Kamis, 23 Februari 2012

Lesson: System-Wide Concepts



Lesson overview:
Thie lesson focuses on the system-wide concepts that underline the SAP system. These concepts, organizational elements, master data, and transactions, are the basic element designed and utilized to respresent a company’s enterprise structure and business processes within the SAP system. Following are brief descriptions of the concepts that will be discussed in more detail in this lesson.
Organizational Elements
A company’s enterprise structure is mapped to SAP applications using organizational elements.
Master Data
Created centrally and available to all applications and all authorized users, master data also has an organizational aspect because its information is organized into views. That are assigned to organizational elements.
Transactions
Transactions are application program that execute business processes in the SAP system. Example include create sales order’s list report.
Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
·         State the purpose of an organizational element in the SAP system
·         Explain the purpose of master data in the SAP system
·         Explain the purpose of transactions in SAP training
·         Explain the use of IDEIS

Business Example
Processes within a company generally take place across departmental boundaries. In global companies, these processes take place across national and company boundaries. The long-term success of IDES AG, is dependent on collaboration with business partners and global outlook. IDES wants new orders from customers entered into the SAP system with minimal data entry and maximum data accury. IDES must also have a record of all transactions.


Organizational Elements
·         Client:  the client is the highest-level elements; it represents the enterprise/headquarters group.
·         Company code: the company code is a legal independent accounting unit representing the central organizational element of financial accounting. The copany code also represents the tax law (national) view of the company, the fiscal calendar, the local currency, and the tax reporting requirements.
·         Plant: A plant can manufacture product, distribute product, or provide a service; it is the central organizational unit of production.
·         Storage Location: Material stocks in Inventory Management can be differentiated within one plant according to storage location.
·         Sales organization: The sales organizational is the central organizational element in sales order management that control the terms of sale to the customer.
·         Distribution Channel: Distribution channels can be used to define how different products reach consumers, for  example, who sale.
·         Organizational Unit: Organizational units describe the various business units that exist in an enterprise. Often units are loosely defined as functional or regional departments, or as project groups, depending on the type of organization.
·         Position: Positions are the individual employee assignments in the enterprise.

IDES
IDES (international Demonstration and Educational System) is an international company dependent upon collaborations with external business partners and a global outlook.
IDES AG is a manufacturing company. It operates worldwide and has a number of subsidiaries. This company’s processes are using during this training course to demonstrate the solutions provided  by SAP. As an international company, IDES has several holdings and requires the ability to report to shareholders on an international bases. Management’s goal over the next year is to increase profits. Costing analysis report, and overhead cost reports are to be captured to a business intelligence system for management review.



System-Wide Master Data Concepts
In SAP, master data is created centrally and available to all applications and all authorized users. Centrally stored master data means data means data record are always consistent, up-to-date, and free of redundancy. Master data also has an organizational aspect because its information is organized into views that are assigned to organizational elements . The three-part structure of master records makes it possible to flexibly depict the various organizational structure of an operation.

Customer master
A customer  master contains key information that defines the business relationship between a company and its customer. Company code data control the posting procedure and subsequent processing , such as payments and dunning. Sales organization data provides information on customers for support execution of such business processes as entering sales orders, shipping, billing, and processing payment. The customer master’s “three-part structure” is represented by:
1.      General Data: this data is equally relevant to every company  code and every sales organization within a company.
2.      Data for Company Codes: This data reflects company-specific agreements with the customer.
3.      Data for sales: This data has different characteristics for a company’s sales organizations and channels
Material Master
The material master contains all of the key information a company needs to manage a material within its organization. The material master defines, among other things, how a product is sold, manufactured purchased, inventoried, accounted, and costed. The information in the material master into views that are organized by business function.
Personal File
Personnel file are master data records used primarily mySAP ERP Human Capital Management. These master records follow the same basic three-part structure, as do other master records.
Organizational Units describe the various business units that exist in your enterprise. Multiple organizational units and their relationships form the organizational structure. Organizational units can be loosely defined as functional or regional departments, or as project group, depending on the type of organizational.

Jobs
Jobs serve as descriptions, or templates, that apply to several positions with similar requirements, tasks, or other characteristics.
Positions
Positions are individual employee assignments in the enterprise. Persons occupy positions. A position inherits a job’s characteristics, but you can also define additional characteristics specific to that position.
Persons
Persons hold positions within the organizational structure. Persons represent employees in your company.
Transactions
Transactions are application programs that execute business in the SAP system. Whenever possible, master data is copied during transactions processing, this avoiding re-entry of data. For example, when executing the transaction Create Sales Order, the user must enter the customer. Likewise, once the material master numbers are entered for the items being ordered, the relevant material data will be copied into the sales order.












