Sap for beginners

SAP FOR
BEGINNERS
System, Application
and Product 1
Prepared By: Mr. Rohit Verma
[ B.tech (IT)]

POINTS TO DISCUSS
1.What is SAP ?
2.What is ERP?
3.History of SAP.
4.What makes SAP different?
5.SAP modules.
6.SAP R/3 Architecture.
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POINTS TO DISCUSS
7. SAP Uses ABAP.
8. Benefits of SAP.
9. ERP and SAP market share.
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SAP INTRODUCTION
• SAP is the leading Enterprise Information
and Management Package.
• There is n number of ERP softwares in
market today, of which SAP is used in
medium to large enterprise.
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SAP INTRODUCTION
•SAP is a neatly integrated business
software to process all functionalities of
an organisation in order to obtain a
UNIFIED solution, ERP software.
• SAP is a leader when it comes to easy
integration among all the departments.
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ERP? SAP-INTRODUCTION
ERP term used for software that controls
whole organizations different
departments.
For example_
SAP, Oracle, People soft, JD Edwards are
some of the top ERP software systems.
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Consider a large
enterprise like
PepsiCo, which has
number of divisions
under it.
There is a _
• Financial
Department, HR,
Logistics, sales and
distribution etc.
All these need to be
integrated together
for effective
functioning. This is
done by a specific
software known as
Enterprise
Resource Planning
or ERP.
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ERP? SAP-INTRODUCTION
Use of this makes it possible to track and manage, in real-time, sales, production
Finance accounting and Human resources in an enterprise.

HISTORY OF SAP
 SAP the company was founded in Waldorf,
Germany in town of Heidelberg in 1972 by five ex-
IBM engineers.
 SAP has subsidiaries in over 50 countries around
the world.
 SAP stands for Systems, Applications, Products in
Data Processing.
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HISTORY CONTINUED…
• The SAP R/3 enterprise application suite
for open client/server systems has
established a new standards for
providing business information
management solutions.
• The “ R ” was for “ Realtime Data
Processing ”.
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• Traditional computer
information systems used
by many businesses today
have been developed to
accomplish some specific
task sand provides reports
and analysis of events that
have already taken place.
• Each of these systems has
its own databases and
rarely passes information
to other systems in a timely
manner.
• SAP takes a different
approach.
• There is only one information
system in an enterprise, SAP.
• All applications access
common data . Real events in
the business initiates
transactions.
• The whole system was
designed to be real time
• A typical company has many
separate systems to manage
different processes like
production, sales and
accounting.
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WHAT MAKES SAP DIFFERENT?

SAP APPLICATION MODULES
• The heart of the system from a manager's viewpoint are the application modules.
• These modules may not all be implemented in a typical company but they are all
related and are listed below :
1. Financial Accounting
2. Controlling.
3. Material Management.
4. Sales and Distribution.
5. Logistics.
6. Production Planning.
7. Quality Management..
8. Project System.
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1.) Financial Controling (FICO) :
SAP Finance(FI): It is
considered to be the base
module.
SAP controlling(CO): Used for
Internal controlling and Internal
Reporting.
2.) Sales & Distribution(SD):
It controls the sales, master data,
plants, sales conditions etc.
3.) Human Resource(HR):
Handles all human resource
activities such as resource hiring,
salary, employee benefits etc.
4.) Projects System(PS):
It comprise budgeting, planning,
Forecasting, work breakdown
structure for projects.

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Database Server : Store
Database.
Application Server : Contain software
for running the Application Logic.
Presentation Server : Consists of
Graphical User Interface(GUI), which
as Interface between user and other
two layers.
SAP R/3 Architecture

ABAP- LANGUAGE OF SAP
• ABAP - Advanced Business Application Programming which can be
classified as 4th Generation Programming Language.
• High level programming language created by the German Software
Company, SAP.
• It has many of the features of other modern programming
languages such as the familiar C, Visual Basic, and Power Builder.
• Your program name convention begins with a letter Y*** or Z***.
• ABAP is not case sensitive.
• Every statement begins with a keyword and ends with a period.
( WRITE is a Keyword to print on screen).
WRITE ‘Hello world!’.
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BENEFITS OF SAP
• Improves productivity.
• Reduces cost by increasing flexibility.
• Supports additional extensions in an
organisation, if required.
• Optimize It spending .
• Provide immediate access to Enterprise
information.
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ERP AND SAP MARKET SHARE
• SAP is a leader in ERP industry.
• According to a recent report of Forbes. SAP leads ERP Market
share with 25% and $6B revenue.
• While Oracle is at $3B revenue and Sage at $1.5B revenue
market share.
• Oracle is the biggest competitor of SAP in the field of ERP.
• Oracle has strong base in data storage but its getting up to the
speed with its own data storage system SAP HANA.
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