SAP FI Module - where FI means Financial Accounting – essentially this SAP module delivers your

regulatory ‘books of record’, including

 General ledger

 Book close

 Tax

 Accounts receivable

 Accounts payable

 Asset Management (SAP AM)

 Consolidation

 Special ledgers

SAP CO Module - The CO stands for Controlling – basically the SAP Module which allows you to manage
your internal cost/management accounting, including

 Cost elements

 Cost centres

 Profit centres

 Internal orders

 Activity based costing

 Product costing

     Go here for more details on the SAP CO Module, or here for a 4 page SAP CO Tutorial

SAP PS Module - and PS is Project Systems – this SAP Module is where you can 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)

SAP HR Module - ah yes, the HR is for Human Resources ... people are the important part of this SAP
module, including

 Employment history

 Payroll

 Training

 Career management

 Succession planning

     Go here for more details on the SAP HR Module

SAP PM Module - where Plant Maintenance is the PM – this SAP module is where you maintain your
equipment (e.g. a machine, an oil rig, an aircraft etc), including

 Labour

 Material

 Down time and outages

SAP MM Module - one of the most important SAP Modules where MM is Materials Management -
underpins the supply chain, including

 Requisitions

 Purchase orders

 Goods receipts

 Accounts payable

 Inventory management

 BOM’s

 Master raw materials, finished goods etc

SAP QM Module - and QM stands for Quality Management in this SAP module – improve the quality of
your goods, including

 Planning

 Execution
  Inspections

 Certificates

SAP PP Module - one of the really big SAP modules is Production Planning – manages your production
process, including

 Capacity planning

 Master production scheduling

 Material requirements planning

 Shop floor

SAP SD Module - another one of the large SAP modules is Sales and Distribution – from order to
delivery, including

 RFQ
 Sales orders
 Pricing
 Picking (and other warehouse processes)
 Packing
 Shipping

SAP BW Module - where BW stands for Business (Data) Warehouse which includes the following main
functions:

 Data extraction from source systems

 Some technical and functional transformation of the data

 Storage of the data in what are called Infoproviders

 Reporting (which uses Infoproviders)