Horizontal Integration Interview Questions and Answers

Special procurement types in SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM)

• Special procurement types are used to handle procurement scenarios that are not covered by standard procurement types

• Examples include subcontracting, consignment, pipeline, and stock transfer

• Subcontracting involves sending raw materials to a vendor who will process them into finished goods

• Consignment involves placing goods at a customer's location until they...read more

Accounting entries are made in procurement cycle to record financial transactions.

• When goods are received, a debit entry is made to inventory account and a credit entry is made to accounts payable account.

• When goods are issued, a debit entry is made to cost of goods sold account and a credit entry is made to inventory account.

• When invoice is received, a debit entry is made to accounts payable account and a credit entry...read more

List is mutable and tuple is immutable in Python.

• List can be modified after creation, tuple cannot

• List uses square brackets [], tuple uses parentheses ()

• List is slower than tuple in terms of performance

• List is used for collections of data that may change, tuple for fixed collections

Many to many relationship is a type of relationship between two entities where one entity can have multiple instances of another entity and vice versa.

• It involves a junction table that connects the two entities.

• It allows for complex data modeling and querying.

• Example: A student can enroll in multiple courses and a course can have multiple students.

• Example: A book can have multiple authors and an author can have written...read more

Truncate removes all data from a table while delete removes specific rows.

• Truncate is faster than delete as it doesn't log individual row deletions

• Truncate resets the identity of the table while delete doesn't

• Truncate cannot be rolled back while delete can be

• Truncate is a DDL command while delete is a DML command

Find subarray with maximum sum value

• Use Kadane's algorithm to find the maximum subarray sum

• Initialize max_so_far and max_ending_here to 0

• Loop through the array and update max_ending_here and max_so_far

• Return the subarray with maximum sum value

Flask is a micro web framework while Django is a full-stack web framework.

• Flask is lightweight and flexible while Django is more structured and includes many built-in features.

• Flask is better for small to medium-sized projects while Django is better for larger projects.

• Flask has less built-in functionality but allows for more customization while Django has more built-in functionality but is less customizable.

• Flask is e...read more

MVC and MVT are software architecture patterns used for developing web applications.

• MVC stands for Model-View-Controller and separates the application into three interconnected components.

• MVT stands for Model-View-Template and is similar to MVC but with a different approach to handling user input.

• In MVC, the Model represents the data and business logic, the View displays the data to the user, and the Controller handles...read more