GCS-S101-1

Introduction to the SAP

Author: Bang Dinh

Date: 19 Sep, 2006
Duration: 0.5 day
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 Contents

Introduction to the SAP

3 tier client/server architecture
SAP Landscape
Practice: Creating a purchase order

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 Introduction to the SAP

Introduction to the SAP

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
What is enterprise software?
What is SAP R/3?
Application modules
Software complexity
SAP R/3 advantages
Customers worldwide
3 tier client/server architecture
SAP Landscape

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 Introduction to the SAP

SAP: Systems Applications and Products in

Data Processing.
SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.
SAP is the world's largest business software
company.
The world's third-largest independent
software provider.
Delivers business solutions to more than
34,600 customers around the world.
SAP's products focus on ERP.

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 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

ERP systems integrate all data and processes

of an organization into a single unified system.
Use a single, unified database.
A single database would contain all data for
the software modules:
Manufacturing
Supply Chain Management
Financials
Human Resources
Data Warehouse
...

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 What is Enterprise Software?

Integrated software that supports the

information flows among the processes in the
supply chain.
SAP R/3 is Enterprise Software.
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 What is SAP R/3?

SAP R/3:
Is the company’s main product.
"R" stands for real time data processing.
The number 3 relates to a 3-tier architecture:
database, application server and client (SAPgui).
SAP R/3's predecessor was R/2 which ran on a
Mainframe architecture.
How to pronounce SAP:
Ess Ay Pee or S.A.P.
NOT sap.

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 Application Modules
The SAP R/3 System consists of application modules
that support all of a company's business transactions
and are integrated interactively.

Sales & Distribution Financial Accounting

Controlling
Material Management

Production Planning Fixed Asset

Management

Quality Management Project System

Plant Maintenance Workflow

Human Resources Industry Solutions

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Software Complexity

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 SAP R/3 advantages

All of its applications are robust and

integrated.
For individual business applications, we may
find software with greater functionality than
that included in R/3.
But, it is not integrated with other business
applications.

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 Customers Worldwide

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 3 Tier Client/Server Architecture

This architecture: important in providing the features of:

Scalability
Flexibility
On-going maintenance

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3 Tier Client/Server Architecture

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 SAP Landscape
The SAP system normally contains 3 systems
(SAP servers):

Development Test/ Integration Production

Transport Transport
DEV TST PRD

Developers End users

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Practice: Creating a Purchase Order

Go to transaction: ME21.
Choose vender: 5550.
PO. Date: current date.
Purch. org: 3000.
Purch. group: 000.
Plant: 3200.
Click

Change the existing

purchase order

Create new
purchase order

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 Practice: Creating a Purchase Order

Choose a material and press enter.

Input the quantity and other information.
Click Save after finishing the purchase order.

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 Summary

Now you are able to:

Know what is SAP and its structure.
Understand how SAP work.
Create a purchase order.

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THE END

Thanks

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