1. 1. PREFACE SAP SE is a German multinational software corporation that makes Enterprise Software to manage business operations and customer relations. SAP is headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Wrttemberg, with regional offices in 130 countries. Stock price: SAP (NYSE) $74.84 0.00 (0.00%) CEO: Bill McDermott Headquarters: Walldorf, Baden-Wrttemberg Founded: April 1, 1972, Weinheim, Germany Who Started SAP, started in 1972 by five former IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany, states that it is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's fourth-largest independent software supplier. ************************************************************************ SAP is a leader when it comes to neatly integrated ERP software; its various departmental applications work symphonically. Beyond its basic models, SAP provides industry-specific add-on solutions. ************************************************************************ SAP Modules in Details SAP FI (Finance) : Finance module consider to be the base module. It covers vital areas such as General Ledger (GL), Account payable (AP), Account Receivable (AR) and Asset Accounting (AA). SAP FI and CO together known as FICO and it is consider as King of SAP modules. Controlling (CO): Controlling is kind of sister module for FI. Controlling mostly use for
2. 2. internal controlling and internal reporting. It includes cost center accounting, (CCA), Profit center accounting (PCA) Product costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (COPA) and Internal Order (IO). Sales & Distribution (SD): SD is predominantly controls sales and it is also heavily tied up with MM. It controls customer master data, sales, plants, sales organizations and sales conditions. Human Resource (HR) : HR modules handles all human resource activities such as resource hiring, salary, employee benefits etc. It is highly integrated with FI and CO modules. Project System (PS) : Project system module is a special for project related activities. It comprise budgeting, planning, forecasting, work breakdown structure for projects. PS module is again highly integrated with FICO modules. Why SAP Required? In today's challenging business environment, best-run companies have clarity across all aspects of their business, which allows them to act quickly with increased insight, efficiency, and flexibility. This is particularly true if your business includes SAP. SAP is the world's largest business software company and the third-largest independent software provider in terms of revenues. Even though the competition is fierce with a lot of new entrants in the marketplace from large and small vendors over this time, SAP is still a leader in enterprise software. Here are some reasons which explain why SAP continues to be the market leader in the enterprise space: 1. The first reason is simply the fact that SAP solutions are scalable and can be customized according to the evolving business requirements of an enterprise. It can be easily integrated with future applications giving users a significant competitive advantage in the market. SAP solutions have become integral to the foundation of international businesses, as almost half of the world's Fortune1000 companies have implemented ERP solutions from SAP. 2. SAP has been mainly focusing on enterprise applications for the last 30 years, the area where they hold the market leader spot today across the globe. While the other large ERP software vendors, tend to have multiple business focuses - like, databases as an example. 3. SAP continues to focus its ERP applications on maximizing resources, reducing costs and optimizing performance that is customized for businesses and industries. SAP
3. 3. provides a comprehensive range of business software and enterprise applications - designed for global operations and supported with globalization services - to empower every aspect of your business. 4. SAP architecture is extremely strong with a process-centric focus and a foundation that operates in real time communication with enterprise wide business processes that is highly flexible. 5. Lastly, with the experience of the last 30 years SAP has afforded their enterprise applications to be extremely industry and business specific. They have already built and refined these industry specific solutions with real customers and real implementations carrying the knowledge base and enhancing their technology and application offerings each year for the last three decades. SAP not only helps to manage day to day operations efficiently; it also sharpens business insight by providing real time access to timely information. As there are more solutions available on the marketplace to choose from, and even given the increasing competitive landscape, SAP has kept their market dominance. SAP Implementation Process The implementation of your SAP System covers the following phases: Project Preparation In this phase you plan your project and lay the foundations for successful implementation. It is at this stage that you make the strategic decisions crucial to your project: Define your project goals and objectives Clarify the scope of your implementation Define your project schedule, budget plan, and implementation sequence Establish the project organization and relevant committees and assign resources Business Blueprint In this phase you create a blueprint using the Question & Answer database (Q&Adb), which documents your enterprises requirements and establishes how your business processes and organizational structure are to be represented in the SAP System. You also refine the original project goals and
