What is a SAP & ERP and What is the Difference between SAP & ERP?
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SAP is the market and technology leader in business software solutions, providing comprehensive business software through SAP applications \nSAP DB - The FREE Enterprise Open Source Database\nwhereas\nEnterprise resource planning is a term derived from manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) that followed material requirements planning (MRP). ERP systems typically handle the manufacturing, logistics, distribution, inventory, shipping, invoicing, and accounting for a company. Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP software can aid in the control of many business activities, like sales, delivery, billing, production, inventory management, quality management, and human resources management.
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SAP tools are business software which contain alot of modules , each module performs different tasks and ppl are trained specifically for different modules. It helps in financial planning , analyzing and reporting.
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Hi,\n\nAs you know that SAP R/3 or Netweaver ABAP system has many modules. One of them is FI/CO it stands for Finance and Controlling.\n\nThe others are SD (sales & distribution), MM (Materials Management) and so on.\n\nBW is Business Warehouse system, which is different than conventional ABAP system.\n\nThe R3 system has all business transactions e.g. sales order, purchase orders, sales, materal purchases ... All these business data is sent to the BW system... The BW then can be configured to prepare different kind of analysis reports for the higher management to see the business growth and current financial status etc.\n\nORACLE is dying by putting hands on various business capturing and trying to grow in a totally unknown areas. They were/are doing very good with the database, but now loosing control over the market.\n\nSo my choice would be SAP for future.\n\nThanks\nYatin Bhatt
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Abso-friggin-lutely! SAP is the world leader in ERP systems and is only getting bigger. Go talk to the Big 3 consulting firms. You should be able to start out making a very good salary.
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This is not going to work. You should start some real life experience on SAP. Maybe a helpdesk ?
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Best place for you is:\n\nhttp://help.sap.com\n\nYou get all SAP online documentation.
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The SAP Help portal shows both versions are in details.
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Enterprise systems: Oracle, SAP, Seibel Systems: Large applications that tie disparate organizations and systems together to allow cross platform communication and support ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning).
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hey siemens teaches sap. it has got various branches in india. visit siemens.com
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Here is a wiki, white papers, blogs, news, discussions, etc....\nhttp://sap.ittoolbox.com/
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you can vist sap.com or go to sapfans.com,there you can get the details
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Hi Johny,\n\nSAP is an ERP package having different modules which has been intergrated internally. Based on company structure they maintain different servers for their respective modules.\n\nWhile learning SAP you can choose either as a Functional consultant or a programmer [ABAP], a functional consultant involves less in code and more in defining/ customizing/ modelling according to the company structure.\n\nSince you know CRM concept i think it doesn't take much time for you to get into that, i suggest you to get trained as a functional consultant. make sure to get the full domain knowledge before you apply for the jobs.
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Do you mean - what's the difference, or what are some different options? \n\nERP's are business applications that make the every day tasks of running a very large business much cheaper and easier.\n\nPortals are customized applications, usually web-based, that link a wide variety of applications, information sources, and common internal business functions within a company. It is one place where all a company's major communications and training materials (for example) can be stored for easy access by everyone in the organization.\n\nERP's include JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle 11i, Siebel (oh wait - those are all the same company now), and SAP. For now, SAP's probably the best... \n\nPortals are built on a variety of technologies, but they usually include a Java or .Net front end, riding on a Websphere, Weblogic, or SAP backend.
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) \n\n(Enterprise Resource Planning) Software for running a business. ERP was coined as an extension of the concept of manufacturing resource planning (MRP) software, which automated the process of keeping a manufacturing line supplied with materials to meet incoming orders. ERP is a suite of applications including financials, manufacturing, human resources and other modules, that together automate the back-office business administration functions of an enterprise. Leading ERP vendors include SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft and JD Edwards. \n\nhighlights | A-Z index
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It depends on your background SAP R3 is an inmense platform with  27 and counting diferent industry specific solutions.\n\nThey have everithing from Pharmaceutical retailing to e-government. \n\nA couple of general guidelines could be:\n\n1) Past experience with ERP systems (BAAN, Peoplesoft-Oracle, Solomon. . etc.)\n\n2) Past programing experience (Take abap only if you feel confortable with your object oriented programing and development skills in other platforms such as .net or java)\n\n3) Probably the most important advice is look at what you expect to be doing with your new SAP knowledge, a good road could be to analyze your company´s current SAP implementation and work to become a solution specific expert. this will probably put you on the course of becoming an "in company consultant" a key asset that will give you a clear advantage for years to come. . .\n\nI´m 35 and Ive worked with SAP in latin america for the last 5 years. I´m quite familliar with some of the course sturctures. If this could be of any help please e-mail me at c3internacional@yahoo.com
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There are two types of SAP experiences you can have.\n1) You are part of the team that got the SAP software (R/3, CRM, etc) up for your company or companies for which you were a consulting resource.\n2) Your company used SAP software and you happened to make use of it as part of your job (accountant, HR, inventory manager, sales rep etc..).
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There is no training material available per se given that every implementation is different.  Typically companies have their own.  If you want to look at generic functionality, take a look at SAP's web sites (sap.com, help.sap.com, etc...).