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SAP OVERVIEW
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Outline
• SAP as Enterprise Applications
• SAP Navigation
• System-wide Concept
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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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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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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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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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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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SAP Databases

SAP can use a

number of
database programs
to actually store
the data.

Oracle
DB2
MSSQL
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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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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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Three-tier Client/Server Architecture

Application
Server
Application
Server
USER PCs
USER PCs
Database
Server

Application Application
Server Server
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Two Tier Client/Server System

Training Configuration

Database and
Application
Server

User PCs
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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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SAP System
System
SD FI
Sales & Financial
Distribution Accounting
MM CO
Materials
Mgmt. Controlling
PP AM
Production

R/3
Fixed Assets
Planning Mgmt.

QM
Quality
Client / Server TR
Treasury
Manage-
ment PM ABAP/4 WF
Plant Main- Workflow
tenance
HR IS
Human Industry
Resources Solutions
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SAP Industry Solution

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

Company A
Suppliers BW
Customers
KM CRM

ERP

SCM SEM

Web-enabled
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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
TEI

ERP
MRP II
MRP
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mySAP Components
BW SAP
R/3
CRM SCM
SEM
KW

• mySAP Business Information Warehouse

• mySAP Customer Relationship Management
• mySAP Knowledge Management
• mySAP Supply Chain Management
• mySAP Strategic Enterprise Management
• mySAP …
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Enterprise Service Architecture

Company A
Web Service Web Service
Web Service Web Service
Suppliers BW
Customers
KM CRM

Web Service
ERP Web Service

SCM Web Service SEM

Web-enabled
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mySAP Business Suite

mySAP PLM

mySAP SRM ( ERP

mySAP mySAP CRM

mySAP SCM

SAP NetWeaver
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SAP Netweaver: Integration Tools

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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 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
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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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SAP Enterprise Portal Example

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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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SAP People
Consultant

Technical Functional User

FI
Basis ABAP CO

MM

SD

…
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Outline
• SAP as Enterprise Applications
• SAP Navigation
• System-wide Concept
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SAP Logon Program

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Logging on to an SAP System

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SAP Environment
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Multiple Logons and Multiple Sessions

Alternatively, type /o in the Command Field

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Screen Structure
Menu bar
Standard toolbar
Title bar
Application tool bar
Command field

Tab page

Status bar
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Navigation Options
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Using Transaction Codes

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Role-Based User Menus

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Using Favorites
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Using Favorites (cont’d)

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Status Bar
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Outline
• SAP as Enterprise Applications
• SAP Navigation
• System-wide Concept
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Organizational Structure
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IDES Holding Company

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IDES AG
• A manufacturing company operating worldwide and has a
number of subsidiaries
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Accounting and Human Capital

Management
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System-Wide Master Data Concepts

• SAP stores all data in one single centralized database
• Reduce redundancy
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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
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Master Data: Material Master

• Contains key information a company needs to manage a
material within its organization
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Master Data: Personnel Record

• Master data records used primarily mySAP ERP Human
Capital Management
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Transactions
• Application programs that execute business processes in
the SAP system
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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