SAP Methodology

SAP methodology provides operational standards, a roadmap and training and certification. It allows companies access to proven processes to define and automate their own processes in a centralized manner. Using methods and standard tools, Run SAP encourages all entities to work together, including SAP and its partners. External service providers can also be integrated through these operational standards. This helps especially small and medium-sized businesses: they can reduce their operating costs by outsourcing the work wholly or partially to offset the lack of qualified staff, just like large companies.

Benefits of SAP

SAP customers quickly realize the benefits of working with operational standards. They can improve the management of fleet SAP and promote initiatives in automation to reduce operational costs. SAP operational standards also improve the transparency and traceability of IT investments, helping companies to more easily reconcile their objectives in terms of quality of service and compliance.

The ERP Center of Excellence

The ERP Center of Excellence provides the design and implementation of ERP systems. He leads the development of skills around tools ERP (SAP, Microsoft ...) in both levels of integration (SAP XI, ABAP, Biztalk, Dotnet ...) and the vertical (SAP CRM, MS CRM, SAP Analytics MS Analysis Services ...). The Center of Excellence Services Architecture has developed know-how SOA, BPM and MDM expertise in addition to EAI, launched in 2000. Around new versions WebMethods, Microsoft and SAP, the formalization of the knowledge base of our high-level expertise has trained many consultants internally and among our customers.

Three Technology Centers of Excellence Business Intelligence

CRM, Service Architecture and ERP, maintain and develop technological skills vertical and the ability to intervene not only delegation of powers but also on integration projects to the package. The Center for Business Intelligence Excellence - CRM specializes in designing and implementing data warehouses, BI tools and CRM systems and steering. The Center of Excellence monitors technological leadership and skills development around ETL tools (Informatica, Datastage, ... Sunopsis), databases (Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, SAS) and especially in the domain of very high volumes, tools restitution (Microsoft Analysis Services, Business Objects, Cognos, Microstragegy, SAS) as well as CRM tools and EMA (Neolane, SmartFOCUS, MS CRM, Eptic ...).

Different Modules in SAP

Basically SAP offers 3 Basic Modules:

• Technical Consultants
• Functional Consultants
• New Dimensional Consultant

Technical Modules:
1. ABAP (Programming)
2. BASIS (Installation and Networking)
3. BIW (Business Information Warehousing)
4. BI (Business Intelligence)

Functional Modules:
1. FI/CO (Finance and Controlling With CIN)
2. HR (Human Resource)
3. PP (Production Planning)
4. MM (Material Management With CIN)
5. SD (Sales and Distribution With CIN)
6. PM (Plant Maintenance)
7. PS (Project System)
8. QM (Quality Management)

New Dimensional :
1. CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
2. SCM (Supply Chain Management)
3. SEM (Strategic Enterprise Management)
4. APO (Advanced Planner Optimizer)
5. EP (Enterprise Portal)
6. SRM (Supplier Relationship Management)
7. XI (Exchange Infrastructure)
8. IS Retail (Industry Specific Retail)

Facts of SAP

• Largest Independent software supplier in the world.
• Available in 14 languages.
• 45% of SAP customers world wide are under $300 millions.
• 8 of the top 10 highest profit US companies use SAP software.
• More than 92,000 customers in the world have chosen SAP.
• SAP has 16 millions end users world wide.
• SAP has a close to 2 million SAP professionals.

Modules of SAP

• Module MM - Material Management


• Module PP - Production Planning


• Module PS - Project Systems


• Module SD - Sales and Distribution


• Module FI


• Module CO - Controlling


• Module Basis - SAP System Administration


• Module CO-OM


• Module CO-PC


• Module CO-PA


• Module EC-PCA


• Module HR - Human Resources

SAP Integration Is Made Easy Using SAS

All users of SAP ERP, and the platform SAP NetWeaver in particular, can therefore rely on business intelligence solutions from SAS to make their data not only SAP but also other data sources (software, legacy applications ,...). SAS (R) 9.1 also offers advanced analytic functions (statistics, data mining and forecasting) and allows to retrieve very large volumes of data efficiently. In addition, SAS (R) 9.1 includes features extensive processing of data quality, including real-time, thanks to its offer SAS (R) Data Quality Solution.