4. 4. objectives and revise the overall project schedule in this phase. Realization In this phase, you configure the requirements contained in the Business Blueprint. Baseline configuration (major scope) is followed by final configuration (remaining scope), which can consist of up to four cycles. Other key focal areas of this phase are conducting integration tests and drawing up end user documentation. Final Preparation In this phase you complete your preparations, including testing, end user training, system management, and cutover activities. You also need to resolve all open issues in this phase. At this stage you need to ensure that all the prerequisites for your system to go live have been fulfilled. Go Live & Support In this phase you move from a pre-production environment to the live system. The most important elements include setting up production support, monitoring system transactions, and optimizing overall system performance.__________________________________________________________________ ____________ 3 Great Reasons to Pursue a Career in SAP Sudent, graduate or professional, there is a long list of great reasons why it is a good idea to consider taking up a career in SAP. Not only is is rewarding to possess the skills in one of the leading business software in the world, association with the SAP brand can have competitive career benefits. Among the many, here are three well worth considering. SAP skills are highly sort after Almost invariably, having SAP skills boosts employability to the ninety percentiles because of one simple fact: SAP skills are on very high demand the world over. As more companies come to realise the power in running their enterprises on SAP software, the uptake of its software solutions is exponentially increasing in Africa, and the world. Which means, the appetite for SAP-related skills is correspondingly growing. To put things into perspective, SAP has 263,000 customers in 188 countries. SAP is global SAP is the same everywhere. While headquartered in Germany, SAPs reach has spread to every continent in the world with the markets in each of the regions where it is
5. 5. actively present increasing by the day. This established an excellent career opportunity for any certified SAP career-person in that you can work anywhere in the world. This flexibility is improved by the fact that SAP, its partners and customers generally have an openly global recruitment strategy. With that in mind, with the right skills, the opportunity to working anywhere in the world under an SAP career are vast. The SAP spectrum is inclusive The diversity of the aspects of business covered by SAP is all-inclusive over the last four decades SAP has created solutions which cater for finance, logistics, operations, human resource management, administration, business intelligence, risk management, customer relationship as well as tax and revenue management, only to mention but a few. The industry software engineered by SAP is as diverse as the needs it seeks out to address across different industrial sectors, size and nature of operations. In terms of career alignment in SAP, as a result, the leeway for persons coming from different educational and professional backgrounds is wide. Be it accounting, social sciences or sales, etcthere is an opportunity for a plethora of educational qualifications to be matched to functional areas in business which are mapped out in SAP solutions. This diversity not only spells a good point of entry, but allows for opportunities for growth and new learning through opportunities for cross-functional movement. All in all, there are many great reasons on pursuing a career in SAP and the benefits of getting into the SAP workspace can make a way into a satisfying, exciting and very rewarding career. ________________________________________________________________________ WHERE TO PURSUE SAP.....?? List of Some SAP Authorized Institutes in India...!!! Aequor Information Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd Delphi Computech Pvt Ltd (Mumbai) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.
6. 6. Lithan Genovate Genovate Solutions Pvt Ltd Siemens Information Systems Limited tCognition Consultancy Pvt. Ltd ATOS WHO CAN PURSUE SAP.....?? Before dive into what it takes for an SAP course, it's important to understand how the courses are set up. SAP courses are separated into two kinds of courses, one more technical and the other more functional. Even though one will be learning similar transaction and authorization codes related to Individual field, your course content can vary greatly due to the nature of the courses. The technical kind focuses on SAP programming and SAP module customization. Certain roles that mix technical and functional skills, such as business analysts, also make use of the industry solutions, workflow, and project system SAP modules.Technical courses are recommended if you have a computer science, programming, or developer background. The functional side mainly deals with using the actual SAP modules for a business role. Since SAP is a full ERP system, this includes learning how to use SAP in different business roles, which can be categorized by the modules offered: application administration, human resources, finance, accounting, planning, production planning, sales and distribution, controlling, fixed assets management, materials management, quality management, plant maintenance, governance/risk/compliance, etc. Fees:- SAP fees is 252,000 approx. Further Breakdown...... Training Fees: Payable to "Respected SAP Authorised Partner" (DD only). Service Tax at the Prevailing rate of 12.36% is additional on the Training Fees. Service Tax is applicable as on the date of the training. Certification Fees: - If Opted within 2 Weeks from the date of completion of the Course the certification fees would be : Rs 33,708/- (Rs 30,000/- + 12.36% Service Tax). Payable by Local Demand Draft/Pay Order in Favour of "SAP India Pvt. Ltd." payable at Bangalore. - If Opted after 2 Weeks from the date of completion of the Course the certification fees would be : Rs 39,326/- (Rs 35,000/- + 12.36% Service Tax).
7. 7. Payable by Local Demand Draft/Pay Order in Favour of "SAP India Pvt. Ltd." payable at Bangalore. How much one expect After completation of SAP ???? The average pay for a fresher SAP Consultant in Mumai, Maharashtra is Rs 580,827 per year approx. Experience of one year candidate can expect up to 8 lac P.A. Skills that are associated with high pay for this job are SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM), SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM), SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), SAP Production Planning (SAP PP), and SAP SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling (SAP FICO). Experience strongly influences income for this job. Most people with this job move on to other positions after 10 years in this career......! ____________________________________________________________________ List of company WHICH are using SAP........!!!
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