Basic or Core Modules of SAP are:
Material Management (MM)
Material Management covers functionalities required to purchase goods and services, manage inventory and inspect incoming materials. The Purchasing function includes creation of requisitions, requisition approval, purchase order generation, and receipt of goods and services.
Sales & Distribution (SD)
The Sales and Distribution (SD) module fulfills many of the international requirements that support sales and distribution activities with functions such as pricing and conditions, customer order processing, delivery monitoring, billing, credit and risk management.
Finance Module (FI)
FI collects all the data in company relevant to accounting, providing complete documentation and comprehensive information and is at the same an up-to-the-minute basis for enterprise-wide control and planning. The Financial Accounting (FI) application component fulfills all the international requirements that must be met by the financial accounting department of an organization.
Plant Maintenance (PM)
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.
Controlling (CO)
It helps in defining profit centers and overhead absorption factors as well as generated profit and loss reports for each center. Controlling also represents the company's flow of cost and revenue. It is a management instrument for organizational decisions.
Quality Management (QM)
The integration of QM application allows quality management tasks to be combined with other applications such as materials management, production, sales and distribution and cost accounting.
Advanced Modules of SAP include:
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Aids in learning more about customer needs and behaviors in order to develop stronger relationships with them.
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
It establishes the relationship between the supplier and the company. Customers can collaborate closely with suppliers and integrate sourcing processes with applications throughout the enterprise to enhance transparency and lower costs.
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
SCM enables collaboration, planning, execution and coordination of the entire supply chain network. SAP SCM provides broad functionality for enabling adaptive supply chain networks and integrates seamlessly with both SAP and non-SAP.
Knowledge Management (KM)
Knowledge Management is the systematic effort to promote connectivity between people and to facilitate the creation, sharing and use of knowledge to gain competitive advantage.
Enterprise Portal (SAP EP)
Based on Net Weaver platform, EP unifies enterprise applications, information and services from SAP and non-SAP sources into one system to support business processes, both within and across company boundaries.
Fund Management (FM)
FM maintains and assigns Financial Management Area, company code to financial management area and integrates other related components. It also sets up Budget Profiles, assigns Budget Profile to FM Area & completes all other steps for Budgeting.
Business Information Warehouse (BW)
SAP BW is a Data Warehouse solution. It has been specially developed to allow gathering and analyzing all kinds of statistical information in the best possible way.
Financial supply chain management
It enables collaboration within enterprises - and within their business networks - by using defined business policies and shared services to handle all customer-related and supply chain-related financial processes. It helps to automate the financial supply chain by using the Web and other electronic service models. |
