SAP Explained

Waleed Ur Rehman
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What is SAP?

 SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing.

 SAP Software was Founded in 1972 by 5 IBM Engineers Wellenreuther, Hopp,
Hector, Plattner and Tschira.
 SAP system consists of a number of fully integrated modules, which cover
virtually every aspect of the business.
 SAP is one of the largest vendors of enterprise resource planning
(ERP) software and related enterprise applications having 437,000
customers in 180 Countries, almost 100,000 employees from over 140
countries almost 28 billion dollars in revenue last year.
 SAP Business Suite
 SAP Business Suite is collection of fully integrated applications such as SAP customer
relationship management (CRM), SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), SAP
product lifecycle management (PLM), SAP supplier relationship management
(SRM), and SAP supply chain management (SCM) modules.
 Most people relate SAP with its ERP offering. But SAP now offers variety of products
to address varied needs of an organization including
 SAP HANA
 SAP Convergent Charging
 SAP Global Batch Traceability
 SAP Product Life Cycle Management
 Supply Chain Management
 SAP Transportation Management
 Customer Relationship Management
 Extended Warehouse Management
 Governance, Risk and Compliance
SAP as an ERP
What is an ERP?
 An ERP, or Enterprise Resource Planning, is the integrated management of
core business processes, often in real-time and mediated by software and
technology.
 ERP’s facilitate the bringing together of multiple aspects of the business.

SAP Modules
SAP Modules can be categorized into
 Functional Modules.
 Technical Modules.
Functional Modules
In order to replicate and enable business process, SAP offers various
predefined or standard functionality to help departments in performing various
business activities. The SAP modules which provide predefined standard
functionality to replicate actual business activity are called functional module.
A functional consultant has to understand the business requirement and use
the standard functionality provided by SAP.
 SAP FI Module - FI stands for Financial Accounting
 SAP CO Module - CO stands for Controlling
 SAP HCM Module - HR stands for Human Resources
 SAP MM Module - MM is Materials Management
 SAP QM Module - QM stands for Quality Management
 SAP PP Module - PP is Production Planning
 SAP SD Module - SD is Sales and Distribution
Technical Modules

These modules do not directly replicate actual business activity but provide
needed support to functional modules.
 SAP BASIS
 SAP ABAP
 SAP NET WEAVER
Sales and Distribution Module
The Departments

 Credit and Billing

 Purchasing
 Status
 Finance
 Data Management
 Bid Team
 Sales
Creating a Sales Order
Creating a Quotation
Part Information System
Purchase Order