Lecture 1: What is ERP?

ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning

SAP – Systems Application & Products in Data Processing
R/3 – Real Time / 3 Tier
ECC – ERP Central Component
ABAP – Advanced Business Application Programming Language 4 th
Generation
Due to need of continuous communication in all the departments, the
processing and validation of every information will take a lot of time.
That issue occurred here, it took a lot of time in information in back
and forth.
 Lecture 2: SAP ABAP Overview

ABAP/4
 Data Dictionary – central repository of SAP server to store the
properties of object and their respective data
o Data Dictionary Objects
 Data base tables
  Views
 Data Types
 Type Groups
 Domain
 Search Help
 Lock Objects
 Programming – write the logic for the requirement
o Reporting
 Classical Reporting
 Basic
 Interactive (Drill down reporting up to 20 screens)
 ALV (ABAP List Viewer)
 Hierarchal ALV
o Module pool / Dialogue / Dynamic / Dynpro / Screen
Programming
o Module pool – we can create, modify, edit, delete, or read the
data using this concept
 Forms – concept to create forms, like invoice, where we bring data
from DB table and present it on in a page layout along with static
data
o Adobe forms provide options even to manipulate data
 Scripts (outdated)
 Smart forms
 Adobe forms
 Conversions
o Used for One time loading of data in SAP from Legacy System
(Non-SAP Systems)
o BDC – Batch Data Communication
 Call Transaction Method (No log)
 Session Method
o LSMW – Legacy System Migration Workbench
o BAPI – Business Application Programming Interface
 o DI – Direct Input
 OOPS
o OOPS ALV
 Basic
 Interactive
 Enhancement
o User Exits
o BADI (Business Add Ins)
 Cross Application
o RFC (Remote Function Call)
o ALE (Application linking and Enabling)
o EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
o BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface)
o Workflow
 Web dynpro