SAP
stands for System, Applications & Products in Data processing.
Four former IBM employees founded SAP
AG in 1972. The Company headquarters are based in Walldorf Germany, a
small German town close to Heidelberg . SAP
R/2 was developed as a mainframe system. In 1992, SAP
introduced SAP R/3 & then it
has become the world's leading vendor of standard applications
software for open Client / Server technologies. SAP
is a German company but operates all over the world, with 28
subsidiaries and affiliates and six partner companies maintaining
offices in 40 countries. It is available in 14 languages & it has
more than 7500 customers in 90 countries. Eight out of ten top US
corporations use SAP.
It comprises a number of fully integrated modules, which cover every aspect of business management. Each module performs a different function, but is designed to work with other modules. It is fully integrated, offering true compatibility across business functions. The system has been developed to meet the increasing needs of commercial and other organizations that are striving for greater efficiency and effectiveness.
It can be categorized into three core functional areas- Financial, Human Resources & Logistics.
Financial Modules give the whole picture of Accounting functions with extensive report facilities to allow for faster decision-making support. This area contains Financial Accounting, Controlling, Enterprise Controlling, Capital Investment Management & Treasury.
HR module includes all necessary business processes to efficiently manage the needs of a CO?s Human resource areas like payroll accounting, personnel development etc.
Logistic Application is the most extensive area. It manages all the processes involved in the supply chain management from goods procurement to billing. This area contains material Management, Production Planning, Project System, Quality Management & Sales & Distribution.
The infrastructures required for SAP are Technical Infrastructure (Database, Application Servers & peripherals), Application Architecture(SAP Clients),Desktop and LAN / WAN
It comprises a number of fully integrated modules, which cover every aspect of business management. Each module performs a different function, but is designed to work with other modules. It is fully integrated, offering true compatibility across business functions. The system has been developed to meet the increasing needs of commercial and other organizations that are striving for greater efficiency and effectiveness.
It can be categorized into three core functional areas- Financial, Human Resources & Logistics.
Financial Modules give the whole picture of Accounting functions with extensive report facilities to allow for faster decision-making support. This area contains Financial Accounting, Controlling, Enterprise Controlling, Capital Investment Management & Treasury.
HR module includes all necessary business processes to efficiently manage the needs of a CO?s Human resource areas like payroll accounting, personnel development etc.
Logistic Application is the most extensive area. It manages all the processes involved in the supply chain management from goods procurement to billing. This area contains material Management, Production Planning, Project System, Quality Management & Sales & Distribution.
The infrastructures required for SAP are Technical Infrastructure (Database, Application Servers & peripherals), Application Architecture(SAP Clients),Desktop and LAN / WAN
# History of SAP :
SAP was founded in 1972 and has grown to become the fifth largest company in the world.
SAP is both the name of the company and the computer system. The SAP system comprises a number of fully integrated modules, which cover every aspect of business management. The system has been developed to meet the increasing needs of commercial and other organizations that are striving for greater efficiency and effectiveness. While many software companies have looked at areas of business and developed systems to support those areas, SAP has looked towards the who;e business. They offer a unique system that supports nearly all areas of business on a global scale. SAP provides the opportunity to replace large numbers of independants systems that have been developed and implemented in established organizations with one single moduler system. Each module performs a different function, but is designed to work with other modules. It is fully integrated, offering true compatibility across business functions.
Introduction:
SAP R/3 has been designed in two basic software languages.Both have a different function which is as follows:
1.ANSI-C language has been used to write R/3 run time i.e.for running the SAP R/3 System.
2.ABAP/4 has been used for R/3 application programs (i.e. for various queries that can be used in SAP R/3)
SAP R/3 is based on a client /server architecture that uses a relational data base to track all info.related to corporation . R/3 gathers related transactions that deal with the same area of business functionalities. There are modules for materials, financials , human resources,sales & other common business functions..
SAP R/3 Architecture :
SAP R/3 is divided into three layers as follows :
1. Presentation Layer : Software components that specialize in interacting with end users. System provides GUI (Graphic User Interface), receives output from Application layer, reformats the data and presents textual and graphic data.
2. Application layer : Software components that specialize in processing business applications, uses application logic of SAP programs to collect and process requests.
3. Database layer : Software components that specialize in management, storage & retrieval of data. This layer resides in database server with specialised systems with fast and large drives.
New Products from SAP:
Mark S Biestman, senior vice president, worldwide sales, said, "SAP was a very early investor in Commerce One in 1997, after which we made a strategic decision to have our own procurement product, we decided that instead of creating clutter in the market with various solutions of the same kind, we should work together. So we created a desktop purchasing application which is called Enterprise Buyer".
