SAP Modules

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I am new to SAP ABAP and needed some brief idea abt all functional modules.

[Former Member]

hi NIdhi,

SAP now are moving away from describing their system as a set of modules, and now are using the term ‘solutions’, which is much better. If you visit SAP’s website (as we urge you to do) you will find that they have structured their Solutions tab as follows:

Financials

Human Resources

Customer Relationship Management

Supplier Relationship Management

Product Lifecycle Management

Supply Chain Management

Business Intelligence

If you’re still looking for that list of modules, here they are:

FI Financial Accounting (Tutorial) – essentially your regulatory ‘books of record’, including

General ledger

Book close

Tax

Accounts receivable

Accounts payable

Consolidation

Special ledgers

CO Controlling (Tutorial) – basically your internal cost/management accounting, including

Cost elements

Cost centres

Profit centres

Internal orders

Activity based costing

Product costing

AM Asset Management – track, value and depreciate your assets, including

Purchase

Sale

Depreciation

Tracking

PS Project Systems – manage your projects, large and small, including

Make to order

Plant shut downs (as a project)

Third party billing (on the back of a project)

HR Human Resources – ah yes, people, including

Employment history

Payroll

Training

Career management

Succession planning

PM Plant Maintenance – maintain your equipment (e.g. a machine, an oil rig, an aircraft etc), including

Labour

Material

Down time and outages

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

QM Quality Management – improve the quality of your goods, including

Planning

Execution

Inspections

Certificates

PP Production Planning – manages your production process, including

Capacity planning

Master production scheduling

Material requirements planning

Shop floor

SD Sales and Distribution – from order to delivery, including

RFQ

Sales orders

Pricing

Picking (and other warehouse processes)

Packing

Shipping

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

Hope this is helpful, DO reward.

[Former Member]

R/3 Functional Modules:

R/3's applications are modules. They can be used either alone or combined with other solutions. The integration capability of these applications increases the benefits derived for any company.

Logistics

Logistics comprises all processes involved in purchasing, materials management, manufacturing, warehousing, quality management, plant maintenance, service management and sales and distribution. All applications access a shared consistent database, supported by production data management.

SD: Sales & Distribution SD actively supports sales and distribution activities with outstanding functions for pricing, prompt order processing, and on-time delivery, interactive variant configuration, and a direct interface to profitability analysis and production.

PP: Production Planning and Control PP provides comprehensive process for all types of manufacturing: from repetitive, make-to-order, and assemble-to-order production, through process, lot and make-to-stock manufacturing, to integrated supply chain management with functions extended MRP || and electronic kanban, plus optional interfaces to PDC, process control systems, CAD and PDM.

PS: Project System PS coordinates and controls all phases of a project, in direct cooperation with Purchasing and Controlling, from quotation to design and approval, to resource management and cost settlement.

MM: Materials Management MM optimizes all purchasing processes with workflow-driven processing functions, enables automated supplier evaluation, lowers procurement adn warehousing costs with accurate inventory and warehouse management, and integrates invoice verification.

QM: Quality Management QM monitors, captures, and manages all processes relevant to quality assurance along the entire supply chain, coordinates inspection processing, initiates corrective measures, and integrates laboratory information systems.

PM: Plant Maintenance PM provides planning, control, and processing of scheduled maintenance, inspection, damage-related maintenance, and service management to ensure availability of operational systems, including plants and equipment delivered to customers.

SM: Service Management SM provides highly integrated cusotmer service functionality to compete in today's global markets.

PDM: Product Data Management PDM supports in creating and managing product data throughout the product life cycle.

Financials

Fianancials is a suite of integrated financial application components encompasses all aspects of financial accounting, investment management, controlling, treasury management, and enterprise controlling.

FI: Financial Accounting FI collects all the data in company relevant to accounting, providing complete documention and comprehensive information, and is at the same an up-to-the-minute basis for enterprise-wide control and planning.

