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SAP Overview

SAP Overview. Outline. SAP as Enterprise Applications SAP Navigation System-wide Concept. SAP. Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing (SAP) SAP is the leader of ERP software vendor Enterprise Resource Planning is a back office application for Enterprise

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SAP Overview

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  1. ITEC6620 SAP Overview

  2. ITEC6620 Outline • SAP as Enterprise Applications • SAP Navigation • System-wide Concept

  3. ITEC6620 SAP • Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing (SAP) • SAP is the leader of ERP software vendor • Enterprise Resource Planning is a back office application for Enterprise • Name of the company • SAP AG • SAP America • Name of the software • SAP R/2 – Mainframe version • SAP R/3 – Client/Server version • mySAP ERP

  4. ITEC6620 SAP AG • Founded in Germany (1972) • World’s fourth largest software provider • World’s largest provider of Integrated Business Solutions software • Company stock trades on the Frankfurt and New York exchanges

  5. ITEC6620 SAP R/3 • World-wide usage • Designed to satisfy the information needs for all business sizes (international to local) • Multi-lingual • Multi-currency • Designed to satisfy the information needs for all industries (industry solutions) • Enables a company to link its business processes • Ties together disparate business functions (integrated business solution) • Helps the organization run smoothly • Real-time environment • Scalable and flexible

  6. ITEC6620 Architecture • Central relational database (e.g., Oracle and many others) • Client/Server—three-tiered • ERP Component—Oriented towards common identifiable business modules (PP, MM, SD, FI, CO, HR) • Add-ons: • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • Supply Chain Management (SCM) • Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

  7. ITEC6620 Relational Database • Tables: Defines and links thousands of tables of information • Advantages • Consistent and accurate data • Common definitions for terms • Shared, but restricted usage (e.g., profiles) • Eliminates data redundancy

  8. ITEC6620 SAP Databases SAP can use a number of database programs to actually store the data. Oracle DB2 MSSQL

  9. ITEC6620 Client/Server Environment • Client • Software/hardware combination that can make a request for services from a central repository of resources • Server • Software/hardware combination that can provide services to a group of clients in a controlled environment

  10. ITEC6620 Three-Tier SAP Structure • GUI—Graphical User Interface or Web Interface • Application server (one or many) • Database server (one single location)

  11. Application Server Application Server Database Server USER PCs USER PCs Application Server Application Server ITEC6620 Three-tier Client/Server Architecture

  12. Database and Application Server User PCs ITEC6620 Two Tier Client/Server System Training Configuration

  13. ITEC6620 Business Modules • Collections of logically related transactions within identifiable business functions • PP: Production Planning (“Make”) • MM: Material Management (“Buy”) • SD: Sales & Distribution (“Sell”) • FI: Financial Accounting and CO: Controlling (“Track”) • HR: Human Resources

  14. SD Sales & Distribution FI Financial Accounting MM Materials Mgmt. CO Controlling PP Production Planning AM Fixed Assets Mgmt. R/3 System Client / Server ABAP/4 QM Quality Manage-ment TR Treasury PM Plant Main-tenance WF Workflow HR Human Resources IS Industry Solutions ITEC6620 SAP System

  15. ITEC6620 SAP Industry Solution • Media • Mill Products • Mining • Oil & Gas • Pharmaceuticals • Public Sector • Retail • Service Providers • Telecommunications • Utilities • …so on … • Aerospace/Defense • Automotive • Banking • Chemicals • Consumer Products • Engineering/Construction • Financial Svc Provider • Healthcare • High Tech • Higher Education/Research • Insurance

  16. ITEC6620 ERP Extension • Web Enable • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • Supply Chain Management (SCM) • Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) • Business Information Warehouse (BIW) • Knowledge Management (KM) • So on …

