Book page 41.

NOT IMPORTANT

before having an ERP system for your organization, you should have a proper
infrastructure. So when you apply the ERP and it cut across the organization, it
would be smooth process.
 Also called mash-
ups, composite
applications,
web services,
reusable
business
services.

Book page 43. IMPORTANT

Before SOA:

In the normal programming, If we need to create an application, we need to create the function inside
each application separately (there will be repetition ).

Each service/function is exclusive for the application itself. More code, more repository, even if a code is
shared it will be typed again in each application.

After SOA:

We have different services available separately, we pick and choose what service we need for which
application, and we link them.

As we can see each service can be shared by multiple applications.

Using SOA makes it easier to program and to create application. You just call the program that you need
(less code)
 Organizational Data IMPORTANT
Financial reports/Financial
accounting exist in the
company level. WHY?
- to identify each company as
financially independent from
others and each company
doesn't affect the other
financially.

if one is bankrupted and the

other is succeeding, then
neither one will be affected by
the other

• Each company belongs to one client.

• A client can have many companies.
• Each plant belongs to one company only.
• Each plant should belong to a company
not directly to the client
• Each company can have more than one
plant

Book p.47

There are 3 levels in the organizational data (how SAP looks at every organization and understand it):

1. Enterprise level ‘organization name’. here it is ‘GBI enterprise’.

the highest organizational level in SAP ERP. It represents an enterprise consisting of many companies or
subsidiaries.

2. Companies level there can be more than one company in case it was global organization e.g. Sony
(enterprise) is in Japan and they have more than one company for TVs, PS, Cameras, .. and each
company would have many branches (plants).

Each company within the enterprise is represented by a company code. Each company code represents
a separate legal entity.

3. Plant level and it means facility. It is an organizational element that performs multiple functions and
is relevant to several processes.
 If we want to create the organizational structure to UOB it would be:

UOB

Admin Business
Art college IT college
support College

.. IT center IS dep finance dep

marketing
HR CS dep
dep

Financial
CE dep
division

maintanence MO-
Transportation

Land Air Sea

UOB-IT
college .. .. ..

IS dep CS dep CE dep

..

IS major CS major CE major

SE major
 Purchasing Order -PO- IMPORTANT

1 2

Q1: where do we get Material # from?

A: material master data

Q2: where do we get Quantity from?

A: transaction data (it is decided by time of each transaction, not fixed)

Q3: : where do we get Material description from?

A: material master data

Q4: Where is the TO address from (1)?

A: Vendor master data (because this is a PO, we are buying from a company)

**if this was an invoice, then it would be from customer master data
Q5: Where is the SHIP TO address from (2)?

A: organizational data (because as an org that has multiple plants, we need to know where they should ship it,
which plant)

Q6: Where is all data in (3) are from?

A: from the transactional data

Q7: where are the order total and subtotal from?

A: Transactional data

Q6: Where is all data in (4) are from?

A: from the organizational data