ITEC 6620 SAP OVERVIEW 1 ITEC 6620

ITEC 6620 SAP OVERVIEW 1

ITEC 6620 Outline • SAP as Enterprise Applications • SAP Navigation • System-wide Concept 2

ITEC 6620 3 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 • my. SAP ERP

ITEC 6620 4 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

ITEC 6620 5 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

ITEC 6620 6 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)

ITEC 6620 7 Relational Database • Tables: Defines and links thousands of tables of information • Advantages • Consistent and accurate data • Common definitions for terms • Shared, but restricted usage (e. g. , profiles) • Eliminates data redundancy

ITEC 6620 SAP Databases SAP can use a number of database programs to actually store the data. Oracle DB 2 MSSQL 8

ITEC 6620 9 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

ITEC 6620 10 Three-Tier SAP Structure • GUI—Graphical User Interface or Web Interface • Application server (one or many) • Database server (one single location)

ITEC 6620 11 Three-tier Client/Server Architecture Application Server USER PCs Database Server Application Server

ITEC 6620 Two Tier Client/Server System Training Configuration Database and Application Server User PCs 12

ITEC 6620 13 Business Modules • Collections of logically related transactions within identifiable business functions • PP: Production Planning (“Make”) • MM: Material Management (“Buy”) • SD: Sales & Distribution (“Sell”) • FI: Financial Accounting and CO: Controlling (“Track”) • HR: Human Resources

14 ITEC 6620 SAP System SD FI Sales & Distribution Financial Accounting MM CO Materials Mgmt. Controlling PP QM AM R/3 Production Planning Fixed Assets Mgmt. Client / Server ABAP/4 Quality Management PM Plant Maintenance HR Human Resources IS TR Treasury WF Workflow Industry Solutions

ITEC 6620 15 SAP Industry Solution • Aerospace/Defense • Automotive • Banking • Chemicals • Consumer Products • Engineering/Construction • Financial Svc Provider • Healthcare • High Tech • Higher Education/Research • Insurance • • • Media Mill Products Mining Oil & Gas Pharmaceuticals Public Sector Retail Service Providers Telecommunications Utilities …so on …

ITEC 6620 ERP Extension • Web Enable • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • Supply Chain Management (SCM) • Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) • Business Information Warehouse (BIW) • Knowledge Management (KM) • So on … 16

ITEC 6620 17 Enterprise Application Components Company A Suppliers BW KM CRM ERP SCM SEM Web-enabled Customers

ITEC 6620 18 What is my. SAP? • The future of ERP software must include CRM, SCM, SEM, BW, KM, Web-enable … • my. SAP is the future or extended of SAP ERP software TEI ERP MRP II MRP

ITEC 6620 my. SAP Components BW CRM SAP R/3 SCM SEM KW • • • my. SAP Business Information Warehouse my. SAP Customer Relationship Management my. SAP Knowledge Management my. SAP Supply Chain Management my. SAP Strategic Enterprise Management my. SAP … 19

20 ITEC 6620 Enterprise Service Architecture Company A Suppliers Web Service BW Web Service KM Web Service SCM CRM ERP Web Service Web-enabled Web Service SEM Web Service Customers

21 ITEC 6620 my. SAP Business Suite my. SAP PLM my. SAP SRM my. SAP ERP ( my. SAP SCM SAP Net. Weaver my. SAP CRM

ITEC 6620 22 SAP Netweaver: Integration Tools

ITEC 6620 23 SAP Netweaver • The core capabilities of SAP Net. Weaver 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

ITEC 6620 24 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

ITEC 6620 SAP Enterprise Portal Example 25

ITEC 6620 26 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

ITEC 6620 27 SAP People Consultant Technical Functional FI Basis ABAP CO MM SD … User

ITEC 6620 Outline • SAP as Enterprise Applications • SAP Navigation • System-wide Concept 28

ITEC 6620 SAP Logon Program 29

ITEC 6620 Logging on to an SAP System 30

ITEC 6620 SAP Environment 31

ITEC 6620 32 Multiple Logons and Multiple Sessions Alternatively, type /o in the Command Field

ITEC 6620 33 Screen Structure Menu bar Standard toolbar Title bar Application tool bar Command field Tab page Status bar

ITEC 6620 Navigation Options 34

ITEC 6620 Using Transaction Codes 35

ITEC 6620 Role-Based User Menus 36

ITEC 6620 Using Favorites 37

ITEC 6620 Using Favorites (cont’d) 38

ITEC 6620 Status Bar 39

ITEC 6620 Outline • SAP as Enterprise Applications • SAP Navigation • System-wide Concept 40

ITEC 6620 Organizational Structure 41

ITEC 6620 IDES Holding Company 42

ITEC 6620 43 IDES AG • A manufacturing company operating worldwide and has a number of subsidiaries

ITEC 6620 Accounting and Human Capital Management 44

ITEC 6620 45 System-Wide Master Data Concepts • SAP stores all data in one single centralized database • Reduce redundancy

46 ITEC 6620 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

ITEC 6620 47 Master Data: Material Master • Contains key information a company needs to manage a material within its organization

ITEC 6620 48 Master Data: Personnel Record • Master data records used primarily my. SAP ERP Human Capital Management

ITEC 6620 49 Transactions • Application programs that execute business processes in the SAP system

ITEC 6620 50 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