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Dan Oh, Supply Chain Management, ERP, MIS

Answered Dec 19, 2015

High Level & Fundamental understandings of SAP System Architecture

It is an undeniable fact that SAP gains more and more customers such as big US
and global Corporations and government.

SAP’s greatest opportunity probably lies beyond Microsoft or IBM or Oracle. SAP More Related Questions

AG is a global software company headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. SAP

simply stands for Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing. It will Question Stats

be highly worthwhile to go over the essential components of SAP System as 52 Public Followers
more and more companies are moving toward using ERP package such as SAP 48,957 Views
rather than relying on traditional in-house development of Corporate Last Asked Dec 9, 2016
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First, there is R/3 or ERD or ECC. The name of this component has been evolved,
but the essential function of system component has not changed much. ERP
stands for Enterprise Resource Planning Software product SAP AG.

This component has its own several sub-modules such as MM (Material

Management), SD (Sales Distributions), FI/CO (Financial and Costing and
Billing), PM (Plant Maintenance/Production Planning), WM (Warehouse
Management) and HR (Human Resource Management). It has Workbench
environment where staff can develop customized program using ABAP
programming and database tables to support companies’ own internal business
processing. Each sub modules support many screens/transactions and reporting
transactions to easily keep track of inventory, orders, movement of goods. Either
Business customers or traditional IT staff can relatively merge together to design
and develop various business processes. ECC (Enterprise Central Component) is
recent name for R/3 or ERD. Even huge company can be sufficiently supported
by this one component.

Second component is called APO (Advanced Planning & Optimization). This

component is all about planning using demand data and the power of

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forecasting. Forecasting is one of core sub-modules, and Planning is based on

sophisticated planned data which is forecast data. The name SCM (Supply Chain
Management) is also used interchangeably to refer APO component. However,
please remember that SCM itself is a generic term and discipline that is taught at
major university or institution. DP (Demand Planning, i.e. Forecasting) and SNP
(Supply Network Planning) are major sub-modules of APO/SCM. It is interesting
to note that as the SAP gains more popularity among companies, SAP is
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currently adding Industry-unique modules called SPP (Service Part Planning)
with cooperation of major US Auto Industry (Ford) and CAT-Logistics.
How can I have free online access to SAP?

Third piece is CRM (Customer Relation Management). This component is most Are any SAP IDES servers available online for
free?
likely corresponding to Traditional Customer Order Processing System.
Customers can place orders, and orders are processed by CRM. Customer data What are the best resources to learn SAP ABAP
Programming for beginners?
and Order data and material data are keys to manage this component.
What are major SAP technical skills? Which skill
There are also many layers/tools that are interfaced with above three will interesting to learn as beginner in SAP ?

components. For instance, ICH (Inventory Collaboration Hub), EWM (Extended How do I learn SAP?
Warehouse Management under SCM), XI (Exchange Infrastructure), BI (Business
Where can I learn SAP ABAP for free?
Intelligence) and EP (Enterprise Portal) could be those. SAP connects above
What are the best books / courses about learning
three components using CIF (Core InterFace between ECC and SCM) and CRM
SAP?
Middleware (between ECC and CRM) to enhance data integrity and connectivity.
How do I learn SAP online for free?
Author attended several SAP classes in MM, SCM and Customizations provided
by SAP AG. There are still strong demands for SAP system and classes, and it is
hoped that more affordable training classe s and materials will be available
by other training agencies very soon. It is noted that there are also hands-on
training site which provides CBT and self study .

Please note that EWM (Extended Warehouse Management) component of SAP

landscape is getting popular, and please do not miss looking at this component
if you have a project to improve Warehouse Management.

Thank you!

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Seema Iyer, SAP With Cloud Solutions Architect at IBM at IBM

Answered Mar 24

How to learn SAP as a beginner? It is a very good question and everyone who
wants to find a job in SAP world should be asking this question before
considering any paid training opportunities. The official way of learning SAP is
SAP training courses provided by SAP Education (a division of SAP that is
responsible for training and certification).

