UNIT 1 Intoduction

SAP COMPANY

2004: Enterprise Services Architecture delivers the first version of SAP NetWeaver 04. The resonance from the new integration and application platform is overwhelming. By the end of 2004 the new product has more than 1000 customers. In total, more then 24,000 customers in over 120 countries run 84,000 installations of SAP software. SAP announces the future of enterprise Services Architecture. It is planned that by mind-year all enterprise applications of SAP will be service-based and offer the customer the utmost flexibility.

SAP Employess

SAP’s distinctive atmosphere hits you the moment you arrive. Applicants that visit SAP for the first time soon see why the company is so popular. The people here are realexed and friendly, and thebenergy in the corridors makes you feel that have entered a university campus.

Products

History of enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems

In the 1970’s, the concept of an enterprise resource palnning (ERP) system did not exist. With its R/I system, SAP developed a software product that handled process data in real time and saved it to a central database. This meant that companies could access their own data quickly and have a high level of control and transparency.

In the 1980, these systems carne to be known as standart ERp systems. Since SAP had broken new ground I this area, it became the market leader. Integrated processes led to increased efficiency and reduced reaction time to unexpected events.

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.

Solutions and Components

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

My SAP ERP

it is imperactive today more than ever to ensure that business process in an organization are integrated, steamlined, and transparent. mySSAP ERP allows companies to gain better control of their administrative and operations environment and increase efficiency and profitability.     

·         MySAP 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.

Industry Portfolios

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

SAP xAPPS

SAP xApps are a new bread of applications that enable you to drive improvement and innovations in your company more easily. With their ability to combine existing, heterogeneous systems to form cross-functional processes, SAP xSpps bring people, informations, and business processes together to make your company more dynamic and competitive.

The defining characteristics of SAP xApps are:

·         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.

Some examples of available 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)

SAP solutions for small and Midsize Businesses

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.

mySAP All-in One provides the following advantages:

·         Rapid implementation and transparent cost

·         Increased productivity and cost control

·         Reliabele partners

·         Scalability