Monday 21 March 2011

INTRODUCTION TO SAP


SAP

(SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTS FOR DATA PROCESSING)

SAP developed by five IBM employees in 1992 and designed in SAP AG(AG means Ltd) company in Germany.
·        Before SAP, people used to do IBM Mainframe

This sap is completely developed and we have to customize what ever we want.

There are two types in SAP
They are :         1. FUNCTIONAL,
                        2. TECHNICAL

1.      FUNCTIONAL:

Functional has :             SD (sales and distribution)
                        MM (material management)
                        FI/CO(Finance and controls),
                                   
2. TECHNICAL.

Technical has :  ABAP or Core ABAP,
                                    CROSS APPLICATIONS,
                                    NETWEAVER.

·                                            Total SAP applications are developed under ABAP programming.
·                                            ABAP language developed based on ‘C’ language.
·                                            CROSS Applications are used to communicate the distributed business systems
·                                            In case of other ERP’s the developed was done up to 30% only the remaining will be done using the special tools provided by SAP.
·                                            But incase of SAP is completely developed so we have to customize the predefined thing like applications and tables.
·                                            To implement the ERP for a business organization it takes 14 to 27 months.
·                                            We can implement SAP in all departments of an organization so it is most popular ERP in the market.
·                                            In case of NON-ERP’s everything we have to develop from scratch
·                                            JDEDWARDS is best for vendor (manufacturing) because it contains maximum numbers of vendor tables and applications.

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