Enterprise Wide Resource Planning

ERP Enterprise Wide Resource Planning

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.

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Finance planning Materials management. Manufacturing. Marketing & Sales Logistics Human Resources Plant maintenance …

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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 1st Layer

PRESENTATION LAYER

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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

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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 / 4th 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.