LSMW Customer Master update

SAP Modules and Solutions Overview

At present there was huge demand on simple web based ERP interface, user friendly & easy to access

People are looking for google, Facebook like interface.

SAP has introduce new dimension products such as S4 /Hana, C4C, Simple finance, simple Logistic, Fiori, Hybris marketing, IBP many more

New dimension products are design to meet present software trend

SAP now are moving away from describing their system as a set of modules, and now are using the term ‘solutions’,

Traditional SAP Module as follows:

• Financials
• Human Resources
• Customer Relationship Management
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Business Intelligence

Solution wise SAP module are categorized .lets check traditional SAP Module  

FI Financial Accounting – essentially your regulatory ‘books of record’, including

• General ledger
• Book close
• Tax
• Accounts receivable
• Accounts payable
• Consolidation
• Special ledgers

CO Controlling – basically your internal cost/management accounting, including

• Cost elements
• Cost centres
• Profit centres
• Internal orders
• Activity based costing
• Product costing

AM Asset Management – track, value and depreciate your assets, including

• Purchase
• Sale
• Depreciation
• Tracking

PS Project Systems – manage your projects, large and small, including

• Make to order
• Plant shut downs (as a project)
• Third party billing (on the back of a project)

HR Human Resources – ah yes, people, including

• Employment history
• Payroll
• Training
• Career management
• Succession planning

PM Plant Maintenance – maintain your equipment (e.g. a machine, an oil rig, an aircraft etc), including

• Labour
• Material
• Down time and outages

MM Materials Management – underpins the supply chain, including

• Requisitions
• Purchase orders
• Goods receipts
• Accounts payable
• Inventory management
• BOM’s
• Master raw materials, finished goods etc

QM Quality Management – improve the quality of your goods, including

• Planning
• Execution
• Inspections
• Certificates

PP Production Planning – manages your production process, including

• Capacity planning
• Master production scheduling
• Material requirements planning
• Shop floor

SD Sales and Distribution – from order to delivery, including

• RFQ
• Sales orders
• Pricing
• Picking (and other warehouse processes)
• Packing
• Shipping

CA Cross Application – these lie on top of the individual modules, and include

• WF – workflow
• BW – business information warehouse
• Office – for email
• Workplace
• Industry solutions

SAP Basis

BASIS provides administrative tools for SAP. 

It is a logical collection of R/3 software components. Basis is the layer between the hardware and R/3 system software.

BASIS provides for the following support in below mention areas 

• Tools for administration:

Basis includes various administration tools for managing the system resources like hardware, software and printers. It includes tools for monitoring the system performance, monitoring user sessions, setting up alerts and deriving various statistics and graphs which give indications of the system performance.

• User Administration:

This includes creating user ids, modifying user details and deleting users ids, viewing system users, sending messages to multiple users.

• Run time environment for the user:

The run time environment for the user includes the default menu path for the user, the date format for the user, the default printer for the user, changing user’s password.

• Provide Authorizations to the users:

In order to enable the user to access the various transactions, it is essential that the users have the correct set of authorisations. Setting of authorisations for the users based on their job roles. An authorisation tool is used to create the user authorisations. Once the authorisations have been created, profiles are created and the authorisations are attached to them. Each profile can have many such authorisations attached to them. The profiles are created based on the role definition of the user in the company. After the authorisations and profiles are created, user ids are created and the profiles are attached to the user profiles. Each user id could have multiple user profiles attached to them. For example, if we create a user profile for a business head, then that user id could have profiles relating to various departments / job definitions attached to it.

• Printer Administration:

This includes installing the network printers and local and remote printers for the users, setting up printer queues, and managing printer spooler.

• System Administration:

This includes starting and stopping the SAP service manager, diagnosing the system start-up, monitoring work processes, viewing transaction codes, clearing locked entries, monitoring system updates, transport of customising change requests and ABAP change requests at the OS level.

• Database Administration (including Backup and Restore):

Database management including database backup and restore, database performance monitor, and analysing database activity.

• Interfaces with non-SAP products:

BASIS also includes tools for interfacing with non-SAP products, which will continued to be in use in the organisation.