SAP
Introduction to sap
SAP, started in 1972 by five former IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany, states that it is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's fourth-largest independent software supplier, overall.
The original name for SAP was German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte, German for "Systems Applications and Products." The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications. Gradually, the applications have been assembled and today many corporations, including IBM and Microsoft, are using SAP products to run their own businesses.
SAP applications, built around their latest R/3 system, provide the capability to manage financial, asset, and cost accounting, production operations and materials, personnel, plants, and archived documents. The R/3 system runs on a number of platforms including Windows 2000 and uses theclient/server model. The latest version of R/3 includes a comprehensive Internet-enabled package.
SAP has recently recast its product offerings under a comprehensive Web interface, called mySAP.com, and added new e-business applications, including customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM).
As of January 2007, SAP, a publicly traded company, had over 38,4000 employees in over 50 countries, and more than 36,200 customers around the world. SAP is turning its attention to small- and-medium sized businesses (SMB). A recent R/3 version was provided for IBM'sAS/400 platform.
Sap Module Introduction
SAP's solution includes a number of functional modules, which support transactions to execute key business processes, such as:
Financial Accounting (FI)
Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM)
Controlling (CO)
Materials Management (MM)
Sales and Distribution (SD)
Logistics Execution (LE)
Production Planning (PP)
Quality Management (QM)
Plant Maintenance (PM)
Project System (PS)
Human Resources (HR)
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SAP ALL-IN-ONE
SAP All-in-One is SAP's business software for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). SAP Business All-in-One helps users manage financials, HR, procurement, inventory, manufacturing, logistics, product development, corporate services and customer service.
Sap business bydesign
SAP Business ByDesign offers midmarket companies with 50 to 500 employees a range of on-demand applications, including financials, procurement and CRM software, via a dashboard. Business ByDesign marks SAP's entry into the hosted-applications arena. Keep track of the latest developments, fact sheets, and SAP management interviews on the subject here.
Sap business one
SAP Business One is integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for SMBs and mid-market companies. SAP Business One contains 14 core modules, including the Administration Module; Financials Module; Sales Opportunities Module; Sales Module, where orders are entered, shipped and invoiced; Purchasing Module; Business Partners Module; Banking Module; Inventory Module; Production Module, where bill of materials is defined and manufacturing is tracked; MRP Module, where purchase and production planning takes place; Service Module; Human Resources Module; Reports Module; an E-commerce module; and a WebCRM module.
SAP CRM SOFTWARE
SAP CRM helps marketers sharpen their customer focus and increase customer retention. SAP CRM capabilities include marketing resource and brand management; campaign management; segmentation and list management; real-time offer management; loyalty management; and e-marketing.
SAP ERP SOFTWARE
Learn the concepts of SAP enterprise resource planning and how to keep SAP ERP deployments on time and under budget.
SAP HR MANAGEMENT
Get help on SAP HR management, HR implementations, human resources reporting, personnel selection and administration, organization management, time management, payroll, benefits, HR configuration tables, online training, quality assurance in SAP HR, and how to transfer HR data to the financial and cost accounting departments.
ABOUT SAP MM
The SAP MM (Materials Management) module interfaces with SAP's Production Planning and Plant Maintenance modules. The purpose of SAP MM is to ensure timely delivery of materials and to reduce inventory management costs. SAP MM monitors material requisitions (based on BoMs) and the inspection or quality control process. SAP MM also addresses finished-goods inventory.
ABOUT SAP PLM SOFTWARE
SAP PLM (SAP Product Lifecycle Management) software supports all product-related processes – from the first product idea, through manufacturing to product service. SAP PLM helps users optimize the product development process and get products to market quicker.
ABOUT SAP PM
SAP PM, or Plant Maintenance, deals with the preventive maintenance of manufacturing equipment that accompanies a streamlined production process. SAP PM also monitors downtime of equipment, workforce production hour as well as the time, materials and labor necessary for such maintenance.
ABOUT SAP SCM SOFTWARE
The SAP SCM software (Supply Chain Management) module helps users with SCM planning of supply chain processes to enable collaboration and coordination of the supplier network. SAP SCM can help transform a linear supply chain into a responsive supply network, helping companies respond to shorter, less predictable product life cycles.
ABOUT SAP SD
The SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) module tracks proceedings from customer inquiries, requests for proposals (RFPs) and requests for quotations (RFQs) and pricing through working with the finished-goods stock (in factories and warehouses) to picking, packing, shipping and delivery.
ABOUT SAP FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
SAP financial management begins with SAP's FI (Financial Accounting) module, which integrates with other SAP software modules such as MM (Materials Management), PP (Production Planning), SD (Sales and Distribution), PM (Plant Maintenance) PS (Project Systems) as well as HR.
SAP industry-specific software
SAP FOR RETAIL MODULE
SAP for Retail aids retailers in their decision-making processes and helps them gives customers better shopping experiences. SAP for Retail solutions support demand management, merchandise management and planning, store operations, and base finance and HR functions.
SAP manufacturing module
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Global Available-to-Promise is the SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) module that allows companies to aggregate demand from different sources into one central location in SAP ERP.
ABOUT SAP PUBLIC SECTOR MODULE
SAP's public sector module entails solutions for state and local government. The SAP public sector module can help a state or local goverment organization perform tax and revenue management and deliver value to taxpayers and constituents.
ABOUT SAP MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
Mobilizing SAP applications has become a key strategy for the vendor. Learn more about the SAP product roadmap for SAP mobile applications. Read articles and research on how SAP mobile applications have evolved and get analyst projections on mobile technology development. Discover how mobile support and mobile technology training will need to grow as SAP mobile technology gains in popularity. Learn how to evaluate tools from SAP for mobile applications.