Sap notes These are various aspects of SAP as taken from different sources including net.

Students are encouraged to study from internet/other books/sources to increase the depth of knowledge. The SAP Basis Basis, as evidenced by its name, is a foundational part of SAP systems. However, it's difficult to answer the question of what exactly SAP Basis is because of its many different components. Let's start at the beginning. This definition of SAP Basis lays out the basics. Basis consists of the following components: Client/server architecture and configuration: This is the technical foundation of both SAP and Basis. A relational database management system (RDBMS): Basis overlaps with many aspects of traditional database administration. A graphical user interface (GUI): The GUI is the interface through which the Basis administrator interacts with SAP systems. A development environment: This is where Basis development takes place. A data dictionary: Data dictionaries are an indispensable part of the development process. User and system administration and monitoring tools: These allow the Basis administrator to maintain the integrity and performance of SAP systems and address user concerns along the way. Understanding what these components are, and how they function together, is key to being able to answer the question what is SAP Basis? Resources for SAP Basis administrators SAP software is used by a wide variety of people, from truck drivers uploading delivery information to IT specialists in data centers. In SAP Basis, though, the only regular end users are SAP Basis administrators. There are two sets of resources for SAP Basis administrators, based on experience. If you're just getting started in this role, our resident SAP Basis expert can answer any question you'd like. It can be difficult to anticipate all the questions a Basis beginner might have, so the best approach is to start by asking any questions that this guide doesn't answer. For SAP Basis administrators with some experience, it can help to take a structured approach to troubleshooting Basis problems or running through checklists of Basis tasks and challenges. (That's the purpose of subsequent sections of this guide.) But before you start tackling specific challenges, it's best to grow your general Basis intelligence. That's because being a good SAP Basis administrator is as much about mastering a certain kind of thinking as it is about applying specific techniques and remedies. Start by learning how to overcome Basis challenges inside and outside the box and discover how to fix Basis problems by reaching inside the database. For example, in terms of general Basis challenges that involve being able to go outside the SAP environment, learn how to trigger jobs both inside and outside SAP, go outside the application for specific administrative tasks, obtain the SAPGUI version of all computers, and understand what makes a good Basis administrator. As for other Basis challenges that can be solved by reaching inside the database, learn how to report logon information, gather SQL server information, get system profile parameters, and perform general troubleshooting. You can apply the kind of conceptual Basis thinking taught in these tips to many specific Basis problems. Another way of growing your Basis intelligence is to learn as much as you can about the theoretical and technical underpinnings of the Basis components defined above, in What is SAP Basis? One good way to do this is to browse through our definitions of each component and to follow our links to related concepts and tools in order to broaden your knowledge. Start by examining the answer to What is a client? and What is a session? These entities are fundamental to Basis, and knowing exactly what they are and how they function is integral to building your Basis intelligence. There are two more questions that you ought to be able to answer right at the outset of any form of SAP Basis training: What is an authorization? and What is a role? Conceptually related to roles is the Online Service System (OSS), which is how Basis enables provision of online access by users to a company's SAP applications and data. Now it's time to address more advanced concepts encountered by SAP Basis administrators. Since what you see is always mediated through the SAPGUI, read What is a GUI? to understand the principles behind user interfaces. Then get into some back-end concepts by learning What is an instance? and What is a transport? Instances and transports are interrelated concepts that underlie how SAP Basis creates and moves data. Discovering the functions of tables in the context of SAP Basis will help administrators understand the connection among instances, tables and data, and prepare the way to understanding the ultimate fate of data, in What is archiving?

Since SAP Basis administration takes place in the context of operating systems, refresh your operating system knowledge by finding out more about what kernels are and understanding patching to learn how to conduct basic fixes in operating system environments. Enabling transactions is one of the most important functions performed by SAP Basis, so it makes sense to understand Basis transactions. Meanwhile, digging deeper into security, read helpful definitions of "What is a profile?" and "What is a password?" By going over these definitions, or simply refreshing your basic understanding of concepts that underlie Basis, you'll make the task of SAP Basis administration easier. SAP daily activities 1 Check that all the application servers are up: sm51 SAP Servers sm04/al08 Logon Users 2 Check that daily backup are executed without errors db12 Backup logs: overview 3 SAP standard background jobs are running successfully. Review for cancelled and critical jobs. sm37 Background jobs--- Check for successful completion of jobs. Enter * in user-id field and verify that all critical successful jobs and review any cancelled jobs. 4 Operating system Monitoring st06 5 Extents monitoring db02 Database monitoring--Check for max-extents reached 6 Check work-processes(started from sm51) sm50 Process overview-- All work processes with a running or waiting status. 7 Check system log sm21 System log-- Set date and time to before the last log review. Check for errors ,warning, security, message-bends, database events. 8 Review workload statistics st03 Workload analysis of <sid> sto2 tune summary instance 9 Look for any failed updates sm13 update records 10 check for old locks sm12 lock entry list

