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A

Project Report

On

Computer Application-3

Submitted by,

Hiral Desai (13)

Khushboo Jariwala( 30)

Submitted on,

29-11-2009

Submitted to,

Narendra Sir

Navnirman Institute of Management

(NIM-BBA College), Bharthana, Surat

Affiliated to VNSGU, Surat.

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Content

Chapter I

Page

Introduction

Chapter II

Detail Technical & Service specifications

Physical Appearance

Explanation

Advantages

Disadvantages

Applications

Chapter III

Conclusion

Bibliography

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Chapter 1: Introduction

SAP R/ India is the fastest growing subsidiary of SAP, the world's leading provider of

business software solutions. SAP India began its operations in 1996 with headquarters in

Bangalore and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, and a direct presence in nine

cities across India, besides having marketing associates in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Over the last 11 years, SAP has been the undisputed market leader in the Indian

enterprise software market. In August 2006, the company was the first enterprise

software vendor in India to cross the 1000-customer mark and with strong momentum

powering the adoption of its solutions in 2007, the number of its Indian customers is now

well over 3000.

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business

software company with more than 48,500 employees at sales and development

locationsin more than 50 countries worldwide.

Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the

world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning

Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables

SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.SAP Research has highly skilled teams in

11 research centers worldwide.

SAP - ERP is a suite of client-server business modules which help integrating and

improving business practices. From medium sized companies, to global giants like

Nestle, SAP ERP products offer an hard to beat combination of functionality, flexibility,

and technology, enabling companies to respond quickly to change.

SAP is fast becoming the worldwide standard, with over 20,000 installations and

hundreds of complementary hardware and software partners.

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WithSAP Business Suite, your company can improve the strategic alignment and

efficiencies of financial, human capital, and operational processes. With enhanced

enterprise productivity and insight from the SAP ERP application, you have the power

needed to adapt quickly and cost effectively to changing business, market, and industry

requirements with ERP solutions that include:

SAP ERP Financials

SAP ERP Human Capital Management

SAP ERP Operations

SAP ERP Corporate Services

The technology leaders in business software solutions provide comprehensive

business software through SAP applications, services and support. Enterprise Resource

Planning (ERP) Software from SAP is the power to adapt quickly to changing industry

requirements.

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Chapter 2:

(1.) Detail - Technical & Product Development.

To achieve clarity and transparency, best-run businesses are using SAP solutions to help

close the gap between strategy and execution optimizing the performance of the

business as well as the business network. SAP solutions, along with services and a wealth

of extended value from the SAP customer-focused ecosystem, help customers become

clear enterprises by providing insight for improved performance, efficiency for optimized

operations, and flexibility to quickly adapt to changing circumstances.

With broader insight, improved efficiency, and greater flexibility, companies can become

more:

Transparent and accountable

Lean and agile

Customer centric and collaborative

The clarity provided by the SAP portfolio and the ecosystem can help companies

preserve profitability by addressing challenges such as cash management, risk mitigation,

customer loyalty, streamlining of operations, sustainability, and talent management.

Product development:

At a time when customers are increasingly influencing the design and delivery of

products and services, as well as business models, SAP solutions can help you captureinnovative customer demands and ideas and embed them into new products and services.

To help you deliver innovative products with high-quality, precision, and speed, SAP

-ERP gives you greater insight and visibility across the organization to ensure operational

efficiency, effectiveness, and flexibility.

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As a result, you are better equipped to foster the development of innovative new

products, collaborate with partners to shorten the time required to realize profits, and

deliver safe products. No matter the industry or size of your business, you can implement

only the software you need to solve your unique business challenges in your own time

and without expensive upgrades.

By enlisting the help of SAP Services before, during, and after any implementation, you

can optimize your IT investments. And with SAP Enterprise Support i.e. ERP,

companies take full advantage of the integration of SAP and non-SAP solutions,

minimize risk, enable the acceleration of innovation, and address application life-cycle

management.