1.      Jelaskan yang dimaksud dengan organizational element dan tujuannya
A company’s enterprise structure is mapped to SAP applications using organizational elements.

2.      Jelaskan yang dimaksud dengan master data dan tujuannya
Created centrally and available to all applications and all authorized users, master data also has an organizational aspect because its information is organized into views. That are assigned to organizational elements.

3.      Jelaskan yang dimaksud dengan transaction dan tujuannya
Transactions are application program that execute business processes in the SAP system. Example include create sales order’s list report.

4.      Sebutkan unsur unsur dari organizational elements
·         Client
·         Company Code
·         Plant
·         Storage Location
·         Sales organization
·         Distribution Channels
·         Organizatinal Unit
·         Position

5.      Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan client
The client is the highest-level elements; it represents the enterprise/headquarters group.

6.      Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan Company Code
the company code is a legal independent accounting unit representing the central organizational element of financial accounting. The copany code also represents the tax law (national) view of the company, the fiscal calendar, the local currency, and the tax reporting requirements.

7.      Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan plant
A plant can manufacture product, distribute product, or provide a service; it is the central organizational unit of production.

8.      Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan Storage location
Material stocks in Inventory Management can be differentiated within one plant according to storage location.

9.      Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan sales organizational
The sales organizational is the central organizational element in sales order management that control the terms of sale to the customer.

10.  Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan Distribution channels
Distribution channels can be used to define how different products reach consumers, for  example, who sale.

11.  Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan Organizational unit
Organizational units describe the various business units that exist in an enterprise. Often units are loosely defined as functional or regional departments.


12.  Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan position
Positions are the individual employee assignments in the enterprise

13.  Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan IDES
IDES (international Demonstration and Educational System) is an international company dependent upon collaborations with external business partners and a global outlook.
IDES AG is a manufacturing company. It operates worldwide and has a number of subsidiaries. This company’s processes are using during this training course to demonstrate the solutions provided  by SAP. As an international company, IDES has several holdings and requires the ability to report to shareholders on an international bases. Management’s goal over the next year is to increase profits. Costing analysis report, and overhead cost reports are to be captured to a business intelligence system for management review.


14.  Jelaskan hubungan master data dengan aplikasi yang ada di SAP
In SAP, master data is created centrally and available to all applications and all authorized users. Centrally stored master data means data means data record are always consistent, up-to-date, and free of redundancy. Master data also has an organizational aspect because its information is organized into views that are assigned to organizational elements . The three-part structure of master records makes it possible to flexibly depict the various organizational structure of an operation.

15.  Sifat master data
Created centrally and available to all applications and all authorized users, master data also has an organizational aspect because its information is organized into views. That are assigned to organizational elements.

16.  Sebutkan data yang disimpan dalam master data
All area can used stored data, including sales, purchasing, inventory managements, materials planning, invoice vertification, finance, and human resources.

17.  Jelaskan isi dari customer master data
A customer  master contains key information that defines the business relationship between a company and its customer. Company code data control the posting procedure and subsequent processing , such as payments and dunning. Sales organization data provides information on customers for support execution of such business processes as entering sales orders, shipping, billing, and processing payment. A customer  master contains key information that defines the business relationship between a company and its customer. Company code data control the posting procedure and subsequent processing , such as payments and dunning. Sales organization data provides information on customers for support execution of such business processes as entering sales orders, shipping, billing, and processing payment.

18.  Jelaskan tiga structure dalam customer master
·         General Data: this data is equally relevant to every company  code and every sales organization within a company.
·         Data for Company Codes: This data reflects company-specific agreements with the customer.
·         Data for sales: This data has different characteristics for a company’s sales organizations and channels

19.  Jelaskan material master
The material master contains all of the key information a company needs to manage a material within its organization. The material master defines, among other things, how a product is sold, manufactured purchased, inventoried, accounted, and costed. The information in the material master into views that are organized by business function.

20.  Jelaskan isi personell file
.Organizational Units describe the various business units that exist in your enterprise. Multiple organizational units and their relationships form the organizational structure. Organizational units can be loosely defined as functional or regional departments, or as project group, depending on the type of organizational.




21.  Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan personnel file
Personnel file are master data records used primarily mySAP ERP Human Capital Management. These master records follow the same basic three-part structure, as do other master records.

22.  Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan organizational unit
Organizational units describe the various business units that exist in an enterprise. Often units are loosely defined as functional or regional departments, or as project groups, depending on the type of organization.

23.  Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan Jobs
Jobs serve as descriptions, or templates, that apply to several positions with similar requirements, tasks, or other characteristics

24.  Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan Posisition
Positions are individual employee assignments in the enterprise. Persons occupy positions. A position inherits a job’s characteristics, but you can also define additional characteristics specific to that position.

