 What are Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Systems?
 Incredibly large, extensive software packages used to
manage a firm’s business processes.
 Standard software packages that must be configured
to meet the needs of a company
 Database programs with the following functions:
 Input 28,610+ Tables in SAP
 Storage/Retrieval
 Manipulation
 Output
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 Who are the big ERP vendors?
 SAP, the German juggernaut
 Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung,
or
 Systems, Analysis and Products in Data Processing.
 Don’t be a sap!
 Oracle/PeopleSoft/J. D. Edwards (J.D. Orisoft)
 Microsoft Great Plains, aimed at smaller companies
 SAP Business One is competing product

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 FI
Financial
Accounting

QM PS PM
Quality Project Plant
Mgmt. System Maint.

PP SD MM
Workflow Prod. Sales & Materials
Planning Distrib. Mgmt.

HR AM
Human Asset
Resources Mgmt.

CO
Controlling
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 FI
Financial
Accounting

QM PS PM
Quality Project Plant
Mgmt. System Maint.

PP SD MM
Workflow Prod. Sales & Materials
Planning Distrib. Mgmt.

HR AM
Human Asset

SAP can use a Resources

CO
Mgmt.

number of
Controlling

database programs
to actually store
the data.

Oracle
DB2
MSSQL 4
 Configuration is the process of making standard
software fit your business. SAP, as an example,
has:
 Over 8000 configuration decisions
 Data structuring
 Sales divisions, distribution channels
 Rewriting Code (Modifications)
 Not recommended because of compatibility problems when
updated versions of the software are installed.
 Customization
 Writing code at SAP-specified user exits
 Third-party software solutions
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 CO
Calendars
Currencies FI

Manufacturing
Inputs Outputs
Process

Vendor Cust.
Master Material Master
Master
Pricing Pricing
Basic
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 Three-tier Client/Server Architecture

Application
Server
Application
Server
USER PCs
USER PCs
Database
Server

Application Application
Server Server
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Two Tier Client/Server System
(Training Configuration)

Database and
Application
Server

User PCs

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 SAP vs. MS Office

Database and
Application
Server

Nothing is saved on your PC. Only things saved on our

server in Missouri are saved, and they are saved for good. 9
 Saving in Windows vs. SAP

 In Window Applications, you save often

so you don’t lose everything when you
get the Blue Screen of Death:

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 Saving in Windows vs. SAP
 In SAP, there are very few delete
options:

 Don’t save if things don’t look 100%

correct! Exit the transaction and start
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 What is a client?
 A way to separate data in the system
 In some ways, a separate database
 Also, a table entry

Column (attribute)
Field
Mandt
Client 201
201
Row
201
(Record)
202
202

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 Fitter Snacker Setup

SAP 5 Server
Client 501 Client 502 Client 503

01 Fitter Snacker 01 Fitter Snacker 01 Fitter Snacker

02 Fitter Snacker 02 Fitter Snacker 02 Fitter Snacker

03 Fitter Snacker 03 Fitter Snacker 03 Fitter Snacker

99 Fitter Snacker 99 Fitter Snacker 99 Fitter Snacker

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 Data Set Number (##)

 I am data set number 00, not you!

Enter Cred. Contr. area ##CR

and Currency USD

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 SAP 5 System Landscape

501 502 503

FS Student FS Student FS Student

201 202 203

Config. CATT Test FS Master

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 Logging On – SAP Gui

 To log on to an R/3 system with the SAP Gui, you

need the proprietary SAP Gui (Graphical User
Interface) software loaded on your system and an
internet connection

Internet Connection
Account on PC with SAP Gui
SAP R/3 System
in Missouri
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 SAP Gui Configuration

 First, you need to tell the SAP Gui which system you
want to log into:

If you don’t have

any systems defined,
click on New Item

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System Definition
(provided by UCC)

Text description (free)

Address of system (e.g.

sapd.umsystem.edu)

SAP Router usually

not required
System ID
Logical name of system

System Number
Frequently 00, but not always

R/3 System Selected

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Select System:
double-click or
Logon button

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Logging On

Enter Client

Enter User (R/3 Account)

Enter Password (R/3 Account)

Don’t worry about language—

English will default in

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Logging On

On the first time logging in to

a new account, you will have
to change the password—try
To remember your new
Password WITHOUT WRITING
IT DOWN!

Then a message or two

Then . . . .

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Success!

SAP Easy Access

•Master Data Entry
•Transaction Data Entry

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Where Configuration
Takes Place

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 Master Data
 Data that is relatively stable
 Materials, Customers, Vendors
 Transaction Data
 Data that is relatively temporary
 Stored at various stages of a business process
 Customer orders, purchase orders, production
orders, customer payments

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Transactions flow down
the river of time

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