2. •• History of SAP.
•• About Product.
•• What is SAP?
•• What make sap different ?
•• Different SAP application Modules.
•• System wide Features.
•• SAP ERP Benefits.
3. History of SAP.
SAP AG is the largest European software enterprise and
the third largest in the world, with headquarters in
Walldorf, Germany.
SAP was founded in 1972 as Systemanalyse und
Programmentwicklung by five former IBM engineers in
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg (Dietmar Hopp, Hans-
Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, Klaus Tschira, and Claus
Wellenreuther).
SAP stands for Systems, Applications and Products in Data
Processing.
4. About Product
SAP's products focus on Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP), which it helped to pioneer.
The company's main product is SAP R3.
The "R" stands for realtime and the number 3 relates to a
3 tier client-server architecture.
3 Tier means
Presentation Server,
Application Server and
Database Server.
5. Other major product SAP offerings
Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO),
Business Information Warehouse (BW),
Customer Relationship Management (CRM),
Supply Chain Management (SCM),
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM),
Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS),
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM),
Exchange Infrastructure (XI),
Enterprise Portal (EP) and
SAP Knowledge Warehouse (KW).
6. What is SAP?
SAP is the leading Enterprise Information and
Management Package worldwide. Use of this package
makes it possible to track and manage, in real-time, sales,
production, finance accounting and human resources in an
enterprise.
7. What Makes SAP different ?
Traditional computer information systems used by many
businesses today have been developed to accomplish some
specific tasks and provide reports and analysis of events that
have already taken place.
e.g. accounting general ledger systems.
Occasionally, some systems operate in a "real-time" mode
that is, have up to date information in them and can be used
to actually control events.
A typical company has many separate systems to manage
different processes like production, sales and accounting.
Each of these systems has its own databases and seldom
passes information to other systems in a timely manner.
8. SAP takes a different approach. There is only one information
system in an enterprise, SAP. All applications access common
data.
Real events in the business initiate transactions. Accounting
is done automatically by events in sales and production.
Sales can see when products can be delivered. Production
schedules are driven by sales.
The whole system is designed to be real-time and not
historical.
SAP structure embodies what are considered the "best
business practices". A company implementing SAP adapts it
operations to it to achieve its efficiencies and power.
The process of adapting procedures to the SAP model
involves "Business Process Re-engineering" which is a logical
analysis of the events and relationships that exist in an
enterprise's operations.
9. SAP Application Modules
SAP has several layers.
The Basis System is the heart of the data operations and
should be not evident to higher level or managerial users.
Other customizing and implementation tools exist also.
The heart of the system from a manager's viewpoint are
the application modules. These modules may not all be
implemented in a typical company but they are all related
10. They are as below:
SD FI
Sales & Financial
Distribution Accounting
MM
Materials CO
Mgmt. Controlling
AA
R/3
PP
Asset
Production
Accounting
Planning
EC
SM
Service Integrated Solution Enterprise
Controlling
Mgmt.
QM
Client / Server PS
Quality Project
Mgmt. Open Systems System
PM
Plant WF
Maintenance Workflow
HR IS
Human Industry
Resources Solutions
11. System-Wide Features
SAP uses certain system wide features that should be
understood at the outset. These are used to logically,
safely and flexibly organize the data in a business
enterprise.
● Customizing-- is the configuring of the system to represent
your organization's legal structure, reporting requirements and
business processes.
● Organizational Elements
– Financial-
client is a legal and organizationally independent unit
at the highest level in SAP
company is an independent legal entity within a client
business areas are used to produce profit and loss
statements and balanced sheets across marketing
lines
12. Materials Management
– Purchasing units
– Plants
Sales and Distribution
– Sales Organization
– Distribution channel
– Division
● Master Data is records that remain in the database over an
extended period of time. Examples:
Customer Master
Vendor Master
Material master
Account Master
14. SAP ERP Benefits.
● Improve alignment of strategies and operations
Run your enterprise in accordance with strategy and plans, accessing the
right information in real time to identify concerns early.
Pursue opportunities proactively.
Achieve corporate objectives by aligning workforce and organizational
objectives.
Find the best people and leverage their talent in the right job at the right
time.
● Improve productivity and insight
Leverage self-services and analytics across your organization.
Improve operational efficiency and productivity within and beyond your
enterprise.
● Reduce costs through increased flexibility
Use enterprise services architecture to improve process standardization,
efficiency, and adaptability.
Extend transactions, information, and collaboration functions to a broad
business community.
● Support changing industry requirements
Take advantage of the SAP NetWeaver platform's latest open, Web-based
technology to integrate your end-to-end processes seamlessly.
15. ● Reduce risk
Solve complex business challenges today with SAP, your trusted partner for
long-term growth, with 30 years of experience working with organizations of all
sizes in more countries than any other vendor.
Join Sap's world-class partner network, uniquely qualified to support the best
business practices in more than 25 industries.
● Improve financial management and corporate governance
Gain deep visibility into your organization with financial and management
accounting functionality combined with business analytics.
Increase profitability, improve financial control, and manage risk.
● Optimize IT spending
Integrate and optimize business processes.
Eliminate high integration costs and the need to purchase third-party software.
Deploy other SAP Business Suite applications incrementally to improve cash
flow and reduce costly borrowing.
● Gain higher ROI faster
Install SAP ERP using rapid-implementation techniques that cost less than half
what traditional approaches cost.
Leverage preset defaults and prepackaged versions available for specific
industries. Leverage preset defaults and prepackaged versions available for
specific industries.
16. ● Retain top performers
Retain your top performers through clearly defined career and
development plans.
Link employees' performance to compensation programs such as
variable pay plans and long-term incentives.
● Provide immediate access to enterprise information
Give employees new ways to access the enterprise information
required for their daily activities.
