It's all about SAP

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S A P

ABOUT SAP

SAP IS UNIQUE

LEARN SAP

SAP HISTORY

SAP ADVANTAGES

SAP FUNCTIONALITY

SAP MODULES

SAP QUES & ANS

WHAT IS SAP?

SAP is the leading Enterprise Information and Management Package worldwide. Use of this package makes it possible

to track and manage, in real-time, sales, production, finance accounting and human resources in an enterprise.

SAP the company was founded in Germany in 1972 by five ex-IBM engineers. In case youre ever asked, SAP stands

for Systeme, Andwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung which - translated to English - means Systems,

Applications, Products in Data Processing. So now you know! Being incorporated in Germany, the full name of the

parent company is SAPAG. It is located in Walldorf, Germany which is close to the beautiful town of Heidelberg. SAP

has subsidiaries in over 50 countries around the world from Argentina to Venezuela (and pretty much everything in

between). SAPAmerica (with responsibility for North America, South America and Australia - go figure!) is located just

outside Philadelphia, PA.

The original five founders have been so successful that they have multiplied many times over such that SAP AG is now

the third largest software maker in the world, with over 17,500 customers (including more than half of the world's 500

top companies). SAP employs over 27,000 people worldwide today, and had revenues of $7.34 billion and Net Income

of $581 million in FY01. SAP is listed in Germany (where it is one of the 30 stocks which make up the DAX) and on the

NYSE (ticker:SAP). There are now 44,500 installations of SAP, in 120 countries, with more then 10 million users! So

what made this company so successful? Back in 1979 SAP released SAP R/2 (which runs on mainframes) into the

German market. SAP R/2 was the first integrated, enterprise wide package and was an immediate success. For years

SAP stayed within the German borders until it had penetrated practically every large German company. Looking for

more growth, SAP expanded into the remainder of Europe during the 80's. Towards the end of the 80's, client-server

architecture became popular and SAP responded with the release of SAP R/3 (in 1992). This turned out to be a killer

app for SAP, especially in the North American region into which SAP expanded in 1988. The success of SAP R/3 in

North America has been nothing short of stunning. Within a 5 year period, the North American market went from

virtually zero to 44% of total SAP worldwide sales. SAP America alone employs more than 3,000 people and has added

the names of many of the Fortune 500 to its customer list (8 of the top 10 semiconductor companies, 7 of the top 10

pharmaceutical companies etc). SAP today is available in 46 country-specific versions, incorporating 28 languages

including Kanji and other double-byte character languages. SAP also comes in 21 industry-specific versions.
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SAP R/3 is delivered to a customer with selected standard process turned on, and many many other optional processes

and features turned off. At the heart of SAP R/3 are about 10,000 tables which control the way the processes are

executed. Configuration is the process of adjusting the settings of these tables to get SAP to run the way you want it to.

Think of a radio with 10,000 dials to tune and youll get the picture. Functionality included is truly enterprise wide

including: Financial Accounting (e.g. general ledger, accounts receivable etc), Management Accounting (e.g. cost

centers, profitability analysis etc), Sales, Distribution, Manufacturing, Production Planning, Purchasing, Human

Resources, Payroll etc etc etc. For a full description of the modules included in SAP, see the related articles. All of these

modules are tightly integrated which as you will find out is a huge blessing ... but brings with it special challenges.

SAP are maintaining and increasing their dominance over their competitors through a combination of embracing the

internet with mySAP.com (a confusing name we believe) to head off i2 etc extending their solutions with CRM to head

off Siebel adding functionality to their industry solutions

SAP UNIQUENESS

Traditional computer information systems used by many businesses today have been developed to accomplish some

specific tasks and provide reports and analysis of events that have already taken place. Examples are accounting

general ledger systems. Occasionally, some systems operate in a "real-time" mode that is, have up to date information

in them and can be used to actually control events. A typical company has many separate systems to manage different

processes like production, sales and accounting. Each of these systems has its own databases and seldom passes

information to other systems in a timely manner.

SAP takes a different approach. There is only one information system in an enterprise, SAP. All applications access

common data. Real events in the business initiate transactions. Accounting is done automatically by events in sales and

production. Sales can see when products can be delivered. Production schedules are driven by sales. The whole

system is designed to be real-time and not historical. SAP structure embodies what are considered the "best business

practices". A company implementing SAP adapts it operations to it to achieve its efficiencies and power.

