Enterprise Wide Resource Planning

ERP
What is ERP?
Enterprise Wide Resource Planning.
An approach to plan effective and optimum
utilization of resources.
ERP is a concept.
ERP Solutions have been designed around this
concept.
Enterprise Resource Planning
ERP is a software driven business management
system, which integrates all facets of the
business including Planning, Manufacturing,
Sales and Marketing.
ERP is a Business Solution aims to help the
management by setting better business practices
and equipping them with the right information to
take timely decision.

Major Components
Finance planning
Materials management.
Manufacturing.
Marketing & Sales
Logistics
Human Resources
Plant maintenance
What will be your role as a Manager?
You could be involved at many stages:
As an End user of ERP system.
As a Business Process Owner.
As a ERP Consultant who would be involved
from an IT organization side for the purpose of
designing and implementing the solution.
As a representative from client side and
member of core team.

In what way is ERP implemented ?
Stages in implementation.
Business Scenario study.
Defining the solution its expectations.
Blueprint and deployment.
Testing
Integration
Go Live

ERP Software Packages
Baan
Peoplesoft
Oracle Application
JD Edwards
SAP
S. A. P.
The name SAP being a German company, is
acronym for Systeme Anwendungen,
Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung.
This is translated into English as
System Application and Products in Data
Processing
Systems Applications, and Products
in Data Processing

S. A. P.
SAP is the highly integrated software that
perform common business functions based on
multi-national leading practices.
Takes care of any enterprises however
diverse it may be in operations, spread over
the world geographically.

S. A. P.
SAP is founded in 1972 by five people.
Wellenreuther
Hopp
Hector
Plattner
Tchira
These employees presented their idea to IBM
who in turn refuse to research & develop their
product.
AG Stands for Aktiengesellschaft which means in
English Incorporation

S.A.P.
R/2 is a SAP AG first compact software
package.
In R/2 we have got two layer concept

1
st
Layer
2
nd
Layer
PRESENTATION LAYER
APPLICATION LAYER
DATABASE LAYER
** R : Stand for Real Time
R/2 : Real time Two Tier Architecture
S.A.P.
R/3 meets the needs of a customer from the small
companies to multi-billion dollar companies.

In R/3 we have got three layer Concept


1
st
Layer
2
nd
Layer APPLICATION LAYER
DATABASE LAYER 3
rd
Layer
PRESENTATION LAYER
R/3 Real Time Three Tier Architecture
Streams in SAP
TECHNICAL FUNCTIONAL
SAP R/3
Streams in SAP
ABAP / 4
Programmer
BASIS
Administrator
TECHNICAL
Streams in SAP
FI - Finance
CO - Controlling
TR - Treasury
Real Estate Management
Finance
Personnel Managment
Payroll
Time management
Human Resource
SD - Sales & Distribution
PP - Production Planning
MM - Material Management
WM - Warehouse Management
Logistics
FUNCTIONAL
BASIS
BASIS similar to an operating system for R/3.

It provides the runtime environment for ABAP/4 programs.
Basis is essential to run ABAP/4 programs.

It is a collection of R/3 system programs that present you
with an interface.
ABAP
ABAP stands for Advanced Business Application
Programming / 4
th
Generation Language

ABAP/4 cannot run directly on an operating system. It
requires a set of programs to load, interpret, and buffer its
input and output.