11 Check for spool problems sp01 spool request screen-- check for spool that are in request for over an hour. 12 Review and resolve dumps st22 ABAP Dump analysis 13 Checking .trc file in SAP trace directory for block corruption on daily basis. C:\ORacle\sid\saptrace 14 Archive backup brarchive -f force -cds -c Insert the archive backup tape 15 Review NT system logs for problem -> NT system log- look 4 errors or failures -> NT security log- failed logon 2 sap servers -> NT Application log -look 4 errors or failures SAP Business One contains 15 core modules :

Administration Module, where configuration is performed. Financials Module, where various accounting and financial activities are conducted. Sales Opportunities Module, where existing customers and potential accounts are maintained. Sales Module, where orders are entered, shipped and invoiced. Purchasing Module, where purchase orders are issued and goods received into inventory. Business Partners Module, where Business Partners (customers, vendors, and leads) are maintained. Banking Module, where cash is received and paid out. Inventory Module, where Inventory is valued and managed. Production Module, where bill of materials are defined and manufacturing is tracked. MRP Module, where purchase and production planning takes place. Service Module, where after-service products are managed. Human Resources Module, where employee information is maintained. Reports Module, where system-default and user-defined reports are generated (as on-screen tables, printouts or Excel files: Print Layout Designer, Advanced Layout Designer (To be discontinued in 2009 due to purchase of Business Objects), XL Reporter and Crystal Reports 2008 Basic (One Free License per customer)). E-commerce, allowing customers to buy and sell online to consumers or other businesses. WebCRM. Allows employees to manage customer support cases, salespeople to manage prospects, and customers to submit cases all via a web browser client.

Change management Once you've made your investment in SAP software, you want to ensure that your organization starts to reap rewards quickly. And for that to happen, you need to help everyone in your organization embrace the real value of your SAP solutions. That's why SAP Education offers change management services. SAP will work closely with you to introduce the change process, emphasize the importance of organizational alignment, and explain the tools and techniques you can leverage to address any issues related to your new landscape.

We can help you establish change management procedures that will benefit your employees, so they can:

Perform their work functions with a high degree of comfort Understand the need for a change, learn exactly what will change, and how they can benefit Understand what the organization now requires of them, along with the relevance of the changes they make Receive training to expertly perform their new required skills

With change management services from SAP, you can focus on coordinating and integrating your key leadership, organizational, technological, and cultural issues -- so you can achieve your business goals quickly. Plus, our services can help your leaders and change agents understand the psychology and impact of change and anticipate potential surprises. As a result, everyone in your organization will be ready to integrate your business and your technology. General scope assessment Getting the job done is often not enough. To ensure support for your education project, the team must be able to report on progress towards organizational objectives, and paint a clear picture of your anticipated results. That's why SAP Education offers services for high-level assessment of education scope. The high-level assessment service enables you to give your senior management a realistic view of the size and scope of your education services objectives. Whether you are engaged in projects related to change management, human performance improvement, or user services and products, you'll benefit from assessment services that can help you:

Frame expected outcomes Define required training and documentation Communicate critical timelines and budgets Create incremental reporting processes

Improving human performance HUMAN PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT Organizations are only as good as their employees. With human performance improvement consulting services from SAP Education, organizations can empower your employees to realize their full potential and that means you'll be ready to achieve the results you expect from your investment in SAP. With these services, you'll benefit from a greater understanding of factors that can influence human performance in your workplace. As a result, you can:

Improve performance support systems Increase organizational alignment to facilitate execution of organizational strategy Maintain ongoing education and training capabilities