This close integration is possible through access solutions available with the SAP platform SAS (R). On the one hand, SAS (R) Data Surveyor for SAP provides access to all data from SAP. On the other hand, the five options, the SAS (R) Solutions Adapters allow trades SAS solutions to access data in SAP préparamétrée: SAS (R) Human Capital Management for management of human resources, SAS (R ) Finance Management) for the financial reporting, SAS (R) Activity Based Costing / Activity Based Management for piloting activities, SAS (R) Supplier Relationship Management for managing the procurement function, SAS (R) Information Technology Management for information technology.

All these offerings based on SAP and protocols comply with the safety standards of access for SAP.

About SAS www.sas.com / canada

SAS is the leading global decision support with a turnover of 1.68 billion dollars in 2005. SAS is the only publisher in the market which offers a platform for business decision-making open and integrated.

SAS solutions cover all activities of the company: human resources, finance, marketing, sales, purchasing, risk management of information systems. Beyond functional issues, they respond to specific business sectors such as telecommunications, distribution, banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals, public sector services. They help to optimize the organization and costs, income growth and help to implement an effective performance management of the company.

Components of an ERP

The components cover all business functions, which are geared not only inwards but also outwards, on the client side (CRM) and supplier-side (SCM).
Two types of reasons may be involved in the implementation of an ERP: technological reasons
such obsolete architecture and economic reasons as the case of a merger / acquisition
or development activity.
The aim will be for the company to improve profitability, but also reduce administrative costs.

Background of ERP

The ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), also known as ERP (ERP) applications are
the aim is to coordinate all activities of a company (called vertical activities such as production,
supply or horizontal as marketing, sales force, management of human resources, etc..)
around a single information system. The term "ERP" comes from the method name MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning)
used since the 70s for the management and planning of industrial production.

SAP Popularity Around the World

More than 3,000 organizations have chosen to use SAP NetWeaver Process Integration as middleware (SOA, Service Oriented Architecture) and business integration to improve the inter-application (A2A, application-to-application) and inter-enterprise (B2B, business-to-business) via a network of exchange. This offer includes an Enterprise Service Repository (repository of business services), bus services, business templates and predefined integration adapters and application techniques for the integration process from end to end. SAP NetWeaver PI goes beyond a purely technological focus and offers models of B2B integration as predefined integration scenarios, components of processes, descriptions of interface, the international data formats, etc.. This allows customers to focus on the results of business integration and reduce their total cost of ownership.

The evaluation of the offer SAP maintenance:

Seven members of the French association of SAP users, USF, now participate in the evaluation system of Enterprise Support, provision of maintenance of SAP controversial. Among the participants hexagonal include Aelia, Air France and Fromageries BEL. Overall, this evaluation program covers 43 European companies. According to SAP and USF, the evaluation of the Enterprise Support offering will be based on 11 performance indicators obtained through the monitoring tool Solution Manager, which will serve as a platform for action. In a statement, USF said that these indicators relate, first, the level of CPU usage and performance of storage. "Then the response time and continuity of service. " The implementation of this program evaluation is accepted by counterparties pursuant to the SAP user companies sling after the announcement of a 30% increase in maintenance charges. Increase the publisher has agreed to extend until 2015.

SAP - Business Software

SAP stands for "Systems, Applications and Programs in Data Processing". SAP AG the company was formed in 1970 by former IBM employees 5. It is an ERP software which helps integrating all business operations of an organization like Business vendors, raw materials, production, sales and distribution, financing and Accounting.

So, all these business tasks form of different SAP modules like MM, SD, FI, CO, PM, PP and so on. Above all the core module which is called BASIS has to do with SAP system installation, configuration and troubleshooting.

To start with, you can look for an SAP IDES installation CD set (IDES stands for International Demo and Education System), which can be installed on Windows / UNIX / LINUX platforms.

You get the installation guide alongwith the CD's, but typical SAP 4.6B IDES version needs 2GB RAM, 1.5-2GHZ CPU, 250GB free disk space.