The SAP client concept 9/9/2014 2 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours SAP was founded nearly 40 years ago in Mannheim, Germany, by a group of former IBM engineers.
Vision to change how business is done.
Main idea was to replace old complex business applications.
Idea to provide real-time computing techniques.
SAP has changed the world and has brought a revolution
9/9/2014 3 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours SAPs application software foundation is built on specialization and integration.
Each software application within the SAP family of products and services meets a particular need.
Like SAP-ERP , SAP-CRM , SAP-SCM , SAP- PLM. 9/9/2014 4 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours Lets take example of order to cash.
It contains different steps like writing sales order picking from inventory, creating delivery, creating invoice etc.
Once ordered it will go through SAP-ERP.
But it can be further transferred to SAP-CRM , SAP- SCM , SAP Net weaver.
Our simple order-to-cash process can become much more powerful in this way.
By combining different ERP applications businesses can create Mega-Process.
9/9/2014 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours 5 9/9/2014 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours 6 So far we have learnt that SAP ERP can be broken down into many different modules.
Each module is used to manage a business area or functional area for which a particular department may be responsible for.
Finance department will use the finance module, shipping department will use material management module and so on.
In this way, the company benefits from a great amount of consistency between departments while giving the companys management the high-level visibility. 9/9/2014 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours 7 Clients are essentially self-contained business units within each SAP system.
Using SAPs special user interfaces, you log in to a client in SAP to actually access and use the system.
Each systemSAP ERP, CRM, SCM, and so on has a unique system-specific client you log in to.
A client has its own separate master records.
Each client is a three digit no like 100, 300 etc. 9/9/2014 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours 8 9/9/2014 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours 9 Business roadmap help the organization navigate necessary changes to how they conduct business.
The business roadmap takes the outputs of strategic vision and business architecture to describe the companys business requirements, business functions, and applications that provide that functionality.
9/9/2014 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours 10 9/9/2014 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours 11 The business roadmap connects vision and strategy with SAP applications used to run the business. Identify and manage new markets (via SAP Customer Relationship Management, Business Warehouse) Innovate in terms of products and services to address new markets (via SAP Composite Application, Customer Relationship Management) Improve a companys relationship with its existing customers to sell more goods per customer, establish a deeper sales relationship (via SAP Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Resource Planning) 9/9/2014 12 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours Reduce costs of internal operations Maximize inventory and supplier discounts Reengineer a companys service delivery processes Reduce a companys cost of raw materials through vertical consolidation Reduce a companys cost of goods, materials, labour, and more through increased visibility and business process transparency
9/9/2014 13 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours Four perspectives to addressing business needs 9/9/2014 14 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours Developing a firms unique business perspective mandates addressing the following: The identification of business-relevant stakeholders Long-term strategy enablement Short-term business objectives Core competencies Competencies other than the core competencies (and thus opportunities for partnering, developing alliances, or contracting out specific services) 9/9/2014 15 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours The functional perspective addresses the following: It describes the flow of work (business process workflows or work streams) in a stepwise fashion. It describes the qualities to be exhibited by the business process. Functional perspective doesnt even mention SAP because its simply not dependent on a particular application vendors solutions. 9/9/2014 16 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours The Technical perspective addresses the following: Focusing on the key dimensions of the system, identifying and then establishing how the system will deliver the performance, availability, scalability, security Describing the solutions overall components in terms of business applications and other SAP components Providing to the extent possible a technology- independent perspective as to how technology helps enable the functional perspective
9/9/2014 17 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours The Project implementation perspective addresses the following: Describes and details the deployment plan, which in turn encompasses organizational and third- party resources, timelines, constraints (business, functional, technical, and other), and so on. Describes the SAP products and components to be used to full fill the companys strategic vision and tactical functional needs, including to the extent these needs are fully developed and delivered. 9/9/2014 18 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours 9/9/2014 Sams teach yourself SAP in 24 hours 19