SAP

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SAP

• Introduction
• Business and Markets
• Products
• Organization

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Introduction
SAP was founded in 1972 by 5 former IBM
Engineers In 1976 "SAP GmbH" was founded and the
following year it moved headquarters to Walldorf.
SAP AG became the company's official name after
the 2005 annual general meeting
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Business and Markets

• It operates in three geographic regions
• EMEA, which represents Europe, Middle East and
  Africa
• the Americas (SAP America, headquartered in
  Newtown Square, Pennsylvania), which represents
  both North America and Latin America and
• Asia Pacific Japan (APJ), which represents Japan,
  Australia and parts of Asia.
• In addition, SAP operates a network of 115
  subsidiaries, and has RD facilities around the
  globe in Germany, North America, Canada, China,
  Hungary, India, Israel and Bulgaria.
• SAP focuses on six industry sectors process
  industries, discrete industries, consumer
  industries, service industries, financial
  services, and public services. It offers more
  than 25 industry solution portfolios for large
  enterprises and more than 550 micro-vertical
  solutions for midsize companies and small
  businesses

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Products

• The company's main product is SAP ERP.
• SAP ERP is one of five major enterprise
  applications in SAP's Business Suite. The other
  four applications are
• customer relationship management (CRM) - helps
  companies acquire and retain customers, gain deep
  marketing and customer insight, and align
  organization on customer-focused strategies
• product lifecycle management (PLM) - helps
  manufacturers with a single source of all
  product-related information necessary for
  collaborating with business partners and
  supporting product lines
• supply chain management (SCM) - helps companies
  enhance operational flexibility across global
  enterprises and provide real-time visibility for
  customers and suppliers
• supplier relationship management (SRM) -
  customers can collaborate closely with suppliers
  and integrate sourcing processes with
  applications throughout the enterprise to enhance
  transparency and lower costs
• Other major product offerings include the Net
  Weaver platform, Governance, Risk and Compliance
  (GRC) solutions, Duet (joint offering with
  Microsoft), Performance Management solutions and
  RFID.
• While its original products were typically used
  by Fortune 500 companies, SAP is now also
  actively targeting small and medium sized
  enterprises (SME) with its SAP Business One and .
  
• On September 19th, 2007 SAP announced a new
  product named SAP Business By Design
  complementing its portfolio for SME.

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Organization
Functional units of SAP are split across
different organizational units for RD needs,
field activities and customer support. SAP Labs
are mainly responsible for product development
where as the field organizations spread across
each country are responsible for field activities
such Sales, Marketing, Consulting etc. Head
office located in SAP AG is responsible for
overall management as well as core Engineering
activities related to Product Development. SAP
customer support, also called Active Global
Support (AGS) is a global organization to provide
support to SAP customers worldwide.
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SAP Modules Overview

• SAP now are moving away from describing their
  system as a set of modules, and now are using the
  term solutions,
• Financials
• Human Resources
• Customer Relationship Management
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Business Intelligence

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List of Modules

• FI Financial Accounting includes
• General ledger
• Book close
• Tax
• Accounts receivable
• Accounts payable
• Consolidation
• Special ledgers
• CO Controlling basically your internal
  cost/management accounting, including
• Cost elements
• Cost centres
• Profit centres
• Internal orders
• Activity based costing
• Product costing