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Chapter 2
What is SAP?
• SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products
in Data Processing and is a German Software
• SAP has 10 millions users, 32,000 customers, 1000
partners, and 21 industry solutions
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Accounts Purchase
Payable Goods Receipt Order
Invoice
Verification & Inventory Mgmt.
Production Process
Schedule/Release
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Availability
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Check
Goods Issue
Customer Order
• Required
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• Default entry
• Optional entry field
Sessions
W - Warning
– A possible error has been made.
– The user can continue without
changing.
I – Information
– Feedback from the system.
Organizational Structure
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IDES Holding Company
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IDES AG
• A manufacturing company operating
worldwide and has a number of subsidiaries
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Accounting and Human Capital Management
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System-Wide Master Data Concepts
• SAP stores all data in one single centralized
database
• Reduce redundancy
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Master Data: Customer Master
• Contains key information that defines business
relationship between a company and its
customer
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General data
Financial and
accounting data
Sales data
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Master Data: Material Master
• Contains key
information a
company
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needs to
manage a
material
within its
organization
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Master Data: Personnel Record
• Master data records used primarily mySAP ERP
Human Capital Management
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Transactions
• Application programs that execute business
processes in the SAP system
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Master Data VS Transaction Data
• Master Data
• Data that is relatively stable
• Materials, Customers, Vendors
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• Transaction Data
• Data that is relatively temporary
• Stored at various stages of a business process
• Customer orders, purchase orders, production orders,
customer payments
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