SAP

Modules

overview:

SAP

stands

for Systems,

Applications

and

Products in data processing and it is the fourth largest software company in the
world. SAP provides end to end solutions for financials, manufacturing, logistics,
distribution etc. Each SAP module is integrated with other modules. SAP System
divided in to two types of modules such as functional modules and technical
modules.
The

important SAP

modules used

by

organization

are FICO(Financials

and

Controlling), MM (Materials Management), SD (Sales & Distribution), HR (Human

Resources), PP (Production Planning).
SAP Modules List
FUNCTIONAL MODULES IN SAP
Financial Modules: Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling
Management (IM), Treasury (TR), Enterprise Control (EC).

(CO),

Investment

Logistics Modules: Material management (MM), Sales & distribution (SD),

Production, Planning & Control (PP), Product Data Management (PDM), Quality
Management (QM), Plant maintenance (PM), Service management(SM), Project
systems (PS)
Human resource management Module: Personnel Management, Organizational
Management, Payroll Accounting, Time Management, Personnel Development,
Training & Event Management
Cross Application Module: Workflow (WF), SAP Office.
Technical components
SAP Basis
SAP BC - BASIS Components::
1. Identify the no of users and type of users
2. Design the technical system landscape of servers
3. Do the sizing based on users, documents created.
4. Convert your sizing requirement in to Hardware requirements
5. Consider the backup procedure also
6. Then start with the set-up of development landscape
7. Define client strategy, transport strategy, User management.
8. Fix the support package levels.
9. Tune the system for performance
10. Set up the QA systems
11. Define client copy strategy

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Set-up the PROD systems

Apply for Pre Go live report
Monitor system of db load
Apply post go live report

ABAP
ABAP - Advanced Business Application Programming
NetWeaver "Business Process Management" apps
SAP KMC - Knowledge Management & Collaboration
SAP DMS - Document Management Service
SAP CMS - Content Management Service
SAP XI - Exchange Infrastructure
SAP PI - Process Integration
SAP EP - Enterprise Portal
SAP BW- Business Warehouse
SAP BIW - Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing
IS (Information Systems) Management
SAP CCMS - Computing Center Mgmt System
SAP MDM - Master Data Management
SAP BC-CCM-ADK - Archiving Development Kit
SAP CCM-API - Application Program Interfaces
SAP CCM-BTC - Background Processing
SAP CCM-CNF - Configuration
SAP CCM-HAV - High Availability
SAP CCM-MON - Monitoring
SAP CCM-PRN - Print and Output Management
SAP MDM100 - Master Data Management
SAP MDM101 - MDM GDS
SAP MDM300 - MDM Print Publishing
SAP MDM400 - MDM Data Modeling
SAP Business Suite Definition:
SAP Business Suite is a collection of various SAP enterprise software that ensure
optimized execution of business strategies. It consists of the following SAP
Systems:
1. SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM)
2. SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP ERP)
3. SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM)
4. SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM)
5. SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM).

SAP CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

SAP CRM supports all customer related processes and activities like sales and
services. It enables the collaboration between the in-house employees, field
employees, partners and customers. SAP CRM supports various types of interaction
channels like internet, Mobile Phones etc to communicate with customers directly.
SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource and Planning)
The application lets your people work more quickly and cost-effectively
connecting them directly to business processes and delivering the information and
capabilities they need to make decisions and take action. It also enables you to
innovate and adapt to the changing requirements of your industry at lower cost
and with greater speed.
SAP ERP- SEM (Strategic Enterprise Management Software) ::SAP Strategic
Enterprise Management (SAP SEM) delivers end-to-end ERP software capabilities to
support the entire performance management life cycle, including Consolidated
Financial Reporting, Planning, budgeting & forecasting, Corporate performance
management and scorecards & Risk Management
SUB Modules:
SEM-BCS - Business Consolidation
SEM-BIC - Business Information Collection
BW-BPS - Business Planning and Simulation
SEM-CPM - Corporate Performance Monitor
SEM-SRM - Stakeholder Relationship Management
SAP PLM (Product Life Cycle Management):

Product Lifecycle Management is a collection of solutions that can be used to

digitally create and maintain product information to be made available to the entire
organization at any point of time.

It provides all needed information about the complete product and asset life
cycle through the extended supply chain, thereby ensuring legal compliance.
SUB Modules
SAP PLM_RM - Recipe Management
SAP PLM_AM - Audit Management
SAP PLM400 - Quality Management
SAP PLM410 - Quality Notifications
SAP PLM405 - Quality Inspections
SAP PLM425 - QM in Sales and Distribution

SCM (SAP Supply Chain Management)

SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) enables collaboration, planning,
execution, and coordination of the entire supply network, empowering you to adapt
your supply chain processes to an ever-changing competitive environment.
SAP APO - SAP Advance Planning and Optimization
SAP OCH - SAP Inventory Collaboration Hub
SAP EM - SAP Event Management
SAP SRM (Supply Relationship Management):
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) enables the full range of supply and
procurement activities from the strategy stage to execution
Functional Modules
SAP FI - Financial Accounting:
Designed for automated management and external reporting of General
Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), and Asset
Management (AM) with a user-defined chart of accounts.
External reporting, such as income statement and balance sheet Represents cost
and revenue flows throughout the organization
Aids in organizational decision making
Supports internal reporting such as cost centre reports
SUB Modules
SAP FI-GL - General Ledger
SAP FI-AP - Accounts Payable
SAP FI-AR - Account Receivable
SAP FI-SL- Special Purpose Ledger
SAP FI-BL Bank Accounting
SAP AA - Asset Accounting: AA provides tools to acquire, depreciate, evaluate,
and retire assets. The kinds of assets covered are fixed, low value, leased, and real
estate.
Low value assets depreciate in the year they are bought and are often aggregated
as a single asset master record.
Depreciation often needs to be tracked (for more than one reason), so SAP
R/3allows you to depreciate the same piece of equipment in several parallel ways.

SAP CO Controlling :: SAP CO Module helps management by providing reports

on cost centers, profit centers, contribution margins, profitability, etc. They also
deal with cost accounting processing, analytical reporting, and audit-controlling
spectrums.
SUB Modules
SAP CO-CEA - Cost Element Accounting
SAP CO-CCA - Cost Center Accounting
SAP CO- Internal Orders
SAP CO- Activity-Based Costing
SAP CO-PC- Product Cost Controlling
SAP CO-PA- Profitability Analysis
SAP CO-PCA- Profit Center Accounting
SAP CO-OM- Overhead Cost controlling
SAP CO-ML- Material Ledger
SAP TR Treasury
SUB Modules
SAP TR-CB - Cash Budget Management
SAP TR-MRM - Market Risk Management
SAP TR-CM - Cash Management
SAP TR-LO - Loans Management
SAP TR-TM - Treasury Management
SAP TR-FM - Funds Management
SAP IM - capital Investment Management :: It used for planning, budgeting
and monitoring of a comprehensive budget .An investment program represents the
planned or budgeted costs for the capital investments of an enterprise. Using
investment programs, you can obtain an overview of planning and budgeting
processes in complex enterprise structures for all investments and large projects of
the group, while at the same time maintaining strict budgetary control.
Human resource management Module
Human Resources - HR
SAP HCM(Human Capital Management) Or SAP HR - Human Resource:: Takes care
of payroll, time recording, applicant administration, and organization data. It
supports the planning and control of personnel activities. It consists of all master
data, system configuration, and transactions to complete the Hire to Retire (or, as
some say, Fire) process.
SUB Modules
Organizational Management (OM)
Personnel Administration (PA)
SAP PA - Personnel Administration
SAP PA-APP - Applicant Management
SAP PA-BEN - Benefits
SAP PA-EMP - Employee Management
SAP PA-INW - Incentive wages

SAP PA-PAY - Payroll

SAP PA-TIM - Time Management
SAP PA-TRV - Travel Expenses
Personnel planning and Development(PD)
SAP PD-OM - Organizational Management
SAP PD-RPL - Room Reservations Planning
SAP PD-WFP - Workforce Planning
SAP PD-SCM - Seminar and Convention Management
SAP PD-PD - Personnel development
Recruitment
Time Management (TM)
Travel Management (TM )
Payroll
Benefits
Compensation Management
Personal cost Planning
Budget Management
Training and Event Management
Logistic and Manufacturing - Mainly SD/MM
SAP SD - Sales & Distribution:: This module includes the business processes
used to sell and deliver products and services to customers and business partners.
Information about the product and customers (both of which are stored in the
master data) is used in SD.
SUB Modules
SAP SD-MD - Master Data
SAP SD-CAS - Sales Support
SAP SD-SLS - Sales
SAP SD-SHP - Shipping
SAP SD-TR - Transportation
SAP SD-BIL - Billing
SAP SD-SIS - Sales Information System
SAP SD-EDI - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
SAP SD-GF General Sales Functions
SAP LE - Logistic Execution
SAP MM - Material Management:: The grouping of management functions
supporting the complete cycle of material flow, from the purchase and internal
control of production materials to the planning and control of work in process to the
warehousing, shipping, and distribution of the finished product.
SUB Modules
SAP MM-PUR - Purchasing
SAP MM-IM - Inventory Management
SAP MM-WM - Warehouse Management
SAP MM-IV - Invoice Verification
SAP MM-IS - Information System
SAP MM-CBP - Consumption Based Planning