Benefits of ERP SAP ERP delivers a comprehensive set of integrated, cross-functional business processes. With SAP ERP, we can gain the following benefits: Improve alignment of strategies and operations Improve productivity and insight Reduce costs through increased flexibility Support changing industry requirements Reduce risk Improve financial management and corporate governance Optimize IT spending Gain higher ROI faster Retain top performers

Provide immediate access to enterprise information 3 Tier Client / Server Architecture

The SAP R/3 architecture is based on a 3-tier client/server principle Presentation Server Application Server Database Server Dedicated Servers are linked by Communication Networks Perform tasks without sacrificing data integration and processes within the system, as a whole

Brief notes on R/3 Modules Let us see a few of the R/3 Modules in brief Financial Accounting Financial Accounting is designed for automated management and external reporting of general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable and other sub-ledger accounts with a user defined chart of accounts. As entries are made relating to sales production and payments journal entries are automatically posted. This connection means that the "books" are designed to reflect the real situation. Controlling Controlling represents the company's flow of cost and revenue. It is a management instrument for organizational decisions. It is also automatically updated as events occur. Assets Management Asset Management is designed to manage and supervise individual aspects of fixed assets including purchase and sale of assets, depreciation and investment management. Sales and Distribution Sales and Distribution helps to optimize all the tasks and activities carried out in sales, delivery and billing. The key elements are; pre-sales support, inquiry processing, quotation processing, sales order processing, delivery processing, billing and sales information system. Materials Management Materials Management supports the procurement and inventory functions occurring in day-to-day business operations such as purchasing, inventory management, reorder point processing, etc. Production Planning Production Planning is used to plan and control the manufacturing activities of a company. This module includes; bills of material, routings, work centers, sales and operations planning, master production scheduling, material requirements planning, shop floor control, production orders, product costing, etc Quality Management Quality Management is a quality control and information system supporting quality planning, inspection, and control for manufacturing and procurement. Plant Maintenance

In a complex manufacturing process, maintenance means more than sweeping the floors. Equipment must be services and rebuilt. These tasks affect the production plans. Plant Maintenance module supports and supervises these maintenance. Warehouse Management Warehouse Management provides flexible, automated support to assist in processing all goods movements and in maintaining current stock inventories in the warehousing complex. Human Resources Human Resources is a complete integrated system for supporting the planning and control of personnel activities. Workflow Workflow is a solution which has been integrated fully in the R/3 System and which enables customer-specific business process flows to be coordinated and controlled on a cross-application and cross-workplace basis. Project System Project System is designed to support the planning, control and monitoring of long-term, highly complex projects with defined goals. Industry SAP solutions Industry solution is the latest value proposition of SAP to customer. Industry solutions are aimed at addressing the specific business process areas of different industries differently, hence pre-customizing the package for generic industry purpose. Through its industry solutions, SAP addresses the unique core processes of more than 25 distinct industries. Combined with industry-specific applications and best business practices, all industry solution sets use and build upon mySAP Business Suite solutions, powered by the SAP NetWeaver platform. SAP currently around 27 Industry solutions. Some of the key verticals are listed below: 1. Manufacturing Industries SAP for Automotive SAP for Chemicals SAP for Consumer Products SAP for Engineering, Construction & Operations (SAP for EC&O) SAP for High Tech SAP for Oil & Gas (SAP for O&G) 2 Service Industries SAP for Media SAP for Professional Services SAP for Retail SAP for Telecommunications

SAP for Utilities 3 Public Services SAP for Healthcare and SAP for Public Sector 4 Financial Services SAP for Banking, SAP for Financial Service Providers and SAP for Insurance SAP Implimentaion methods Two ways to Implement sap There are two main implementation approaches: Roll Out: inclusion of subsequent releases and/or locations in separate systems. Roll In: inclusion of subsequent releases and/or locations in same systems. Both focus on implementation at one location or one area of functionality, followed by subsequent implementation of other sites and/or functional areas The alternative to Roll Out and Roll In is Big Bang Generally only considered for small (<200) implementations

