Tuesday, February 23, 2010
What is the SAP NetWeaver Platform?
What is SAP?
Friday, May 1, 2009
Non ERP products by SAP
(1). Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO),
(2). Business Information Warehouse(BW),
(3). Customer Relationship Management(CRM),
(4). Supplier Relationship Management(SRM),
(5). Human Resource Management Systems(HRMS),
(6). Product Lifecycle Management(PLM),
(7). Exchange Infrastructure(XI) and
(8). Knowledge Warehouse(KW).
Friday, April 24, 2009
Advantages of SAP R/3 - Part 1
| Functionality: The R/3 System offers you a software solution that covers all commercial processes and transactions commonly occurring in a company or group of companies. |
| Integration: All work processes within a company or group of companies are linked through data and functions using the R/3 System. |
| User Friendliness: The R/3 System has a uniform graphical user interface for all application areas. |
| Individual Solutions: System-controlled customizing procedures allow you to create solutions from a wide variety of prepared application variants to satisfy individual requirements. |
| Flexible Structure: Whether in a departmental organization or on the warehouse or factory floor, change is the only facet of your business that will not vary. Adaptability must be universal, and the R/3 System’s flexible structure and extensive integration helps make that easier. |
| Enterprise-Wide Integration: SAP’s enterprise-wide R/3 System solutions meet the needs of constantly changing, continually evolving businesses. The R/3 System’s application components are fully integrated. Transaction-related process chains trigger the next activity as needed from engineering to materials management, to production planning, to sales and distribution. The R/3 System’s full integration pulls your enterprise together, promoting data access, flexibility, and productivity. No other product or suite of products provides the R/3 System’s functional links between processes that multiply the power of each person’s work. |
| Real-Time Information: The R/3 System’s ability to “drill down” to whatever level of detail you need is legendary. More than any other product, the R/3 System provides up-to-the-minute, real-time information wherever and whenever you need it. |
| Mission-Critical Business Processes: SAP has more than 20 years of experience designing sophisticated application software for backbone and mission critical business processes. Nine of the top ten Fortune 500 companies use SAP software. SAP developed most of the R/3 System’s functionality in close cooperation with these customers. Consequently, it has integrated the best business practices of the world’s most successful companies into the R/3 System. The R/3 System’s business processes are flexible, pragmatic and well documented. Today they form a widely acknowledged standard for Business Process Reengineering (BPR). |
| Best of Breed: Users want standard software as well as standard business processes and guidance on how to implement them successfully. With the R/3 System you get the “best of breed” for all common business processes. You do not need to compromise on flexibility. If you need or want to fine tune or tailor your R/3 System, the capability is there. |
| Enterprise-wide three-tiered architecture: The R/3 System remains the only enterprise-wide, three-tiered architecture. The R/3 System’s three-tiered client/server architecture separates the system into areas devoted to database, application functionality, and desktop presentation. This structure promotes maximum flexibility, freedom of application component choice and the ability to change and add to the system as your organization grows. The development of the Internet, including the World-Wide Web, promises to make dramatic changes in communications between businesses and customers. SAP is working with several partners to develop enhanced Internet extensions for the R/3 System. |
| Concurrent engineering: Concurrent engineering cuts time-to-market by stacking up business processes whenever functions can take place concurrently rather than consecutively. The R/3 System’s flexibility and integration help you form the real-time workflow application links required for concurrent engineering. |
| Lean Implementation: The R/3 System promotes lean implementation through its modular structure. By selecting key portions of the R/3 System for first-time implementation, and minimizing customization, new users bring the full power of the R/3 System to address their business issues with great speed, at a reasonable cost. Once running, the R/3 System makes it easy to add more functional pieces. Tools on various system levels allow you to fine tune all R/3 System functional modules. Gradually adding functionality makes core solutions available sooner without sacrificing long-term application muscle. |
| Desktop Integration: Desktop integration in the R/3 System means that whenever you want data moved into a desktop PC application, it is a mouse-click away. Download or export a file to your PC’s hard drive and then open it in your favorite spreadsheet or word processor. No awkward or failure-prone communications between hardware or to hinder hinders your productivity |
Thursday, April 23, 2009
ASAP Roadmap
Phase 1: Project Preparation
Phase 2: Business Blueprint
Phase 3: Realization
Phase 4: Final Preparation
Phase 5: Go Live & Support
Monday, April 20, 2009
Before starting the implementation project
SAP R/3 implementation is generally a key project for any organization. It is necessary to do preparation before implementation.
