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ERP stands for -
Enterprise Resource Planning (in English)
- is a business management software concept to integrate planning, manufacturing, sales, marketing and other essentials of any business that leads to single point of data entry reducing data redundancy, labor and overhead costs (more automation, less coding).
=>Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) -
=>First Phase of any Business Project comprises of three stages -
=>1) Business Reengineering - This is divided into three tasks -
=>a)AS IS b)TO BE c)BLUEPRINT
=>Disagreement between AS IS and TO BE leads to a GAP (between knowledge of R/3 reporting functionality and knowledge of R/3 business transactions)
=>Using GAP Analysis (altering company structure or modifying SAP as per the business requirement, GAP is reduced that results in different values of TO BE till a status of 'TO BE without GAP' is achieved . This is called BLUEPRINT .
=>2)Realization
=>3)Go Live
=>ERP was historically developed from the methods of Material Requirement Planning (MRP) and Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP2)
=>"BIG 5" in ERP market - SAP AG, PeopleSoft, Oracle Corporation, Baan Company, JD Edwards
SAP stands for - Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung (in German)
Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (in English)
Systemanalyse and Programmentwicklung (Original name in German)
- is a software application package used by business managers to implement ERP in inventory control, order tracking, customer service, finance, human resources and any other business activity.
***SAP is an online financial and administrative software composed of individual, integrated software modules that perform various organizational system tasks.
***SAP R/3 functional modules or application areas are divided into these four high-level work areas -
Logistics, Accounting, Human Resources and Business tools.
***R/3 system is "one database". If you have one database , you have one system. During implementation, there is one system assigned to development, one for testing and one for production.
***SAP Business One is the integrated software solution for small businesses.
***MySap.com is a single sign-on SAP business user portal providing access to all internal and external SAP services through one screen via internet. Four main components of mySAP.com Marketplace are - myhome, Communities, One Step Business and Services.
***SAP is a 33-year-old company, based in Walldorf, Germany.
***Henning Kagermann is the current CEO of SAP AG .
***SAP was established in 1972 in Mannheim, Germany by five IBM engineers.
***SAP is a business concept used by enterprises to manage and support their following assets -
employees, customers, vendors, shareholders, production processes, material and services.
***SAP is providing financial management, business intelligence, asset accounting, real estate and materials management tools for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Other customers include Defense Logistics Agency and U.S. Postal Service.
***27,000 of the world's largest organizations automate everything from accounting and manufacturing to customer and supplier relations using SAP software.
***Bill Gates, partner and customer of SAP, uses SAP R/3 for financial accounting.
***SAP is America's third most admired companies in 2006 for computer software and ranked number one for long term investment.
***Motto of SAP is "Enabler of Work" / "Enabler of Change" / "Experience Innovation" / "A Better Return on Information".
***Lines of business are software, consulting, integration, hosting, support, education and research.
***SAP implementation as a web enabled ERP solution leads to better resource management, more cost-effective supply-chain management (SCM), customer-relation management (CRM) and e-business solution.
***SAP uses a Web Application Server (WAS) to generate SAP Smart Forms in HTML format and make them available in the intranet or internet for user entries.
***SAP AG's ERP (enterprise resource planning) software was selected by JetBlue Airways Corp. as the foundation for its new back-office systems project.
***SAP has 57.4% ERP market share in India and 44% ERP market share in world. (Stock Quote - [SAP])
***SAP India controls over 60 per cent of India's enterprise application software market with over 100 installations.
***SISL (Siemens Information Systems Limited) and Genovate Solutions (I) Pvt. Ltd are the ONLY authorised SAP Education partners in India.
***SAP training in India provides these job related SAP courses -
SAP Business Intelligence(SAP-BIW), SAP Materials Management(SAP-MM), SAP Portals, SAP Net weaver, SAP-BASIS SYSTEM Administration, SAP -ABAP/4 & Cross applications, SAP Human Resources (SAP-HR), SAP Sales and Distributions (SAP-SD), SAP Financial Accounting (SAP-FA), SAP Production Planning (SAP-PP), SAP Warehouse Management (SAP-WM).
