SAP software fills special needs for large organizations and businesses that manage global operations. SAP software helps departments and business units communicate efficiently and resolves issues with product development and inventory management. Over 15,000 companies in 120 countries worldwide utilize the database driven enterprise integration software from SAP to keep things running smoothly, a miracle even for small organizations.


The business software suite SAP, which stands for "systems, applications and products in data processing", was developed by the German company SAP in 1972, and is now the world's largest business software company. SAP business software is a vital element in the operation of large organizations, and the expertise of network engineers with SAP certification contributes greatly to efficient enterprise resource planning and communication.

Here is a list of 10 ways that SAP business software helps large organizations make the most of their extensive resources:

1 It enables open and efficient communication and resource management between departments and business levels located far from each other.

2 It is built to benefit small businesses as well as global corporate conglomerates.

3 SAP business software operates on databases that are versatile and offer powerful enterprise integration features.

4 With open and increased data flow between departments production quality improves it leverages benefits in product development and marketing.

5 SAP applications and modules are versatile enough to handle global operations between many languages and currencies.

6 With SAP enterprise integration software large and small businesses alike can agile in adapting to the changing market conditions.

7 SAP software has an extensive support structure to document and administer its powerful capabilities with expert certification.

8 SAP employs over 35,000 business software professionals in over 50 countries for global sales and technical support for their power software suite.

9 SAP operates robust research and venture capital divisions in order to continually improve their products and to remain far in the lead for business software.

10 SAP helps to pinpoint inefficiences in the organization and to empower integration and synergy of great competitive resources.

SAP MODULES :

SAP now are moving away from describing their system as a set of modules, and now are using the term ‘solutions’, which is much better. If you visit SAP’s website (as we urge you to do) you will find that they have structured their Solutions tab as follows:

Financials

Human Resources

Customer Relationship Management

Supplier Relationship Management

Product Lifecycle Management

Supply Chain Management

Business Intelligence


> still looking for that list of modules, here they are

* FI Financial Accounting – essentially your regulatory ‘books of record’, including

General ledger

Book close

Tax

Accounts receivable

Accounts payable

Consolidation

Special ledgers


* CO Controlling – basically your internal cost/management accounting, including

Cost elements

Cost centres

Profit centres

Internal orders

Activity based costing

Product costing


* AM Asset Management – track, value and depreciate your assets, including

Purchase

Sale

Depreciation

Tracking


* PS Project Systems – manage your projects, large and small, including
Make to order

Plant shut downs (as a project)

Third party billing (on the back of a project)

* HR Human Resources – ah yes, people, including
Employment history

Payroll

Training

Career management

Succession planning

* PM Plant Maintenance – maintain your equipment (e.g. a machine, an oil rig, an aircraft etc), including
Labour

Material

Down time and outages

* MM Materials Management – underpins the supply chain, including
Requisitions

Purchase orders

Goods receipts

Accounts payable

Inventory management

BOM’s

Master raw materials, finished goods etc

* QM Quality Management – improve the quality of your goods, including
Planning

Execution

Inspections

Certificates

* PP Production Planning – manages your production process, including
Capacity planning

Master production scheduling

Material requirements planning

Shop floor

* SD Sales and Distribution – from order to delivery, including
RFQ

Sales orders

Pricing

Picking (and other warehouse processes)

Packing

Shipping


* CA Cross Application – these lie on top of the individual modules, and include

WF – workflow

BW – business information warehouse

Office – for email

Workplace

Industry solutions

New Dimension products such as CRM, PLM, SRM, APO etc