Service Specification:

SAP Services: Supporting Your Business Centers with Expert Guidance

Finance Use SAP solutions to comply with industry and government regulations. Work

with SAP Services to manage risk, monitor enterprise performance and achieve

financial excellence throughout your organization.

Information technology Do more than simply implement innovative technologies:

Realize business value from your IT investments. Under the guidance of SAP-ERP, your

business and IT units can collaborate more often and more effectively to realize your

strategic IT initiatives.

Operations Improve your business processes, continuously. SAP consultants can help

you develop and adopt processes that support your efforts to increase efficiency and

achieve operational excellence in all aspects of your operations.

Sales and marketing SAP consultants can help you develop and implement the

customer-centric business strategies that support your efforts to stay one step ahead of

your competitors - and deliver superior customer value throughout the entire sales and

marketing experience

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SAP BusinessObjects consulting services Provides consulting to help you optimize

your solutions for business intelligence (BI), enterprise performance management

(EPM), and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)

Consulting services Offers best-in-class consulting through planning, implementation,

and optimization services

Custom development Incorporates SAP development strategies to deliver solutions

that meet unique business goals

Financing for SAP solutions Provides companies with affordable, all-inclusive, andpredictable financing options that cover the entire cost of your SAP solution

Product and service introduction Provides a standardized process for introducing all

SAP products to the market, helping customers achieve rapid business value

Run Services Offers expert guidance in optimizing the operations life cycle of an SAP

solution, helping organizations increase IT services, improve operational performance,

and reduce IT costs

Software maintenance and support Provides services for planning, implementation,

and operations

Upgrade to SAP ERP Delivers comprehensive upgrade services, tools, and content to

support the smooth implementation of low-risk and cost-effective upgrade projects

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(2.) Flow Diagram:

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(3.) Explanation:

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(4.) Advantages:

SAP ERP delivers a comprehensive set of integrated, cross-functional business processes.

With SAP ERP, you can gain the following benefits:

Improve alignment of strategies and operations

o Run your enterprise in accordance with strategy and plans, accessing the

right information in real time to identify concerns early.

o Pursue opportunities proactively.

o Achieve corporate objectives by aligning workforce and organizational

objectives.

o Find the best people and leverage their talent in the right job at the right

time.

Improve productivity and insight

o Leverage self-services and analytics across your organization.

o Improve operational efficiency and productivity within and beyond your

enterprise.

Reduce costs through increased flexibility

o

Use enterprise services architecture to improve process standardization,efficiency, and adaptability.

o Extend transactions, information, and collaboration functions to a broad

business community.

Support changing industry requirements

o Take advantage of the SAP NetWeaver platform's latest open, Web-based

technology to integrate your end-to-end processes seamlessly.

Reduce risk

o Solve complex business challenges today with SAP, your trusted partner

for long-term growth, with 30 years of experience working with

organizations of all sizes in more countries than any other vendor.

o Join SAP's world-class partner network, uniquely qualified to support the

best business practices in more than 25 industries.

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Improve financial management and corporate governance

o Gain deep visibility into your organization with financial and management

accounting functionality combined with business analytics.

o Increase profitability, improve financial control, and manage risk.

Optimize IT spending

o Integrate and optimize business processes.

o Eliminate high integration costs and the need to purchase third-party

software.

o Deploy other SAP Business Suite applications incrementally to improve

cash flow and reduce costly borrowing.

Gain higher ROI faster

o Install SAP ERP using rapid-implementation techniques that cost less than

half what traditional approaches cost.

o Leverage preset defaults and prepackaged versions available for specific

industries.

Retain top performers

o Retain your top performers through clearly defined career and

development plans.

o Link employees' performance to compensation programs such as variablepay plans and long-term incentives.

Provide immediate access to enterprise information

o Give employees new ways to access the enterprise information required

for their daily activities.

Integration

Integration can be the highest benefit of them all. The only real project aim for

implementing ERP is reducing data redudancy and redudant data entry. If this is

set as a goal, to automate inventory posting to G/L, then it might be a successful

project. Those companies where integration is not so important or even

dangerous, tend to have a hard time with ERP. ERP does not improve the

individual efficiency of users, so if they expect it, it will be a big disappointment.