The process of adapting procedures to the SAP model involves "Business Process Re-engineering" which is a logical

analysis of the events and relationships that exist in an enterprise's operations.


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Want to learn SAP?

If you are already a developer the logical move is into ABAP. Unlike many other languages, where technical ability is all

important, in SAP, knowing the programming language is only about 60% of what you need to know. A lot of importance

is placed on how well you know how SAP works. From the clients perspective, the more you know about how SAP

works, the faster and cheaper you will be able to do the work they need.

Some Links for Getting Started with SAP: 1.Getting Started 2.SAP Basic Skills Self-Study If your background in from

Business processes (Sales, Accounting Manufacturing etc), you're in luck. Depending on your experience, you may

have an advantage in knowing the basic business processes. You just need to know how SAP does it! How SAP

enables you to create and order deliver goods. How SAP enables you to invoice the customer and post payments. Your

logical move into SAP is as a departmental user or as a customisation expert. SAP Industry Sector Due to its'

popularity, SAP has developed solution for many industry sectors. SAP now have versions specifically aimed towards

these (Retail, Manufacturing and Oil etc) industries. You need to decide which of these industries you wish to specialise

in. This decision is particularly important if you are to be a customisation expert or ABAP programmer.

What else you need to know. SAP is also broken into various modules, your are not expected to be an expert in allthese modules. However the more modules you know the more work opportunities you will get. ABAP programmers will

be expected to have at least one module skill. Not necessarily as in-depth as a customisation expert, but certainly as

good as any user. You will find that most organisation implement SAP to work differently. The differences are what each

company consider their 'competitive edge'. For this reason you will not be expected to know how a particular company

uses SAP. You will be expected to know how a 'standard' SAP system works. A standard SAP system is often called a

'vanilla' system. Factors to getting a job To get work in SAP is very similar to any other field. Get an understanding of

what SAP is and what it can do from a business perspective. Next decide which business module you want to specialise

in and start learning how SAP does it. Most people have a fair understanding of what happens in a sales office, so they

specialise in SD. Pick a module you have some experience in. If after all this you still want to have a career in

developing SAP learn ABAP or customisation. Believe me. Customisation will be far easier to learn once you know howto use SAP. ABAP is easy for anyone with a programming background. However in order to do anything useful you

need to know where the data is and to do this you need to know how SAP works.


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HISTORY OF SAP R/3

The first version of SAPs flagship enterprise software was a financial Accounting system named R/1. (The R was for

Real-time data processing). The pronunciation is often mistakenly referred to as sap, as in tree sap. The correct

naming is the individual letters S-A-P. This was replaced by R/2 at the end of the 1970s. SAP R/2 was a mainframe

based business application software suite that was very successful in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was particularly

popular with large multinational European companies who required soft-real-time business applications, with multi-

currency and multi-language capabilities built in. With the advent of distributed client-server computing SAP AG brought

out a client-server version of the software called SAP R/3 that was manageable on multiple platforms and operating

systems, such as Microsoft Windows or UNIX since 1999, which opened up SAP to a whole new customer base. SAP

R/3 was officially launched on 6 July 1992. SAP came to dominate the large business applications market over the next

10 years.

SAP R/3 is arranged into distinct functional modules, covering the typical functions in place in an organization. The most

widely used modules are Financials and Controlling (FICO), Human Resources (HR), Materials Management (MM),

Sales & Distribution (SD), and Production Planning (PP). Those modules, as well as the additional components of SAP

R/3, are detailed in the next section.Each module handles specific business tasks on its own, but is linked to the others

where applicable. For instance, an invoice from the Billing transaction of Sales & Distribution will pass through to

accounting, where it will appear in accounts receivable and cost of goods sold.SAP has typically focused on best

practice methodologies for driving its software processes, but has more recently expanded into vertical markets. In

these situations, SAP produces specialized modules (referred to as IS or Industry Specific) geared toward a particular

market segment, such as utilities or retail.Using SAP often requires the payment of hefty license fees, as the customers

have effectively outsourced various business software development tasks to SAP. By specializing in software

development, SAP hopes to provide a better value to corporations than they could if they attempted to develop and

maintain their own applications.


