required starting point for all development of new

Forms.

b) The TEMPLATE form includes platform–independent attachments of several

Libraries.

APPSCORE :- It contains package and procedures that are required of all forms to support the MENUS ,TOOLBARS.

APPSDAYPK :- It contains packages that control the oracle applications CALENDER FEATURES.

FNDSQF :- it contains packages and procedures for MESSAGE DICTONARY, FLEX FIELDS, PROFILES AND CONCURRENT PROCESSING.

CUSTOM :- it allows extension of oracle applications forms with out modification of oracle application code, you can use the custom library for customization such as zoom ( such as moving to another form and querying up specific records)

59) What are ad-hoc reports?

Ans.: Ad-hoc Report is made to meet one-time reporting needs. Concerned with or formed for a

particular purpose. For example, ad hoc tax codes or an ad hoc database query

60) What is responsibility in Oracle Applications?

Is collection of menus, request security groups and data groups

Menus: collection of forms is nothing but menus

Request security groups: collection of programs.

Data groups: is a group of modules to be made accessible by the user through

Responsibility

Navigations are : 

System admin --> security --> define

Security--> user --> define

61) What are different execution methods of executables in Oracle Applications Concurrent program?

FlexRpt The execution file is wrnitten using the FlexReport API.

FlexSql The execution file is written using the FlexSql API.

Host The execution file is a host script.

Oracle Reports The execution file is an Oracle Reports file.

PL/SQL Stored Procedure The execution file is a stored procedure.

SQL*Loader The execution file is a SQL script.

SQL*Plus The execution file is a SQL*Plus script.

SQL*Report The execution file is a SQL*Report script.

Spawned The execution file is a C or Pro*C program.

Immediate The execution file is a program written to run as a subroutine of the concurrent manager. We recommend against defining new immediate concurrent programs, and suggest you use either a PL/SQL Stored Procedure or a Spawned C Program instead.

Composite Datatypes :

– PL/SQL TABLES

– PL/SQL RECORDS

- Nested TABLE

- VARRAY

What is the sequence of functions – group by,having,orderby in a select statements ?

Select…..

Group by…

Having…

Orderby..

Difference between User and Super User?

User : login user or front end user

Super user : it has full access of particular module