System Applications and Products
Contents:
Introduction to SAP
History of SAP
Basic facts of SAP
SAP market share
ERP System of SAP
Advantages.
Disadvantages.
General Areas of Application
What makes SAP different?
Verticals of SAP
Reasons for implementing SAP
SAP application Modules
SAP solutions
Benefits of SAP
SAP-Security
Our Advice to Company
SAP-Introduction
SAP is the leading Enterprise Information and Management Package.
There is n number of ERP software's in market today of which SAP is use in medium to large enterprises.
SAP is a neatly integrated business software to process all functionalities of an organisation in order to obtain a Unifies Solution i.e., ERP software.
SAP is a leader when it comes to easy integration among all the departments.
History of SAP
SAP the company was founded in Waldorf, Germany in town of Heidelberg in 1972 by five Ex-IBM Engineers.
The full name of the parent Company is SAP AG.
SAP has subsidiaries in over 50 countries around the world from Argentina to Venezuela.
SAP stands for Systeme Andwendungen Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung which means System Applications and Products in Data Processing in English.
Basic facts
Worlds third largest Independent software provider
Now 70-80% top companies in their respective fields have implemented SAP
Serves More than 335,000 Global Customers world wide in more than 190 countries
SAP customers include:
87% of the Forbes Global 2000 companies
98% of the 100 most valued brands
100% of the Dow Jones top scoring sustainability companies
SAP market share
SAP is a leader in ERP industry
According to a recent report of Forbes, SAP leads ERP market share with 25% market share
While Oracle is at 16%and Microsoft at 9% market share.
Oracle is the biggest competitor of SAP in the field of ERP
Oracle has strong base in data storage
Sap is relatively new in data storage but its getting up to the speed with its own data storage system SAP HANA
ERP-Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a software that is built to organizations belonging to different industrial sectors, regardless of their size and strength.
ERP is the term used for the software that controls the different departments of the whole organisation.
For Ex:
SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamic, Saga, People Soft, JD Edwards are some of
the top ERP software Systems.
Advantages of ERP
By integrating the business processes, the ERP offers the following advantages −
Saves time and expenses.
Allows faster decision-making by the management, utilizing the data and reporting tools designed in the systems.
Single data source and sharing of data among all the units of an organization.
Helps in tracking every transaction that takes place in an organization, from starting till end.
Supplies real-time information whenever required.
Provides synchronized information transfer in between different functional areas such as sales, marketing, finance, manufacturing, human resource, logistics, etc.
Disadvantages of ERP
It is not always easy to incorporate ERP in an organization. ERP
suffers from the following drawbacks −
Sometimes business processes critical to an organization are to be re-engineered to align them with an ERP solution.
Cost of complex integration can be very high.
Switching from one ERP solution to another increases the implementation cost even further.
End-users are to be trained for their daily operations.
Customization is not preferred.
ERP Market Share
Timeline of SAP
General areas of applications of SAP
Financial Accounting − Deals with financial transactions and data.
Human Resource − Deals with information related to employee of an organization.
Customer Relationship Management − Deals with capturing and managing customer’s relationship, facilitating the use of customer experience to evaluate the knowledge database.
Sales and Distribution − Deals with order placement, delivery, shipment and invoicing
Logistics and Warehouse Management − Deals with storage of products and shipment.
Manufacturing and Material Management − Deals with the production and production planning activities.
Supply Change Management − Deals with the movement of products, storing, managing, and controlling supplies.
Business Intelligence − Analyses data and converts the same to information.
What makes SAP different?
Traditional computer information systems used by many businesses today have been developed to accomplish some specific tasks and provide reports and analysis of events that have already taken place
Occasionally, some systems operate in a real-time mode that is have up to date information in them and can be used to actually control events
SAP takes a different approach. All applications access common data.
Real events in the business initiate transactions
There is only one information system in an enterprise, SAP.
Accounting is done automatically by events in sales and production
Sales can see when products can be delivered
Production schedules are driven by sales
The whole system is designed to be real-time and not historical
Verticals Of SAP
Reasons for Implementing SAP
For better decision making
For Strategic planning
For higher system performance
To gain competitive advantage
To meet key business goals
To gain increased solution flexibility
Enables a company to link its business functions
Ties together different business processes
Enables Business change
Replacement of an outdated inefficient IT architecture
SAP Application Modules
SAP has several layers.
The Basis System is the heart of the data operations and should be not evident to higher level or managerial users
Other Customizing and implementation tools exist also
The heart of the system from a manager’s viewpoint are the applications modules
These modules may not all be implemented in a typical company but they are all related
Business solutions
Digital business solutions
Platform and technology solutions
Software productsIndustry solutions
Platforms and frameworks
Small/Mid-sized enterprises solutions
Benefits of SAP
Improves Productivity
Reduces cost by increasing flexibility
Supports additional extensions in an organisation, if required
Optimize IT spending
Provide immediate access to enterprise information
Simultaneously visibility across whole enterprise
To choose best marketing strategy
Offers good Understanding of current situation of company.
Offers high security and info consistence.
Offers coordination across the company.
Enables to focus attention core process.
Business Ideas to Current Challenges
Many Companies run into a number of challenges when coming up with solutions.
First, companies are increasingly integrating SAP with cloud-based applications.
Moreover, some business processes require SAP to be connected to multiple systems, each of which may communicate with SAP using a different technology. An integration layer is thus needed between SAP and these different systems.
As business needs change, new cases will emerge. The challenge for companies is to design a software architecture that will enable developers to quickly build applications and integrate with SAP.
SAP is made for
All range of companies
Different suites are available for different range of companies
Designed to satisfy the information needs for all business functions
Different module section for different area of businesses
Multilinguistic, Base Independent i.e., works on any operating System
SAP-Security
There are three points to look in order to ensure security-
1.Confidentiality – Unauthorized disclosure of data
2. Integrity – Unauthorized modification of data
3. Availability – Denial of Service(Lack of availability of resources)
SAP authorizations control access to transactions by
1.Keeping Unauthorized persons out of system
2.Keeping people out of places where they should not be
3.Safegaurding the data from damage or loss
Safeguards
Classification of Security
Advice to Company
The cost of product is too high for small business and companies and implementation of the tools is not easy.
The products need more refinement (eg:- in the business suite there is no option of payroll and hence requiring a third party application to be used in parallel).
Products should be made flexible
Thank You
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