D V Jagadish, director, e-business, SAP, said "The Enterprise Buyer is an application that helps companies streamline their procurement process as well as provide the on-ramp to our marketplace (SAP and Commerce One)."
The Enterprise Buyer has two variations - the desktop application which is for simple purchase and the professional edition for sophisticated purchases. The customers would be offered this choice or a combination of both.The two partners also plan to launch a solution which combines the features of SAP's supply chain management solutions and Commerce One's exchange technologies. The new solution, which will be called Market SET, will combine elements of both solutions to create an integrated supply chain management system for corporates.
Industry Business Sector- Discrete Industries (IBS-DI), a division of SAP AG, is developing an enterprise product for the automotive market totally out of its development centre in India.
In the next four months SAP Labs India will unveil the Internet dealer portal_Dealer Workplace.
The IBS-DI division of SAP focuses on manufacturing uniquely identifiable items and covers industrial segments of Aerospace & Defence, Engineering & Construction, and Automotive.
IBS Discrete Industries, Senior vice-president, Wilhelm Zwerger said that the Dealer Workplace should sell as a stand alone, off the shelf product and was compatible with other ERP packages that have been implemented by customers.
The product is targeted at the automobile dealers and for the spare part business and is intended as a total solution for the automotive market.
With the SAP automotive solution, companies can track different possible material substitutions and also streamline back order processing, better management of warehouse inventory, and better integration of these factors with distribution and transportation requirements.
SAP Labs India also has aerospace and engineering and construction business units operating out of its centre in Bangalore. The engineering and construction business unit is focussed on service management and is also developing a product that integrates office automation products to document management.
# Overview of SAP
SAP
stands for Systems, Applications & Products in data
processing.SAP
is an Enterprise Resource Planning software Package encompassing
within itself the entire gamut of business functions, which may be
required to run a business. The scope of coverage of SAP
systems covers all the major industries.
II . History of SAP SAP is the world's leading provider of collaborative e-business solutions. With 36,000 installations serving 10 million users at 13,500 organizations in 120 countries across the globe, SAP ranks as the world's third-largest independent software provider. SAP has been in the business of e-business for 29 years. Founded in 1972 by five former IBM systems engineers, SAP now employs more than 23,700 people in more than 50 countries.
The company began trading publicly in 1988. It is listed on several stock exchanges, including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange, where it trades under the symbol "SAP."
The company is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, with U.S. operations headquarters located in Newtown Square, PA.
Brief History
1972 SAP is founded
1973 SAP R/1 solutions launched
1977 First international customers
1979 SAP R/2 solutions launched
1988 Company goes public (Frankfurt)
1992 SAP R/3 solutions launched
1996 SAP R/3 Release 3.1 is Internet-enabled
1996 Company launches new solutions for customer relationship management and supply chain management; SAP begins developing industry-specific solutions
1998 Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange
1999 SAP delivers mySAP.com
2000 SAP forms SAPHosting, a subsidiary dedicated to the Internet application service provider and application hosting business.
2000 SAP forms strategic alliance with Commerce One to create SAPMarkets, a subsidiary dedicated to creating and powering globally interconnected business-to-business marketplaces on the Internet.
2001 SAP acquires Top Tier and forms SAP Portals
III . SAP Products SAP products empower companies of all sizes and all industry sectors to respond quickly and decisively to dynamic market conditions, help to achieve as well as maintain competitive edge. It is an integrated product, which links all areas of an enterprise. In many large industries, number of legacy systems and third party products exist without much of integration. Seamless integration will require development of open interfaces to link disparate systems and provide enormous scalability and flexibility. Another option is to go for an integrated product. SAP, in collaboration with large number of complementary software partners and world-class hardware providers, has created this program to ensure the use of standard implementation methodologies and realize the solution in an accelerated time frame with least cost to the customer.
Product group of SAP :
1. R/2
2. R/3
1. SAP R/2 was the first compact software package for the whole spectrum of business applications from the SAP corporation. SAP R/2 runs on mainframes, especially IBM, BS2000 (Siemens machines).
2. SAP R/3 is the continuation of R/2 on client/server and distributed open systems. SAP R/3 was designed for open systems, e.g. UNIX. It runs on most types of UNIX, on Windows NT and OS/400.
OSS (Online Service System) SAP provides OSS, a system where one can ask questions online, receive answers and can read answers to common problems.