SAP MM-EDI - Electronic Data Interchange

SAP MRP - Materials Requirement Planning
SAP ML - Material Ledger
SAP PP - Production Planning :: This module supports functions for the overall
level of manufacturing output and other activities to best satisfy the
current planned levels of sales (sales plan or forecasts), while meeting general
business objectives of profitability, competitive customer lead times as expressed in
the overall business plan. One of its primary purposes is to establish production
rates that will achieve managements objective of satisfying customer demand, by
maintaining, raising or lowering inventories or backlogs, while usually attempting to
keep the workforce relatively stable.
Sub Modules
SAP PP-SOP - Sales and Operations Planning
SAP PP-CRP - Capacity Requirement Planning
SAP PP-MP - Master planning
SAP PP-ATO - Assembly orders
SAP PP-BD - Basic Data
SAP PP-IS - Information System
SAP PP-KAB - Kanban/Just-in-Time
SAP PP-MRP - Material Requirements Planning
SAP PP-PDC - Plant Data Collection
SAP PP-PI - Production Planning for Process Industries
SAP PP-REM - Repetitive Manufacturing
SAP PP-SFC - Production orders
SAP DS - Detailed Scheduling
SAP PM - Plant Maintenance:: Supports the planning, processing, and
completion of plant maintenance tasks. Allows for planners to schedule routine
maintenance in a way that is least disruptive for manufacturing and sales
requirement.
SUB Modules
SAP PM-EQM - Equipment and Technical Objects
SAP PM-IS - PM Information System
SAP PM-PRM - Preventive Maintenance
SAP PM-PRO - Maintenance Projects
SAP PM-SM - Service Management
SAP PM-WOC - Maintenance Orders Management

SAP QM - Quality Management:: Supports the quality inspection aspects of the

business, including purchasing, research, and sales. Allows for buyers and
manufacturing personnel to track inspection lots and test results
SUB Modules
SAP QM-QP - Quality Planning
SAP QM-IM - Quality Inspection processing
SAP QM-QC-AQC - Quality control
SAP QM-IT - Test equipment management
SAP QM-QN - Quality notifications
SAP QM-CA - Quality certificates
SAP QM-CR - General functions
SAP QM-PT-RP - Control in logistics
SAP PS - Project System :: Helps you to plan, manage, control, and figure the
cost of R&D projects, and soon. The common tasks revolve around allocation of
people, resources, and money within the framework of schedule and task
relationships.
SUB Modules
SAP PS-CAF - Payments
SAP PS-CON - Confirmation
SAP PS-COS - Costs
SAP PS-CRP - Resources
SAP PS-DAT - Dates
SAP PS-DOC - Documents
SAP PS-IS - Information System
SAP PS-MAT - Material
SAP PS-PRG - Progress
SAP PS-REV - Revenues and Earnings
SAP PS-SIM - Simulation
SAP PS-ST - Structures
SAP PS-VER - Versions
SAP LO - General Logistics::
SUB Modules
SAP LO-AB-TC - Trading Contract
SAP LO-BM - Batches
SAP LO-ECH - Engineering Change Management
SAP LO-EHS - Environment Management
SAP LO-EWB - Engineering Workbench
SAP LO-HU - Handling Unit Management
SAP LO-LIS - Logistics Information System
SAP LO-MAP - Merchandise & Assortment Planning
SAP LO-MD - Logistics Basic Data
SAP LO-MDS - Merchandise Distribution
SAP LO-PDM - Product Data Management
SAP LO-PR - Forecast
SAP LO-RIS - Retail Information System
SAP LO-SCI - Supply Chain Planning Interface

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LO-SRS - Retail Store

LO-VC - Variant Configuration
LO170 - Quality Management
LO705 - Quality Inspections
LO710 - Quality Notifications
LO725 - Quality Certificates
LE - Logistic Execution

Cross Application Module

Cross Application (X-Apps)
SAP MII for Manufacturing Integration & Intelligence
SAP APO - Advanced Planner and Optimizer
SAP Live Cache
SAP WF Workflow:: Links the integrated SAP R/3 application modules with
cross-application technologies, tools, and services, including e-mail.
Workflow allows you to set up the followings:
Maintain your companys organization structure according to responsibility.
Link the predefined standard tasks with the authorized agents in your company.
Activate existing event receiver links between triggering events and consuming
workflow tasks.
Name a technical person responsible for each standard workflow template.
SAP GRC -Governance, Risk, and Compliance
SAP SDN - SAP Developer Network
SAP Virsa
SAP GTS - Global Trade Services
SAP EM - SAP Emissions Management
SAP CPM - Corporate Performance Management
SAP SEM - Strategic Enterprise Management
SAP BPS Business Planning and Simulation
SAP SM Strategy Management - Service Management (SM) module is fully capable
to support customer demands more effectively. It has got an excellent reporting
functionality, which helps the management by providing the reports, which would
help them, identify areas of improvement.

SAP PS- Project systems ::

Project System provides tools to track project milestone, costs and resources. SAP's
Project System module contains tight integration to the Controlling, Human
Resources, and Logistics modules. It utilizes personnel records from HR, rolls costs
into Controlling and links to materials or customers in the Logistics modules.
SAP IS - Industry Solutions ::
IS is scaleable and flexible, and can be tailored to the specific needs of
each business. Examples are: SAP Aerospace and Defence, SAP Automotive, SAP
Banking, SAP Chemicals, SAP Consumer Products, SAP Engineering and
Construction, SAP Telecommunication, SAP Utilities, SAP Service Provider.