What is SAP?
- SAP is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software product capable of integrating multiple business applications, with each application representing a specific business area. These applications update and process transactions in real time mode. It has the ability to be configured to meets the needs of the business.
- The name SAP is acronym for Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing. SAP is an extremely complicated system where no one individual can understand all of it.
- SAP runs on a fourth generation programming language called Advance Business Application Programming (ABAP). It has many of the features of other modern programming languages such as the familiar C, Visual Basic, and Power Builder.
Facts about SAP:-
• Founded by five former IBM employees in 1972 and HEADQUARTERED in Walldorf, Germany.
• Leading global provider of client/server business software solutions.
• Fourth-largest independent software supplier in the world.
• Available in 14 languages.
SAP Modules:
- Sales and Distribution (SD)
- Material Management (MM)
- Warehouse Management (WM)
- Production Planning (PP)
- General Logistics (LO)
- Quality Management (QM)
- Financial Accounting (FI)
- Controlling (CO)
- Enterprise Controlling (EC)
- Investment Management (IM)
- Treasury (TR)
- Personnel Administration (PA)
- Personnel Development (PD)
SAP Business Benefits
SAP ERP delivers a comprehensive set of integrated, cross-functional business processes. With SAP ERP, you can gain the following benefits:
· Improve alignment of strategies and operations
o Run your enterprise in accordance with strategy and plans, accessing the right information in real time to identify concerns early.
o Pursue opportunities proactively.
o Achieve corporate objectives by aligning workforce and organizational objectives.
o Find the best people and leverage their talent in the right job at the right time.
· Improve productivity and insight
o Leverage self-services and analytics across your organization.
o Improve operational efficiency and productivity within and beyond your enterprise.
· Reduce costs through increased flexibility
o Use enterprise services architecture to improve process standardization, efficiency, and adaptability.
o Extend transactions, information, and collaboration functions to a broad business community.
· Reduce risk
o Solve complex business challenges today with SAP, your trusted partner for long-term growth, with 30 years of experience working with organizations of all sizes in more countries than any other vendor.
o Join SAP's world-class partner network, uniquely qualified to support the best business practices in more than 25 industries.
· Improve financial management and corporate governance
o Gain deep visibility into your organization with financial and management accounting functionality combined with business analytics.
o Increase profitability, improve financial control, and manage risk.
· Optimize IT spending
o Integrate and optimize business processes.
o Eliminate high integration costs and the need to purchase third-party software.
o Deploy other SAP Business Suite applications incrementally to improve cash flow and reduce costly borrowing.
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