Monday, January 28, 2008

What is SAP?



SAP, started in 1972 by five former IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany, states that it is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's fourth-largest independent software supplier, overall.
The original name for SAP was German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte, German for "Systems Applications and Products." The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications. Gradually, the applications have been assembled and today many corporations, including IBM and Microsoft, are using SAP products to run their own businesses.
SAP applications, built around their latest
R/3 system, provide the capability to manage financial, asset, and cost accounting, production operations and materials, personnel, plants, and archived documents. The R/3 system runs on a number of platforms including Windows 2000 and uses the client/server model. The latest version of R/3 includes a comprehensive Internet-enabled package.
SAP has recently recast its product offerings under a comprehensive Web interface, called mySAP.com, and added new
e-business applications, including customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM).
As of January 2007, SAP, a publicly traded company, had over 38,4000 employees in over 50 countries, and more than 36,200 customers around the world. SAP is turning its attention to small- and-medium sized businesses (
SMB). A recent R/3 version was provided for IBM's AS/400 platform.
What is SDN?
The SAP Developer Network (SDN) is a vibrant online community for SAP developers, analysts, consultants, integrators, and administrators. SDN members enjoy a robust collection of technical content on a range of SAP topics.
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SAP notes
Modules
FI : Financial AccountingCO : ControlingAA : Asset AccountingPS : Project SystemSD : Sales and DistributionMM : Materials ManagementEC : Enterprise Controlling
Command Field/o : open session/n : end current transaction/i : close session
Functional Areas of SAPLogisticsAccountingHuman ResourcesInformatin Systems
Administrative Areas of SAPOfficeToolsSystemHelp
Field TypesMandatoryOptionalDisplay
DefinitionsWBS - Work Breakdown structureSAP - System Applications and Products
Other Module Functions
(PP) Production Planning - Sales and operation Planning, materials requisition planning, bill of materials work centers...Where production orders, receipts and scheduling occurs. Used in MM inventory reconcilliation, and in CO-PC standard costing and financial monthly performance of a plant. Organizational Elements (Structures):
Company Code
Plant
Storage Location
Material/Product Grouping
(IM) Investment Management - where the program plan (capital Budget) and internal orders are managed.
(BW) Business Information Warehouse - A SAP product that satisfies the need for storing, retrieving and joining information that originates inside SAP or from an external source. Constructed on data warehousing concepts, it has an Excell front end to make it user friendly. This executave information system addresses the issue of joining data from multiple SAP systems, and legacy applications. Bw addresses global reporting where information is held on multiple platforms. It allows for a single tool for management reporting.
Utility PgmsZmen - to find the menu path for any transaction Zf03 - Valid account - cost object combinations OKEN - Cost Center Standard Hieirachy KS03 - Cost Center Display .