SAP ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT Experienced project managers know that change management is one of the main success factors in SAP projects. Implementing SAP software at an organization usually involves various organizational, technological, and social changes. Change management focuses on the effects that these changes have on managers and employees new demands in thinking or behaving and new requirements for competencies and skills. Our consultants provide a holistic process for managing change from business processes and systems, to organizational structure, to required competencies, skills, mindset, and behavior. Under our guidance, you can maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of change via knowledge, acceptance, and motivation. SAP's approach defines your change-management strategy and concept and provides operating tools and methods to meet these success factors:

Common orientation Increases transparency of program and project goals and aligns managers and employees to the objectives of the change Conviction Drives successful change through a clear vision of a future state advantageous enough for people to give up the current state Ability Establishes understanding of new processes, revised roles, and the skills needed to run new transactions proficiently Uniform perception Drives efficiency of the change process by standardizing project-organization activity and communication to the employees involved Positive results Ensure that employees can visualize, experience, and accept positive results of the change process as soon as possible Long-term effects Changes the organizational situation to positively reinforce new mind-set and behavior

By using this approach to managing change, ,you can seamlessly integrate strategy transformation development processes and business process re-engineering projects, and as a result, reducing costs for productivity, risk responses, and rework. Our consultants have applied this change management approach in many situations, combining it successfully with effective program and project management. With our help, you can realize five critical business benefits:

Fast and sustainable value from SAP solutions Reduced total cost of ownership through lower startup and ongoing costs Reduced follow-up costs through long-term project success Project success through an integrated process for change management SAP expertise in embedding IT into the business

SAP co profile Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company with more than 53,000 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide. Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally. As the global technology research unit of SAP, SAP Research significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends SAP's leading position by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends through applied research and corporate venturing. SAP Research has highly skilled teams in 11research centers worldwide. To ensure SAP's position as a technology leader, SAP Ventures invests in emerging entrepreneurial companies that are advancing exciting new technologies. SAP Ventures operates independently from the overall SAP strategy to discover and pursue opportunities for financial return. At the same time, the organization brings substantial benefits to its portfolio companies and SAP by facilitating interaction between innovative young companies and the SAP ecosystem. Advantages and Disadvantages of SAP SAP Advantages: 1. Integration Integration can be the highest benefit of them all. The only real project aim for implementing ERP is reducing data redudancy and redudant data entry. If this is set as a goal, to automate inventory posting to G/L, then it might be a successful project. Those companies where integration is not so important or even dangerous, tend to have a hard time with ERP. ERP does not improve the individual efficiency of users, so if they expect it, it will be a big disappointment. ERP improves the cooperation of users. 2. Efficiency Generally, ERP software focuses on integration and tend to not care about the daily needs of people. I think individual efficiency can suffer by implementing ERP. the big question with ERP is whether the benefit of integration and cooperation can make up for the loss in personal efficiency or not. 3. Cost reduction It reduces cost only if the company took accounting and reporting seriously even before implementation and had put a lot of manual effort in it. If they didn't care about it, if they just did some simple accounting to fill mandatory statements and if internal reporting did not exists of has not been fincancially-oriented, then no cost is reduced. 4. Less personnel Same as above. Less reporting or accounting personnel, but more sales assistants etc.

5. Accuracy No. People are accurate, not software. What ERP does is makes the lives of inaccurate people or organization a complete hell and maybe forces them to be accurate (which means hiring more people or distributing work better), or it falls. Disadvantages: 1. Expensive This entails software, hardware, implementation, consultants, training, etc. Or you can hire a programmer or two as an employee and only buy business consulting from an outside source, do all customization and end-user training inside. That can be cost-effective. 2. Not very flexible It depends. SAP can be configured to almost anything. In Navision one can develop almost anything in days. Other software may not be flexible. SAP HR module The Human Resources module (SAP HR) consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to complete the Hire to Retire (or, as some say, Fire) process. It includes the following information and processes. SAP Human Resources (HR) Components or Sub-Components: Personnel Management - Personnel Administration - Recruitment - Organization Structure - Compensation Management - Personnel Development Organizational Management Travel Management Time Management Payroll Typical Hire to Retire business process associated with the SAP HR module:

Features of SAP SD The SAP sales and distribution is part of the logistics module that support your customers, starting from quotations, sales

order and all the way towards billing the customer. It is tightly integrated with the MM and PP functional modules. It allows companies to input their customer sales price, check for open orders and forecast etc.The most important basic functional features in the sd module are: - Pricing - Availability Check - Credit Management - Material Determination - Output Determination - Text Processing - Tax Determination - Account Determination SAP implementation process Project preparation: Design and initially staff the SAP TSO(Technical support organization) Craft solution vision

