SAP was founded in 1972 in Walldorf, Germany. It stands for Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing. Over the years, it has grown and evolved to become the world premier provider of client/server business solutions for which it is so well known today. The SAP R/3 enterprise application suite for open client/server systems has established a new standards for providing business information management solutions.
SAP product are consider excellent but not perfect. The main problems with software product is that it can never be perfect.
The main advantage of using SAP as your company ERP system is that SAP have a very high level of integration among its individual applications which guarantee consistency of data throughout the system and the company itself.
In a standard SAP project system, it is divided into three environments, Development, Quality Assurance and Production.
The development system is where most of the implementation work takes place. The quality assurance system is where all the final testing is conducted before moving the transports to the production environment. The production system is where all the daily business activities occur. It is also the client that all the end users use to perform their daily job functions.
To all company, the production system should only contains transport that have passed all the tests.
SAP is a table drive customization software. It allows businesses to make rapid changes in their business requirements with a common set of programs. User-exits are provided for business to add in additional source code. Tools such as screen variants are provided to let you set fields attributes whether to hide, display and make them mandatory fields.
This is what makes ERP system and SAP in particular so flexible. The table driven customization are driving the program functionality instead of those old fashioned hard-coded programs. Therefore, new and changed business requirements can be quickly implemented and tested in the system.
Many other business application software have seen this table driven customization advantage and are now changing their application software based on this table customizing concept.
In order to minimized your upgrading costs, the standard programs and tables should not be changed as far as possible. The main purpose of using a standard business application software like SAP is to reduced the amount of time and money spend on developing and testing all the programs. Therefore, most companies will try to utilized the available tools provided by SAP.
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SAP Introduction
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2. Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a business
management software—usually a suite of integrated
applications—that a company can use to collect, store, manage
and interpret data from many business activities, including:-
Product planning, cost and development
Manufacturing or service delivery
Marketing and sales
Inventory management
Characteristics
An integrated system that operates in real time without relying on
periodic updates
A common database that supports all applications
A consistent look and feel across modules
3. ATTRIBUTES-
It is not the name of software, it is the type of
software
It provides an end to end information
management solution for a company
It can be used by all departments of the company
to manage the information
Types: SAP, Oracle, Siebel, MS Dynamics,
Peoplesoft.
8. SAP
SAP stands for “System Applications and Products” in
Data Processing.
SAP is Enterprise resource planning tool
It is the largest business software company in the world
and also the largest ERP solution software provider.
Origin of SAP
SAP company was founded by five former IBM
employees named: Hasso Plattner, Dietmar Hopp,
Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira, and Hans-Werner
Hektor in 1972.
Headquarter in Weinheim, Germany
11. Versions of SAP
SAP R/1: It is the first version launched in 1972. R
stands for real time data processing
It is 1 tier architecture (1 server- Presentation+
Application+ Database)
SAP R/2: It is 2nd version launched in 1979. It is 2 tier
architecture (1server-Presnt, server 2- App + DB)
SAP R/3: It is the client/server version of the software
launched in 1992. It is 3 tier architecture (1-Presnt.,2-
App,3-DB)
R/3 architecture was replaced by ERP Central
Component (ECC)
SAP R/3 supports all business processes, including
production , sales ,distribution , Finance, & accounting
,maintenance and Human Resources
12. Continue
mySAP.com: It is one step business solution
launched in 1999.mySAP.com connects e-
commerce solutions with existing ERP
applications using up-to-date Web technology.
SAP ERP Central Component is the evolutionary
successor of SAP R/3 and is one of the main
components of mySAP ERP application.
SAP NetWeaver: It is Enterprise Services
Architecture launched in 2008.It is SAP’s
technology platform, which enables business
applications from SAP, partners, and customers.
13. Layers
Presentation layer
-GUI
-Screen for Application layer
-Send request to server
Application layer
It process data and communicate with client and server
It accept the request ,stop ,then process and sent to database ,
database fetches data and sent to client
Database layer
-Interface between application server and RDBMS, Also holds
the vendor specific DB driver
-Interface between presentation server and RDBMS
-Interface between presentation server & Application server
19. SAP-NETWEAVER
Web based open integration application platform that
serves as the foundation for service oriented
architecture
SAP-NETWEAVER is Platform for SAP, integrates all
SAP products, Supports SAP.
It integrates people,information,business,across
business and technology
SAP-NETWEAVER is a foundation of SAP-Business
One and SAP Business by design
It integrates SAP as well as non SAP software
SAP net weaver application server is an evolutionary
server Development of previous SAP runtime
environment
SAP net weaver Application server provides an SMTP
,XML,HML interface
23. SAP Industry Solution
SAP has also Industry- specific applications, which
perform targeted, industry specific business
functions. There are 25 specific industry solutions
like:
IS-AFS: Appearel and footwear
IS-OIL: Oil and Gas
IS-Util : Utilities
IS-Retail : Retail
IS- Auto : Automobile
IS- Media : Media
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25. Benefits of SAP
Standardization of business processes
Integration of business processes
Reduction in standalone system
Improvement in quality information
Online data entry and data transparency
Data ownership by respective users
Reduction in documents flow by various
departments
Online reporting for decision making
26. Product of SAP
SAP R/3 and R/3 Enterprise
mySAP Business suite
SAP ERP
SAP Industry Solution (IS)
SAP xApps
SAP solution Manager
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29. NAVIGATION
To create a new logon entry in the SAP Logon
window
To log on any SAP system
To describe the layout of the SAP Easy Access
screen
To Navigate within SAP Easy Access screen
using several navigational option
To create multiple active sessions
30. Logging_ON
Information required to log on to the SAP
system
Enter a specific client number
Enter your user ID
Enter your password
48. Favorites _Menu
Favorites can be organized into folders. We can
create a favorites list containing:
Transactions
Links to files
Internet addresses
49. Transaction code
A Transaction code is a four- character
command that tells the system location of a task.
We enter a Transaction code in the command
field to go directly to a transaction or function.
Each SAP screen has a unique T-code.
A T-code may contains only letters such as
ZSTM or a combination of letters and numbers
such as ME51
SAP ERP allows you to create a new session at
any time.
we can create 6 session at a time.
50. Commands
Command Description
/n End current system task
and go to new system
task
/o + Transaction code
Create a new session
and go to new system
task without closing prior
session
/o List open sessions
/i or /nend Log off