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04/29/00 SAP John Tullis De. Paul Instructor john. d. tullis@us. arthurandersen. com Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 1

SAP Global Approach One system for. . . l Common chart of accounts l Common currency l Common reporting rules l Corporatewide credit limits l Corporate treasury, Corp purchasing. . . l. . . l Local chart of accounts l Local currency curren l Local reporting report l l Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 Local credit limits Legal requirements Tax handling. . . 2

SAP The Distributed Corporate Environment Head office Division Customer Stock Profit Center Company code Distribution center Transport order Message/ Event Handler Warehouse Material Factory Production order Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 3

SAP Business Partners - the Supply Chain BANK Group CORPORATION Business area Bank FORWARDER Distribution center SERVICE COMPANY Service center PRODUCER Plant Vendor Customer Sales office AGENT Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 4

SAP - Industrial “Silos” covered Industrial Sector Retail Sector Ø Retail Ø Consumer Products Ø Chemicals Financial Sector Ø Banks Ø Insurance Public Sector Ø Governments Ø Local Governments Ø Higher Education Ø Pharmaceuticals Ø Healthcare Ø High Tech / Electronics Ø Automotive Ø Utilities Ø Telecommunications Ø Oil & Gas Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 5

SAP Architecture SD Business processes FI Sales & Distribution MM CO Materials Mgmt. Controlling PP Comprehensive functionality Designed for all types of business AM R/3 Production Planning QM Business Engineering Financial Accounting Fixed Assets Mgmt. Client / Server ABAP/4 Quality Management PM Plant Maintenance HR Human Resources IS Client / server architecture PS WF Project System Workflow Open systems Industry Solutions Over 5, 000 installations around the world Multinational Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 6

SAP Architecture Hardware UNIX Systems Bull IBM Digital SNI HP SUN Operating AIX Reliant Systems Digital UNIX (SINIX) HP-UX Databases Dialog SAP-GUI Languages Data General Sequent AT&T SNI Bull/Zenith HP (Intel) IBM (Intel) Digital (Intel) Compaq. . . IBM AS/400 Windows NT OS/400 ADABAS D MS SQL Server ORACLE DB 2/400 SOLARIS ADABAS D DB 2 for AIX INFORMIX-On. Line ORACLE Windows 3. 1, Windows 95, Windows NT, OSF/Motif, Presentation Manager, Macintosh Windows ‘ 95 OS/2 ABAP/4, C, C+ + Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 7

SAP Client/Server Architecture Configurations SAP R/3 System Presentation Application Database Central System / Laptop Distributed Presentation Two-tier Client/Server Three-tier Client/Server Multi-Layer Cooperative Client/Server Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 8

SAP Architecture continued. . . SAP Middleware Presentation. Services (SAP GUI) Applications and Development Tools (R/3 applications, ABAP/4 DW, Customer applications) SAP Business Workflow BAPI OLE Application Cooperation Services Application Enabling Services Data Management Services Communication and Distribution Services Network / System Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 Distributed System Services 9

SAP Application Link Enabling (ALE) • ALE provides loose coupling between R/3 systems. Order entry, billing, financial, consolidated inventory Head Office Shipping, inventory control Fin nis Distribution center Plant MRP, CRP, SFC, Inventory control hed go od s Division Raw materials Master production scheduling, purchasing Warehousing Plant warehouse Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 10

SAP Client/Server Architecture Configurations Financials n Central controlling n Central SOP n Information systems: n Inventory n Purchasing n Sales n Central Purchasing n Reference system for master data and control tables n Production planning n Inventory management n Internal sales, shipping and billing n Plant maintenance n Local SOP n Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 Sales, shipping and billing n Purchasing of trading goods n Inventory management n Local controlling n 11

SAP Basic ALE Communication Flow Application R/3 System 1 Application Communication ALE IDOC Master. IDoc Workflow 'output' Determine recipients Filter/ convert data Create IDOC Comm. IDoc Carrier R/3 System 2 Workflow 'input' Application functions Application data Filter/ convert data Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 Comm. IDoc 12

SAP Input to ALE Comm. layer ALE layer Application posting C Version change Segment filter asynch. RFC or EDI Field value conversion Input control A Serialization A Process IDOC Simultaneously update IDOC's status Database Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 Post application document 13

SAP Output from ALE Application posting ALE layer Customer Distribution Model Need to create IDOC? Create master IDOC Comm. layer M asynch. RFC or EDI Receiver determination Segment filter Application document posted simultaneously with IDOCs Database Field value conversion Version change Links C C C Dispatch control Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 C C C 14

SAP GUI Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 15

SAP GUI - Mandarin Version Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 16

SAP Business Process Coverage u The global company ð Decentralization / recentralization ð Matrix organization (legal <--> managerial) ð International transactions (global <--> local) u The agile company ð Process-driven activities ð Shorter product life cycle ð Continuous business restructuring u The virtual company ð Business networks and cross-company cooperation ð Electronic commerce and intelligent agents Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 17

SAP Business Process Integration Production Distribution Procurement Sales Controlling Accounting Treasury Order receipt Financing decision Production order Procurement order Credit control Transport order Delivery decision Vendor selection Valuation Costing Posting order receipt Risk mgmt. Profitability analysis Forex mgmt. Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 18

SAP Workflow & ALE Contract Release Goods order receipt Invoice verification Posting Internal Bank and release payment Business area Workflow Plant Company § § § ALE GROUP Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 19

SAP Workflow - what is it for? ORNES NIT EADLI MO D INI LES /RO TIA LES TE RU AUTOMATES THE BUSINESS PROCESS TR STA AC TU S/ K RE OL TR ON LOGIC C S ES PO RT C RO P Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 S 20

SAP Workflow Architecture Organisation Person Role Job Org. unit Task Reference Process Level WF Definition Data Signal Eval Condition Business Objects WF Step Attributes Events Call + Result Methods Object Definition Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 21

SAP Workflow Processes l Businesses have dynamic organizations and processes l Workflow role assignments are derived from a corporate organization model l Workflow tasks are tied to position descriptions and responsibilities in the organization model l Routing based on work item content and organizational restrictions l Workflow uses one Corporate organization model for all workflow processes across all applications l Automatic routing adjustments are made for employee changes or reassignments Copyrighted material John Tullis 3/16/2018 22