Many organizations speak of "transferring technology." But what does that mean? Transfer technology involves transfer of the system which includes the
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It becomes obvious that the transfer of any part of the system, without the rest of it, does not transfer technology. In our context, the software SAP/3 is being changed. In most of the cases the hardware needs to be changed. The people need training to operate SAP system. But unfortunately, many organizations fail to understand that they need to change their processes. SAP is a package & it contains many best practices suitable to almost each industry. The designer (configuring the system) must design the system keeping the objective of the business objective in mind. The user should be prepared to change it’s processes and ensure that the objective of the processes is met. This should be done without or minimum distortion of the processes designed by SAP. This is a big challenge to the designer as well as user. It should noted that the user representative involved in the system design should be empowered for low level BPR decisions.
Also the information stored in the system will be in different form than the legacy system. The user must be prepared & trained for the changed.
The major challenge is behavioral change. Implementation of SAP R/3 system changes relationship of different persons, it gives/denies access to information which was not available/available to the person, it changes processes and control functions. This all gives behavioral issues. To get best out of SAP, these issues must be addressed before implementation.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Discover More About SAP Modules
In this age of globalization business processes are getting more and more complicated with several interconnected factors and parameters. It is noted that all business has it’s individual chances and challenges. But say you delve deep into several business you will find out that the primary underlying procedure is rather alike for every of them. This initiated development of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) packages that could change the mode businesses applied to be executed decades ago. SAP is 1 such ERP packages, which has not solely helped numerous firms to transform but also aided them to accomplish operational excellence.
The primary job of a SAP consultant is to accomplish Best Practices in corporations from several verticals and sum up value to the bottom line of their respective businesses. The prime and most severe element for learning how prosperous you will be as a SAP consultant is your interpreting of business operation. It is primary for you to handle the business procedure in particular, and how each procedure is linked and coordinated with another.
There are 2 cases of advisors required in whatsoever SAP implementation namely Functional and Technical Consultants. The functional advisors interact closely with the clients to study and interpret the business process, find out the criticality of the business, and collate demands from the customers. They map all aspects of business as one and do Gap Analysis and prepare As Is To Be model to suit the business demands.
Once these steps are over and the customer approves the newly projected model, it is passed on to the technical consultants for development and customization of modules to meet the clients demands. This process is known as wisdom shift, and through this procedure functional advisors help the technical consultant to design the roadmap for development. The operational consultant customizes the package to fit the clients business demands while the technical advisor takes care of the coding, programing, and info migration procedures in the backend.
There are numerous modules in SAP like Sales & Distribution, Material Management, Purchase, Finance & Control, Customer Relationship Management, Human resource, which take care of each different function and domain of whatsoever business. Some Other advisors operate in different modules in tandem with each other to find out smooth integration of the process.
SAP consultancy is thus a great career option having immense potential for development. The market increment is simply phenomenal and poised to produce further in years to come since many corporations are finding it tough to keep their leadership in this ferociously competitive age without having a unique ERP system in place.
Apart from the business process knowledge, it is imperative to recognize the package for becoming a SAP advisor. SAP is a very versatile merchandise and has well-tried it’s credential in almost every businesses over the period of time. SAP development wing has come up with many IS (Industry Specific) solutions like SAP-IS Retail, SAP-IS Oil & Gas, etc., to handle uniqueness of these verticals.
As you become a senior SAP adviser you would require to counsel the enterprise on growing requirement and shift in business practices taking place at the clients end and assist the corporation to develop result that is up-to-date and applicable. If you ever come across a business process or a business instance that may not be treated with instant features of SAP you may suggest the organisation on acquiring add-on products accordingly to resolve those subjects.
Although SAP consulting market looks rosy and promising, at times one may find entering this field quite challenging. There are many authorized training partners who impart training and offer certification on SAP. After successful completion of the course you became a Certified SAP Consultant. At One Time you get the first break and gather hands on experience of few end-to-end implementations, there is zero looking back. A note of appreciation from the customers with whom you have operated may process marvels for your future enterprises.
