Presented by :-

Harsh Sharma (13609072)

Shubham Agarwal (13609153)

An overview of the software company SAP

SAPs business applications and industry
solutions

Components, modules, and transactions

The SAP client concept
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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


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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.
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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.



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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.
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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.
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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.

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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)
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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

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Four perspectives to
addressing business needs
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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)
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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.
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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

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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.
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