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Technology SAP R/3 is a client/server based application, utilizing a 3-tiered model. A presentation layer, or client,

interfaces with the user. The application layer houses all the business-specific logic, and the database layer records and

stores all the information about the system, including transactional and configuration data.SAP R/3 functionality is

structured using its own proprietary language called ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming). ABAP, or

ABAP/4 is a fourth generation language (4GL), geared towards the creation of simple, yet powerful programs. R/3 also

offers a complete development environment where developers can either modify existing SAP code to modify existing

functionality or develop their own functions, whether reports or complete transactional systems within the SAP

framework.ABAPs main interaction with the database system is via Open SQL statements. These statements allow a

developer to query, update, or delete information from the database. Advanced topics include GUI development and

advanced integration with other systems. With the introduction of ABAP Objects, ABAP provides the opportunity to

develop applications with object-oriented programming.The most difficult part of SAP R/3 is its implementation, since

SAP R/3 is never used the same way in any two places. For instance, Atlas Copco can have a different implementation

of SAP R/3 from Procter & Gamble. Two primary issues are the root of the complexity and of the

differences:Customization configuration - Within R/3, there are tens of thousands of database tables that may be used

to control how the application behaves. For instance, each company will have its own accounting Chart of Accounts

which reflects how its transactions flow together to represent its activity. That will be specific to a given company. In

general, the behavior (and appearance) of virtually every screen and transaction is controlled by configuration tables.

This gives the implementor great power to make the application behave differently for different environments. With that

power comes considerable complexity.Extensions, Bolt-Ons - In any company, there will be a need to develop interface

programs to communicate with other corporate information systems. This generally involves developing ABAP/4 code,

and considerable systems integration effort to either determine what data is to be drawn out of R/3 or to interface into

R/3 to load data into the system.Due to the complexity of implementation, these companies recruit highly skilled SAP

consultants to do the job. The implementation must consider the companys needs and resources. Some companies

implement only a few modules of SAP while others may want numerous modules.SAP has several layers. The Basis

System (BC) includes the ABAP programming language, and is the heart (i.e. the base) of operations and should not be

visible to higher level or managerial users. Other customizing and implementation tools exist also. The heart of the

system (from a managers viewpoint) are the application modules.


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SAP ADVANTAGES

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 Systems flexible structureand extensive integration helps make that easier.

Enterprise-Wide Integration: SAPs enterprise-wide R/3 System solutions meet the needs of constantly

changing, continually evolving businesses. The R/3 Systems 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 Systems full integration pulls your enterprise together,

promoting data access, flexibility, and productivity. No other product or suite of products provides the R/3 Systems

functional links between processes that multiply the power of each persons work.

Real-Time Information: The R/3 Systems 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 Systems functionality in close cooperation with these customers.

Consequently, it has integrated the best business practices of the worlds most successful companies into the R/3

System. The R/3 Systems 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 Systems 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


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between businesses and customers. SAP is working with several partners to develop enhanced Internet extensions

for the R/3 System. For additional information, see SAPs Web pages at: http://www.ext.sap.com

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 Systems 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 PCs 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

Online Integrated Graphics: Online integrated graphics in the R/3 System save you time and effort, while

making your information more meaningful. From most locations in the R/3 System, you can instantly create full-color

2-D or 3-D graphics from your data. If you change any data, you can instantly see it affect the graphics you have

selected. You can also use your mouse to change graphics manually.

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 Friendlyness: 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 Systems flexible structure

and extensive integration helps make that easier.

Enterprise-Wide Integration: SAPs enterprise-wide R/3 System solutions meet the needs of constantly

changing, continually evolving businesses. The R/3 Systems 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 Systems full integration pulls your enterprise together,

promoting data access, flexibility, and productivity. No other product or suite of products provides the R/3 Systems

functional links between processes that multiply the power of each persons work.


