What is SAP ?
SAP is an ERP system. ERP stands for Enterprise Resources Planning. ERP term used for software that controls whole organizations different departments. For example, SAP, Oracle, People soft, JD Edwards are some of the top ERP software systems.
SAP is beautifully and neatly integrated ERP software. SAP is a leader when it comes to easy integration among all the departments. It provides industry specific solutions for different industries other then its basic SAP modules. SAP suit contains SAP FI, CO, SD, MM, PP, HR, PA and other modules. It also comes with SAP PS,FSCM, CRM and BO/BI modules. Although it will be client's decision whether they want to buy all modules or some specific modules. SAP comes with some industry specific solutions as well such as Insurance, Security, Apparel and Footwear (AFS) etc.
What is SAP History ?
Five ex IBM employees started SAP as a small software and just one customer in Germany.. Those visionary entrepreneurs started SAP in 1972. They started it with the vision of the software that process data when a user wants, when a customer wants and not in overnight batch jobs like earlier software.
In earlier years, SAP started as R/2 that is Real time architecture with 2 servers. This got changed in later years as R/3 that is Real time architecture with 3 servers. These 3 servers are Application Server, Production Server and Database server. In 2009, SAP released its latest version that is ECC 6.0 Now it is being assumed that SAP will not release any new versions but it will keep updating it with time.
Recently, SAP is teaming up with Open Text in ECM (Enterprise Content Management) sector and other third party tax wares to provide an end to end solution for organizations. For example, SAP and Open Text all together provides an end to end Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) solution.
SAP Modules
As I mentioned earlier, SAP is an ERP system that handles almost all department of an organizations. SAP handles an organizations's Finance , Controlling, Human Resource, Sales, Distribution, Material management, Warehouse, Production, Security, Research and many other departments. Not just that but SAP has a special industry specific solutions for almost all industries such as manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Insurance, Security, Finance, Treasury etc.
SAP FICO, SD and HR are most important modules. FI and CO modules controls finance and controlling respectively. SD controls sales and HR controls Human Resource departments. FICO is a base module which gets highly connected to SD, MM, HR and PS modules.
Let's just talk about some basic SAP modules those are useful for all domains.
Finance (FI), Controlling (CO), Sales & Distribution (SD), Material Management (MM) and Human resources (HR) are some of the most important sub modules in SAP. Depending upon the organization needs, a client can buy whatever modules needed. For example, a client can buy FI, SD and MM modules only without buying CO and HR modules.
- SAP CO Module- CO stands for Controlling
- SAP PS Module – and PS is Project Systems
- SAP HR Module – HR stands for Human Resources
- SAP PM Module – where Plant Maintenance is the PM
- SAP MM Module – MM is Materials Management -
- SAP QM Module - QM stands for Quality Management
- SAP PP Module – PP is Production Planning
- SAP SD Module – SD is Sales and Distribution
- SAP BW Module – where BW stands for Business (Data) Warehouse
- SAP EC Module – where EC stands for Enterprise Controlling
- SAP TR Module – where TR stands for Treasury
- SAP IM Module – where IM stands for Investment Management
- SAP QM Module – where QM stands for Quality Management
- SAP – IS where IS stands for Industries specific solution
- SAP – Basis
- SAP – ABAP
- SAP – Cross Application Components
- SAP – CRM where CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management
- SAP – SCM where SCM stands for Supply Chain Management
- SAP – PLM where PLM stands for Product Life Cycle Management
- SAP – SRM where SRM stands for Supplier Relationship Management
- SAP – CS where CS stands for Customer Service
- SAP – SEM where SEM stands for STRATEGIC ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT
- SAP – RE where RE stands for Real Estate
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