SAP Module

[Former Member]

How many modules are there in SAP. Which module is important most?

Plz need answer.

Thankas and regards........

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[Former Member]

<b>SAP</b> is strucured along module lines. Actually they are now moving away from describing their system as a set of modules and now they are using the term "solutions". Their solutions tab is structured as follows:

<b>FI</b> - The Financial Accounting module is the computerized 'book of records'. It is designed for managing general ledgers, accounts payable, fixed assets and external reporting. It is the integration point that most system components relate in one way or another.

<b>CO</b> - Controlling module manages the flow of costs and revenues. It facilitates an organization's internal planning, management and decision making process. It is tightly integrated with other system components. It collects transactions from the other modules, using related data for internal accounting, reporting and management of funds.

<b>AM</b> - Asset Management module tracks, values, depreciates and also records purchases and sales of a company's assets.

<b>PS</b>- Project Systems module is used for grants, contracts and plant fund functioning. Project Systems module helps with the planning, managing, controlling and figuring the costs of research and development.

<b>HR</b> - This is an integrated system that supports planning and administration of personnel activities; everything from hiring to seperation or retirement. Employee records, payroll, benefits and time recording are all handled in Human Resources module.

<b>PM</b> - Plant Maintenance module maintains the company's equipment, labor, material and work time.

<b>MM</b> - Materials Management module supports the procurement function occuring in day-to-day business operations. It underpins the supply chain, processing purchase orders and goods receipts.

<b>QM</b> - Quality Management module aims to improve the quality of the company's goods. Planning, execution, inspections and certificates are examples of activities processed in QM.

<b>PP</b> - Production Planning module manages your company's production process, including capacity planning, master production planning, material requirements planning ans the study of shop floor.

<b>SD</b> - Sales Distribution module deals with the whole process from production to delivery, including sale orders, pricing, picking and other warehouse processes such as packing and shipping.

And finally, <b>CA</b> - Cross Applications module lies on top of the individual modules and manages the workflow, business information warehouse, office and workplace, industry solutions and new dimension products.

These individual SAP modules function as a team, compiling and integrating information across departments and automating information management. Because SAP is fully integrated, we can think more globally about information transfer. For example, items purchased through Materials Management will be posted directly and immidiately to Financial Accounting and Controlling.

These are the basic and standard modules, which are used commonly by most firms. "MySAP" is a package that contains all these modules in one software. But also there are supporting modules such as SAP Customer Relationship Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing or even SAP for small and midsize businesses. Each company chooses and implements the necessary and suitable SAP modules for their business and industry. The pre-sales and implementation are very critical and challenging processes.

[Former Member]

The various modules are...

SD

MM

FI/CO

PM

PP

SM

HR

U can get detail view if u search within SDN....

[Former Member]

Hi Abhay,

Check the following link

http://www.thespot4sap.com/Articles/SAP_Modules.asp

http://home.ku.edu.tr/~adervisoglu/b.html

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Kinshuk