SAP system overview

Sap: Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing.

SAP originated from systems application. Products in Data Processing. SAP is both the company name and the name of its ERP (Enterprise-wide resource planning) software.

Founded in 1972, SAP is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. It is the world's largest supplier of enterprise management and collaborative e-commerce solutions and the world's third largest independent software supplier. Currently, sap has over 29,000 employees in more than 50 countries. SAP has over 120 customers, over 18,800 system installation points, and over 56,000 end users in more than 10 million countries and regions, more than 500 of the Top 80% companies in the world are using SAP management solutions.
SAP (systems, application and Products in Data Processing) is a pioneer in ERP solutions and can provide comprehensive solutions for enterprises of all sizes in various industries. Since 1972, the validity and feasibility of the software have been verified by tens of thousands of users in dozens of countries. And continuously promote and use these customers. Therefore, sap has a wide range of jobs in all walks of life.

Therefore, the SAP project is a project made with a powerful SAP system, advanced management ideas, and perfect solutions.

Sap r/3 is an integrated enterprise resource planning system based on the customer/service machine structure and open systems. Its functions cover the finance, logistics (engineering design, procurement, inventory, production, sales and quality), human resource management, SAP Business workflow system, and Internet application link functions of enterprises.

R/3 application software adopts modular structure. They can be used independently or in combination with other solutions. From a process-oriented perspective, the higher the degree of integration between various application software, the more benefits they bring.

SAP contains modules
FI Financial Accounting collects all company accounting information, provides complete documents and comprehensive information, and serves as the newest basis for enterprises to implement control and planning.
Tr financial management is a complete solution for efficient financial management, ensuring the company's global turnover, a profitable combination of financial asset structures, and limiting risks.
CO Management Accounting is a complete system of planning and control tools in the company's management system. It has a unified reporting system that coordinates the company's internal business processing content and processes.
EC enterprise control continuously monitors the company's success factors and performance indicators based on specific management information.
Im Investment Management provides comprehensive management and handling of investment measures and projects, from planning to settlement, including pre-investment analysis and depreciation simulation.
The PP Production Plan provides all-round processing of various manufacturing types: from heavy-covering production, Custom production, ordering production, processing and manufacturing, batch production and ordering production to production in the process, it has the function of extending the scale-up to the scale. You can also choose to connect PDC, process control system, CAD and PDM.
MM material management work-flow-oriented processing functions optimize all procurement processes. suppliers can be automatically evaluated to reduce procurement and warehousing costs through precise inventory and warehouse management, and integrated with invoice verification.
PM plant maintenance provides planning, control and handling of regular maintenance, inspection, consumption maintenance and service management to ensure the availability of various operational systems.
Quality Management (QM) monitors, inputs and manages various processes related to the entire supply chain and quality assurance, coordinates inspection and handling, initiates correction measures, and integrates with the laboratory information system.
PS project management coordinates and controls various phases of the project, and works directly with procurement and control, from quotation, design to approval, and resource management and settlement.
SD sales and distribution actively supports sales and distribution activities, with outstanding pricing, fast order processing, on-time delivery, interactive multi-level variable configuration functions, and direct connection with profit analysis and production planning modules.
HR Human Resource Management uses an integrated application that covers all personnel management tasks and helps simplify and accelerate processing, providing the company with human resource planning and management solutions.
Open Information warehousing includes an Intelligent Information System, which summarizes data from R/3 applications and external sources into information of supervisors, not only supporting decision-making and control by user departments, at the same time, it also supports advanced control and monitoring that play a key role in success.
R/3-Customized Policy Information Management
To maintain a competitive leader, the company established an effective and customer-oriented enterprise process structure. This requires an information processing system that is most effective in supporting future enterprise processes.
R/3 systems are not just software, but a strategic solution.
R/3 system-thinking and action of enterprise processes.
Companies must use dynamic strategies to respond to ever-changing challenges. The ability to quickly adapt to customers' new needs and new market opportunities is the decisive factor in winning the competition. This adaptability requires a powerful and open infrastructure that provides optimal support for current enterprise processes and flexibly adapts to changes and development. The R/3 system is the best solution to these challenges. It is the most common standard commercial application software in a master-slave architecture.
The sap r/3 system has the following functions and features:
Functionality: R/3 provides a complete set of business measures in a modular form, the module includes all the required business functions and connects users with technical application software to form an overall system for the strategic and application management of the company or the enterprise.
Integration: R/3 connects the logically connected parts. Repetitive work and redundant data are completely canceled, procedures are optimized, and integrated business processing replaces traditional manual operations.
Flexibility: the convenient cropping method in the R/3 system makes it flexible and adaptable to meet the needs of various users and specific industry requirements. R/3 is also equipped with an appropriate interface to integrate your own software or external software.
Openness: the R/3 architecture conforms to internationally recognized standards, allowing customers to break through the limitations of dedicated hardware platforms and dedicated system technologies. At the same time, the open interfaces provided by SAP can easily integrate third-party software products into the R/3 system.
User-friendly: icons and graphical symbols simplify human-computer interaction. The user interface is designed in a unified manner to ensure that the staff can use the same familiar technology for work.
Modular: the R/3 module structure enables users to select new Utilities one by one, or completely transfer to a new organizational structure system.
Reliability: SAP, a user's business partner, has consistently set up more and more international standards for the quality of integrated software.
Low cost and high efficiency: Information processing is one of the key points to gain a competitive advantage. When competition intensifies, enterprises must work harder to gain market share. This requires the use of highly integrated data processing software, and R/3 is an excellent example of this software.
International: R/3 supports multiple languages and is designed for cross-border operations. R/3 can flexibly adapt to the currency and tax requirements of countries.
Service: During the R/3 system implementation process, you will receive comprehensive support and services from SAP technical experts, including consultation on organizational structure and technical aspects, and assistance in project planning and implementation, and training courses.

In addition to the several modules described above, SAP also provides the secondary open language ABAP/4 (advanced business application programming ), you can also use the ABAP language for system development through the sap internal development platform. This includes data transmission between the SAP system and external systems, report creation, and data import and export.