CO: Controlling CO is a complete array of compatible planning and control instruments for company-wide controlling systems, with a uniform reporting system for coordinating the contents and procedures of company's internal processes.

IM: Investment Management IM offers integrated management and processing of invetment measures and projects from planning to settlement, including pre-investment analysis and depriciation simulation.

TR: Treasury TR is a complete solution for efficient financial management that ensures the liquidity of worldwide company, its structures, financial assets, profitability and minimizes risks.

EC: Enterprise Controlling EC continuously monitors company's success factors and performance indicators on the basis of specially prepared management information.

Human Resources

HR provides solutions planning and managing company's human resources, using integrated applicatons that cover all perosnnel management tasks and help simplify and speed the process.

PM: Personnel Management PM is a complete solution for personnel administration, recruitment management, travel management, benefits administration and salary administration.

OM: Organizational Management OM assists in maintaining an accurate picture of organization's structure, no matter how fast it changes. It is systematic and forward planning tool that considers the final effects of all personnel events thus it's complete solution for personnel cost planning.

PA: Payroll Accounting PA addresses payroll functions from a global point-of-view and gives the capability to centralize payroll processing or decentralize the data based on country or legal entities.

TM: Time Management TM is integrated with payroll accounting, controlling, production planning, plant maintenance, project system, external services and shift planning. It provides with a variety of standard reports that will assist in tracking and analyzing employee time with compeleteness and accuracy.

PD: Personnel Development PD assists with planning, monitoring, and analyzing scheduled seminars, training courses, and business events, registration and booking, price determination and invoicing.

[Former Member]

Hi

see this link

http://sapbrainsonline.com/TUTORIALS/FUNCTIONAL/

[Former Member]

Check the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_R/3

Rewards if useful.

[Former Member]

hi,

The SAP FI (Financial Accounting) Module has the competence of meeting all the accounting and financial needs of an organization. Along with other managers, Financial Managers within your business and same module can review the financial position of the company in real time as contrasted to legacy systems which necessitate overnight updates before financial statements frequently and can be generated for management review. The real-time functionality of the SAP modules allows for better decision making and strategic planning. The FI Module incorporates with other SAP Modules such as MM (Materials Management), PP (Production Planning), SD (Sales and Distribution), PM (Plant Maintenance), and PS (Project Systems). The FI Module also assimilates with HR (Human Resources) that includes PM (Personnel Management), Time Management, Travel Management, Payroll. Document transactions occurring within the precise modules generate account postings by means of account determination tables.

The SAP CO (Controlling) Module endow with supporting information to Management for the purpose of planning, reporting, as well as monitoring the operations of their business. Management decision-making can be achieved with the level of information provided by this module. The Cost Element Accounting component provides information which includes both the costs and revenue for an organization. These postings are updated automatically from FI to CO. The cost elements are the foundation for cost accounting and facilitate the User the ability to display costs for each of the accounts that have been assigned to the cost element. Cost Center Accounting provides information on the costs incurred by your business. You have the ability to assign Cost Centers to departments and managers responsible for certain areas of the business as well as functional areas within the SAP. Cost Centers can be created for such functional areas as Marketing, Purchasing, Human Resources, Finance, Facilities, Information Systems, Administrative Support, Legal, Shipping/Receiving, or even Quality.

Hope this is helpful, Do reward.

[Former Member]

Hello Nidhi,

In the past when people were discussing SAP, the conversation very quickly boiled down to modules, for example:

SAP’s courses were structured along module lines so that you would attend MM 101, 102 and 103. While at the course you would learn many things about MM, but not much about the rest of the SAP system and how MM fits into it.

A conversation with a SAP recruiter might go something like this:

Recruiter … “which modules do you work with?”

Candidate … “well, I have a lot of purchasing process experience”

Recruiter … “yes, but which modules do you work with?”