***SAP projects are implemented in real time by ABAPers for FRICE (Forms, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancement) of functional modules.
***SAP community meeting (SAP TechEd '05) occurs in Bangalore, India from October 5-7, 2005 to showcase SAP workshops, SAP lectures and SAP Certification.
***Sapient College programme (in Mumbai and Bangalore in India) is the ONLY authorised center for SAP Certification.
***SAP training in India is provided by DUCAT (NOIDA and NewDelhi) and CDAC (NOIDA, Kolkata and Thiruvanathpuram).
(Contact information of authorised SAP training institutes in India is provided at the end of this page***)
***SAP training in USA is provided by SAP and Lambton College.
***SAP Market - Official SAP internet portals to meet all SAP needs and technical resources.
***SAP User Group in America - Extensive EDI resource.
***SAP R/3 4.6 Professional Curriculum Training through CD ROM
***EDI, ALE and IDocs are the hottest technologies in SAP R/3.
***ASAP is a method to reduce the time and expense of R/3 system implementation by 50%, well before the go-live date. ASAP methodolgy features reporting-related project tasks in two development phases - Business Blueprint and Realization.
***=>SAP (both automation and decision for business database) is similar to EXCEL (only decision for any database)
***SAP offers tools for systematic testing in its R/3 ERP suite. The R/3 Test Workbench, which consists of the Computer Aided Test Tool (Catt) and a test planning tool, supports the organization of test procedures.
***SAP provides solution for Internal Auditing and Enterprise Risk Management of any commercial company in compliance with the United States Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002.
***SAP is breaking up its software into smaller chunks that customers can snap together or break apart like Legos. They are tied together with open Web services.
***SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) not only seamlessly integrates any company's SAP and non-SAP systems, it easily incorporates its existing middleware and point-to-point solutions for a simplified and standardized landscape.
***ERP rivals of SAP AG are Oracle Corp. and PeopleSoft Inc., including SIEBEL Systems and BEA Systems.
***SAP Tutor and SAP Tutorial are software tools for learning SAP.
***SAP software can be accessed online through a VPN connection via Internet LAN.
***SAP Location Address :
SAP AG
Neurottstrasse 16
69190 Walldorf, Germany
Mailing Address :
69189 Walldorf, Germany
SAP information service
Tel. +49 (180) 5 34 34 24
Fax +49 (180) 5 34 34 20
SAP Programming Language -
ABAP stands for -
Allgemeiner Berichtsaufbereitungsprozessor (in German)
Advanced Business Application Programming (in English)
- is a generic report preparation processor,
a high level programming language (fourth generation) used to program SAP's Web Application Server (WAS). ABAP is utilized for customization and modification of SAP applications.
***ABAP/4 was developed by SAP for the interactive development of application programs and is a 4th Generation Language (with some OO - Object-Oriented language features)
***Main uses for ABAP programs include -
- creation of new reports
- development of new user dialog programs (transactions)
- customisation of R/3 to meet individual client needs
***Object-oriented concepts of ABAP Objects are the same as those of other modern object-oriented languages like C++ or Java. Major differences in comparison to other object-oriented languages are in the development environment. You can use the ABAP Workbench's entire range of functions with ABAP Objects. ABAP Objects is not a new language, but has been designed as a systematic extension of ABAP. All of the extensions, including the old procedural parts, are upwardly compatible.
***ABAP/4 is an event-driven language. This means that the general flow of an ABAP/4 program is controlled by external events which are triggered only by the method of output generation. Parts of a program form processing blocks, which are assigned to a certain event. The system always starts a processing block when the corresponding event occurs. Events used in ABAP/4 are - Initialization, At selection-screen, Start-of-selection, Get