History - SAP

 Headquarters at Walldorf, Germany

 By five ex-IBM engineers
 In June 1970, they founded Systemanalyse und
Programmentwicklung ("System Analysis and Program
Development") company
 SAP stands for System, Andwen dungen,Produkte in
der Datenverarbeitung
 Systems, Applications, Products in Data
Processing
Releases
 R1 and R2 were the first releases and were mainly
mainframe applications
 R/2 was real time architecture

 Later R/3 with 3 servers

 End of 80s and early 90s marked SAP R/3

 R- real time data processing and R/3 was used for

client/server systems
Modules
 Functional divisions within the organisation was
divided into modules
 SAP initially started with Financial application
 Later Logistics and HR were added
 Only one IS in an enterprise-SAP
 Real events in the business initiate transactions
 For eg, accounting is done by events in sales and
production
SAP Application modules-Major
 Financial Controlling
 Sales & Distribution

 Material Management

 Production Planning
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Finance
 The base module
 General ledger

 Accounts payable

 Accounts receivable

 Asset accounting
Controlling
 Cost center accounting
 Profit center accounting

 Product costing

 Profitability analysis

 Internal order
Sales & Distribution
 Controls sales and is normally tied with materials
management
 Customer master data

 Sales

 Sales conditions

 Sales organisations etc..

Human Resource
 All HR activities
 Resource hiring

 Salary

 Benefits etc

 Highly integrated with FI & CO modules

Project system
 Project related activities
 Budgeting

 Planning

 Forecasting

 Work break down

Major ERP vendors
Manufacturing and Distribution
Industry
21
SAP
31
Oracle
2
2 Microsoft
Infor
Epicor
22 Others
22
Service sector
Retail sector