Candidate … “well, it’s purchasing functionality … so that would be, umm, MM, FI and CO mainly”

Recruiter … “great I have just the job for you”

Candidate … “fantastic, is it purchasing?”

Recruiter … “well it says here that they want an MM, FI and CO person and that’s you, right?”

Not necessarily! A MM, FI, CO role might include Inventory Management (MM), Accounts Receivable (FI) and Profitability Analysis (CO) – none of which a purchasing person is guaranteed to have

Many programme teams were organised along module lines, so that you would have a FI/CO, an MM and a HR team, for example. Training courses were (therefore) often prepared and delivered along module lines too. The result of this was that solutions were frequently optimised along module lines, and less often well integratred, and as for users, well, they were pretty much trained up in a module and left to get on with it post go-live. Fortunately those days are mostly passed, and more and more programmes (from design to build to training) are being organised along process lines such as:

Order to Cash (including parts of SD, FI-AR and probably TY as well)

Purchase to Pay (including MM-Purchasing and FI-AP)

Record to Report (FI-GL etc)

SAP now are moving away from describing their system as a set of modules, and now are using the term ‘solutions’, which is much better. If you visit SAP’s website (as we urge you to do) you will find that they have structured their Solutions tab as follows:

Financials

Human Resources

Customer Relationship Management

Supplier Relationship Management

Product Lifecycle Management

Supply Chain Management

Business Intelligence

If you’re still looking for that list of modules, here they are:

FI Financial Accounting (Tutorial) – essentially your regulatory ‘books of record’, including

General ledger

Book close

Tax

Accounts receivable

Accounts payable

Consolidation

Special ledgers

CO Controlling (Tutorial) – basically your internal cost/management accounting, including

Cost elements

Cost centres

Profit centres

Internal orders

Activity based costing

Product costing

AM Asset Management – track, value and depreciate your assets, including

Purchase

Sale

Depreciation

Tracking

PS Project Systems – manage your projects, large and small, including

Make to order

Plant shut downs (as a project)

Third party billing (on the back of a project)

HR Human Resources – ah yes, people, including

Employment history

Payroll

Training

Career management

Succession planning

PM Plant Maintenance – maintain your equipment (e.g. a machine, an oil rig, an aircraft etc), including

Labour

Material

Down time and outages

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

QM Quality Management – improve the quality of your goods, including

Planning

Execution

Inspections

Certificates

PP Production Planning – manages your production process, including

Capacity planning

Master production scheduling

Material requirements planning

Shop floor

SD Sales and Distribution – from order to delivery, including

RFQ

Sales orders

Pricing

Picking (and other warehouse processes)

Packing

Shipping

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

Regards

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Sasidhar Reddy Matli.

Edited by: Sasidhar Reddy Matli on Jan 25, 2008 3:43 PM

[Former Member]

Hi Nidhi Israni

Function modules are very important concept in SAP ABAP. Actually FM are used for reusability of code. For example recently i have created one FM that decides whether the given material is bulk or not bye setting one flag . Dont confuse just understand the functionality and use of FM. I have modified 3 user exits and 1 field exit. In these 4 cases i callled that FM, if the return flag is X and write the new logic otherwise i keep the old logic itself. I created FM only one time but i can use this one several times. I think u can understand this. Moreover every FM must be assign to one FM Group which is nothing but holds the similar set of FMs. When u call the FM then FM group also get loaded.

If u read documentation on FM u can get an idea.

Reward me if it helps you.

[Former Member]

Hi,

As you are new SAP ABAP you will have an idea on below modules:

SD: sales & Distribution module

FICO: Finance related

MM: Material Management

SCM: Supply chain Managemnt related.

ISU: Industry solution and utilities.

PP: Plant related

HR: Human Resource - regarding employees and their compensation, Learning & management solution, E-recruiting, Personal administration, payroll like so many modules are there in the HR.

WM:Warehouse managemnt.

I hope this will give you the breif idea.

Thanks,

Anil.G