what is SAP?

Question

only thing i know is that its something related to software and career??

Answer 1

SAP means Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung. This is german for System analysis and program development.
The name was later changed into Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung: Systems, application and products in the data processing.

The company is specialized in large application supporting large corporations.
SAP is well known for its ERP solution R/3. The modularity of the product allows a certain fexibility in the implementation and use.

The major components within R/3 are

Financial system
Project system
Logistic system
Human ressource
Developpment system (ABAP)

The major components outside R/3 are :
Netweaver
SAP Business Warehouse and Strategic Entreprise Management
Others

Answer 2

The common name for SAP R/3 developed by SAP AG, which is the 3rd largest software company in the world after Microsoft & Oracle.

is a client/server based application, utilizing a 3-tiered model. A presentation layer, or client, interfaces with the user. The application layer houses all the business-specific logic, and the database layer records and stores all the information about the system, including transactional and configuration data.

SAP R/3 functionality is structured using its own proprietary language called ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming). ABAP, or ABAP/4 is a fourth generation language (4GL), geared toward the creation of simple, yet powerful programs. R/3 also offers a complete development environment where developers can either modify existing SAP code to modify existing functionality or develop their own functions, whether reports or complete transactional systems within the SAP framework.

ABAP's main interaction with the database system is via Open SQL statements. These statements allow a developer to query, update, or delete information from the database. Advanced topics include GUI development and advanced integration with other systems. With the introduction of ABAP Objects, ABAP provides the opportunity to develop applications with object-oriented programming.

SAP has several layers. The Basis System (BC) includes the ABAP programming language, and is the heart (i.e. the base) of operations and should not be visible to higher level or managerial users. Other customizing and implementation tools exist also. The heart of the system (from a manager's viewpoint) are the application modules. These modules may not all be implemented in a typical company but they are all related and are listed below:




FI Financial Accounting
designed for automated management and external reporting of general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable and other sub-ledger accounts with a user defined chart of accounts. As entries are made relating to sales production and payments journal entries are automatically posted. This connection means that the "books" are designed to reflect the real situation.
The FI module has 8 sub modules:
FI-GL
General Ledger Accounting
FI-LC
Consolidation
FI-AP
Accounts Payable
FI-AR
Accounts Receivable
FI-BL
Bank Accounting
FI-AA
Asset Accounting
FI-SL
Special Purpose Ledger
FI-FM
Funds Management
CO Controlling
represents the company's flow of cost and revenue. It is a management instrument for organizational decisions. It too is automatically updated as events occur.
The CO module has following sub modules:
CO-OM
Overhead Costing (Cost Centers, Activity Based Costing, Internal Order Costing)
CO-PA
Profitability Analysis
CO-PC
Product Cost Controlling
AM Asset Management
designed to manage and supervise individual aspects of fixed assets including purchase and sale of assets, depreciation and investment management.
PS Project System
is designed to support the planning, control and monitoring of long-term, highly complex projects with defined goals.
IS Industry Solutions
combine the SAP application modules and additional industry-specific functionality. Special techniques have been developed for industries such as banking, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, etc.
As of Feb 2006, following Industry Specific Solutions are supported by SAP:
IS-A
Automotive
IS-ADEC
Aerospace & Defense
IS-AFS
Apparel and Footwear
IS-B
Bank
IS-BEV
Beverage
IS-CWM
Catch Weight Mgmnt
IS-DFS
Defense & Security
IS-H
Hospital
IS-HER
Higher Education
IS-HSS
Hospitality Managm.
IS-HT
High Tech
IS-M
Media
IS-MIN
Mining
IS-MP
Mill Products (or IS-MILL)
IS-OIL
Oil
IS-PS
Public Sector
IS-R
Retail
IS-REA
Recycling Admin
IS-SP
Service Provider
IS-T
Telecommunications
IS-U
Utilities
HR Human Resources
is a complete integrated system for supporting the planning and control of personnel activities and HR module is sometimes equivalently referred as HCM (Human Capital Management).
HR-PA
Personnel Administration
HR-PD
Personnel Development
HR-RC
Recruitment
PM Plant Maintenance
In a complex manufacturing process maintenance means more than sweeping the floors. Equipment must be serviced and rebuilt. These tasks affect the production plans.
MM Materials Management
supports the procurement and inventory functions occurring in day-to-day business operations such as purchasing, inventory management, reorder point processing, etc.
QM Quality Management
is a quality control and information system supporting quality planning, inspection, and control for manufacturing and procurement.
PP Production Planning
is used to plan and control the manufacturing activities of a company. This module includes; bills of material, routings, work centers, sales and operations planning, master production scheduling, material requirements planning, shop floor control, production orders, product costing, etc.
SD Sales and Distribution
helps to optimize all the tasks and activities carried out in sales, delivery and billing. Key elements are: pre-sales support, inquiry processing, quotation processing, sales order processing, delivery processing, billing and sales information system.
WM Warehouse Management
Control of stock to a physical level down to a warehouse bin. Placement and removal rules can be configured, stock counts can be done.
HUM Handling Unit Management
This is used as a unique ID for each pallet of stock held in the warehouse.

Answer 3

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