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Real-Time Information: The R/3 Systems 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 Systems functionality in close cooperation with these customers.Consequently, it has integrated the best business practices of the worlds most successful companies into the R/3

System. The R/3 Systems 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 Systems 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. For additional information, see SAPs Web pages at: http://www.ext.sap.com

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 Systems flexibility and integration

help you form the realtime 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 PCs hard drive and then open it inyour favorite spreadsheet or word processor. No awkward or failure-prone communications between hardware or to

hinder hinders your productivity

Online Integrated Graphics: Online integrated graphics in the R/3 System save you time and effort, while

making your information more meaningful. From most locations in the R/3 System, you can instantly create full-color

2-D or 3-D graphics from your data. If you change any data, you can instantly see it affect the graphics you have

selected. You can also use your mouse to change graphics manually


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SAP FUNCTIONALITY

In order to understand a system like SAP a thorough understanding of the events and relationships that take place in a

business is required. It is not enough to just realize the Sales, Production, Finance and Accounting have jobs to do in a

business. The exact details of each action, the timing of that action and its interrelationships with every other process

must be understood. In many large operations there may be no person that has a complete grasp of the situation.

Before an operation can be automated or computerized a thorough study of the business must be undertaken. This task

is called Business Process Engineering.

Sequential Walk Through

Sales

o Pre-sales activity--planning and availability support for the sales personnel

o Sales Order--The actual entry of the sales order into the system done by the salesperson at the point of

sales perhaps using a PCand Internet connections.

o Determining where the most efficient source of the ordered product is in inventory and shipping it.

o Delivery

o Customer Billing

o Customer Payment

Production

o Sales and Operations Planning SOP where the sales forecasts are used in a production planning model to

check feasibility.

o Master Production Scheduling MPS--The actual plan for the whole production process

o Material Requirements Planning MRP--Where the production plan is actually converted into raw materials

input requirements.

o Planned Order--When materials are available and capacity exists this plan is created and then converted

into a

o Production Order.

o Shop Floor Control where the actual production takes place and is registered into the system as finished

goods.

Purchasing

o Requisition--Once the Production manager plans to manufacture something a requisition for the raw

materials required but not on hand must be prepared.


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o Vendor Selection--made by the purchasing department

o Purchase order sent

o goods receipt increasing inventory

o Invoice verification as it is received from vendor

o Payment to vendor

Finance and Accounting

o Sales events must be captured at the proper time into the ledger system

o Inventory must be adjusted to match goods shipped

o Inventory must be adjusted to match raw materials received

o Inventory must be adjusted to move value from raw materials to work in process

o Inventory must be adjusted to increase finished goods when they are produced

o Accounts Payable must be set up for purchases

o Accounts Receivable must reflect goods billed but not yet paid for

Business Process Engineering must not only identify all these steps but must also find the most efficient way tominimize redundant actions. For example, when sales are made, inventory and manufacturing plans should be

automatically updated. When manufacturing plans are updated raw materials should be automatically ordered from

vendors. When finished goods are shipped customers should be automatically billed at the same instant. Real situations

are far more complex than the simple explanation above


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SAP MODULES

SAP has several layers. The Basis System is the heart of the data operations and should be not evident to higher level

or managerial users. Other customizing and implementation tools exist also. The heart of the system from a manager's

viewpoint are the application modules. These modules may not all be implemented in a typical company but they are all

related and are listed below:

FI Financial Accounting--designed for automated management and external reporting of general ledger,

accounts receivable, accounts payable and other sub-ledger accounts with a user defined chart of accounts. As entries

are made relating to sales production and payments journal entries are automatically posted. This connection means

that the "books" are designed to reflect the real situation.

CO Controlling--represents the company's flow of cost and revenue. It is a management instrument for

organizational decisions. It too is automatically updated as events occur.

AM Asset Management--designed to manage and supervise individual aspects of fixed assets including

purchase and sale of assets, depreciation and investment management.

PS Project System--is designed to support the planning, control and monitoring of long-term, highly complex

projects with defined goals.

WF Workflow--links the integrated SAP application modules with cross-application technologies, tools and

services

IS Industry Solutions--combine the SAP application modules and additional industry-specif ic functionality.

Special techniques have been developed for industries such as banking, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, etc.

HR Human Resources--is a complete integrated system for supporting the planning and control of personnel

activities.

PM Plant Maintenance--In a complex manufacturing process maintenance means more than sweeping the

floors. Equipment must be services and rebuilt. These tasks affect the production plans

MM Materials Management--supports the procurement and inventory functions occurring in day-to-day

business operations such as purchasing, inventory management, reorder point processing, etc.