Friday, April 17, 2009
ERP - What it is?
ERP is the acronym of 'Enterprise Resource Planning'.
'Enterprise' is the first word in ERP. That means it will consider the enterprise overall interest first. It gives an integrated approach to resource planning all over the enterprise.
That is building a single software program that serves the needs of people in finance as well as it does the people in human resources and in the warehouse. Each of those departments typically had its own computer system, each optimized for the particular ways that the department does its work. But ERP combines them all together into a single, integrated software program that runs off a single database so that the various departments can more easily share information and communicate with each other.
ERP automates tasks that performs business, thereby reducing delay, manpower & hence cost of the business.
ERP can
· Automate Purchase Order generation process by considering stock, order position & consumption pattern
· help sales team in giving real time position on stock, pending orders & production plan.
· help customers in getting status of their orders
· help warehouse personnel in providing exact stock & it's location
· help production persons in planning production orders, tracking them & plan materials for the same.
· help finance in updating ledgers, tracking any entry
· Materials manager in reducing stock, minimize stock outs & control on thefts etc.
· Top management in getting real time picture of their business, tracing any problem up to transaction level on their own.
As all the personnel in the organization are looking at the same data real time, the communication among various departments is better
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
How To Implement SAP with SAP Training Modules
One of the fastest software in the technology market is SAP. What is SAP and why is it so popular. Lets take a look.
About SAP
SAP is the acronym for Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing. It was developed in 1972 by 5 German Engineers in 1972 and now nine out of 10 Fortune 500 companies make use of SAP.
SAP is comprised of various modules. All module stands for a business process and in all there are nineteen such modules which go to display SAP high applicability. There are many SAP organizations who offer specialized SAP Classes. These courses offer a complete understanding of SAP, how it works and its extensive functionalities. People wanting to break into SAP, definitely need to undertake SAP Training.
Why SAP?
The reason why SAP is so popular today is because of its open architecture. Organizations using it , can work on it to create any software to meet their business requirements. It has been created using the best process practices and you can carry out business processes with a high level of efficiency and accuracy using SAP.
SAP applications are assembled in such a way that all departments in an organization, not only carry out activities through it they are also integrated by it, in a seamless fashion. Such is the effective functionality of SAP software that major software companies such as Microsoft and IBM use SAP’s products to carry out their business activities. As of today, SAP is the leading provider of business software, in the world.
SAP Training
Since SAP is have an extensive functionality, software professional need to undergo SAP training so that they are quipped to deal with SAP in their work environment.
You can learn SAP through SAP courses. Such courses are available online, or you can attend regular classes. Here is a look at some important SAP training centers in the United States:
CCI This is a leading SAP solutions firm. It offers comprehensive SAP training course which teaching the best methodologies.
Michael Management Corporation This is a premier SAP firm and it offers in-depth training in three SAP modules. These are Investment Management (IM)), Asset Accounting (AA), and Project System (PS).
RWD This Company offers eLearning for SAP and is beneficial for those who want to get into SAP through this mode of learning.
Ytek Solutions, Inc. This organization offers the best SAP training through e-learning technology. Students interact with teachers through a Virtual Learning Center (VLC) and information is exchanged using tools such as web conferencing, software, instant messenger, white boards. The environment simulates the atmosphere seen in regular class room and is very effective in teaching and for SAP training.
Benefits of SAP learning:
SAP is a vast arena and taking up SAP training will break the ice on how this software functions and what you can do with it. Here is a look at the benefits you gain by taking up SAP courses:
Become part of the SAP environment which gives you a hands-on experience on how to handle and work with such software
Learn from the best professionals in the industry and in doing do absorb the best methodologies and practices in SAP
You career gets a jump-start because SAP training makes equips you well to handle SAP software on the job. Unlike other you will not have to be specially trained on the job for using the softwareSunday, April 12, 2009
Learn How To Apply SAP Modules Into Your Business Process
An ERP system is a real-time business supporting system that provides to the data demands of the whole organisation using a single repository of informations (a database) and a very sophisticated set of highly-customizable software modules which, together, ease decision-making and the activities based on these decisions. This invariably results in extremely effective operations and a resultant competitive reward. SAP, originated by SAP AG, settled in Walldorf, Germany, is one such proprietary ERP system.
