SAP

SAP is nothing but System, Applications and Products in Data Processing. It is the largest business software company in the world and also the biggest Enterprise Resource Planning solution software provider. SAP’s main products are SAP ERP and SAP Business Objects software. SAP software has three-tier application architecture that is database, application server and client SAP GUI

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SAP’s Business contains five enterprise applications.
* SAP ERP
* Customer Relationship Management
* Product Life-cycle Management
* Supply Chain Management
* Supplier Relationship Management

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In SAP software all these functions are divided as Modules.
* Financials
* Human Resources
* Customer Relationship Management
* Supplier Relationship Management
* Product Lifecycle Management
* Supply Chain Management
* Business Intelligence

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Sub Modules of FI Module – Financial Accounting
* General ledger
* Book close
* Tax
* Accounts receivable
* Accounts payable
* Consolidation
* Special ledgers

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Sub Modules of CO Module – Controlling 
* Cost elements
* Cost centers
* Profit centers
* Internal orders
* Activity based costing
* Product costing

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Sub Modules of AM Module – Asset Management 
* Purchase
* Sale
* Depreciation
* Tracking

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PS Module – Project Systems 
* Make to order
* Plant shut downs (as a project)
* Third party billing (on the back of a project)

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HR Module – Human Resources 
* Employment history * Payroll * Training * Career management * Succession planning

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PM Module – Plant Maintenance
* Labor
* Material
* Down time and outages

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MM Module – Materials Management 
* Requisitions
* Purchase orders
* Goods receipts
* Accounts payable
* Inventory management
* BOM’s
* Master raw materials, finished goods etc

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QM Module – Quality Management 
* Planning * Execution * Inspections * Certificates

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PP Module – Production Planning 
* Capacity planning
* Master production scheduling
* Material requirements planning
* Shop floor

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SD Module – Sales and Distribution 
* RFQ * Sales orders * Pricing * Picking (and other warehouse processes) * Packing * Shipping

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CA Module- Cross Application
  * WF – workflow
  * BW – business information warehouse
  * Office – for email
  * Workplace
  * Industry solutions
  * New Dimension products such as CRM, PLM, SRM, APO etc