SAP is the best ERP System in the world. SAP’s greatest opportunity probably lies beyond Microsoft or IBM or Oracle. Sap is a global software company headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. SAP simply stands for Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing. It will be highly worthwhile to go over the essential components of SAP System as more and more companies are moving toward using ERP package such as SAP rather than relying on the traditional in-house development of Corporate Application Systems.
First, there is R/3 or ECC or ERD. The name of this component has been evolved, but the essential function of system component has not changed much. ERP is known as Enterprise Resource Planning
The next one is CRM (Customer Relation Management). This part is most likely corresponding to Traditional Customer Order Processing System. They can place order and orders are processed by CRM. Customer data and Order data and material data are keys to managing this component.
There are also many layers/tools that are interfaced with above three components. For instance, ICH (Inventory Collaboration Hub), EWM (Extended Warehouse Management under SCM), XI (Exchange Infrastructure), BI (Business Intelligence) and EP (Enterprise Portal) could be those. SAP connects above three components using CIF (Core InterFace between ECC and SCM) and CRM Middleware (between ECC and CRM) to enhance data integrity and connectivity. We do offer sap training institutes in Bangalore
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 a recent name for R/3 or ERD. The Even huge company can be sufficiently supported by this one component. sap training in Bangalore
The another component is called APO (Advanced Planning & Optimization). This component is all about planning using demand data and the power of 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. Remember that SCM itself is a term and discipline that is taught at major university. 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 currently adding Industry-unique modules called SPP (Service Part Planning) with cooperation of major US Auto Industry (Ford) and CAT-Logistics.
SAP has over 100 technologies and products.
· Cloud- SAP has been working on making most of their solution available on the cloud. Also, it has acquired many leading cloud companies like Success Factor, Ariba, Concur, ... and others.
· Analytics- I work in analytics and it's about extracting, transforming and visualizing data. It has two main areas: Business warehousing and Business Intelligence. Each of these solutions has many tools and components and is used according to the client's need.
· Mobility- SAP started as a leader in mobile technologies especially after acquiring Sybase. For mobile, you can work on many things like mobile apps, mobile platforms, mobility infrastructure and security. The platform used in almost all mobility aspects is called Afaria. Also, you can work on designing the user experience for mobile using Fiori.
· Busines Apps- includes all ERP solution for business processes like financials, HR, Supply chain, CRM,... Etc. To get started with this track, you should go through SAP TERP10. This is the best start point that covers all the ERP processes and core solution. Getting TERP10 certification will make you stand in any SAP entry opening. It will also help you in finding you best module.
· Technology- SAP’s core strategy relies on innovating in technology around SAP HANA platform. HANA is basically an in-memory database that allows users to analyze big data in real-time. Besides HANA, if you like programming, you have many programming tracks like developing mobile apps, web apps, And java apps on HANA OR focusing on ABAP programming.