Sizing and blueprinting Perform cost of ownership analysis Identify high availability and disaster recovery requirements

Engage SAP solution stack vendors Staff TSO Training Setup SAP data center Perform installations Functional development Address change management SAP systems and operations management

Final preparation Prepare for cutover Go live Key Success factors of SAP implementation Choose the correct SAP Consultants to have the correct blueprint Team support Get the support from all the people that are involved in implementing SAP, but more important the participation and commitment of all levels, specially managers, of the company. The Blueprint is the keystone used as the lighthouse who must guide the whole project. Always consider changing the way things have been done before implementing SAP. Test the SAP hardware and software rigorously by testing your business processes, and to ensure that the endusers are ready to use SAP before going live, because there are many known projects that failed because of a lack of support and SAP knowledge. Design and execute a Change Management Program by communicating as early as needed all the information that end users should have to accept the new technology and designing and executing a training plan in order to reassure a knowledge base within the organization.

Key reasons for SAP failure Not Enough Time

Open the Lines of Communication Testing a New Program in the Production Server Inadequate Testing Pressing the Budget Too Tight Never/Rarely Checking the Progress of the Project Not Reviewing Existing Standards

Fi/co module SAP Financial Accounting (FI) is an important core module where in live-time, the financial processing transactions are all captured to provide the basis via which data is drawn for external reporting. This SAP FI Module is integrated with many parallel modules that enable a company to unify processes that may have needed the utilization of many software packages. Other Modules of SAP that commonly find a role of integration with FI are (but not limited to) Material Management (MM), Sales & Distribution (SD), Human Resources (HR), Product Planning (PP), Controlling (CO), etc. Amongst these CO Controlling is another major focus for those coming from the Finance/Accounting/Auditing/Budgeting and Financial Reporting/Analysis Backgrounds/Professions. There are many sub-modules that streamline and specialize in each aspect of the Financial Accounting Processes: AA Asset Accounting AP Accounts Payable AR Accounts Receivable BL Bank Accounting FM Funds Management GL General Ledger Accounting LC Legal Consolidations SL Special Purpose Ledger TM Travel Management Out of the ab Features and functions of SAP CRM SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) includes features and functions that support core business processes in the following areas:

Marketing Analyze, plan, develop, and execute all marketing activities through all customer interaction points. This central marketing platform empowers marketers with complete business insights enabling you to make intelligent business decisions and to drive end-to-end marketing processes. Sales Maintain focus on productive activity to acquire, grow, and retain profitable relationships with functionality for sales planning and forecasting, territories, accounts, contacts, activities, opportunities, quotations, orders, product configuration, pricing, billing, and contracts. Service Reduce the cost of service while enhancing customer satisfaction with support for sales and marketing for service; service contract management; customer service and support; return and depot repair; field service management; warranty and claim management; installation and maintenance; parts logistics and finance; and service analytics. Call centers, channel service, and e-service provide multiple channels for service delivery. Partner channel management Attain a more profitable and loyal indirect channel by managing partner relationships and empowering channel partners. Improve processes for partner recruitment, partner management, communications, channel marketing, channel forecasting, collaborative selling, partner order management, channel service, and analytics for partners and channel managers. Interaction center Maximize customer loyalty, reduce costs, and boost revenue by transforming your interaction center into a strategic delivery channel for marketing, sales, and service efforts across all contact channels. Activities such as telemarketing, telesales, customer service, multifunctional shared service, and interaction center management are supported. Web channel Increase sales and reduce transaction costs by turning the Internet into a valuable sales, marketing, and service channel for businesses and consumers. Increase profitability and reach new markets with functionality for emarketing, e-commerce, e-service, and Web channel analytics. Deploy these capabilities directly against the SAP ERP application or with SAP CRM as a fully integrated customer channel. Business communications management Improve contact center and communication-dependent business process effectiveness and reduce costs through SAP Business Communications Management an all-software, IP-based communications solution, natively integrated with SAP CRM. Whether customers contact your company by phone, email, chat, text message, or fax, SAP Business Communications Management routes the contact to the right person with the right skills, whether the person is in the office or working remotely all without the need for costly, cumbersome hardware-based communications systems, significantly reducing total cost of ownership. Real-time offer management Advanced recommendation engine that optimizes any decision-making process across all customer interaction channels, enabling you to take the most appropriate next action to enhance customer relationships and maximize your customers' lifetime value.

