Key ERP SAP System Modules / Solutions
SAP are now moving away from a past term of ‘Modules’ to what they now prefer to be know as ‘solutions’. These new 'solutions' are:
Financials
Human Resources
Customer Relationship Management
Supplier Relationship Management
Product Lifecycle Management
Supply Chain Management
Business Intelligence
The 'modules' (As they were formally known) which make up the SAP framework are:
FI Financial Accounting – essentially your regulatory ‘books of record’, including
General ledger
Book close
Tax
Accounts receivable
Accounts payable
Consolidation
Special ledgers
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CO Controlling – basically your internal cost/management accounting, including
Cost elements
Cost centers
Profit centers
Internal orders
Activity based costing
Product costing
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AM Asset Management – track, value and depreciate your assets, including
Purchase
Sale
Depreciation
Tracking
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PS Project Systems – manage the projects, large and small, including
Make to order
Plant shut downs (as a project)
Third party billing (on the back of a project)
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HR Human Resources – people, including
Employment history
Payroll
Training
Career management
Succession planning
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PM Plant Maintenance – maintaining the equipment (e.g. a machine, an oil rig, an aircraft etc), including
Labour
Material
Down time and outages
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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
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QM Quality Management – improve the quality of your goods, including
Planning
Execution
Inspections
Certificates
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PP Production Planning – manages your production process, including
Capacity planning
Master production scheduling
Material requirements planning
Shop floor
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SD Sales and Distribution – from order to delivery, including
RFQ
Sales orders
Pricing
Picking (and other warehouse processes)
Packing
Shipping
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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
New Dimension products such as CRM, PLM, SRM, APO etc Click here for SAP CA jobs
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