SAP Module
SAP Modules are offered in ERP and S4HANA
Financial Accounting (FI):
SAP Financial Accounting (FI) module is one of the most important modules behind SAP. It is designed for meeting all the accounting and financial needs of an organization. Within this module Financial Managers as well as other Managers within a business can review the financial position of the company in real time.
The real-time functionality of the SAP modules allows for better decision making and strategic planning. The FI (Financial Accounting) Module integrates with other SAP modules such as Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Sales and Distribution (SD), Project Systems (PS).
FI module is formed by several sub-components also known as sub-modules. They are: Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Bank Accounting, General Ledger/New General Ledger, etc.
Management Accounting (CO):
SAP Controlling/Management Accounting (CO) module provides supporting information to Management for accurate planning based on costing reports as well as monitoring the operations of their business. Represents the company’s flow of cost and revenue, offers all the support information needed by Management for planning, reporting and decision making. Decision making can be achieved with a high level of information reducing drastically risks. Basically, it is a vital tool for management to carry out organizational decisions.
Human Capital management (HCM):
Human Capital Management (HCM) module includes business processes involving all aspects of a company’s human resources, i.e. the employees.
HCM module deals with the various activities carried out in the human resource department of an organization. Such as personnel administration, personnel development, training and event management, payroll, etc. This module enables companies to effectively manage information about the people employed and for working for their organization.
HCM module shares information with other modules such as Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling (CO), Production Planning (PP), etc. The payroll process uses accounts payable functionality to print checks, manage payments and bank information and process payments to tax authorities and other third-party vendors in case if third party employees are hired. Payroll results are also posted to General Ledger accounts for use in periodic income and expense reporting. For Management Accounting (CO), information regarding employment costs can be transferred to Cost Centers within the CO module. Employees can be assigned to Work Centers, which are used in conjunction with modules like Production Planning (PP).
The Human Capital Management (HCM) module has the following sub modules: Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Recruitment Time Management, Payroll Benefits Compensation, Management Personnel Cost, Planning Budget, Management Personnel, Development Training & Event Management, Travel Management, etc.
Order Fulfilment or Sales and Distribution (SD):
SAP Sales and Distribution is part of the logistics module that supports sales to customers starting from quotations, sales order and all the way towards billing the customer. It is tightly integrated with the (MM), Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling (CO), Quality Management (QM), Project Systems (PS) and Product Planning (PP) functional modules.
Sales and Distribution covers both sales of goods and services. It covers business functions starting from pre-sales such as inquiries, quotations, contracts (either quantity or value), and scheduling agreements. Sales order management, pricing, discounts, credit management, executing sales order, creating outbound deliveries, creating invoice, recording accounts receivables, managing credit and debit memos, complaints management, i.e. return sales.
The Sales and Distribution (SD) Module has the following sub-modules: Pre-sales activities, including inquiry and quotation creation, Managing and committing long term services and / or supply of goods using contracts, Sales Order processing, including Sales Order (SO) creation, Shipping, including outbound delivery document creation, Billing, including billing document and invoice creation, Complaints processing, e.g. sales returns, credit and debit memos, etc.
Procurement or Materials Management (MM):
This module covers business functions such as procurement or purchasing and inventory management. The procurement can be for materials or services. It can be either local or imports (procuring from abroad) or both. Materials management (MM) is integrated with other modules such as SD (Sales & Distribution), PP (Product Planning), FI (Financials), CO (Controlling), PM (Plant Maintenance) and QM (Quality Management). Materials Management is used for channelizing procurement process and managing inventory at store/warehouse level.
Materials Management (MM) Module has the following sub-modules: Maintaining Minimum Stock Level – Re Order point, Purchasing / Procurement management, Request for Quotation Management, Handling Purchase requisitions generated from different modules such as PP, PM., Vendor Evaluation, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Inventory Management, etc.
Production Planning and Manufacturing (PP):
The purpose of Production Planning (PP) is to ensure that the manufacturing department runs effectively and efficiently to produce the goods as required by customers. The Production Planning module of SAP takes care of master data needed like bill of materials, routings and work centers.
Production Planning module caters for all avenues for producing a finalized or finished good. It includes the time required to set up machine, the time required to produce a single finished good as well as catering the costs incurred in the process of manufacturing that can be both direct and indirect costs involved in the production of a single unit of finished goods such as: labor hours, machine hours, factory overheads that can be both fixed or variable in nature, also production waste, scrap and by-products.
The Production Planning (PP) Module has the following sub-modules;
- Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) – provides tools for forecasting sales and production planning based on historical, current, and future data.
- Material Requirement Planning (MRP) – relies on demand and supply elements with the calculation parameters to calculate the net requirements from the planning run.
- Shop Floor Control (SFC) – this includes the processing of production orders, goods movements, confirmations, and reporting tools for production.
- Capacity Planning (CP) – this evaluates the capacity utilized based on the work centers available capacity to show capacity constraints.
- Production Cost Planning (PCP) – this is the process of evaluating all the time values and value of component materials to determine the product cost.
