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SAP Overview
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SAP?
 Company

 ERP Software package

 R/2
 R/3
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Founded Weinheim, Germany

(1972; 45 years ago)
Founder Dietmar Hopp
Hans-Werner Hector
Hasso Plattner
Klaus Tschira
Claus Wellenreuther
Headquarters Walldorf, Germany
Area served Worldwide
Key people •Hasso Plattner (Chairman)
•Bill McDermott (CEO)
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What is ERP ?
 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a software that is built to organizations
belonging to different industrial sectors, regardless of their size and strength.
 The ERP package is designed to support and integrate almost every functional area
of a business process such as procurement of goods and services, sale and
distribution, finance, accountings, human resource, manufacturing, production
planning, logistics & warehouse management.
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Why ERP

 Integration

 Best business practices

 Standardization
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Why not ERP?

 Complexity

 Cost

 Inflexibility
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SAP R/3 System Business Modules

Logistical Financial
Sales & Financial
Distribution Accounting

Materials
Mgmt. Controlling

Production Fixed Assets

Planning Mgmt.

R/3
Client / Server
Quality
Mgmt.
ABAP/4 Project
System

Plant
Maintenance Workflow

Human Industry
Resources Solutions
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What is R3?

 R – Real Time data processing

 3 – 3 Tier
 1. Database
 2. Application Server
 3. Client SAP (GUI)
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R/3 System: Hardware/Software Views
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Central System 2-Tier Configuration 3-Tier Configuration Web-enabled

Presentation
Presentation

Internet
Transaction
Application Service/Web
Service

Database,
Application,
Database and Database
Presentation Application

In a central R/3 System configuration, one host is responsible for all processing
tasks.
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Central Database
Basis System: Three-Tier Computer (Storage of all data)
Hierarchy
Access to Dataase:
(Read / Write data)

Database

Input / Output
of data to users

Processing of data
Application using application logic

Presentation of the
processed data to
Presentation the user
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ERP: Integration

Integrate people, data and business processes within and between

organizations.

Collaboration, non-redundancy, consistency and internal process

optimization.
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SAP Modules
Technical
- Basis
- ABAP
- Security
Functional
 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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User

 Every SAP user has a user name.

 Users of SAP system are client-specific, which means that having a user
identification on one client will only allow access to that particular client.
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Password Rules

 Letters
 Numbers
 Easy to remember
 3-8 Characters long
 No 3 Characters can be the same
 Do not start with a ? or an !
 Do not use previous 5 passwords
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Language

 SAP supports multi-national character sets and languages on the same

system, at the same time.

 Default languages are English and German.

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Field Types

 There are three types of Entry Fields

 Required
 Default entry
 Optional entry field
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Sessions

 An SAP session is a window in which the user may perform a particular

task.

 A User may have up to nine sessions open at one time.

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System Messages
 E - Error
– An invalid entry has been made.
– The cursor moves to the field where the
error has occurred.
 W - Warning
– A possible error has been made.
–The user can continue without changing.
I – Information
– Feedback from the system.