INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Second Term Examinations – Summer 2018

Course Title: Intro To SAP – ERP Systems Course Code: SCM 400
Faculty: Mr. Sufian Farrukh Section: A
Day / Date: Saturday – July 28, 2018 Timings: 09:30 – 10:30 AM
Total Marks: 15

Student’s Name Student ID:

Instructions:
 Attempt all questions.
 Manage your time efficiently for Computer Based Assessment.
 Kindly save your files accordingly. Any mishap will not be accredited.
 Please be careful that repeated failed attempts might affect software performance.

Supplier Quality: This industry case, dashboard and underlying report focus on one of the typical supply
chain challenges — supplier quality analysis. Two primary metrics are at play in this analysis: total
number of defects and the total downtime that these defects caused. This case has two main objectives:

 Understand who the best and worst suppliers are, with respect to quality
 Identify which plants do a better job finding and rejecting defects, to minimize downtime.

To answer the above, you must Illustrate & formulate the following queries on Microsoft PowerBI:

Dashboard Cards:

1. Total Defect Quantity

2. Total Downtime Minutes
3. Total Defect Quantity with No Impact & Impact
4. Total Rejected Defect Quantity
5. Total Defect Reports

Queries:

Add Slicer: Category, Defect Type and Year

6. Does Raw Materials have the highest number of defects? “show material types, year and total
defect Qty”
7. Which are the worst suppliers? “Downtime w.r.t vendor”
8. Monthly Downtime Report
9. Which material type is best managed? “Total Defect Quantity by Material Type, Defect Type” +
“Total Defect Qty, Total Downtime Minutes by Material Type”
10. Which plant does a better job managing defective material, resulting in less downtime? Total
Defect Reports by Plant, Defect Type
11. From 10, Also illustrate downtime minutes w.r.t. plant location
12. Which is the most troubled category – it’s the largest in terms of total defect quantity, total
defect reports, and total downtime minutes.
So now can you answer which are the best & worst suppliers’ w.r.t quality?

Can you identify which plants do a better job in finding & rejecting defects? Or minimize downtime?

2. How a transaction would take place between the Manufacturing organization and its distribution
partner. Your answer must be referenced from different steps/processes of SAP MM & SD Module.