Marketing support in SAP- CRM SAP CRM supports critical marketing processes, including:

Marketing resource and brand management o Manage and optimize the use of marketing resources including budgets, people, time, and assets. o Align all activities and resources around strategic marketing goals. o Gain visibility and control into your marketing processes. o Accurately manage the marketing budgets and costs. o Increase brand awareness with proper usage and consistency across enterprise and third-party agencies. o Facilitate collaboration among team members and coordinate marketing activities across the enterprise. Segment and list management o Manage enterprise customer and prospect data without the need for IT support. o Define accurate segments with a consolidated view of all relevant enterprise customer data. o Gain insights into customer segments with data visualization features. o Easily perform segmentation using an interactive, drag-and-drop interface. Campaign management o Make relevant and personalized real-time offers through inbound marketing channels. o Execute marketing activities through all inbound and outbound interaction channels: direct mail, e-mail, phone, web, fax, and SMS. o Build customer relationships with dialog marketing that builds on previous interactions to make the follow up interactions more relevant and personalized.

o Leverage online marketing channels to plan, develop, and execute e-mail marketing campaigns. Loyalty management o Create specific loyalty programs by defining customer tier levels, points management, and partner management capabilities. o Define loyalty rewards program rules, conditions, and offers using the flexible CRM rules builder. o Drive loyalty program membership with membership-handling capabilities; robust point management, tier management, and card-handling capabilities across multiple channels. o Process points accruals and redemptions with the scalable loyalty-processing engine. Trade promotion management o Optimize allocated trade funds to best generate sales volumes and to maximize brand awareness. o Centrally plan and align all trade activities with the SAP Trade Promotion Management application. o Accurately develop sale volume forecasts and financial accruals with downstream performance data. o Close the loop on trade claim payments and deductions. o Automate trade settlements and redemption processes with integration to financials, close the loop on trade activities, and track plan and actual figures. o Gain insight into trade promotional effectiveness at multiple planning levels: product, category, account, and segments. Lead management o Maintain a single source of all enterprise lead information. o Automated the entire lead life-cycle process from lead generation, prioritization, distribution, and follow-up processes. o Extend your lead management process to partner organizations to increase conversion rates. Marketing analytics o Understand the effectiveness of marketing activities. o Convert reports and data into actionable insights. o Evaluate effectiveness of various marketing activities, channels, and tactics o Use advanced analytical algorithms to cluster, classify, and segment customer base. o Predict customer behaviors, anticipate their needs, and create more relevant, targeted messages.

SAP services SAP Enterprise Support Access support experts through our new online academy and our expert-guided implementation sessions. Realize a low total cost of ownership (TCO) with improved functionality, and be ready to capitalize on new opportunities and innovations. User Group Collaboration Draw on the collective experience of more than 120,000 individual members through the SAP User Group Executive Network (SUGEN) and user group community. Benchmark yourself against other businesses in your industry, learn from your peers, and collaborate with others to pinpoint new opportunities. SAP MaxAttention For mission critical operations, even a brief system downtime can have a significant impact on your business. Get the support and security you need with SAP MaxAttention and proactively neutralize potential risks. SAP virtual class room Get Trained without Traveling With virtual live classroom training you get comprehensive training from SAP experts using seamless over-the Web connectivity. The same content delivered in SAP's traditional "brick and mortar" classrooms is presented during virtual live classroom deliveries. As in SAP's traditional classrooms, SAP virtual live classroom stresses hands-on learning providing each registered student with exclusive access to live SAP systems throughout each course. Reduce your travel expenses with our virtual classroom training.