Plant Maintenance (PM):
Plant Maintenance (PM) covers preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance and corrective maintenance. The PM component enables companies to maintain their production machines in mint conditions through timely maintenance.
The Plant Maintenance (PM) module ensures that all the machines installed within the production facility and which are under company’s ownership are working properly and are in mint condition. They are looked after regularly to avoid major break down that can result in low production and loss in terms of major disaster if the machine should be scrapped altogether due to low maintenance. System regularly prompts and checks when the maintenance of a machine falls due. It is integrated with MM, CO and FI (Asset Accounting sub-module) modules.
Project Systems (PS):
Project Systems module covers business processes of a Project to effectively manage project of any size. It includes Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) elements, network, milestones and confirmation on the progress of each phase of the project whether it is completed or in progress and when it is scheduled to be completed, cost which is budgeted at each phase of the project, the cost already incurred whether it is within the budget or there is cost overrun at any stage of the project.
Project Systems (PS) is designed to support the planning, controlling, and monitoring of long-term highly complex projects with defined goals. To be able to control all tasks/activities involved in project execution, an organized form is required specifically to monitor the status of the project and which is shared with all departments involved.
Business one (B1)/ByDesign:
SAP Business One (B1)/ByDesign is an integrated business management software designed for small and mid-sized businesses containing accounting, sales, inventory, and operations to help businesses run better.”
The SAP Business One software solution integrates working business functions for the whole company, including financial management, purchasing, sales, distribution, customer service management (CRM), inventory management, production, project management, and field service. It is a single application that eliminates the need for separate point solutions and the complicated integration of several modules. SAP Business One can be installed on a server or in the cloud.
SAP Netweaver SAP Business Intelligence (BI):
SAP Business Intelligence (BI) is a component of SAP NetWeaver. The main purpose of SAP BI is to enable efficient and robust reporting, analysis, and evaluation of business data. SAP BI supports consolidation of information both from production modules and from external sources. The sub-areas of SAP BI are the following:
Data Warehousing – this facilitates the integration, transformation, consolidation, cleanup, and storage data.
BI Platform – this provides the technological infrastructure and offers various analytical technologies and functions.
BI Suite: Business Explorer – this contains flexible reporting and analytical tools for strategic analysis, operational reporting, and decision-making support within a business.
Development Technologies – this is the BI Java SDK, Open Analysis Interfaces, and Web Design API. AP HANA (high-performance analytic appliance) is an application that uses in-memory database technology that allows the processing of massive amounts of real-time data in a short time. The in-memory computing engine allows HANA to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk. This allows the application to provide instantaneous results from customer transactions and data analyses
Advance Business Application Programming (ABAP):
is a high-level programming language created by SAP that helps large corporations customizes their SAP platforms. It is the main programming language that CRM, S/4HANA, SAP ERP, and SAP NetWeaver ABAP platforms and application servers support. While some solutions, such as SAP Business One, SAP Ariba, and acquired products like SAP Concur and SAP SuccessFactors, run primarily on other languages, ABAP will still play a role when these solutions integrate with a central, ABAP-based SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA system. ABAP allows SAP customers to customize workflows for financial accounting, asset management, materials management, and all other SAP modules.
System Administration (BASIS):
SAP System Administration (BASIS) involves SAP ERP/S4HANA software installation, taking timely backups, disaster recovery, security of the SAP servers, user creation, managing roles and authorizations of the users which includes authorization management to control which process owner is authorized with specific set of business transactions
Security
Organizations using SAP as their business application or ERP/ERM system often store their most critical assets, including intellectual properties within SAP. This data must be protected against unauthorized access originating from both outside and within the organization. SAP systems require extensive protection and security monitoring as business-critical systems.
SAP (Systems Applications and Products) Security is a means to protect your company’s data and systems by monitoring and controlling access both internally and externally. SAP Systems are a type of ERP/ERM software used widely by all kinds of businesses across a variety of industries.
There are various aspects to SAP Security, such as infrastructure security, network security, operating system security, and database security. Another layer involves the secure code, which includes maintaining SAP code and security in custom code.
A secure setup of SAP servers is essential to keep your business’s private information safe and out of the hands of cyber attackers. It covers the secure configuration of a server, enablement of security logging, security in terms of system communication, and data security. Users and authorizations are also critically monitored and tracked.
Given the complicated and interconnected nature of SAP systems, there is a lot that goes into maintaining their security.
Overview of the different aspects involved in SAP Security:
Infrastructure security
Network security
Operating system security
Database security
Secure code ABAP/4
Configuration of a server
Enablement of security logging
System communication
The Most Common Uses of SAP Security Are:
Avoiding exploitation and fraud
Ensuring data integrity
Identifying unauthorized access
Continuous and automated audits
Detecting data leaks
Centralizing security monitoring
SAP Activate:
SAP Activate guideline framework helps customers to move/migrate legacy system to S4HANA system by providing various general and solution specific roadmaps under roadmap viewer.
SAP Activate supports different transition scenarios for customers adopting SAP S/4HANA and provides dedicated solution specific Methodology, Content and Tools.