To Cater to so many running installations world-wide, SAP has evolved an on-line service system where authorized customers can interacted with SAP specialists and find solutions to all technical problems. There is a R/3 based Service System for R/3 customers, called R/3 Online Service System (OSS) and an R/2 based Service System for the R/2 customers called R/2 OSS.SAP Modules can be categorized into three core functional areas- Financial, Human Resources & Logistics.
Financial Modules give the whole picture of Accounting functions with extensive report facilities to allow for faster decision-making support. This area contains Financial Accounting, Controlling, Enterprise Controlling, Capital Investment Management & Treasury.
HR module includes all necessary business processes to efficiently manage the needs of a CO?s Human resource areas like payroll accounting, personnel development etc.
Logistic Application is the most extensive area. It manages all the processes involved in the supply chain management from goods procurement to billing. This area contains material Management, Production Planning, Project System, Quality Management & Sales & Distribution.
The infrastructures required for SAP are Technical Infrastructure (Database, Application Servers & peripherals), Application Architecture(SAP Clients),Desktop and LAN / WAN
IV MySAP.com SAP Version 4.6B onwards is web enabled and is called mYSAP.com . Sap Internet Adviser
The benefits which Developers & decision-makers can achieve through the use of the SAP Internet adviser. It serves as a guide to implementing Business Scenarios with mySAP.com.
The SAP Internet Adviser is a centralized resource compiled specifically for decision-makers,consultants & developers who need answers to questions about how to integrate mySAP.com components with the Internet.The SAP Internet Adviser displays the entire structure & resources available for mySAP.com. As part of the Internet-Business framework,it offers a wide variety of information, from how mySAP.com is integrated with basic Internet technology, to its architecture ,to examples of various e-business scenarios -in a format that is easy to access & navigate.
The information in the Internet Adviser can help you make decisions & plan for building an organization?s Internet presence. It explains the Internet technology upon which the mySAP.com architecture is based, includes examples of mySAP.com components & describes various Internet scenarios such as Internet sales,c ollaborative planning Easy Web transactions ,etc . The tool offers help for decision-makers as well as for consultants & developers when implementing Internet scenarios with B2B partners or within their own companies,
To summarize,the SAP Internet Adviser benefits users in the following ways:
a)Offers an overview of mySAP.com architecture & the technology behind it.
b)Planning:One can reduce time & cost by using the information in the Internet Adviser to accurately define your business processes in an Internet environment.
c)Implementation:It is an invaluable resource for those trying to make decisions regarding Internet scenarios that require integration with SAP products.SAP - Supply Chain planning
The benefits of Supply Chain planning with SAP APO & then goes in-depth into the ways that supply-chain planners,IT departments & even the operation s research community can make the most of the R/3 supply chain process.SAP?s Advanced Planner & Optimizer (APO) is at the heart of SAP?s supply chain management solutions & offers users a big advantage in their supply chain planning, scheduling & analysis. SAP APO is a generic solution for optimizing the supply chain configurable to master specific business scenarios. Due to its open architecture, it is open to future enhancements concerning model functionality, improved optimization libraries & higher degrees of parallelization. The only limits of this approach are the available computing power & the complexity of the supply chain.SAP APO provides a suite of special tools tailored for all blocks of the Supply Chain Planning Cube (ie Detailed Planning, Aggregated Planning; Real-time Planning; Batch Optimization; Production Planning; Supply Network Planning; Detailed Scheduling, etc.)SAP APO?s modeling approach consists of two types of planning : Aggregated Planning based on Linear Programming solvers for a more global view of the supply-chain ( for long & mid-term planning), and Detailed Planning based on Scheduling algorithms to ensure accuracy at a finer level of analysis(for short-term planning).
Details of the various levels of Supply Chain planning supported by SAP APO, the APO Scheduling Approaches & Decomposition Techniques are explained in this article.SAP - Online Service Marketplace
The details regarding what the SAP?s service marketplace offers to customers & what it offers in terms of assistance to SAP partners.
The mySAP.com Marketplace model supports Communities of buyers & sellers a Collaborative Business Environment. SAP services is now putting this model into practice in its new marketplace offering- the SAP Service Marketplace.
At the SAP Service Marketplace,customers can get online support for their SAP systems, access information from others in the SAP professional community & download any appropriate solutions available from SAP. From this site- which users can personalize for their own needs- customers can also request & receive proposals from vendors , & then purchase those solutions for their SAP systems.
The Service Marketplace offers customers:
· A central place for information on issues regarding IT solutions for SAP.
