SAP SYSTEM

By: Ihab Mohamed Tarek

ORIGINATED COMPANY

The SAP(Systems, Applications and Products) company

established by German engineers ,after establishing IBM

company in America, that was in 1972.

which is located in Walldorf ,Germany. and currently

contains about 52,000 thousand employee.

COMPANIES USED SAP SYSTEM

There are thousands of companies that are using the SAP

system , which provides easy way in the managing

resources of major companies in the world, and for that

reason the demand on this system become globally.

THE LANGUAGE USED IN SAP

It is a mix between several languages such as Java & C

in addition to the primary language of the system, which

is called ABAP (Advanced Business Application

Programming).

SAP MODULES

tends to be interconnected all application with each

other , but companies can be choose one or more of the

applications by there needs, any application has special

license and special price to be used within a set system.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE

APPLICATIONS OF THE SYSTEM

APPLICATIONS OF SAP

Logistics

•Materials Management (MM)

•Sales and Distribution (SD)

•Production Planning (PP)

•Quality Management (QM)

•Plant Maintenance (PM)

•Service Management (SM)

Accounting and Finance

•Financial Accounting (FI)

•Controlling (CO)

•Enterprise Controlling (EC)

•Fixed Asset Management (AM)

•Project Systems (PS)

Human Resources

•Human Resources (HR)

SAP FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING (FI)

is designed to capture organizations business transactions in a manner that will satisfy external reporting requirements.

Financial Accounting includes the following sub-modules:

• General Ledger (FI-GL)

• Accounts Payable (FI-AP)

• Accounts Receivable (FI-AR)

• Bank Accounting (FI-BL)

• Asset Accounting (FI-AA)

• Funds Management (FI-FM)

• Travel Management (FI-TV)

• Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL)

SAP CONTROLLING (CO)

Controlling consists of all master data, configuration, and reporting required to analyze both spend and revenues, both within and across organizations.

This includes the following master data:

• Cost Elements - cost and/or revenue accounts

• Cost Centers - departmental units

• Profit Centers - business lines, product lines or divisions

• Internal Orders - projects or events

• Functional Area - Cost of Sales Accounting

• Statistical Key Figures - non financial statistics for allocating or measuring financial costs

• Activity Types - Labor or other activity costs

SAP PROJECT SYSTEM (PS)

Project System provides tools to track project milestone, costs

and resources.

Common processes in Project System include:• Tracking costs against WBS elements. These costs can either be

from personnel time charged against the project or from

materials or services procured to support the project.

• Tracking milestones against key dates used in the project.

SAP MATERIALS MANAGEMENT (MM)

consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to complete the Procure to Pay process.

SAP Materials Management Components or Sub-Components:

• Vendor Master and Material Master data

• Consumption Based Planning

• Purchasing

• Inventory Management

• Evaluation of Materials

• Invoice Verification

SAP SALES AND DISTRIBUTION (SD)

consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to complete the Order to Cash process.

includes the following information and processes:

• Customer Master and Material Master data

• Sales Orders

• Deliveries

• Pricing

• Billing

• Credit Management

SAP PRODUCTION PLANNING (PP)

consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to complete the Plan to Produce process.

includes the following information and processes:

• Material Master, Bill of Material, Routing and Work Center data

• Sales and Production Plans

• Long Term Planning

• Demand Management

• Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

• Capacity Planning

• Production Orders

• KANBAN

SAP QUALITY MANAGEMENT (QM)

assures that products meet stringent regulatory standards, are safe and uniform, and meet company product specifications.

• Quality Planning: the creation and management of master data that is required to plan and complete inspections.

• Quality Inspection: the identification of whether an inspection unit meets specified criteria.

• Quality Certificates: documents that contain text, value, and inspection results, which are used to certify the material.

• Quality Notifications: the recording and processing of internal or external problems that result from poor quality.

• Quality Control: the combination of specification from inspection planning, results from quality inspections, and quality notifications form the basis for quality control.

• Test Equipment Management: the management of test equipment in the form of master data records in SAP.

SAP PLANT MAINTENANCE (PM)

Plant Maintenance operates the overall maintenance business processes and functions.

Subcomponents of the SAP Plant Maintenance Module:

• Management of Technical Objects - includes master data objects such as functional locations and equipment master records.

• Maintenance Processing - includes processing steps such as notifications and work orders.

• Preventative Maintenance - includes maintenance planning and work scheduling tasks.

SAP HUMAN RESOURCES (HR)

consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to complete the Hire to Retire (as some say, Fire) process.

SAP Human Resources (HR) Components or Sub-Components:

• Personnel Management- Personnel Administration- Recruitment- Organization Structure- Compensation Management- Personnel Development

• Organizational Management

• Travel Management

• Time Management

• Payroll

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