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After the SAP R/1 and SAP R/2 products, SAP introduced SAP R/3.

Later, in March of
2003, SAP released SAP ERP, where many other SAP components were included
along with SAP R/3. Inside SAP ERP, SAP R/3 enterprise was just a component.
As you can see here, from this point on SAP ERP was more than just SAP R/3
Enterprise with SAP NetWeaver, since it offers many functional enhancements like Self
Services, self service procurement, internet sales, and SAP SEM. SAP Net Weaver also
contains the SAP Web Application Server. With SAP ERP, a new SAP solution was
born.
The SAP ERP Central Component or SAP ECC, is the evolutionary successor of the
previously offered SAP R/3 Enterprise, and is the central core of SAP ERP.
Compared to the SAP R/3 Enterprise, in SAP ECC there are architectural changes with
respect to Enterprise Services Architecture, enhanced usability and new developed
functionality, like the new general ledger.
SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Strategic Enterprise Management, and Internet
Transaction Server integrated into SAP ECC. Customers now have the option to run
these components on the same instance that runs SAP ECC to reduce the system
landscape and save costs. Running the components on separate instances is also
possible. SAP Web Application Server contains all capabilities of SAP basis as well as
additional web capabilities.
SAP ERP is the result of an ERP offering to SAP R/3. SAP ERP includes all the
functionality of SAP R/3 Enterprise with the large number of additional business
processes like self service, strategic management, and others. SAP ERP is an
integrated and personalized functionality. SAP ERP is built on the NetWeaver
technology. SAP NetWeaver is used as a technology platform for integration and as an
application infrastructure with open connections to Microsoft .NET and IBM WebSphere.

SAP Business Suite comprises SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP CRM, SAP SCM, and SAP
SRM.
SAP Business Suite is built on SAP NetWeaver. As you can see from this image, the
core component of the Business Suite is ERP. SAP ERP consists of:
Life Cycle Data Management
Quality and Asset Management
Sales Order Management
Internet Sales
Inventory Warehouse Management
Manufacturing and Transportation
Purchase Order Processing.
SAP ERP also supports mobile technologies featuring GPS and GSM-supported service
options for collaborative businesses.

The slide here shows the solution map. As is the case with other SAP solutions, a
solution map shows you the processes enabled by a specific solution. In the image
shown here, you can see various highlighted areas in different colors. These areas
indicate additional capabilities offered by SAP ERP as against those already available to
SAP R/3. For example, you have New General Ledger in Financial Accounting, E-
Learning, and E-Recruitment in Work Force Process Management, and Self-Service
Procurement in Procurement.
An Organizational Unit is a unit used to map an Organizational Structure of an
enterprise to the SAP Application. Familiar terminology like Storage Location, Sales
Office, Profit Center, and Legal Entity are all represented by the team Organizational
Unit inside the SAP Application.
In the image here, the Organizational Unit “CLIENT” is the highest on the order and is
used to represent the complete Enterprise.
Next would be the company code followed by Plant, Sales Organization, Division and
Storage Location. The purpose of this hierarchy or Organizational Unit is to avoid re-
entering data more than is required. For example, specifications or data that is valid for
all organizational units in all R/3 applications can be entered at the CLIENT level,
eliminating the need to enter this information more than once. A client usually
represents a company in an SAP system.
A company code is an independent legal accounting entity. An example would be a
company within a corporate group. Here company and subsidiary in SAP can be called
as company code. This is required for Financial Accounting.
Similarly, Plant is the central organizational unit for Production Planning and in the
context of Sales and Distribution, the Sales Organization is the central organizational
element that controls the terms of sales to the customer. Division is usually used to
represent a product line.
In this image, you can see how Organizational Units are used to represent the
Enterprise Structure. At the highest level is the Client. This has two derivative Company
Codes, 1000 and 3000. Company Code 1000 has two derivation Plants under it, and
similarly Company Code 3000 has one plant and one Controlling area under it.
When you define the organizational units for your enterprise, please bear in mind how
you would like the data to be entered, tracked, and extracted from the system, as this is
a representation of the existing business processes.
Sales and distribution is organized according to the sales organization, distribution
channel and division. A combination of these three organizational units forms the sales
area. The sales organization is an organizational unit within logistics that structures the
company according to its sales requirements.
A sales organization is responsible for the sale and distribution of goods and services.
The distribution channel represents the channel through which saleable materials or
services reach customers. Typical distribution channels include wholesale, retail and
direct sales. In the SAP ECC System, you can define a division-specific sales
organization. Product groups, or divisions, can be defined for a wide-ranging spectrum
of products. In this image, you can see that in sales organization 1000, products of
divisions 02, 03 and 05 are only sold through distribution channel 10.
Let us now look at what a Plant is in the Organizational Structure. A Plant is an
organizational unit defined in Material Management which represents a location where
stock of material is kept or manufactured. The assignment of plants to company code
can be n to 1.
This means any number of Plants can be assigned to one Company Code. Here you
can see plants 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, and 1400 are all assigned to the company code
1000. Any relevant company-code transaction from one of these five plants is posted to
company code 1000 in Accounting.
Let us now look at a Purchasing Organization. A purchasing organization is an
organizational unit within logistics, subdividing an enterprise according to the
requirements of Purchasing. This Unit procures materials and services, negotiates
conditions of purchase with vendors, and bears responsibility for such transactions.
Each country in which plants operate has one purchasing organization.
Hence, you will notice that Purchasing organization 1000 purchases for plants 1000,
1100, 1200, 1300, and 1400, which are located in one country and posts all the entries
into the country’s company code in 1000.
Let us now understand what we mean by Master Data. Any data that has to be used
across several business processes and is consistent for longer periods of time can be
termed as Master Data in the SAP System. Master data is usually created centrally and
is then available across applications and users. For this slide, you will look at the
Customer Master as an example.
A customer master contains information that defines the business relationship between
a company and its customer. The master contains data that is required to execute key
business processes between the customer and the company. Example of such activities
would include customer requests, deliveries, invoices, and payments. The customer
master is organized into three views which are located at different organizational levels.
General Data: which does not depend on the company code. This data is entered at the
client level.
Financial Accounting Data: is relevant to Financial Accounting and applies to one
company code.
Sales Data: wherein data for one customer can differ for each sales area. As you have
seen earlier, the sales area is a combination of sales organization, distribution channel
and division. This data is only relevant to Sales and Distribution.
While Master Data refers to data that remains unchanged for longer periods of time,
transactions are application programs which execute repeating business processes,
referencing the master data, such as creating a customer order, posting an incoming
payment, or approving a leave request.
Any transaction that has been executed in the system creates a document. When these
documents are created, they will automatically copy the referenced predefined data
from the master eliminating the need to enter it again.
Let us understand the business process flow from purchasing goods to paying for the
same. This is typically termed as the “Purchase to Pay” process flow. We will be
referring to two courses, the MM or Material Management Course and FI or Finance
Course.
Order Requirement: The first step in the purchase to pay process is the “Order
Requirement”. Order Requirement can be done manually by registering a requirement
using Order Requirement. In the SAP ECC system, the Order Requirement can also be
automatically created. Note that at this stage no postings are created in the FI course.
Order a Material: Next, in “Purchase order” process you order a material by using a
basic form of the “purchase order” document. While creating a purchase order, data
such as supplier, material, plant and any other data relevant to the purchasing of an
organization must be provided. In the SAP ECC system, the purchaser can control or
supervise the processing status of the purchase order. You can post the goods receipt
or invoice receipt for the concerned purchase order. This purchase order creation is
handled only in the MM course. In the SAP ECC system, no document is created in the
FI course during purchase order creation.
Good Receipt: Once goods are received after the purchase order is processed, the
system compares the goods receipt with purchase order quantity. A goods receipt entry
is passed in the MM course. Two documents are created in real time in the system, one
for the material document and the other for the FI document. The material document is
created to update the inventory. In the FI course, values are posted by debiting the
Material stock account or the consumption account and crediting goods receipt or the
invoice receipt account.
Invoice Verification: The vendor invoice receipt is then verified during invoice
verification. All these purchasing processes are settled in the SAP ECC system via
Logistics. The vendor invoice is posted in MM and, in real time, an FI document is
created, by debiting the goods receipt or invoice receipt account, and crediting the
vendor account.
Payment: The final step is the payment process which is finally updated in Financial
accounting, with details like the payment methods and bank settlement.

