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And
ABAP Module
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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.
ERP solutions comes branded and even
customized.
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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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Major Components
Finance planning
Materials management.
Manufacturing.
Marketing & Sales
Logistics
Human Resources
Plant maintenance
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What will be your role as a
Manger?
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.

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How will knowledge of ERP Help?
It will help in better aligning expectations from your team.
It will also give you an in-depth knowledge of information
is collected and presented in the system.
You will have complete clarity on all possibilities of
information flow and its management.
It will give you an insight as to what can be expected from
an ERP system in the short term and also give you a base
to plan for the long term.

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

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ERP Software Packages
Baan
Peoplesoft
Oracle Application
JD Edwards
SAP
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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
System Applications, and Products in
Data Processing

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S. A. P.
SAP is the highly integrated software modules 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.

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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

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S.A.P.
R/2 is a SAP AG mainframe solution and was first
compact software package for the whole spectrum of
business applications.
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
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R/2 : Real time Two Tier Architecture
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S.A.P.
R/3 is SAP integrated software solution for client/server and
distributed open systems.
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
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R/3 Real Time Three Tier
Architecture
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Streams in SAP
TECHNICAL FUNCTIONAL
SAP R/3
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Streams in SAP
ABAP / 4
Programmer
BASIS
Administrator
TECHNICAL
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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
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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.
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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.



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How Can a Career be Planned ?
After completing the course, you can be

End User

Functional Consultant

Technical consultant

Administrator.
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Which companies will provide
employment?
End user companies
Bajaj Auto
Sudarshan Chem
Thomas Cook
Glenmark..
ERP Implementation organizations.
Satyam
Wipro
Infosys
IBM, PWC
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How much is the duration of a
project?
6 9 months for implementations.

On site.

On deputation it could be longer.
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ABAP/4
Advanced Business Application
Programming.
4 stands for 4
th
generation programming
language (language base English)
Programming interface for SAP
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Roles of ABAP Consultants
Data transfer from legacy system to SAP.
Reports generation according to the
requirements of the functional consultant.
Data transfer from one system to another.


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Data transfer from Legacy
systems.
Check the data availability in the existing
system.
Convert it to transferable format.
Transfer the data using the tools like BDC
(Batch Data Communication), LSMW
(Legacy System Migration Workbench).
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Report Generation
Understand the requirement.
Identify the suitable tool from the available.
The different tools available are:
Simple reports
Classical reports,
Interactive
Dialogue. etc
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Report Generation
Reporting tools for printing reports
SapSCRIPT.
ABAP List Viewer.
ABAP Query.

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Data Transfer between SAP
systems
Using techniques like ALE (Application
Link Enabling).
Using BAPIs. (Business Application
Programming Interface).