sap-overview.ppt

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1. SAP Overview
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2. Outline
•SAP as Enterprise Applications
•SAP Navigation
•System-wide Concept
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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
–mySAP ERP
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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8. SAP Databases
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Oracle
DB2
MSSQL
SAP can use a
number of
database programs
to actually store
the data.

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
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10. Three-Tier SAP Structure
•GUI—Graphical User Interface or Web Interface
•Application server (one or many)
•Database server (one single location)
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11. Three-tier Client/Server Architecture
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USER PCs
USER PCs
Application
Server
Application
Server
Application
Server
Application
Server
Database
Server

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

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

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

16. 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 …
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17. Enterprise Application Components
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Company A
ERP
Customers
Suppliers BW
CRM
SEMSCM
KM
Web-enabled

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

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

20. Enterprise Service Architecture
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Company A
ERP
Customers
Suppliers BW
CRM
SEMSCM
KM
Web-enabled
Web ServiceWeb Service
Web Service
Web Service
Web Service
Web ServiceWeb Service

21. mySAP Business Suite
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(mySAP ERP
mySAP PLM
mySAP SRM
mySAP SCM
mySAP CRM
SAP NetWeaver

22. SAP Netweaver: Integration Tools
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23. SAP Netweaver
•The core capabilities of SAP NetWeaver 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 integrationmeans 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 integrationmeans coordinating the flow
of work across departments, divisions, and
between companies
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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
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25. SAP Enterprise PortalExample
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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
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27. SAP People
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Consultant
Technical Functional
Basis ABAP
FI
CO
MM
SD
…
User

28. Outline
•SAP as Enterprise Applications
•SAP Navigation
•System-wide Concept
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29. SAP Logon Program
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30. Logging on to an SAP System
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31. SAP Environment
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32. Multiple Logons and Multiple Sessions
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Alternatively, type /oin the Command Field

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

34. Navigation Options
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35. Using Transaction Codes
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36. Role-Based User Menus
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37. Using Favorites
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38. Using Favorites (cont’d)
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39. Status Bar
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40. Outline
•SAP as Enterprise Applications
•SAP Navigation
•System-wide Concept
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41. Organizational Structure
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42. IDES Holding Company
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43. IDES AG
•A manufacturing company operating
worldwide and has a number of subsidiaries
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44. Accounting and Human Capital Management
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45. System-Wide Master Data Concepts
•SAP stores all data in one single centralized
database
–Reduce redundancy
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46. Master Data: Customer Master
•Contains key information that defines business
relationship between a company and its
customer
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General data
Financial and
accounting data
Sales data

47. Master Data: Material Master
•Contains key information a company needs to
manage a material within its organization
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48. Master Data: Personnel Record
•Master data records used primarily mySAP
ERP Human Capital Management
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49. Transactions
•Application programs that execute business
processes in the SAP system
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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
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