The SAP system is organised into some sets of ’solutions’ (essentially, modules) that comprehend the info wants of limited areas of any corporation’s processes. Sitting on top of these already-integrated individual modules is the Cross-Application layer, components of which farther ensure that these various solution ‘talk’ to each other in a cohesive style.
There is a saying, “If you fail to plan, you are actually planning to fail”. Hence, a right starting point for interpreting SAP is it’s Project System which deals each activity within the organization as part of several project. Settled on occurrent orders (or perceived demand), this module is practiced specify projects that will accomplish these orders and begin chasing after them from then on. A normal project would take on a combination of different manufacturing activities as well as whatever linked procurement (raw materials as well as bought-out items). Tracking each of such project right from inception, through to it’s completion and beyond (post-project analysis) is ably dealt by this module.
For project actions that refer to manufacturing, the Production Planning module handles the particulars of capability planning, production scheduling down to the individual chores on the store floor. This takes on handling data on the accessibility and deployment of human resources, machinery, tools and fixtures, consumables and energy requirements to list a few.
With streamlined production gets Plant Maintenance which treats preventive maintenance, breakdown maintenance along with the associated down-time of tools and lost hours of the work-force as well as the time, material and labor involved for such maintenance.
The Materials Management module interfaces with Production Planning and Plant Maintenance to see a) Timely delivery of materials and b) Reduced price of inventory. It’s range starts with material requisitions (based on Bills of Material emanating from production programs as well as for unintentional purchases) and tracks them from placing orders to receipt of goods, their receiving inspection (quality control), their being taken into stock and being subsequently published for production. This module also treats finished-goods inventory.
The Costing module interfaces with every entity that has a money value affiliated with it. It takes into consideration the various cost-centers and all the related costs : equipment, material, labor and services. The comparable holds true for the profit centers. This costing module has a provision for product-based costing (which could fail to manage particular fixed prices accurately ) as well as activity-based costing which is thought more scientific and supplies for cross-functional dealing of each of the drivers of these costs.
The Sales and Distribution module tracks all transactions from queries, requests for proposals/ quotations and pricing to interfacing with the finished-goods stock (in factory and warehouses) to picking, packing, shipping and delivery.
The Financial Accounting module logs financial transactions in the electronic equivalent of primary books of accounts, keeps the General Ledger and every last defined sub-ledgers, consolidates all this into the ultimate books of accounts (essentially, Profit & Loss account and the Balance Sheet), deals tax-related transactions/adjustments and interfaces with book closure. Accidentally, most of this is of a statutory nature and gets applied with the country-specific choices of SAP.
Asset Management is practiced for chasing after assets from the time they are purchased, right through their lifetime with regard to their depreciation (and, thus their latest valuation) to the point they are either sold or wrote off.
The Quality Management module, along with the Project System, really overlaps all other procedures and interfaces with every 1 of them throughout the lifetime of the organization. Quality, they say is never by chance; it is always by innovation. That is why this module is applied to facilitate all activities that construct quality into the organization’s products/services (preventing defects/errors taking place in the 1st place). This is done by planning (essentially, incorporating preventive steps in the organization’s work-flow), performing these quality programs and dealing periodic inspections to detect deviations, if several. Important to the company’s icon and credibility in the outside universe, are actions that result to the several applicable certifications getting which is likewise handled effectively by this module
This was a simplistic point of a very general application called SAP.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
What can SAP do?
SAP will change everything. That’s the gospel according to everyone who knows anything about this integrated software system. What exactly is the beast? And why does the thought of it throw people into a dither?
SAP ( Systems Applications and Products ) is basically an ERP.* :
Ask an information-technology specialist, and you’ll get something like: "SAP is a completely integrated, enterprisewide information system that replaces legacy systems with a series of software modules that communicate with each other seamlessly, replacing current business processes with best practices."
In layperson’s terms, SAP software is a total information system that weaves together all the data from manufacturing with all the data from inventory with all the data from purchasing with all the data from accounting with all the data from sales......ad infinitum. If your company makes jars of glop, SAP allows you to find out how much glop you’ve made, how much you’ve got on hand, who bought it, when they are picking it up, when they intend to pay for it, how much more glop they may buy in the future and so on... until you run out of questions about glop.
