SAP University Alliances
Author Stefan Weidner
Babett Koch
Introduction to SAP
Chris Bernhardt
Product
SAP ERP 6.08
Level
Beginner
Focus
Cross-functional integration
SD, MM, PP, FI, CO,
HCM, WM, PS, EAM, CS
Version
3.0
Last Update
July 2016
© SAP SE
SAP ERP Agenda
▪ Introduction to SAP
▪ SAP Architecture
▪ SAP ERP Core Applications
▪ Concepts
- Organizational Units
- Master Data
- Transaction Data
▪ Documents
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SAP ERP Who is SAP?
▪ SAP SE
- Founded in Walldorf, Germany in 1972
- World’s Largest Business Software Company
- World’s Third-largest Independent Software Provider
▪ Company Statistics
- Over 65,000 employees in more then 75 countries
- 232,000+ customers in more then 180 countries
- 200,000+ installations
- 2,500+ Business Partners
Source: SAP SE website
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SAP ERP SAP Portfolio Strength
▪ World-wide usage
▪ Designed to satisfy the information needs for all business sizes
(small local to large all international)
- Multi-lingual
- Multi-currency
- Multi-balance (parallel G/L Accounting)
▪ Designed to satisfy the information needs for all industries, e.g.
- Automotive
- Banking
- Retail
- Public Sector
- Higher Education and Research etc.
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SAP ERP SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP ERP)
▪ Enables a company to support and optimize its business
processes
▪ Ties together disparate business functions (integrated business
solution) such as
- Finance (Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Treasury, …)
- Logistics (Sales, Procurement, Production, Fulfillment, …)
- Human Resources etc.
▪ Helps the organization run smoothly
▪ Real-time environment
▪ Scalable and flexible
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SAP ERP Agenda
▪ Introduction to SAP
▪ SAP Architecture
▪ SAP ERP Core Applications
▪ Concepts
- Organizational Units
- Master Data
- Transaction Data/
▪ Documents
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SAP ERP SAP Architecture
▪ Client/Server Environment
- Client – hardware/software environment that can make a request for
services for a central repository of resources
- Server – hardware/software combination that can provide services to a
group of clients in a controlled environment
▪ Three – Tier Structure
- User Interface
• Graphical User Interface or Web Interface
- Application Server
• One or more, help distribute work load
- Database Server
• One single data repository
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SAP ERP SAP Business Suite
SAP PLM
SAP SAP ERP SAP
SRM CRM
SAP SCM
SAP NetWeaver
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SAP ERP Agenda
▪ Introduction to SAP
▪ SAP Architecture
▪ SAP ERP Core Applications
▪ Concepts
- Organizational Units
- Master Data
- Transaction Data
▪ Documents
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SAP ERP SAP ERP Business Modules
▪ Collections of logically related transactions within identifiable
business functions
- MM (“Buy”)
- PP (“Make”)
- SD (“Sell”)
- FI and CO (“Track”)
- HCM (“People”)
- WM (“Store”)
- EAM (“Maintain”)
- CS (“Service”)
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SAP ERP Agenda
▪ Introduction to SAP
▪ SAP Architecture
▪ SAP ERP Core Applications
▪ Concepts
- Organizational Units
- Master Data
- Transaction Data
▪ Documents
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SAP ERP Data Types in ERP Systems
Organizational Data Master Data Transaction Data
Company Code Person Purchase Order
Plant Material Invoice
Storage Location Customer Quotation
Distribution Channel Vendor Sales Order
Purchase Organization Condition Transportation Order
… … …
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SAP ERP Organizational Unit
SAP Terminology:
Enterprise Client
Company Code
Company Subsidiary
Plant Plant
Sales Organization Sales Organization
Sales
Organization
Department Division Business Area
Division
Storage Location Storage
Location
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SAP ERP Documents
▪ Data sets that are generated if a business transaction was
executed
▪ Is a record of the business transaction
▪ Includes all relevant predefined information from the master data
and organizational entities
▪ Example:
- Sales Document
- Purchasing Document
- Material Document
- Accounting Document
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SAP ERP Document Flow
▪ The document flow as well as the order status allow the setting of
the status at any point in time
▪ SAP revises the status at every time a change in a document takes
place
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