QM Quality Management--is a quality control and information system supporting quality planning, inspection,

and control for manufacturing and procurement.

PP Production Planning--is used to plan and control the manufacturing activities of a company. This module

includes; bills of material, routings, work centers, sales and operations planning, master production scheduling,

material requirements planning, shop floor control, production orders, product costing, etc.


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SD Sales and Distribution--helps to optimize all the tasks and activities carried out in sales, delivery and

billing. Key elements are; pre-sales support, inquiry processing, quotation processing, sales order processing, delivery

processing, billing and sales information system

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Can BW run without a SAP R/3 implementation?

Certainly. You can run BW without R/3 implementation. You can use pre-defined business content in BW using your

non-SAP data. Here you simply need to map the transfer structures associated with BW data sources (InfoCubes, ODS

tables) to the inbound data files or use 3rd part tool to connect your flat files and other data sources and load data in

BW. Several third party ETL products such as Acta, Infomatica, DataStage and others will have been certified to load

data in BW.

Different types of ERP?

SAP, BAAN, JD Edwards, Oracle Financials, Siebel, PeopleSoft. Among all the ERPs most of the companies

implemented or trying to implement SAP because of number of advantages aver other ERP packages.

What is SAP?

SAP is the name of the company founded in 1972 under the German name (Systems, Applications, and Products inData Processing) is the leading ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software package

Why do you usually choose to implement SAP?

There are number of technical reasons numbers of companies are planning to implement SAP. Its highly configurable,

highly secure data handling, min data redundancy, max data consistency, you can capitalize on economics of sales like

purchasing, tight integration-cross function.

What is IDES?

International Demonstration and Education System. A sample application provided for faster learning and

implementation.

What is WF and its importance?

Business Work Flow: Tool for automatic control and execution of cross-application processes. This involves

coordinating the persons involved, the work steps required, the data, which needs to be processed (business objects).


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The main advantage is reduction in throughput times and the costs involved in managing business processes.

Transparency and quality are enhanced by its use.

What is SAP R/3?

A third generation set of highly integrated software modules that performs common business function based on

multinational leading practice. Takes care of any enterprise however diverse in operation, spread over the world. In R/3

system all the three servers like presentation, application server and database server are located at different system.

How can an ERP such as SAP help a business owner learn more about how business operates?

In order to use an ERP system, a business person must understand the business processes and how they work

together from one functional area to the other. This knowledge gives the student a much deeper understanding of how a

business operates. Using SAP as a tool to learn about ERP systems will require that the people understand thebusiness processes and how they integrate.

Name some drawbacks ofSAP

Interfaces are huge problem, Determine where master data resides, Expensive, very complex, demands highly trained

staff, lengthy implementation time.

Describe how SAP handles Memory Management?

ST02 / ST03 In general via table buffers, you could go into the whole Work Process, roll in, roll out, heap (private)

memory, etc. However just as a Unix or DBA admin would know, is you look this up when needed for the exact

specifics.

What is the typical structure of an ABAP/4 program?

HEADER ,BODY,FOOTER.

What are the major benefits of reporting with BW over R/3? Would it be sufficient just to Web-enable R/3

Reports?

Performance Heavy reporting along with regular OLTP transactions can produce a lot of load both on the R/3 and the

database (cpu, memory, disks, etc). Just take a look at the load put on your system during a month end, quarter end, or

year-end now imagine that occurring even more frequently. Data analysis BW uses a Data Warehouse and OLAP

concepts for storing and analyzing data, where R/3 was designed for transaction processing. With a lot of work you can

get the same analysis out of R/3 but most likely would be easier from a BW.


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Describe how to setup a printer in SAP or where they would look to research why a user/users can not print?

SPAD, SP01, SM50, SU01 ...

SAP Basics feature

* Configuration of the SAP modules

o Transaction SPRO - this is the main tree for all the configuration.