Yes, you might be able to find the answers to all those questions using your company’s current information system, but chances are you’d be hunting in a crazy quilt of databases. With SAP, all that data is integrated. That’s why "integration" is the buzz in SAP circles. Everything is interconnected by a series of relational databases: What Frank in accounting enters into the system directly affects what Dave in purchasing sees on his materials management reports and what Sarah in inventory planning uses to make decisions.
What does that mean to Joe Blow on the production floor? Probably that Joe’s job will be analyzed, dissected, reassembled and reconfigured so that it follows processes prescribed by SAP software. These prescriptions have been developed by SAP based on "best practices" in companies that have already implemented SAP. So if SAP forces you to reshape a function or process, it’s often because a lot of companies have discovered that’s the best way to reengineer that function. This software affects so many departments - from accounting to inventory to production to human resources - that a lot of people will be force-fed into the system and spat out with new jobs, new titles, and even new departments.
The integrated nature of SAP forces employees to understand how other functions in the company operate. For example, employees who take customer orders will have to understand the sales cycle because the information they enter into the system can directly affect decisions the sales people will make. If, for example, a sales rep looks at the database and finds out his client placed an order yesterday, he knows he doesn’t have to visit that customer today; instead, he can send a thank-you note.
Prior to SAP, a production worker decided where to put a finished product in the warehouse. After SAP, that decision shifted to the person in-charge of the warehouse, who now has access to information about what orders are due, which customers are coming to pick up which products, which customers need to see accounting about paying bills, and which customers have priority.
It may be perfectly logical that the warehouse person should make those decisions. Trouble is, a lot of your existing business processes may not stand up to the logical scrutiny that SAP imposes on your company. A lot of clients, says Miller, questioned about why they do things a certain way, only shrug and confess, "That’s the way we’ve always done it."
Now, where something gets put in the warehouse may not seem like a big deal, but SAP software is changing who makes decisions about what in hundreds, sometimes thousands, of tasks. And those decisions are being made by people with access to more information about how the company works than they’ve ever had before.
With this software, information is entered into the system once: No entering and re-entering or checking and double-checking. Once the information is in, it becomes part of the entire organization’s central nervous system. That capability makes for enormous efficiencies, of course, but it also has its downside. That is, every action you take has a consequence.
You have to realize that every change you make to the system is immediately available, and used and treated as gospel by perhaps a hundred other people. So you don’t muck around. The information entered into SAP’s system, gets used by dozens, perhaps hundreds, of other people in ways that the person entering the data can’t possibly imagine.
SAP R/3 has taken the software industry by storm, selling its rather pricey software to 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies.
How pricey exactly? Depending on how many employees you have, the cost ranges from $1.5 million to $5 million. And after buying the software, most companies then shell out anywhere from $10 million to $100 million on consulting fees to get the system up and running.
And if the direct costs aren’t intimidating enough, there’s the time it takes to implement SAP software. Most projects are measured in years, not months. "Converting to SAP is a long, arduous process. One company calls it Project Infinity," says Bill Stetar, president of Performance Technology Group Inc.
SAP’s R/3 software isn’t the only player in the game, but it took an early lead and is the predominant package on the market. Other software companies that compete with SAP include Oracle, PeopleSoft and Baan. They all sell software touted as total information systems, and the consequences of implementing them are similar.
If you think you’ll escape all the hubbub because you work for a midsized company (between $50 million and $200 million in revenues), think again. SAP is coming out with a version called Certified Business Solutions for the middle market, so you’ll likely run into one of these systems sooner or later.
SAP software is paradoxical: It changes your business processes dramatically, but it’s also infinitely customizable. In other words, you can force the software to mimic your current practices - though it takes a lot of force - or you can adopt the SAP way of doing things. If you customize it extensively, most experts agree, you lose some of the money-saving, time-saving advantages of the software. Nevertheless, you can’t just take SAP out of the box and install it on your network server. It must be customized somewhat to work at all.
