ERP

Enterprise Wide Resource Planning

What is ERP?
 Enterprise Wide Resource Planning.
 An approach to plan effective and optimum
utilization of resources.
 ERP is a concept.
 ERP Solutions have been designed around this
concept.
Enterprise Resource Planning
 ERP is a software driven business management
system, which integrates all facets of the
business including Planning, Manufacturing,
Sales and Marketing.
 ERP is a Business Solution aims to help the
management by setting better business practices
and equipping them with the right information to
take timely decision.
Major Components

 Finance planning
 Materials management.
 Manufacturing.
 Marketing & Sales
 Logistics
 Human Resources
 Plant maintenance …
What will be your role as a Manager?

 You could be involved at many stages:

 As an End user of ERP system.
 As a Business Process Owner.
 As a ERP Consultant who would be involved
from an IT organization side for the purpose of
designing and implementing the solution.
 As a representative from client side and
member of core team.
In what way is ERP implemented ?
 Stages in implementation.
Business Scenario study.
Defining the solution its expectations.
Blueprint and deployment.
Testing
Integration
Go Live
ERP Software Packages

 Baan
 Peoplesoft
 Oracle Application
 JD Edwards
 SAP
S. A. P.
 The name SAP being a German company, is
acronym for “Systeme Anwendungen,
Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung”.
 This is translated into English as
 “System Application and Products in Data
Processing”
“Systems Applications, and Products
in Data Processing ”
S. A. P.

 SAP is the highly integrated software that

perform common business functions based on
multi-national leading practices.
 Takes care of any enterprises however
diverse it may be in operations, spread over
the world geographically.
S. A. P.
 SAP is founded in 1972 by five people.
 Wellenreuther
 Hopp
 Hector
 Plattner
 Tchira
 These employees presented their idea to IBM who in
turn refuse to research & develop their product.
 AG Stands for Aktiengesellschaft which means in
English “Incorporation”
S.A.P.
 R/2 is a SAP AG first compact software
package.
 In R/2 we have got two layer concept

1st Layer PRESENTATION LAYER

2nd Layer APPLICATION LAYER

DATABASE LAYER
** R : Stand for Real Time
R/2 : Real time Two Tier Architecture
 S.A.P.

 R/3 meets the needs of a customer from the small companies

to multi-billion dollar companies.

 In R/3 we have got three layer Concept

1st Layer PRESENTATION LAYER

2nd Layer APPLICATION LAYER

3rd Layer DATABASE LAYER

R/3 Real Time Three Tier Architecture
Streams in SAP

S A P R / 3

T E C H N F I CU AN L C T I O
Streams in SAP

T E C H N I C A L

P r o g r a mA dm m e i r n i s t r

A B A P / B4 A S I S
 Streams in SAP

F U N C T I O N A L

F i n a n c e H u m a n R e s o u r c e L o g is t i c s

F I - F
i n a n c e P e r s o n n e l M a n S a Dg m - e S n a t l e s & D i
C O - C o n t r o lli n g P a y r o ll P P - P r o d u c t io n
T R - T r e a s u r y T i m e m a n a g e M m Me n - t M a t e r ia l M
R e a l E s t a t e M a n a g e m e n t W M - W a r e h o u s e
BASIS
 BASIS similar to an operating system for R/3.

 It provides the runtime environment for ABAP/4 programs.

Basis is essential to run ABAP/4 programs.

 It is a collection of R/3 system programs that present you

with an interface.
ABAP
 ABAP stands for Advanced Business Application
Programming / 4th Generation Language

 ABAP/4 cannot run directly on an operating system. It

requires a set of programs to load, interpret, and buffer its
input and output.