New implementation: Company does not have SAP in their landscape or have some legacy system and they want to start fresh implementation and know S4HANA capabilities and wants to try the product.
System conversion: when company is already having sap in their landscape and company wants to migrate old system to new S4HANA system.
Selective data transition: When company has lot of ERP’s running in their landscape or different legacy systems and wants to migrate some of them to S4HANA to leverage all the functionalities of latest SAP software..
SAP Activate supports different transition scenarios for customers adopting SAP S/4HANA and provides dedicated solution specific Methodology, Content and Tools.
New implementation: Company does not have SAP in their landscape or have some legacy system and they want to start fresh implementation and know S4HANA capabilities and wants to try the product.
System conversion: when company is already having sap in their landscape and company wants to migrate old system to new S4HANA system.
Selective data transition: When company has lot of ERP’s running in their landscape or different legacy systems and wants to migrate some of them to S4HANA to leverage all the functionalities of latest SAP software.
The above SAP modules are offered at any of these 3 levels
- 1. End User
- 2. Super User
- 3. Consultant
SAP Certification
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SAP Implementation
Uranium implementation consulting provides a framework that helps you keep your business software current in a coherent way. Under the direction of our knowledgeable, experienced domain experts and project managers, our proven, disciplined methodology enables to implement new solutions quickly and achieve rapid measurable success. We make every project phase fully transparent and provide complete cost and schedule control. Uranium consulting unique methodology ensures you a worry free experience.
Our clients have confidence in not lose focus by consulting on and implementing other ERP solutions. Our consultants take the complexity of SAP, empowering clients to maximize the SAP investment for long-term business success.
We deliver the tools, technologies, and methodologies that minimize total cost of ownership and maximize your return on investment in SAP solutions.
Tools, technologies, and methodologies are built on our experience in various projects in a wide range of industries and all types of companies. You get the right results at the right price and the right time – each and every time.
Proven implementation methodologies give you control over deployment to reduce risks and ensure reliable results. Best practices anticipate your business needs, reduce costs, and decrease your reliance on external consultants.
SAP Post Implementation Support: URANIUM provides maintenance services for clients that are already working with SAP solutions. The service consists in remote support of the client’s SAP administrators (technical support) and users that work on SAP system (application support) as well as outsourcing services.
Reduction in SAP maintenance costs – Maintenance services are provided under a permanent agreement and help reduce SAP maintenance costs. The costs of using the system may be planned in advance (a permanent agreement with a strictly defined scope and a lump payment). The system is supervised by specialists who thanks to their wide expertise in many SAP implementations solve problems quickly and efficiently. The system users as such may focus on their essential duties and administrators may improve and develop IT solutions instead of currently dealing with repetitive users inquiries.
Service scope tailored to needs
The cooperation scope is defined separately with each client and may include:
- Technical support – In-house support for SAP administration team (the client’s employees) or outsourcing of the client’s SAP system administration (Uranium consultants serve as client’s SAP administrators)
- Application support – In-house support of client’s SAP users (application service)
- SAP administration support – Within this service Uranium continually controls the security and efficiency of the systems used and assists in system development planning. This gives the client a guarantee of infallibility of the system and security and allows to focus on other areas of operation.
- SAP application support – Uranium consultants provide in-house support in solving problems that arise during everyday use of the system. Moreover, the client’s SAP system is constantly monitored with the aim of finding possible faults e.g. in data entered by users or in areas that may cause problems in future. Uranium ’s application support concerns the full scope of modules of SAP ERP (SAP R/3) as well as SAP BW (data warehouse) and mySAP SEM (strategic enterprise management).
SAP Support Service
SAP Post Implementation Support: URANIUM provides maintenance services for the clients that have already working SAP solutions. The service consists in remote support of the client’s SAP administrators (technical support) and users that work on SAP system (application support) as well as outsourcing services.
Reduction in SAP maintenance costs: Maintenance services are provided under a permanent agreement and help reduce SAP maintenance costs. The costs of using the system may be planned in advance (a permanent agreement with a strictly defined scope and a lump payment). The system is supervised by specialists who thanks to their wide expertise in many SAP implementations solve problems quickly and efficiently. The system users as such may focus on their essential duties and administrators may improve and develop IT solutions instead of currently dealing with repetitive users inquiries.
The cooperation scope is defined separately with each client and may include:
- Technical support : In-house support for SAP administration team (the client’s employees) or outsourcing of the client’s SAP system administration (Uranium consultants serve as client’s SAP administrators)
- Application support : In-house support of client’s SAP users (application service)
- SAP administration support: Within this service Uranium continually controls the security and efficiency of the systems used and assists in system development planning. This gives the client a guarantee of infallibility of the system and security and allows focusing on other areas of operation.
- SAP application support: Uranium consultants provide in-house support in solving problems that arise during everyday use of the system. Moreover, the client’s SAP system is constantly monitored with the aim of finding possible faults e.g. in data entered by users or in areas that may cause problems in future. Uranium ’s application support concerns the full scope of modules of MySAP ERP/S4HANA as well as SAP BW (data warehouse) and MySAP SEM (strategic enterprise management).
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