25.  Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan Person
Persons hold positions within the organizational structure. Persons represent employees in your company.

26.  Jelaskan apa yang dimaksud dengan transaction
Transactions are application programs that execute business in the SAP system. Whenever possible, master data is copied during transactions processing, this avoiding re-entry of data. For example, when executing the transaction Create Sales Order, the user must enter the customer. Likewise, once the material master numbers are entered for the items being ordered, the relevant material data will be copied into the sales order.

27.  Bagaimana hubungan antara transaksi dengan dokumen
Whenever a transaction is a executed in the system, a document is created. That document, a data record of the transaction, contains all of the relevan predefined information from the master data organization now elements





Kamis, 16 Februari 2012

Introduction Lesson : Product overview


1.       History of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System

1970: ERP? No definiation
      SAP invents and establishes an ERP system
1980: ERP the business sortware.
      ERP becomes standard software. The first competitors
                Appear in the market place.
1990: Dotcom hype: ERP= old
                                  E-business= new
      ERP software is regarded as obsolete. The first "new
      dimension" products conquer the market.
2000: Integrated Business Suite & xApss
      E-business is defined as an extension of ERP software
      SAP sets a new standard.

2.      Jelaskan tiga produk SAP untuk perusahaan besar, menengah dan kecil
·         My SAP Business Suite
If you want to remain competitive in the current economic climate, you have to be flexible and capable of changing to meet constant new demands from your curtomers, mySAP business Suite provides this flexibility in a complete package of open, integrated solutions for the entire value chain. Customers, employess, suppliers, and partners are brought together to form one unit in process that takes almost no time at all.

·         mySAP All-in-one
Each qualifield mySAP All-in one solution is a prepacked, industry-specific version of mySAP Business Suite with built-in content, tools, and methodologies for a cost-effective, turnkey implementation. mySAP All-in-One solutions offer out-of-the-box flexibility combined with the power of SAP’s world-class business solutions.
·         SAP Business One
SAP Business One is an easy-to-use business and operational management solution for emerging and dynamic business ranging in size from 10 to several hundread employess. The solution is simple yet powerful, allowing an immediate abd complete view of both business and customer activities

3.      mySAP Solutions
mySAP Business suite consists of individual SAP solutions. Each solution has its own focus area and provides functions to map this area in a flexible and comprehensive way. All solutions are based on SAP Netaweaver technology.

4.      Components or Applications
Solutions are SAP’s product seen from the point of view of the customer, with an outside-in focus on company processes. Components, however, respresent SAP’s technical view of software with an inside-out focus. Component are not the actual company solutions, simply the technical building blocks. Business experience, strategies, and know how are incorporated in SAP software. The flexibility and comphrehensive integration and adaption options offered by SAP software results in high-perfomance, industry-specific, and cross-industry e-business solutions.

5.      Isi dari component


6.      Membedakan SAP sebagai solution dan sebagai company
To differentiate between solutions and components, solutions have the prefix mySAP and components, the (technical) detailed view- have the prefix mysap.  For example, my sap customer Relationship Management (mySAP CRM) is the solution that customer implements. SAP ERP central component, SAP enterprise portals, SAP business information warehouse, and sap CRM are technical part this solution.
7.      SAP netweaver technology
SAP’s application and integration platform is the technical foundation for mySAP business suite and SAP xApps. It delivers a complete, open, and flexible infrastructure that allows you to easli integrate SAP and non-AP applications.

8.      Sebutkan empat area SAP netweaver
·         People integration: People integration ensures that you employees have the information and functions that they required to perform their work as quickly and efficiently as possible. The functions of the SAP enterprise Portal play a central role here
·         Information Integration: Information integration is used to manae all data relevant to companies this include data for your own company abd data relating to third parties
·         Process Integration: process integration ensures that business processes run across system boundaries in a heterogeneous system landscape. This is achieved by using XML data packages and workflow scenarios, for instance. SAP exchange infrastructure (SAP XI) plays a central role here.
·         Application platform
·         Support java 2 enterprise edition (J2EE) and ABAP (SAP’s programming language) in one environment. It guarantees the independence of database and operating systems, the complete support of platform-independent web services and company applications, and an open environment that is based on recognize standart. The central component of the application Platform is the SAP Web Application Server.

