BEST SAP TRAINING INSTITUTE IN SOUTH INDIA : WHAT ARE SAP MODULES ?

What is SAP History ?

Five ex IBM employees started SAP as a small software and just one customer in Germany.. Those visionary entrepreneurs started SAP in 1972. They started it with the vision of the software that process data when a user wants, when a customer wants and not in overnight batch jobs like earlier software.

In earlier years, SAP started as R/2 that is Real time architecture with 2 servers. This got changed in later years as R/3 that is Real time architecture with 3 servers. These 3 servers are Application Server, Production Server and Database server. In 2009, SAP released its latest version that is ECC 6.0 Now it is being assumed that SAP will not release any new versions but it will keep updating it with time.

Recently, SAP is teaming up with Open Text in ECM (Enterprise Content Management) sector and other third party tax wares to provide an end to end solution for organizations. For example, SAP and Open Text all together provides an end to end Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) solution.

SAP Modules

As I mentioned earlier, SAP is an ERP system that handles almost all department of an organizations. SAP handles an organizations’s Finance , Controlling, Human Resource, Sales, Distribution, Material management, Warehouse, Production, Security, Research and many other departments. Not just that but SAP has a special industry specific solutions for almost all industries such as manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Insurance, Security, Finance, Treasury etc.

SAP FICO, SD and HR are most important modules. FI and CO modules controls finance and controlling respectively. SD controls sales and HR controls Human Resource departments. FICO is a base module which gets highly connected to SD, MM, HR and PS modules.

Let’s just talk about some basic SAP modules those are useful for all domains.

Finance (FI), Controlling (CO), Sales & Distribution (SD), Material Management (MM) and Human resources (HR) are some of the most important sub modules in SAP. Depending upon the organization needs, a client can buy whatever modules needed. For example, a client can buy FI, SD and MM modules only without buying CO and HR modules.