What You'll Need to Take a Course Taking virtual live classroom training delivers the same high quality content, course work and experience as our physical classroom training. There are some differences in how you take the course though. We've outlined the process for you in the 5 simple steps to get you on your way to taking a virtual live training. planning, registration ,preparation ,participation and evaluation SAP business suite SAP Business Suite enables to perform essential, industry-specific, and business-support processes with modular solutions that are designed to work with other SAP and non-SAP software. Organizations and departments in all industries can deploy SAP business applications in a step-wise manner to address specific business challenges on their own timelines and without costly upgrades. Business applications provide better insight and visibility across organizations, improve operational efficiency and effectiveness, and increase in flexibility to address business change. Organizations can incrementally adapt and tailor SAP Business Suite applications through enhancement packages that alleviate the need for costly and time-consuming upgrades. SAP Business Suite applications increase visibility across departments and business silos - improving the ability to make clear business decisions and eliminating process bottlenecks. ABAP ABAP is one of the many application-specific fourth-generation languages (4GLs) first developed in the 1980s. It was originally the report language for SAP R/2, a platform that enabled large corporations to build mainframe business applications for materials management and financial and management accounting. ABAP used to be an abbreviation of Allgemeiner Berichtsaufbereitungsprozessor, the German meaning of "generic report preparation processor" , but was later renamed to Advanced Business Application Programming. ABAP was one of the first languages to include the concept of Logical Databases (LDBs), which provides a high level of abstraction from the basic database level(s). The ABAP programming language was originally used by developers to develop the SAP R/3 platform. It was also intended to be used by SAP customers to enhance SAP applications customers can develop custom reports and interfaces with ABAP programming. The language is fairly easy to learn for programmers but it is not a tool for direct use by nonprogrammers. Knowledge of relational database design and preferably also of object-oriented concepts is necessary to create ABAP programs. ABAP remains the language for creating programs for the client-server R/3 system, which SAP first released in 1992. As computer hardware evolved through the 1990s, more and more of SAP's applications and systems were written in ABAP. By 2001, all but the most basic functions were written in ABAP. In 1999, SAP released an object-oriented extension to ABAP called ABAP Objects, along with R/3 release 4.6. SAP's current development platform NetWeaver supports both ABAP and Java. Netweaver SAP NetWeaver provides the technical foundation for SAP applications. In addition, it delivers a portfolio of enterprise technology that allows you to extend your applications to reach more people and to adopt new processes, devices, and consumption models. SAP NetWeaver helps you improve team productivity and business integration, enables organizations to simplify and manage the IT environment, and reduces operational costs so that IT resources are free to focus on business innovation. With the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, organizations can perform activities in the following areas: Team productivity, information management , business process mgmt ,composition SOA middleware , foundation mgmt. SAP production Planning

The Production Planning (PP) Benchmark consists of the following transactions:

Create a production order. Change the amount on the production order, release order for production, and print order. Create two completion confirmations for the production order (milestone confirmation with back flush and final confirmation). Post goods receipt for the order. Settle the production order.

SAP licensing policy The SAP Licensing policy depends on the License type i.e - mySAP Business Suite and - R/3 Enterprise software Very briefly, SAP license is based on named users. Each user has an ID and accounts for one licence whether he logs in to the system or not. The license can also be of two further types - Professional - Limited Professional (One Change Transaction and other display Transactions) Then there are different licences for Employee Self Service Accounts also. I would recommend you read about SAP Licensing in detail based on your version of the software from the SAP Service Marketplace Now to address the specific question in general: - Is it considered as concurrent users login in SAP system at given time or Put it this way, if you have hundred Prof. Named licenses only those users can log-in who have purchased the license in their name, password sharing is considered as breach of the license contract. So naturally only 100 specific users can log-in (Users on leave can use the substitute user license type to specify an alternate resource) - Total No of users/log on created using SU01 irrespective whether user has log in or not. It would not be appropriate to create more users than the number of licenses you have. Yes you can set the users as inactive, if they have resigned or any such reason. This does not include Test users or users of other types. However active users should be 100 at any time. (based on the number of licences... you can check this using the measurement document transaction) - What about users deleted? Are they included in licensed users or not? No they are not.

SAP user types The SAP system categorizes users into several types for different purposes as shown in the table below: User Types Type Dialog System Purpose Individual, interactive system access. Background processing and communication within a system (such as RFC users for ALE, Workflow, TMS, and CUA). Dialog-free communication for external RFC calls. Dialog user available to a larger, anonymous group of users. General, non-person related users that allows the assignment of additional identical authorizations, such as for Internet users created with transaction SU01. No logon is possible.

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