Next, you will understand the “Order to Cash” process flow. A sales order is the basis of
the sales process. Let us understand with the help of two examples: product sale ex-
stock and sale of service.
Product sale ex-stock: In this process, a sales order is created for material which is kept
in inventory. Costs and revenues are derived automatically from the material production
costs or from the SD Course.
From the incoming order, you create the transport order, where in required goods are
removed from the stock and prepared for delivery. Then outbound delivery document is
created. The goods to be delivered are posted as goods issue. At the time of goods
issue two documents are created. One in MM as a goods issue document and another
in FI as an accounting document. Billing is done only after the goods issue is posted.
During billing an invoice document is created. Finally you come to payment and
dunning. When payment is received from the customer an entry of receipt is posted in
FI. If you have not received payments from your customers by the net due date, the
customers will be dunned.
Our second example is for Sale of service: - Here you sell a service. A direct service
generation process can also be displayed via a sales order item. The sales order item is
a cost bearer; in this case, you need to define Goods lnward accounts in order to post
the entries in to FI. All the other steps like incoming orders, billing, payment are almost
identical to the steps in sales ex-stock.

OLAP or Online Analytical Processing is an approach to quickly provide the answer to


analytical queries that are dimensional in nature. It is part of the broader category of
business intelligence. Typical applications of OLAP are in business reporting for sales,
marketing, management reporting, business process management or BPM, budgeting
and forecasting, financial reporting, and other similar areas.
OLTP or Online Transaction Processing is a class of programs that facilitate and
manage transaction-oriented applications, typically for data entry and retrieval
transaction processing. If you are using the transactions in the Logistics applications,
the Logistics Information System (LIS) updates relevant information. You can also
update information from other systems in the LIS. The LIS aggregates and stores this
information in the data warehouse.

This slide discusses some of the most important demands placed on a modern data
warehouse. Decision criteria for the efficiency of a data warehouse solution are
highlighted here.
SAP BW enables the analysis of data from operative SAP applications, as well as, all
other business applications and external data sources such as databases, online
services, and the Internet. The transaction-oriented Online Transactional Processing, or
OLTP and the analysis-oriented Online Analytical Processing or OLAP environment
must be seen as an integrated entity.
Master data, and the business processes that result from it, produce a multitude of
information that cannot easily be used for target-oriented analysis. Therefore, data is
cleansed first and, because of the variety of its sources, it is prepared both technically
and in terms of content. Knowledge can then be generated from the analysis that
follows. This knowledge helps the organization to define its business strategy and
supports the business processes derived from it.

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