Feb 21, 2009

Intro - SAP

SAP & MySAP Business Suite.

SAP stands for Systems Application Products in data processing.
It should be pronounced as S A P and not as a single word sap.

SAP product strategy is:

Extend instead of replace.
Business process integration for cost reduction and efficiency.
Cooperation among the supply chain, collaboration within business community for improved effectiveness, value creation.

The evolution of business is from ERP to Inter Enterprise Cooperation, collaborative business. Drives efficiency, profitability from business relationship.

SAP founded by 5 IBM Engineers in 1972 at Waldorf in Germany.

Claus Wellenreuther
Dietmar Hopp
Haus Wenner Hector
Hasso Plattner
Klaus Tschira

SAP Business suit is built on SAP Net Weaver, which include SAP Web application server, the portal infrastructure, the exchange infrastructure and information integration.

SAP Web application server supports Internet technology (HTTP & XML) JAVA and ABAP.

SAP switched over to R/2 Architecture in the year 1979, R/3 Architecture in the year 1992 and supported e-commerce since 1996.

SAP provides 23 industry and cross industry solutions.
28 languages which can be used in SAP.
46 various country specific versions available.
About 10,000 tables used in SAP R/3.
About 2.5 lakhs screens in SAP.
About 53 core modules called business components in SAP.
SAP reached India in year 1997, implementation by SAP partners and not SAP Labs.

SAP solution manager is for implementation, which covers operation, solution monitoring and support.

SAP implementation is a collective effort.

Feb 5, 2009

Enterprise success

Enterprise success depends on how best we manage the materials, how best control the costs, how best we use the information system and integrate all activities effecting the bottom line.

Enterprise resource planning, ERP in short made this task easy.

With sound knowledge of any ERP only one can consider best suited for in the field of Purchasing, Materials Management and Logistics, apart from the domain knowledge.
Reason being every company using ERP, amongst them SAP is one pioneered.

As it is worth to give some inputs to students who want to get in to SAP MM, practicing professionals, who are in for some inputs,
few writings I would like to take up how SAP deals with real time situations.

I request all the experienced to add few lines to my blogs, which will help me to improve and also helpful to the readers.

You may kindly ask if any doubt or question in mind, which I will try to answer in my next blog.

Me believe in learning continous process, I would like to have a interactive experience with you all.

Best wishes.