  17. ITEC6620 Enterprise Application Components Company A Suppliers Customers BW KM CRM ERP SCM SEM Web-enabled

  18. ITEC6620 What is mySAP? • The future of ERP software must include CRM, SCM, SEM, BW, KM, Web-enable … • mySAP is the future or extended of SAP ERP software TEI ERP MRP II MRP

  19. ITEC6620 mySAP Components BW SAP R/3 CRM SCM SEM KW • mySAP Business Information Warehouse • mySAP Customer Relationship Management • mySAP Knowledge Management • mySAP Supply Chain Management • mySAP Strategic Enterprise Management • mySAP …

  20. ITEC6620 Enterprise Service Architecture Company A Suppliers Customers Web Service Web Service Web Service Web Service BW KM CRM ERP Web Service Web Service SCM Web Service SEM Web-enabled

  21. ITEC6620 mySAP Business Suite ( mySAP PLM mySAP ERP mySAP SRM mySAP CRM mySAP SCM SAP NetWeaver

  22. ITEC6620 SAP Netweaver: Integration Tools

  23. ITEC6620 SAP Netweaver • The core capabilities of SAP NetWeaver are the integration of people, information, and process • In people integration, it simply means that it enables you to bring people together and help them work more efficiently • Information integration means you can bring together information from a variety of locations and have it make sense in the context of what your folks do everyday • Process integration means coordinating the flow of work across departments, divisions, and between companies

  24. ITEC6620 SAP Netweaver • SAP Enterprise Portal: helps create software that brings together all the data and software tools that a person needs to do her job in one consistent user interface • SAP Mobile Infrastructure: universal translator for mobile devices • SAP Business Intelligence: provides tool for information integration, so what your people see is consistent and accurate • SAP Master Data Management: is a system for harmonizing information that is distributed across a wide variety of applications • SAP Exchange Infrastructure: Integrates processes and help applications talk to one another

  25. ITEC6620 SAP Enterprise PortalExample

  26. ITEC6620 Programming Code Modifications • Changes to the delivered code • ABAP/4—Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) • This should be done sparingly and carefully as it can make migration to new versions of the software much more difficult

  27. ITEC6620 SAP People Consultant User Technical Functional FI Basis ABAP CO MM SD …

  28. ITEC6620 Outline • SAP as Enterprise Applications • SAP Navigation • System-wide Concept

  29. ITEC6620 SAP Logon Program

  30. ITEC6620 Logging on to an SAP System

  31. ITEC6620 SAP Environment

  32. ITEC6620 Multiple Logons and Multiple Sessions Alternatively, type /o in the Command Field

  33. ITEC6620 Screen Structure Menu bar Standard toolbar Title bar Application tool bar Command field Tab page Status bar

  34. ITEC6620 Navigation Options

  35. ITEC6620 Using Transaction Codes

  36. ITEC6620 Role-Based User Menus

  37. ITEC6620 Using Favorites

  38. ITEC6620 Using Favorites (cont’d)

  39. ITEC6620 Status Bar

  40. ITEC6620 Outline • SAP as Enterprise Applications • SAP Navigation • System-wide Concept

  41. ITEC6620 Organizational Structure

  42. ITEC6620 IDES Holding Company

  43. ITEC6620 IDES AG • A manufacturing company operating worldwide and has a number of subsidiaries

  44. ITEC6620 Accounting and Human Capital Management

  45. ITEC6620 System-Wide Master Data Concepts • SAP stores all data in one single centralized database • Reduce redundancy

  46. ITEC6620 Master Data: Customer Master • Contains key information that defines business relationship between a company and its customer General data Financial and accounting data Sales data

  47. ITEC6620 Master Data: Material Master • Contains key information a company needs to manage a material within its organization

  48. ITEC6620 Master Data: Personnel Record • Master data records used primarily mySAP ERP Human Capital Management

  49. ITEC6620 Transactions • Application programs that execute business processes in the SAP system

  50. ITEC6620 Master Data VS Transaction Data • Master Data • Data that is relatively stable • Materials, Customers, Vendors • 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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