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
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Consistent and accurate data
Common definitions for terms
Shared, but restricted usage (e.g., profiles)
Eliminates data redundancy
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SAP Databases
SAP can use a
number of
database programs
to actually store
the data.
Oracle
DB2
MSSQL
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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
Application
Server
Application
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USER PCs
USER PCs
Database
Server
Application
Server
Application
Server
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Two Tier Client/Server System
Training Configuration
Database and
Application
Server
User PCs
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Business Modules
• Collections of logically related transactions within
identifiable business functions
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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
System
SD
FI
Sales &
Distribution
Financial
Accounting
MM
CO
Materials
Mgmt.
Controlling
PP
AM
Production
Planning
QM
R/3
Fixed Assets
Mgmt.
Client / Server
ABAP/4
Quality
Management PM
Plant Maintenance
TR
Treasury
WF
Workflow
HR
IS
Human
Resources
Industry
Solutions
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SAP Industry Solution
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Aerospace/Defense
Automotive
Banking
Chemicals
Consumer Products
Engineering/Construction
Financial Svc Provider
Healthcare
High Tech
Higher Education/Research
Insurance
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Mill Products
Mining
Oil & Gas
Pharmaceuticals
Public Sector
Retail
Service Providers
Telecommunications
Utilities
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ERP Extension
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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
Company A
Suppliers
BW
KM
Customers
CRM
ERP
SCM
SEM
Web-enabled
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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
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mySAP Components
BW
CRM
SAP
R/3
SCM
SEM
KW
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mySAP Business Information Warehouse
mySAP Customer Relationship Management
mySAP Knowledge Management
mySAP Supply Chain Management
mySAP Strategic Enterprise Management
mySAP …
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Enterprise Service Architecture
Company A
Web Service
Suppliers
Web Service
BW
Web Service
KM
Web Service
SCM
Web Service
Customers
CRM
ERP
Web Service
Web Service
SEM
Web-enabled
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mySAP Business Suite
mySAP PLM
mySAP SRM
mySAP
( ERP
mySAP CRM
mySAP SCM
SAP NetWeaver
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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
Consultant
Technical
Functional
User
FI
Basis
ABAP
CO
MM
SD
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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
Alternatively, type /o in the Command Field
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Screen Structure
Menu bar
Standard toolbar
Title bar
Application tool bar
Command field
Tab page
Status bar
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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
General data
Financial and
accounting data
Sales data
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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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