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SAP OVERVIEW

Outline • SAP as Enterprise Applications • SAP Navigation • System-wide Concept ITEC6620

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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

SAP Databases ITEC6620

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SAP can use a number of database programs to actually store the data.

Oracle DB2 MSSQL

ITEC6620 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 USER PCs Application Server Database Server Application Server USER PCs Application Server Application Server

ITEC6620 Two Tier Client/Server System Training Configuration

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User PCs Database and Application Server

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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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System SD Sales & Distribution MM Materials Mgmt.

PP Production Planning R/3 FI Financial Accounting CO Controlling AM Fixed Assets Mgmt.

QM Quality Manage ment PM Plant Main tenance Client / Server HR Human Resources ABAP/4 IS Industry Solutions TR Treasury WF Workflow 14

ITEC6620 • SAP Industry Solution Aerospace/Defense • Media • Automotive • Banking • Chemicals • Consumer Products • Engineering/Construction • Financial Svc Provider • Healthcare • High Tech • Higher Education/Research • Insurance • Mill Products • Mining • Oil & Gas • Pharmaceuticals • Public Sector • Retail • Service Providers • Telecommunications • Utilities • …so on …

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ITEC6620 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 Suppliers

KM

Company A

BW CRM

ERP

SCM SEM Web-enabled

Customers

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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

ITEC6620 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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ITEC6620 Enterprise Service Architecture

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Suppliers Company A

Web Service Web Service BW Web Service KM CRM Web Service

ERP

Web Service Web Service SCM Web Service SEM

Customers

Web-enabled

ITEC6620 mySAP Business Suite

mySAP PLM mySAP SRM mySAP CRM 21 mySAP SCM SAP NetWeaver

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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

mobile devices : universal translator for

SAP Business Intelligence

integration, so what your people see is consistent and accurate : provides tool for information

SAP Master Data Management

harmonizing information that is distributed across a wide variety of applications : is a system for

SAP Exchange Infrastructure

: Integrates processes and help applications talk to one another

ITEC6620 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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ITEC6620 SAP People Consultant Technical Basis ABAP Functional FI CO MM SD … User

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SAP Logon Program ITEC6620

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ITEC6620 Logging on to an SAP System

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SAP Environment ITEC6620

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ITEC6620 Multiple Logons and Multiple Sessions

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Alternatively, type

/o

in the

Command Field

Screen Structure ITEC6620

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Menu bar Standard toolbar Title bar Application tool bar Command field Tab page Status bar

Navigation Options ITEC6620

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ITEC6620 Using Transaction Codes

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ITEC6620 Role-Based User Menus

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Using Favorites ITEC6620

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ITEC6620 Using Favorites (cont’d)

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Status Bar ITEC6620

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Outline • SAP as Enterprise Applications • SAP Navigation • System-wide Concept ITEC6620

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ITEC6620 Organizational Structure

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ITEC6620 IDES Holding Company

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

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System-Wide Master Data Concepts • SAP stores all data in one single centralized database • Reduce redundancy

ITEC6620 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

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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