SAP ERP Modules
Introduction
SAP provides solutions in a number of functional modules, these SAP ERP modules support almost all transactions to execute key business processes. Below are SAP available in different modules.
1. SAP HCM
Personnel Administration
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Travel Management
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Organizational Management
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Talent Management
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Payroll
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Time Management
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2. SAP Sales and Distribution (SD)
- Sales order processing and monitoring
- Shipping
- Bill/Invoice verification
- Credit and Risk Management
- Shipping
- Pricing and discounts
- Transportation
- Reports and Analyses
- Business Package for Internal Sales Representative
3. SAP Financial Accounting (SAP-FI)
SAP FI stands for Financial Accounting and it is one of important modules of SAP ERP. It is used to store the financial data of an organization. SAP FI helps to analyze the financial conditions of a company in the market.
SAP Financial Accounting (FI) is an important core module where in live-time, the financial processing transactions are all captured to provide the basis via which data is drawn for external reporting.
Financial Accounting
- General Ledger
- Accounts Payable
- Contract Accounting
- Fixed Assets
- Accounting
- Bank Accounting
- Inventory Accounting
- Financial Statements
Management Accounting
- Cost Centre Accounting
- Profit Centre Accounting
4. SAP Solution Manager
5. SAP Material Management (MM)
With the changing world, mostly all the commercial organizations are managing a process that initiates through sourcing and procurement of various types of materials and resources. Since the time from which the procurement begins, until the payment has been paid. There is need for a procedure that is well-organized, effective and makes financial sense as well, since the time that such procurement begins, to the time that the payment is completed. This is where the need for SAP MM arises and comes to play for the organizations. With such efficient procedure, a business organization can deploy:
- Healthier purchasing mechanisms,
- Advanced value of materials evaluation
- Organized data storage, retrieval and usage,
- Global development in quality control as well
- Smoother inventory management and
- Improved vendor management
- Consumption-Based Planning
- Vendor Evaluation and rating
- Statutory requirements
6. SAP Production Planning (PP)
Production department is one of the crucial responsibilities of the management. The Production Planning functionalities include planning of schedules, dispatching inspection, control and coordination of raw materials, machines tools and employees in order to achieve good quality of products meeting customer demands. With the automation of common SAP PP module tasks such as creating bills of material, routing, plan orders, production orders, and confirmation orders, companies can ensure the timeliness and accuracy of critical data that is used by other SAP modules like Materials Management and Sales and Distribution
Production planning
Production order processing
Demand management (DM)
Material Requirement planning (MRP)
Shop floor control
Capacity requirement planning
Information system
7. SAP Quality Management (QM)
SAP Quality Management integration with other modules is one of the key aspect of quality management. You can implement the quality process in Material Management, Production Planning and other SAP modules. SAP Quality Management process helps you to incorporate the improvement process- by monitoring the processes, defect identification and quality notifications. Using SAP Quality Management process, you can perform the quality compliance of raw materials when it is first delivered by vendors/suppliers and in process manufacturing and also after the production process is completed
Incoming inspection
Process Inspection
Final/Delivery inspection
Quality Reports/Certificates
Quality Notifications
8. SAP Basis
Functionalities:
1. System monitoring and administration tools
2.Common monitoring tool CCMS(Computing Centre Management System) to monitor alerts of R/3 system from one place.
3. Server side scripting in ABAP and Javascript.
4. Use of Business server pages to build online stores and portals.
5. Database monitoring and administration utilities
6. Resource management like memory, buffer, etc.
7. Authorization and profile management tools for user management.
8. Internet access control to the system and business objects.
9. Transfer modifications in a screen, program, layout from the development to a production system for accuracy purpose by Transport Management System.
10. Client-server architecture and configuration.
11. Graphical User Interface designing for the presentation layer.
9. SAP Security
The security threat in the enterprise is relentless and multiplying, and the attackers are getting more sophisticated. Around the world, there is tremendous concern around information security. Business partner, customer and personal data is processed in various modules and processes within an SAP® system and is stored in numerous tables. As a result, the possibility of this data being accessed and misused exists. To avoid these vulnerabilities, we support you to implement an SAP security concept for your entirely system.