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Efficiency

Generally, ERP software focuses on integration and tend to not care about the

daily needs of people. I think individual efficiency can suffer by implementing

ERP. the big question with ERP is whether the benefit of integration and

cooperation can make up for the loss in personal efficiency or not.

Cost-reduction.

It reduces cost only if the company took accounting and reporting seriously even

before implementation and had put a lot of manual effort in it. If they didn't care

about it, if they just did some simple accounting to fill mandatory statements and

if internal reporting did not exists of has not been fincancially-oriented, then nocost is reduced.

Accuracy

No. People are accurate, not software. What ERP does is makes the lives of

inaccurate people or organization a complete hell and maybe forces them to be

accurate (which means hiring more people or distributing work better), or it falls.

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(5.) Disadvantages:

Many problems organizations have with ERP systems are due to inadequate investment

in ongoing training for involved personnel, including those implementing and testing

changes, as well as a lack of corporate policy protecting the integrity of the data in the

ERP systems and how it is used.

Expensive

This entails software, hardware, implementation, consultants, training, etc. Or you

can hire a programmer or two as an employee and only buy business consulting from

an outside source, do all customization and end-user training inside. That can be cost-

effective

Not Very Flexible.

It depends. SAP can be configured to almost anything. In Navision one can

develop almost anything in days. Other software may not be flexible.

Personnel turnover

Companies can employ new managers lacking education in the company's ERP

system, proposing changes in business practices that are out of synchronization with

the best utilization of the company's selected ERP.

Customization of the ERP software is limited. Some customization may involvechanging of the ERP software structure which is usually not allowed.

Re-engineering of business processes to fit the "industry standard" prescribed by

the ERP system may lead to a loss of competitive advantage.

ERP systems can be very expensive to install often ranging from 30,000 to

500,000,000 for multinational companies.

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ERP vendors can charge sums of money for annual license renewal that is

unrelated to the size of the company using the ERP or its profitability.

Technical support personnel often give replies to callers that are inappropriate for

the caller's corporate structure. Computer security concerns arise, for example

when telling a non-programmer how to change a database on the fly, at a

company that requires an audit trail of changes so as to meet some regulatory

standards.

ERPs are often seen as too rigid and too difficult to adapt to the specific workflow

and business process of some companiesthis is cited as one of the main causes

of their failure.

Systems can be difficult to use.

Systems are too restrictive and do not allow much flexibility in implementation

and usage.

The system can suffer from the "weakest link" probleman inefficiency in one

department or at one of the partners may affect other participants.

Many of the integrated links need high accuracy in other applications to work

effectively. A company can achieve minimum standards, then over time "dirty

data" will reduce the reliability of some applications.

Once a system is established, switching costs are very high for any one of the

partners (reducing flexibility and strategic control at the corporate level).

The blurring of company boundaries can cause problems in accountability, lines

of responsibility, and employee morale.

Resistance in sharing sensitive internal information between departments can

reduce the effectiveness of the software.

There are frequent compatibility problems with the various legacy systems of the

partners.

The system may be over-engineered relative to the actual needs of the customer.

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(7.) Application:

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Chapter 3:

(1.) Conclusion:

Thus, With SAP Business Suite, your company can improve the

strategic alignment and efficiencies of financial, human capital, and

operational processes. With enhanced enterprise productivity and

insight from the SAP ERP application, you have the power needed to

adapt quickly and cost effectively to changing business, market, and

industry requirements.

The clarity provided by the SAP portfolio and the ecosystem can help companies

preserve profitability by addressing challenges such as cash management, risk mitigation,

customer loyalty, streamlining of operations, sustainability, and talent management.

Thus, Customers have more control and flexibility of their experience, which creates

more opportunities and efficiencies for companies

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(3.) Bibliography:

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www.SAP.com/India

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