· Delivery of high-quality ,reliable , complete & customizable business services around SAP needs.
· Information on bundled or co-ordinated services, technology, or complete solutions from different vendors.
· The opportunity to find the most suitable partner for a specific service & to use this information to make informed decisions when accessing or purchasing services, online support & solutions.
· Access to services & solutions from both SAP & SAP partners.
· Finally the SAP service marketplace assists SAP partners in expanding business opportunities by representing partners in an online site that is accessed by members of the SAP community worldwide;developing business opportunities through possible joint offerings ;accessing the SAP customer base via a marketplace that is clearly targeted to SAP customers.
Regarding the interface between CRMIS and SAP , yes there are problems at present but should get streamlined with time . To build interface between two large transactional system has always been a problem . And SAP is build on the assumption that all the modules of SAP will be used in an organisation and hence there will be no interface . However in our organisation because we already had two big and good production planning systems ( FPCIS & CRMIS ) already in place , hence we went for an interface rather than having it in SAP itself .
II . History of SAP SAP is the world's leading provider of collaborative e-business solutions. With 36,000 installations serving 10 million users at 13,500 organizations in 120 countries across the globe, SAP ranks as the world's third-largest independent software provider. SAP has been in the business of e-business for 29 years. Founded in 1972 by five former IBM systems engineers, SAP now employs more than 23,700 people in more than 50 countries.
The company began trading publicly in 1988. It is listed on several stock exchanges, including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange, where it trades under the symbol "SAP."
The company is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, with U.S. operations headquarters located in Newtown Square, PA.
Brief History
1972 SAP is founded
1973 SAP R/1 solutions launched
1977 First international customers
1979 SAP R/2 solutions launched
1988 Company goes public (Frankfurt)
1992 SAP R/3 solutions launched
1996 SAP R/3 Release 3.1 is Internet-enabled
1996 Company launches new solutions for customer relationship management and supply chain management; SAP begins developing industry-specific solutions
1998 Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange
1999 SAP delivers mySAP.com
2000 SAP forms SAPHosting, a subsidiary dedicated to the Internet application service provider and application hosting business.
2000 SAP forms strategic alliance with Commerce One to create SAPMarkets, a subsidiary dedicated to creating and powering globally interconnected business-to-business marketplaces on the Internet.
2001 SAP acquires Top Tier and forms SAP Portals
III . SAP Products SAP products empower companies of all sizes and all industry sectors to respond quickly and decisively to dynamic market conditions, help to achieve as well as maintain competitive edge. It is an integrated product, which links all areas of an enterprise. In many large industries, number of legacy systems and third party products exist without much of integration. Seamless integration will require development of open interfaces to link disparate systems and provide enormous scalability and flexibility. Another option is to go for an integrated product. SAP, in collaboration with large number of complementary software partners and world-class hardware providers, has created this program to ensure the use of standard implementation methodologies and realize the solution in an accelerated time frame with least cost to the customer.
Product group of SAP :
1. R/2
2. R/3
1. SAP R/2 was the first compact software package for the whole spectrum of business applications from the SAP corporation. SAP R/2 runs on mainframes, especially IBM, BS2000 (Siemens machines).
2. SAP R/3 is the continuation of R/2 on client/server and distributed open systems. SAP R/3 was designed for open systems, e.g. UNIX. It runs on most types of UNIX, on Windows NT and OS/400.
OSS (Online Service System) SAP provides OSS, a system where one can ask questions online, receive answers and can read answers to common problems.
To Cater to so many running installations world-wide, SAP has evolved an on-line service system where authorized customers can interacted with SAP specialists and find solutions to all technical problems. There is a R/3 based Service System for R/3 customers, called R/3 Online Service System (OSS) and an R/2 based Service System for the R/2 customers called R/2 OSS.SAP Modules can be categorized into three core functional areas- Financial, Human Resources & Logistics.
Financial Modules give the whole picture of Accounting functions with extensive report facilities to allow for faster decision-making support. This area contains Financial Accounting, Controlling, Enterprise Controlling, Capital Investment Management & Treasury.
HR module includes all necessary business processes to efficiently manage the needs of a CO?s Human resource areas like payroll accounting, personnel development etc.
Logistic Application is the most extensive area. It manages all the processes involved in the supply chain management from goods procurement to billing. This area contains material Management, Production Planning, Project System, Quality Management & Sales & Distribution.