Our SAP Security consulting package is
1.Tailored concept for protecting sensitive data
2.Number and severity of security gaps is clearly reduced
3. Defense against break-in attempts
4. Concept for protecting systems and data is rounded out
5. Ongoing system monitoring by our SAST GRC Suite
10. SAP SRM
SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is a perfect solution to help you manage your suppliers, take care of your contracts, speed up your procurement processes, and more. With SAP SRM, you can maintain high-quality output while being able to keep your supply costs down. This ultra-efficient SRM platform enables you to streamline and standardize the acquisition of goods and services while allowing you to close the loop from source to pay, thus effectively reducing procurement expenses.
SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) gives you unique methods to help you coordinate and facilitate your business processes with your key suppliers and dramatically improve their effectiveness. With SAP SRM, you are able to fully optimize your procurement methods, to work more effectively with your supplier pool, and thus to get much more from all your relationships with your suppliers.
SAP SRM helps you evaluate and predict purchasing behaviour, cut down procurement cycles, and engage your partners in real time. The system enables you to create and foster long-term partnerships with all your suppliers who have proven themselves to be very reliable and valuable to your business.
The SRM solution bolsters your organization’s efficiency by automating operational processes to increase efficiency while taking maverick buying out of the equation. Consumer grade shopping interfaces make it easy for users to adopt the system and make it work for them. Companies love how SAP SRM helps them achieve greater visibility into supplier relationships and performance as well as expedite procurement processing and cycle times.
11. SAP SCM
SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) enables collaboration, planning, execution, and coordination of the entire supply network, empowering you to adapt your supply chain processes to an ever-changing competitive environment.
SAP SCM can help transform a linear, sequential supply chain into a responsive supply network – in which communities of customer-centric, demand-driven companies share knowledge, intelligently adapt to changing market conditions, and proactively respond to shorter, less predictable life cycles. SAP SCM provides broad functionality for enabling responsive supply networks and integrates seamlessly with both SAP and non-SAP software.
It helps in,
Faster response to changes in supply and demand
1. Increased customer satisfaction
2. Compliance with regulatory requirements
3. Improved cash flow
4. Higher margins
5. Greater synchronization with business priorities
12. SAP CRM
Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) offers deep analysis and insight to anticipate consumer needs and create profitable, lasting customer relationship. In other words, consumer interaction plays an essential role in determining the success of your business. It helps in building consistent and relevant interactions across all branches that handles customers. This module helps organizations in driving customer value, loyalty and profitability across the entire value chain of an organization. Customer satisfaction is one of the common aims for every business and we helps to achieve the same.The SAP® Customer Relationship Management application helps you distinguish your organization as you grow by promoting collaboration with your customers and providing exceptional interactions and experiences across all customer touch points.
13. SAP BPC
The SAP® Business Planning and Consolidation application accelerates planning and consolidated financial reporting processes. It supports planning, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities with management and legal consolidation functionality in a single application. It reduces Reduced planning and consolidation cycle times, give More accurate plans, budgets, and forecasts, increases stakeholder confidence, Minimize compliance risk and Improved data quality.
When it comes to planning and consolidations utilities are facing external challenges with high volatile market, fast moving trends, increasing regulatory compliances along with internal challenges such as inconsistent processes, limited alignment between strategic planning and annual budgeting, prioritizing/ sequencing statutory and/or management consolidations. We believe that BPC will be a booster for integrating planning and consolidation together and improve financial reporting and analysis capabilities. It will help to enhance overall scalability and performance for faster decision making with enhanced IT and business usability.
14. SAP BCM
The SAP® Bank Communication Management (BCM) provides companies with seamless bank communication with their multiple banks and enables a company to take full advantage of all the benefits of standardized electronic payments such as the SEPA initiative. BCM in combination with the SAP® Integration Package for SWIFT enables the seamless integration with the SWIFTNet infrastructure, a secure and reliable infrastructure for companies to communicate simply and efficiently with their multiple banking partners. Regarding external payment transactions, in most companies multiple and technically different banking connectivity prevails. Bank communication can, thus, become an in transparent, insecure and expensive matter. By implementing the module SAP® Bank Communication Management, helps companies to put such things right: SAP® Bank Communication Management enables you to group payments according to your needs and to process them in certain batches. As a result, you gain transparency, achieve greater security and are able to reduce the costs of payment processes.