SAP Modules - Quick Notes

By Md. Moizuddin Khan On October 22, 2008 · Filed Under SAP 

SAP has several modules such as FI, CO, MM, PP, SD, PM, PS, QM, SM, HR, BW, APO, Basis,  ABAP/4 as below:

  • FI        Financial
  • CO      Control
  • MM     Material Management
  • PP       Product Planing
  • SD      Sales and Distribution
  • PM      Plant Maintenance
  • PS       Project System
  • QM     Quality Management
  • SM
  • HR      Human Resources
  • BW      Business Workflow
  • APO    Advance Planner and Optimizer

Basis SAP Projects and the people work on those projects are generally categorised into two groups,   Techincal and Functional.

Technical side includes ABAP, Database Adminstration, Transport Management, Security, Authorisations and so on.

Basis is the sub-group of Technical people, who take care of all technical components of the system except for ABAP.  Basis group consits Project Database Adminstrators (D.B.A.s).

ABAP/4    ABAP stands for Advanced Business Application Programing, /4  is for  Generation Language.  SAP is coded in ABAP.

SAP, an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software product, is capable of integrating multiple business applications.   Each application is unique for it’s specific business area.  All applications integrated in the system update and process trainsactions online that is in real time mode.  SAP is so professionally designed that it features the capability to be configured to match with any business technical and operational needs .

SAP can be categorised in 3 core functional areas with relevant applicable business modules:

Logistics

SD    Sales and Distribution
MM   Material Management
WM   Warehouse Management
PP     Production Planning
LO    General Logistics
QM   Quality Management

Financial - FI

FI    Financial Accounting
CO    Controlling
EC    Enterprise Controlling
IM    Investment Management
TR    Treasury

Human Resources - HR

PA     Personnel Administration
PD     Personnel Development

SAP Basic Features

Configuration of SAP modules:

  • Transaction SPRO - this is the main tree for all the configuration.

Function Keys:

  • F1 - Help
  • F4 - Possible entries or matchcode for the field you are accessing
  • F5 - Selection screen
  • F7 - Previous screen
  • F8 - Next screen
  • F9 - Technical info
  • CTRL+X - Cut
  • CTRL+C - Copy
  • CTRL+V - Paste

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