SAP Pre-Implementation
ERP SAP helps to improve a company's efficiency in all key management areas: from finance and controlling through supply and distribution and materials management, production, sales and distribution to human resources management.
SAP in finance and Controlling: SAP system supports overall company's finance management, enabling increasing the company's goodwill and at the same time improving its efficiency. Finance management includes the following SAP functionalities (modules):
- FI - financial accounting
- FI-AA - fixed assets accounting
- TR - Treasury
- CO - controlling
- PS - project system
- IM - investment management
SAP in supply chain management : SAP system enables to improve the efficiency of company's logistic processes through comprehensive support in planning, supply, stock management and sales and distribution functions. Supply chain management includes the following SAP functionalities (modules):
- MM - materials management
- MM-WM - warehouse management
- PP - production planning
- PM - plant maintenance
- QM - quality management
- SD - sales and distribution
SAP in human resources management : mySAP HR solutions support managing the company's human resources while also reducing costs of HR-related departments. The basic mySAP HR functionalities are the following:
- Personnel management
- Time management
- Payroll settlements
- Organization management
- Trip management
- Recruitment
- Training management
- Personnel cost planning
- Payroll management
- Employees' development
SAP Netweaver : SAP NetWeaver is an open integration and aplication platform, the only comprehensive solution of this kind, offered by ERP systems suppliers. Using SAP NetWeaver platform the clients reduce the total costs of maintaining IT infrastructure. The platform helps quickly unite SAP systems with all the most important IT products and technologies available on the market. SAP NetWeaver integrates processes in developed IT environments both inside a company and among business partners. It unites such Internet technologies as http, XML and WWW services. At the same time it ensures openness and cooperation with Microsoft.NET and J2EE.
The most important SAP NetWeaver components:
- SAP Enterprise Portal (SAP EP): a common, consistent platform that integrates data from different systems and aggregates applications that are available to users on the basis of a flexible role system.
- SAP Mobile Infrastructure (SAP MI): a complete infrastructure that allows to give access to and develop applications on mobile equipment (notebooks, PDA, mobile phones etc.), also offering technological independence.
- SAP Business Intelligence (SAP BI): aggregates information, supports reporting process from gathering and analysis to data distribution in an organization.
- SAP Master Data Management (SAP MDM): helps unite information scattered in many systems and applications. It enables creating and handling huge data warehouses that constitute the basic, consistent source of data for the organization.
- SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI): a flexible integration platform that offers a data exchange system among data processes operating in the application. The basis for creating adapters that enable communication among various systems.
SAP Web Application Server (SAP WAS): an application Java/ABAP server that is a basis for all SAP NetWeaver platform components.
- SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio: a central development environment for SAP NetWeaver applications based on an open Eclipse technology.
- SAP Visual Composer: a tool based on Web technology for modelling business applications in SAP Enterprise Portal.
- SAP Solution Manager (SAP SSM): a set of tools and services for managing SAP solutions support.
SAP Business Intelligence : SAP Business Intelligence solutions include functionalities necessary to identify, integrate and analyse business data from various sources, including various IT systems. They facilitate taking the right decisions and improve business operations.
The basis for creating SAP Business Intelligence solutions is a data warehouse SAP BW. Another solution useful for decision making is SAP SEM - strategic enterprise management.
SAP BW data warehouse - SAP BW data warehouse, used by more than 4,000 companies worldwide, is a tool that unifies data storage and reporting interfaces in all the company. It allows to unite data from different SAP applications with external systems data. Moreover, it provides many ready-made reporting solutions. SAP BW ensures a ready-to-use infrastructure and includes the so-called Business Content that hepls implement and support the system used. SAP BW is not limited to the data sources from SAP systems. SAP BW may take over data from any sources including third parties' software, other data warehouses or data from external suppliers. Additionally, it is possible to use inter-application interfaces (the so-called BAPI) to use other systems of analyses and reporting than those delivered by SAP BW.
SAP SEM - Strategic Enterprise Management - SAP SEM is a group of solutions supporting strategic enterprise management including budgeting and measuring operations efficiency. Its components are:
