SAP ERP

About SAP & ERP
ERP makes management reporting and decision making fast and easy.
Managing 4 M’s of the organization.
- Man
- Money
- Machine
- Material
MRP developed in 1970, which involved planning of materials according to the production schedule.
Package Evolution:
SAP, Oracle, Siebel, People Soft, JD Edwards, BAAN,

Benefits:
Improve business performance
Support business growth requirement – new product, new market,
Provide integrated real time system
Eliminate limitations in legacy system.
All data are available in central database.
Eliminate data redundancy.
Data is updated and available real time.

SAP
Systems Applications and Products in data processing.
Founded in 1972 by 5 former IBM employee. Head office at Walldorf, Germany.
It is table driven customizing software.
Version:
SAP R/1 - 1972
SAP R/2 - 1979
SAP R/3 - 1992
SAP R/3 4.6B
SAP R/3 4.6C
SAP R/3 4.7C
SAP R/3 4.7EE (Enterprise Edition)
ECC 5.0 (mySAP ERP 2004s)
ECC 6.0 (mySAP ERP 2005s)
ECC – ERP central component)

mySAP Business Suit Contains:
mySAP ERP
mySAP CRM
mySAP PLM
mySAP SRM
mySAP SCM

All the above packages are developed on SAP NetWeaver.

Benefits of SAP
- Multilingual
- Multi currency
- Multi company

R/3 Architecture:
Presentation Layer -àSAP GUI
Application server -àR/3 server component
Database Layer à Actual database

All this can be on same machine or can be on different machines. If different then TCP/IP software joins the layer together.

SAP system Landscape:
Three different environment:
- Development client
- Quality client
- Production client
For each client, we will have Presentation Layer, Application Layer, Database Layer.

Networking is handled by combination of VSAT and Leased Lines or VPN.
Data transfer from one client to other client is done through Transport Request.

Projects in SAP:
Three teams:
- Implementation team.
- Client Core team
- Client Power users.

ASAP Methodology:
- Project Preparation
- Business blueprint
- Realization
- Final Preparation.
- Go-Live and support

Types of Projects:
- Implementation (Big bang)
- Roll Outs (Phase wise)
- Production support and maintenance.