Nancy Bancroft, author of Implementing SAP R/3 and president of Bancroft, Brite and Associates, a consulting firm in Denver, cites another paradox: "The value of SAP is that it is totally integrated; and the downside of SAP is that it’s totally integrated." Every bit and byte and factoid pumped into this collection of software modules creates ripples throughout the organisation. If the information is right the first time, the need for paper-shuffling dramatically decreases. If it’s wrong, however, decisions based on misinformation can directly affect the bottom line.
By eliminating the existing, isolated information systems in individual departments, this software mashes everyone together, forcing them to deal with people they barely knew before and to make decisions that affect other departments. Sometimes this forced interaction is beneficial, says Jennifer Jackson, a principal with Elliot Jackson Communications, a SAP consulting firm in Calgary, Alberta. "But sometimes it can be rather explosive."
Ideally, of course, your company is already integrated and cross-functional. If not, SAP will force those issues in ways that TQM, teamwork and reengineering never did.
"TQM or even some of the ISO 9000 work or any of that kind of stuff won’t shut your business down," says David Amborski, senior manager for education services for Deloitte Touche Consulting Group / ICS in Atlanta. " You’ve bet the farm once you’ve got this thing, so it’s a scary proposition."
Sunday, February 15, 2009
What is SAP R/3
SAP R/3 is a package of integrated applications called modules that record and track the activities and costs of doing business. Its roots extend back to 1972, when five system analysts, all former employees of IBM in Germany, created the software for collecting large volumes of business data in a single computer and then processing this data in real time, when the user needs it. Real-time processing was a particularly novel development at the time because the computers of the 1970s were slow, lumbering machines that required minutes, and sometimes even hours, to process large volumes of data.
Since that time, SAP has grown from a small regional company to the leading provider of business enterprise software in the world. At last count, SAP R/3 is now installed at 84,000 locations in 120 countries around the world, and it is used by more than 10 million people every day. SAP is now the world's third-largest independent software vendor, and it is still growing strong.
The great strength and utility of SAP R/3 are due to a large degree to its architecture or structure, which consists of functional modules, the SAP database, and the graphical user interface or GUI- Pronounced "gooey" We use the term system throughout this book to describe this three-part assemblage of software.
The functional modules are discrete software packages that are dedicated to specific tasks, such as accounting, payroll management, and inventory control. They are typically installed in application servers, which are computers that are capable of rapidly processing or "crunching" large volumes of data and then assembling the output of their work in a format that can be read by the user.
| Table P.1. Some examples of SAP functional modules | ||
| Module Name | Abbreviation | Function |
| Sales and Distribution | SD | Managing and reporting product prices, orders, and delivery, and analyzing production and profit data |
| Project System | PS | Managing and reporting all phases of a project, including costs, design, approval, and resources |
| Materials Management | MM | Managing and reporting purchasing, warehousing, and inventorying of goods and materials |
| Plant Maintenance | PM | Managing and reporting maintenance; inspection and servicing of plants and equipment |
| Financial Accounting | FI | Managing and reporting corporate cost accounting and budget planning |
| Controlling | CO | Managing and reporting internal department costs and budgets |
| Personnel Management | PM | Managing and reporting employee data, recruitment, travel, benefits, and salaries |
| Time Management | TM | Managing and reporting employee time data and payrolls |
| Personnel Development | PD | Managing and reporting training courses, seminars, and business events |
The database is the actual collection of business data. These data are stored inside database servers, which are computers with huge amounts of storage memory and the capacity to rapidly exchange data with the application servers.
The graphical user interface or GUI appears on the desktops of the computers or clients that you use to access the software. The centerpiece of the GUI is the application window (called a session by SAP), where you enter commands and data on scenes or screens by means of your mouse and keyboard.
Note: Some users may access the SAP software through Web browsers such as MS Internet Explorer. In these cases, the SAP GUI appears inside the frame of the browser window.
There are many modules in the complete version of SAP R/3, but most business enterprises do not use all of them. Rather, they purchase and install or implement only those modules that they need to do their business. The selected modules are then integrated or linked to one another and to the database servers and clients by programmers, and the screens are customized or configured to fit the enterprise's needs. Once the modules are integrated, the boundaries between them vanish and they work with one another as a single, seamless software package. This aggregation of modules is also very flexible: The enterprise can often add more modules whenever they want so that the software grows as their business needs grow.
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