The infrastructures required for SAP are Technical Infrastructure (Database, Application Servers & peripherals), Application Architecture(SAP Clients),Desktop and LAN / WAN
IV MySAP.com SAP Version 4.6B onwards is web enabled and is called mYSAP.com . Sap Internet Adviser
The benefits which Developers & decision-makers can achieve through the use of the SAP Internet adviser. It serves as a guide to implementing Business Scenarios with mySAP.com.
The SAP Internet Adviser is a centralized resource compiled specifically for decision-makers,consultants & developers who need answers to questions about how to integrate mySAP.com components with the Internet.The SAP Internet Adviser displays the entire structure & resources available for mySAP.com. As part of the Internet-Business framework,it offers a wide variety of information, from how mySAP.com is integrated with basic Internet technology, to its architecture ,to examples of various e-business scenarios -in a format that is easy to access & navigate.
The information in the Internet Adviser can help you make decisions & plan for building an organization?s Internet presence. It explains the Internet technology upon which the mySAP.com architecture is based, includes examples of mySAP.com components & describes various Internet scenarios such as Internet sales,c ollaborative planning Easy Web transactions ,etc . The tool offers help for decision-makers as well as for consultants & developers when implementing Internet scenarios with B2B partners or within their own companies,
To summarize,the SAP Internet Adviser benefits users in the following ways:
a)Offers an overview of mySAP.com architecture & the technology behind it.
b)Planning:One can reduce time & cost by using the information in the Internet Adviser to accurately define your business processes in an Internet environment.
c)Implementation:It is an invaluable resource for those trying to make decisions regarding Internet scenarios that require integration with SAP products.SAP - Supply Chain planning
The benefits of Supply Chain planning with SAP APO & then goes in-depth into the ways that supply-chain planners,IT departments & even the operation s research community can make the most of the R/3 supply chain process.SAP?s Advanced Planner & Optimizer (APO) is at the heart of SAP?s supply chain management solutions & offers users a big advantage in their supply chain planning, scheduling & analysis. SAP APO is a generic solution for optimizing the supply chain configurable to master specific business scenarios. Due to its open architecture, it is open to future enhancements concerning model functionality, improved optimization libraries & higher degrees of parallelization. The only limits of this approach are the available computing power & the complexity of the supply chain.SAP APO provides a suite of special tools tailored for all blocks of the Supply Chain Planning Cube (ie Detailed Planning, Aggregated Planning; Real-time Planning; Batch Optimization; Production Planning; Supply Network Planning; Detailed Scheduling, etc.)SAP APO?s modeling approach consists of two types of planning : Aggregated Planning based on Linear Programming solvers for a more global view of the supply-chain ( for long & mid-term planning), and Detailed Planning based on Scheduling algorithms to ensure accuracy at a finer level of analysis(for short-term planning).
Details of the various levels of Supply Chain planning supported by SAP APO, the APO Scheduling Approaches & Decomposition Techniques are explained in this article.SAP - Online Service Marketplace
The details regarding what the SAP?s service marketplace offers to customers & what it offers in terms of assistance to SAP partners.
The mySAP.com Marketplace model supports Communities of buyers & sellers a Collaborative Business Environment. SAP services is now putting this model into practice in its new marketplace offering- the SAP Service Marketplace.
At the SAP Service Marketplace,customers can get online support for their SAP systems, access information from others in the SAP professional community & download any appropriate solutions available from SAP. From this site- which users can personalize for their own needs- customers can also request & receive proposals from vendors , & then purchase those solutions for their SAP systems.
The Service Marketplace offers customers:
· A central place for information on issues regarding IT solutions for SAP.
· Delivery of high-quality ,reliable , complete & customizable business services around SAP needs.
· Information on bundled or co-ordinated services, technology, or complete solutions from different vendors.
· The opportunity to find the most suitable partner for a specific service & to use this information to make informed decisions when accessing or purchasing services, online support & solutions.
· Access to services & solutions from both SAP & SAP partners.
· Finally the SAP service marketplace assists SAP partners in expanding business opportunities by representing partners in an online site that is accessed by members of the SAP community worldwide;developing business opportunities through possible joint offerings ;accessing the SAP customer base via a marketplace that is clearly targeted to SAP customers.
Regarding the interface between CRMIS and SAP , yes there are problems at present but should get streamlined with time . To build interface between two large transactional system has always been a problem . And SAP is build on the assumption that all the modules of SAP will be used in an organisation and hence there will be no interface . However in our organisation because we already had two big and good production planning systems ( FPCIS & CRMIS ) already in place , hence we went for an interface rather than having it in SAP itself .
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