“Who needs an ERP system anyway?”trinagre/itp101/lectures/ITP101_ERP_SAP.pdf · “Who needs an...
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“Who needs an ERP system anyway?”
Nitin Kale [email protected] Information Technology Program, VSoE Spring 2013
Outline • Why ERP? • SAP Background • SAP Architecture • Integrated Business Process
– Sales • About ITP/SAP Program
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Sell Music
Sell Macs
Sell iPods/iPhones/
iPads
Manage Vendors
Keep customers
happy
Manage production
Make new products
In 2008, 6.5 million songs were downloaded per day. That is 75 songs per sec!
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NEED: An all-in-one system
SOLUTION: ERP System
ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning • Enables a company to integrate 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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ERP • Who are the big ERP vendors?
– SAP, the German juggernaut • Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der
Datenverarbeitung or • Systems, Applications, and Products in Data
Processing. – Oracle/PeopleSoft/J. D. Edwards – Microsoft Dynamics, aimed at smaller companies
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SAP - World Leader in ERP
• Founded in 1972, based in Walldorf, Germany
• The Company’s main product is SAP ECC – 4th largest software vendor worldwide – 12 million users – >53,000 employees – >109,000 customers in over 120 countries – Over 120,000 installations worldwide
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!ree-Tier Client/Server Environment
Input / Output of data to users
Access to Database: (Read / Write data)
Central Database (Storage / Retrieval of all data)
Database Layer
Application Layer
Presentation Layer
Processing of data using application logic
Presentation of the processed data to the user
Also provides means of balancing load placed on DB server
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!ree-Tier Client/Server Architecture
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USER PCs USER PCs
Application Server
Application Server
Application Server
Application Server
Database Server
SAP Business Modules
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FI Financial Accounting
CO Controlling
PS Project System WF
Workflow IS Industry Solutions
MM Materials Mgmt.
HR Human Resources
SD Sales and Distribution
PP Production Planning
QM Quality Mgmt. PM
Plant Maintenance
SM Service Mgmt.
SAP ERP EC Enterprise Controlling
AM Fixed Assets Mgmt.
Business Modules • Collections of logically related
transactions within identifiable business functions – Materials Management – MM (“Buy”) – Production Planning – PP (“Make”) – Sales and Distribution – SD (“Sell”) – Financial Accounting & Controlling – FI and
CO (“Track”)
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Sales Process (Order-to-Cash)
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Sales Order Entry
Check Availability
Pick Materials
Pack Materials
Post Goods Issue
Invoice Customer
Receipt of Customer Payment
Why is SAP so important? • Adopted by most large companies • Forces a consolidation of diverse Information
Systems • Total change in doing business
– Redesign business process around the information system
• Main vehicle for re-engineering business processes using best practices
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What is our Focus at ITP? • To understand how best business practices govern an
organization’s operations in a REAL environment • To use SAP to demonstrate these processes and to
show how information and controls flow among the departments of a company
• To provide students with highly demanded market skills – Salary search from dice.com - http://dice.salary.com
• To keep the University current on emerging technologies and share these technologies with the students
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Plug! • ITP offers an Enterprise Information
Systems with SAP Specialization (three classes)
• http://itp.usc.edu/specializations/sap • Take ITP 320 (4 units) first
– Offered every semester • Then take two additional classes
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New Minor for 2012-2013! Minor in Enterprise Information Systems (Min 16 units)
• ITP 320 Enterprise Wide Information Systems • ITP 422 Configuring Enterprise Resource Planning Systems • ITP 454 Enterprise Resource Planning, Design, and Implementation
Required Courses (10 units)
• ITP 421 Advanced Programming for Enterprise Information Systems • ITP 455 Enterprise Information Portals • ITP 486 Securing and Auditing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems • ITP 487 Data Warehouses and Business Intelligence • ITP 488 Managing the Supply Chain Using Advanced Planning and
Optimization Tools • ITP 470 Information Technology Practicum
SAP Electives (choose minimum 3 units)
• ISE 382 Database Systems: Concepts, Design and Implementation • BUAD 311 Operations Management • ACCT 371a Introduction to Accounting Systems • ACCT 371b Introduction to Accounting Systems • ACCT 410 Foundations of Accounting • ACCT 478 Accounting Systems Design • IOM 431 Managing the Digital Revolution for your Business • IOM 433 Business Information Systems Analysis and Design • IOM 435 Business Database Systems • PPD 318 Financial Accounting in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Diversity Electives (choose minimum 3 units)
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