SAP FI Module – FI stands for Financial Accounting
SAP CO Module – CO stands for Controlling
SAP HCM Module – HR stands for Human Resources
SAP MM Module – MM is Materials Management
SAP QM Module – QM stands for Quality Management
SAP PP Module – PP is Production Planning
SAP SD Module – SD is Sales and Distribution
SAP BW Module – where BW stands for Business (Data) Warehouse
SAP Basis – SAP Basis is the technical foundation that enables SAP applications to function. It consists of middleware programs and tools that support the interoperability and portability of SAP applications across systems and databases.
SAP ABAP – ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) ABAP is a programming language that runs in the SAP ABAP runtime environment, created and used by SAP for the development of application programs including: Reports. Module Pool Programming. Interfaces.
SAP CRM – where CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management
SAP HANA – where Hana stands for High-performance Analytic Appliance.
SAP EC Module – where EC stands for Enterprise Controlling
SAP TR Module – where TR stands for Treasury
SAP IM Module – where IM stands for Investment Management
SAP IS –where IS stands for Industries Specific Solution
SAP PS Module– and PS is Project Systems
SAP CAC – Cross Application Components
SAP SCM- where SCM stands for Supply Chain Management
SAP PLM- where PLM stands for Product LifeCycle Management
SAP SRM- where SRM stands for Supplier Relationship Management
SAP CS- where CS stands for Customer Service
SAP SEM – where SEM stands for STRATEGIC ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT
SAP RE – where RE stands for Real Estate
SAP PM Module– where Plant Maintenance is the PM
SAP Security Learn more about SAP Security
SAP FSCM – where FSCM stands for Financial Supply Chain Management
SAP NetWeaver
SAP IS – where IS stands for Industry Specific Solution
SAP XI – where XI stands for Exchange Infrastructure
SAP Solution Manager – Learn more about Solution Manager
SAP LE – where LE stands for Logistics Execution
SAP APO- where APO stands for Advanced Planning and Optimization
SAP AFS – where AFS stands for Apparel and Footwear Solution
SAP CC – where CC stands for Convergent Charging
SAP ITS – where ITS stands for Internet Transaction Server
SAP ICM – where ICM stands for Incentive and Commission Management
SAP KW – where KW stands for Knowledge Warehouse
SAP MDM – where MDM stands for Master Data Management
SAP Business Suite is collection of fully integrated applications such as SAP customer relationship management (CRM), SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), SAP product lifecycle management (PLM), SAP supplier relationship management (SRM), and SAP supply chain management (SCM) modules.
SAP now offers variety of products to address varied needs of an organization
SAP HANA: – High Performance Analytic Appliance uses in-memory computing, a breakthrough technology that enables analysis of very large, non-aggregated data at unprecedented speed in local memory (vs. disk-based database) enabling complex analyses, plans and simulations on real-time data.
SAP Convergent Charging: – SAP Convergent Charging provides a rating and charging solution for high-volume processing in service industries. It delivers pricing design capabilities, high performance rating and convergent balance management.
Customer Relationship Management:- Unlike other CRM software, the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application, part of the SAP Business Suite, not only helps you address your short-term imperatives – to reduce cost and increase your decision-making ability – but can also help your company achieve differentiated capabilities in order to compete effectively over the long term.
Enterprise Resource Planning: – A sound foundation is necessary to compete and win in the global marketplace. The SAP ERP application supports the essential functions of your business processes and operations efficiently and are tailored to specific needs of your industry like SAP ERP Financials, SAP ERP Human capital management, SAP ERP Operations, SAP ERP corporate services.
SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management:- It supports environmental, occupational and product safety processes, regulatory compliance, and corporate responsibility. This is accomplished by embedding corporate policies, compliance, and environmental, health and safety capabilities with global business processes for human resources, logistics, production and finance.
SAP Global Batch Traceability: – It allows you to completely trace tracked objects, for example, a batch, across both SAP systems and non-SAP systems. In the event of a recall or withdrawal, SAP GBT ensures the timely compliance with legal reporting timelines. Furthermore, it helps you to minimize cost and corporate risk exposure. You can also analyze multiple objects, for example, batches, in one run.
SAP Product Life Cycle Management: – To survive in an ever-changing global environment, creating and delivering innovative and market differentiating products and services is what distinguishes your company from the competition. The SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) application provides you with a 360-degree-support for all product-related processes – from the first product idea, through manufacturing to product service
SAP Supplier Life Cycle Management: – SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management is a holistic approach to managing supplier relationships. It deals with the supply base to constantly determine the right mix of suppliers. It covers the lifecycle of individual suppliers? from onboarding to a continuous development.
Supply Chain Management: – You face enormous pressure to reduce costs while increasing innovation and improving customer service and responsiveness. SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) enables collaboration, planning, execution, and coordination of the entire supply network, empowering you to adapt your supply chain processes to an ever-changing competitive environment.
Supplier Relationship Management: – With SAP SRM you can examine and forecast purchasing behavior, shorten procurement cycles, and work with your partners in real time. This allows you to develop long-term relationships with all those suppliers that have proven themselves to be reliable partners.
Governance, Risk and Compliance: – Risk is unavoidable, but it can be managed. With governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), businesses can strategically balance risk and opportunity.
Sales and operations planning: – SAP Sales and Operations Planning enables you to optimally and profitably meet long-term future demand. Typically, this process repeats every month and involves many participants including Sales, Marketing, Finance, Demand Planning, and Supply Chain Planning.
SAP Transportation Management: – It supports you in all activities connected with the physical transportation of goods from one location to another.
Extended Warehouse Management: – SAP Extended Warehouse Management gives you the option of mapping your entire warehouse complex in detail in the system, down to the storage bin level. Not only does this give you an overview of the total quantity of a product in the warehouse, but you can also always see exactly where a specific product is, at any time, in your warehouse complex. With EWM, you can optimize the use of various storage bins and stock movements and can combine the storage of stocks from several plants in randomly managed warehouses.
Mobile Apps: – Mobile devices can also access SAP system.
SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing. It is ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software as well as the name of the company. SAP software solution is for managing business operations and customer relationships. SAP is widely used for enterprise level ERP software for large scale business.
In normal business process multiple teams and steps are required to be involved for buying to selling of goods. This process required manual tasks and more employees. It needs HR to hire more employees for process handling. SAP makes it easy and less manual for large and medium enterprise for normal business. SAP involve many automated processes and more automation options are available also. In turn it reduces manual task and employee efforts.
That is a typical business process for any manufacturing company. Some key inferences one could derive from the scenario would be.
It has many departments or business units
These departments or business units continuously communicate and exchange data with each other
The success of any organization lies in effective communication, and data exchange, within these departments, as well as associated third party such as vendors, outsourcers, and customers.
Based on the way communication and data exchanged is managed. Enterprise systems can be broadly classified as Decentralized System or Centralized System. Centralized System which is also called as ERP.
As SAP is ERP solution it has centralized solution. There are many benefits of centralized systems. Key benefits of the centralized system are:
It eliminates the duplication, discontinuity, and redundancy in data.
Provides information across departments in real time.
It provides control over various business processes.
Increases productivity, better inventory management, promotes quality, reduced material cost, effective human resources management, reduced overheads boost profits.
Better customer interaction and increased throughput. It also improves customer service.
SAP is vast application which need dedicated system and database for processing. New version of SAP is Hana which is cloud based scalable system. ERP SAP is not cost beneficial for small scale businesses as it required initial investment.
