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What Is SAP and Why SAP
What Is SAP and Why SAP
What is an ERP ? What is SAP Software ? Introduction to SAP ERP and List
of modules in SAP ERP
SAP Software is a ERP( Enterprise Resource Planing) solution, through which large and
medium scale companies can manage their business.SAP Software is produced by a German
based company SAP.
SAP Company: SAP Company founded in 1972 in Germany by five former employees of IBM
namely, Dietmar Hopp, Klaus Tschira, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, and Claus
Wellenreuther and they released standard versions called R1 and R2 in early days, and they
released 3-tier architecture R3 in 1990`s which was very successful.
In 2000 SAP released ECC (Enterprise Central Component), latest version in market is ECC 6.0
and they are adding additions to this in the form of enhancement packs.
Why SAP?
Through SAP software a company can plan their business in different aspects like Supply Chain
Solutions, Material Management, Sales and Distribution, Finance controlling, Human Resource
planing, etc.
The total SAP Software is built using ABAP Programming Language, which is a standard
programming language developed by SAP it self, we call ABAP as 4th Generation Programming
Language (ABAP/4)
Some of Modules in SAP are :
SAP EHS module: EHS stands for Environment, Health and Safety.
SAP FSCM module: FSCM stands for Financial Supply Chain Management.
SAP PLM module: PLM stands for Product Life Cycle Management.
SAP Product Costing: Product Costing deals with Plan Costing Actual Costing of Finish
products.
SAP ABAP module: ABAP stands for Advanced Business Application Programming.
SAP Basis module: Basis also known as Basis Admin is typically the administration of
SAP.
SAP BPC module: BPC stands for Business Planning and Consolidation.
SAP BODI module: BODI stands for Business Objects Data Integrator.
SAP Netweaver module: Netweaver provides technical foundation for SAP applications.
SAP Solution Manager module: Solution Manager facilitates technical support for
distributed systems.
SAP XI module: SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) enables you to implement crosssystem processes on services.
SAP PI module: SAP Process Integration (SAP PI) is enterprise application integration
(EAI)software.