SAP OVERVIEW

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Outline• SAP as Enterprise Applications• SAP Navigation• System-wide Concept

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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SAP Databases

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OracleDB2

MSSQL

SAP can use anumber of database programsto actually store the data.

FIFinancial

Accounting

COControlling

WorkflowPPProd.

Planning

SDSales &Distrib.

MMMaterials

Mgmt.

QMQualityMgmt.

PMPlantMaint.

HRHuman

Resources

AMAssetMgmt.

PSProjectSystem

FIFinancial

Accounting

COControlling

WorkflowPPProd.

Planning

SDSales &Distrib.

MMMaterials

Mgmt.

QMQualityMgmt.

PMPlantMaint.

HRHuman

Resources

AMAssetMgmt.

PSProjectSystem

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

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Three-Tier SAP Structure

• GUI—Graphical User Interface or Web Interface • Application server (one or many)• Database server (one single location)

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Three-tier Client/Server Architecture

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USER PCsUSER PCs

ApplicationServer

ApplicationServer

ApplicationServer

ApplicationServer

DatabaseServer

Two Tier Client/Server System

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User PCs

Database andApplication

Server

Training Configuration

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

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SAP System

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R/3R/3Client / ServerClient / Server

ABAP/4ABAP/4

FIFIFinancialFinancial

AccountingAccounting

COCOControllingControlling

AMAMFixed AssetsFixed Assets

Mgmt.Mgmt.

TRTRTreasuryTreasury

WFWFWorkflowWorkflow

ISISIndustryIndustry

SolutionsSolutions

MMMMMaterialsMaterials

Mgmt.Mgmt.

HRHRHumanHuman

ResourcesResources

SDSDSales &Sales &

DistributionDistribution

PPPPProductionProductionPlanningPlanning

QMQMQualityQuality

Manage-Manage-mentment PMPM

Plant Main-Plant Main-tenancetenance

SystemSystem

SAP Industry Solution• Aerospace/Defense• Automotive• Banking• Chemicals• Consumer Products• Engineering/Construction • Financial Svc Provider• Healthcare• High Tech• Higher Education/Research• Insurance

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• Media

• Mill Products

• Mining

• Oil & Gas

• Pharmaceuticals

• Public Sector

• Retail

• Service Providers

• Telecommunications

• Utilities

• …so on …

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 …

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Enterprise Application Components

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Company A

ERP

CustomersSuppliers BW

CRM

SEMSCM

KM

Web-enabled

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

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MRP

MRP II

ERP

TEI

mySAP Components

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SAP R/3

CRM SCMSEM

BW

KW

• mySAP Business Information Warehouse• mySAP Customer Relationship Management• mySAP Knowledge Management • mySAP Supply Chain Management• mySAP Strategic Enterprise Management• mySAP …

Enterprise Service Architecture

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Company A

ERP

CustomersSuppliers BW

CRM

SEMSCM

KM

Web-enabled

Web ServiceWeb Service

Web Service

Web Service

Web Service

Web ServiceWeb Service

mySAP Business Suite

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(mySAP ERP

mySAP PLM

mySAP SRM

mySAP SCM

mySAP CRM

SAP NetWeaver

SAP Netweaver: Integration Tools

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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

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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

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SAP Enterprise Portal Example

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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

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SAP People

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Consultant

Technical Functional

Basis ABAP

FI

CO

MM

SD

…

User

Outline• SAP as Enterprise Applications• SAP Navigation• System-wide Concept

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SAP Logon Program

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Logging on to an SAP System

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SAP Environment

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Multiple Logons and Multiple Sessions

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Alternatively, type /o in the Command Field

Screen Structure

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Command field

Menu barStandard toolbarTitle barApplication tool bar

Tab page

Status bar

Navigation Options

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Using Transaction Codes

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Role-Based User Menus

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Using Favorites

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Using Favorites (cont’d)

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Status Bar

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Outline• SAP as Enterprise Applications• SAP Navigation• System-wide Concept

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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

Master Data: Material Master• Contains key information a company 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

• 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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