9.      SAP NETWEAVER COMPONENT
Net weaver  component is Supports platform-independent Web services, business applications, and standards-based development, enabling you to leverage existing technology assets for Web-services-oriented solutions

10.  Jelaskan MySAP ERP, mySAP ERP Financial, mySAP ERP HCM, mySAP Business suite, mySAP CRM, mySAP PLC, mySAP SCM, mySAP SRM, - myESP ERP is designed in such a way that companies can implement only the business functions they need when they need them, thus simplifying upgrads and reducing total cost of ownership

·         My SAP ERP financial
The aim of this solution is to utilize a company’s funds effectively and, therefore, increase profitability in the long term
·         mySAP ERP Hman Capital Management
Every company has empolees. They are important resources, and mySAP ERP HCM enables you to utilize them effectively toward the success of your company. This solution covers all aspects of human resources, from recruitment and training through payroll
·         My SAP Business Suite
If you want to remain competitive in the current economic climate, you have to be flexible and capable of changing to meet constant new demands from your curtomers, mySAP business Suite provides this flexibility in a complete package of open, integrated solutions for the entire value chain. Customers, employess, suppliers, and partners are brought together to form one unit in process that takes almost no time at all.
·         mySAP Supplier Relationship Management
Procurement over the Internet and marketplaces are only two ways to optimize purchasing. Employees can use this solutions to provide procument with informations about demand directy from their work centers quickly, easily, and effectively.
·         mySAP Product Lifecycle Management
This solution offers functions for product development, product safety, quality, and maintenance.


·         mySAP Supply Chain Management
Supply chains do not end at the warehouse doors. You can use mySAP SCM to plan and optimize supply chains across company boundaries.

·         mySAP Supplier Relationship Managemen
Procurement over the Internet and marketplaces are only two ways to optimize purchasing. Employees can use this solutions to provide procument with informations about demand directy from their work centers quickly, easily, and effectively.

11.  Industri yang dilayani oleh SAP
Whereas the mySAP Business is generally industry-independent, many industries require specialized functions and process. SAP fulfiltd this requirement through industry-specific solutions.
·         Automotive
SAP for automotive is designed to designed to streamline and improve disjointed business practices, enabling you closely manage multitierd networks of customers, suppliers, and partners.

·         Banking
Based on a flexible, scalable infrastructure, SAP for banking provides a robust environment for incorporating environment for incorporating new techonologies. Controlling core banking processes, and extending operations to the internet.
·         Chemicals
·         Healthcare
·         Logistics services providers
·         Mining
·         Oil and gas
·         Public sector
·         Retail

13.   Karakteristik dari SAP xApps
·         Cross-functional: Sap xApps can be impleted with a multitude of applications and informations sorces.
·         Composite: Sap xApps flexible workflow and business processes independently of the undeflying infrastructure. Furthermore, SAP xApss synchronize and improve existing business processes.
·         cross-system: SAP xApps support a complex transfer  of information (context, relevance), ass well as the communications within the business itself.
·         Information-driven: SAP xApps enable intelligent processes that are driven by decision-relevant business information.

14.   Contoh SAP xApps
·         SAP xApp cost and Quotation Management (SAP xCQM)
·         SAP xApp Resource and portofolio Management (SAP xRPM)
·         SAP xApp Product Desinition (SAP xPD)
·         SAP xApp Emissions Management (SAP xEM)

15.   Jelaskan mySAP all in one dan keuntungannya

·         mySAP All-in-one
Each qualifield mySAP All-in one solution is a prepacked, industry-specific version of mySAP Business Suite with built-in content, tools, and methodologies for a cost-effective, turnkey implementation. mySAP All-in-One solutions offer out-of-the-box flexibility combined with the power of SAP’s world-class business solutions.
·         mySAP All-in-One provides the following advantages:
1.      Rapid implementation and transparent cost
2.      Increased productivity and cost control
3.      Reliabele partners
4.      Scalability

16.   Jelaskan mySAP business one dan keuntungannya
-          SAP Business One
SAP Business One is an easy-to-use business and operational management solution for emerging and dynamic business ranging in size from 10 to several hundread employess. The solution is simple yet powerful, allowing an immediate abd complete view of both business and customer activities
-          SAP business One provides the following advantages:
1.      Rapid implementation
2.      Lower costs
3.      Increased productivity and cost control
4.      Sound business decisions
5.      Scability






17.   SAP is a solution company
Answer: TRUE
Business experience, strategy, and know-how are intangibles, which, bundled together with the vast flexibility, integration, and customizing potential of SAP software, have result in more powerful e-business solution within spesific industries and across industry borders.

18.   mySAP solution platforms are open and flexible (True/False)
Answer : TRUE
mySAP solution platform support databases, applications, operating system, and hardware from almost every major vendor.

19.   all of the mySAP solutions are role based
Answer : TRUE
All of the procesess within the SAP system are mapped back to user roles. The mySAP enterprise Portal let you customize your interface so that you can perform tasks associated with your role.