what is SAP all about?

Question

people always say they are SAP consultants working for a company. what do they actually do?

Answer 1

Well SAP is a customer relationship management software. It's a very complex software, consultants will design, fix, setup the software for the particular needs of the company.

Answer 2

SAP is actually an ERP (Enterprise resource planning) software. It covers every single business process from accounting, purchasing, sales, inventory,production,human resources, etc. SAP is divided in functional modules HR=Human resources,SD Sales and Distribution, TR= Transportation, etc.and cross functional modules (WF=Workflow,etc) When someone is a SAP consultant it can be of 3 types Functional, technical and Basis. Functional is a guy that knows business process as well as how to configure the corresponding module, technical is a programmer in ABAP (the development language of SAP) and Basis is sort of a technical guy who knows hardware and database related things

Answer 3

SAP Introduction
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 (FI-Co)
Project system (PS)
Logistic system (LO)
Human ressource (HR)
Customer Relation Management (CRM)
Developpment system (ABAP)

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

The role of a consultant is to make sure the system fits the needs of a company. This includes analysis, demonstration, setup, training, conversion and support.