* Function Key

o F1 - Help

o F4 - Possible entries or matchcode for the field you are accessing

o F5 - Selection screen

o F7 - Previous screen

o F8 - Next screen

o F9 - Technical info

o CTRL+X - Cut

o CTRL+C - Copy

o CTRL+V - Paste

* Navigation

o /n Skip to the next record if you are processing one batch input session

o /bend Cancel a batch input foreground process

o /nend Close all R/3 sessions and logoff

o /nxxx x Call the transaction xxxx in the same session

o /o Generate a session listo /oxxx x Call the transaction xxxx in an additional session

o /i Delete the current session

o /h Turn the debug mode on

o /$tab Reset all buffers (for System Administrators)

o /$syn c Synchronize instances buffers (for System Administrators)

What is ERP?

ERP is a package with the techniques and concepts for the integrated management of business as a whole, for effective

use of management resources, to improve the efficiency of an enterprise. Initially, ERP was targeted for manufacturing

industry mainly for planning and managing core business like production and financial market. As the growth and merits

of ERP package ERP software is designed for basic process of a company from manufacturing to small shops with a

target of integrating information across the company.

Explain the concept of Business Content in SAP Business Information Warehouse?


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Business Content is a pre-configured set of role and task-relevant information models based on consistent Metadata in

the SAP Business Information Warehouse. Business Content provides selected roles within a company with the

information they need to carry out their tasks. These information models essentially contain roles, workbooks, queries,

InfoSources, InfoCubes, key figures, characteristics, update rules and extractors forSAP R/3, mySAP.com Business

Applications and other selected applications.

What does an extract statement do in the ABAP program?

Once you have declared the possible record types as field groups and defined their structure, you can fill the extract

dataset using the following statements: EXTRACT. When the first EXTRACT statement occurs in a program, the system

creates the extract dataset and adds the first extract record to it. In each subsequent EXTRACT statement, the new

extract record is added to the dataset EXTRACT HEADER. When you extract the data, the record is filled with the

current values of the corresponding fields. As soon as the system has processed the first EXTRACT statement for a

field group , the structure of the corresponding extract record in the extract dataset is fixed. You can no longer insert

new fields into the field groups and HEADER. If you try to modify one of the field groups afterwards and use it in another

EXTRACT statement, a runtime error occurs. By processing EXTRACT statements several times using different fieldgroups, you fill the extract dataset with records of different length and structure. Since you can modify field groups

dynamically up to their first usage in an EXTRACT statement, extract datasets provide the advantage that you need not

determine the structure at the beginning of the program.

What is the advantage of structures? How do you use them in the ABAP programs?

Adv:- GLOBAL EXISTANCE(these could be used by any other program without creating it again).

What is an ABAP?

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is a high level programming language created by the German

software company SAP. It is currently positioned as the language for programming SAP's Web Application Server, part

of its NetWeaver platform for building business applications. Its syntax is somewhat similar to COBOL.

What is the difference between SAP memory and ABAP memory?

sap memory is a global memory whereas abap memory is local memory.

For example, we have four programs in abap memory and assigned some varibles to a particular program in abap

memory then those varibles can't be used by anyother program in abap memory i.e., the variables are only for that

program and also local to that memory,whereas sap memory can access all the abap memory or else it can perform any

kind of modifications

What is SAPAPO?


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SAPAPO stands for Advanced Planner and Optimizer, which is one area of SCM and application component of MySAP

product. Its is designed to provide solutions for companies in Demand planning, network design, supply network

planning, production planning and global available to promise, transportation and scheduling.

What is the work relation between SAP-MM, SD and fi/co modules?

SAP is the integration of all the modules and the topics are very relavent to each other because basically its

management skillsetgroup. From manufacturing the product/goods/services to reaching the customer. All the

transaction process is depending on sales area, sales doc, item proposals, shipping, delivery and billing.

What is the one full implementation of life cycle in SAP-BW.?

Full life cycle implementation means implementing the project start from requirement gathering, analysis, solution

desion, mapping, implementing according to ASAP methodology.

What are the activities we will do in SAP MM module implementation?

Various activities in SAP MM are : Inventory, Warehouse, Purchasing, Vendor evolution, Invoice varification, etc.

What is an Open Item in SAP? How will you find an Open Item in SAP?

you can generate a list of open items from the information systems menu option:

* General Ledger: Information system General ledger reports Line items General ledger line items

G/L line items, list for printing.

* Accounts Receivable: Information system

* Reports for accounts receivable Customer items List of customer open items for printing. Accounts

Payable: Information system Reports for accounts payable Vendor items List of vendor open items for

printing.

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