Things you should know about SAP certification

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SAP launched primarily based on in-memory expertise with which customers

can analyze giant volumes of information and data in flip of seconds. This post
is about the certifications which can be obtained with on SAP. SAP
certification builds on the fundamental knowledge gained through related
SAP coaching and ideally refined by practical experience within an SAP project
team, whereby the consultant applies the acquired knowledge practically in
projects.

SAP has made available only one Associate Consultant certification with exam
code This exam primarily verifies that the candidate possesses the knowledge in
the area of the SAP for the profile of an SAP consultant.

SAP ERP consists of several important modules based on different business

functions of the company. We shall start with the Functional Modules.

Learn and explore everything about the SAP certifications and Functional
modules.

1. Financial Accounting (FI)

2. Management Accounting (CO)

3. Material Management (MM)

4. Production Planning (PM)

5. Sales and Distribution (SD)

6. Quality Management (QM)

First thing and your priority should be, is to get certified in the SAP module
which you have opted for. Companies prefer those candidates in fresh category
2
who at least have
Homecertification in SAP module.
Answer If you
Notifications are certified from SAP SE, it
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is a license that the candidate is aware of basic business processes and SAP’s
functionality of respective module.

Following are the options to get yourself certified:

Instructor Led SAP Academy (ILT): such academies are offered by SAP
Education Partner in different parts of the globe within their allotted
geographical location. This is an intensive academy which is led by an
experienced SAP practitioner.

SAP E-Academy: Self-paced SAP Academy where you are virtually

connected with the instructor, learning is carried out online and you
enjoy and have the liberty to complete the course at your desired pace,
time and duration

SAP Learning Hub: a new dimension introduced by SAP Education

which allows you have access to multiple courses (based on the
category of the Learning Hub ID you have purchased) for a defined
duration of time as offered by SAP

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Rajdeep Halder, SAP Consultant, takes an avid interest in Supply Chain

Management
Answered Feb 16, 2016

The following are some of the ways in which you can start your learning in the
SAP domain:

1. Employer-provided training - The organization you work for trains you in

one of the SAP applications or technology. Usually this happens for freshers in
IT service providing firms or a consulting companies, or in
manufacturing/product companies who train you in SAP to work on SAP
systems installed for them.

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Amiya Shrivastava, "Supply Chain" dabbler
Answered Oct 14, 2014

SAP as a product has several aspects and many applications. You can be system
administrator, developer or business system analyst.
1. System administrators would basically focus on Netweaver web
application server (NWAS) installation, upgrade, application of support
packs, performance tuning, change deployment etc.

2. Developers would focus on custom application development,

troubleshooting standard ...
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Mette Løbner
Answered Apr 14, 2015

Get access to a great SAP course for beginners, which includes videos,
interactive exercises, theory pages and tests:

The course is approved by SAP and you will get a certificate with the official SAP
logo once you have completed the course:

SAP Basic Navigation

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Owen Shaw
Answered Oct 21, 2013

SAP ABAP Programming For Beginners Online Training

This is a good course for beginners. I am slightly ahead in terms of learning

ABAP but refered your videos whenever I had to. Your step by step teaching
method is very good. I would however request you to inlcude some more
modules wherein you can slightly advanced programing. The next course (a
sequel perhaps) to this should include more advan... (more)

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Thea Estrada, SAP recruitment

Answered Sep 28, 2016

People I’ve spoken to have found it useful to keep up to date via (depending on
their learning styles):

SAP communities (joining and taking part)

SAP blogs (either technical or high level / industry articles)

SAP podcasts

SAP books

Linkedin groups

SAP help pages

SAP webinars...
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Alex Silva, works at Big 4 Firms

Answered Aug 18, 2014

This  is a very broad question. SAP business software is like a giant ocean , it will
be very difficult to learn SAP. In old school day SAP use to categorize its modules
as per the image below.

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One can pick the SAP module that matches their formal education /training or
work experience and then focus on that particular module .

It would be very difficult to learn entire SAP, there are very fe... (more)

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Sameer Bonde, SAP Consultant at SAP

Answered May 29, 2016

SAP official certification material is the best. I have read it 3 times before
appearing for certification exam. I learnt a great deal.

I have read it 2-3 times again in the last 3 years, when i am working on the job
and get stuck. You will always discover something new when you read the book
next time.

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