Friday, January 2, 2009

A Complete Overview Of SAP R/3 - SAP Training

By James Cook

The SAP R/3 is an company resource planning system, developed by Systeme, Andwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung, or in English Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing. The organisation is established out of Germany and began trading to the European market in the mid-80's, afterward extending to North America, and then international.

Like any corporation resource planning system, SAP R/3 is planned for corporate function. It provides a company to integrate all corporate sections into a individual system that heightens coordination of all prospects of company management.

The SAP R/3 is firstly set up with certain standard processes activated, and all the many nonobligatory procedures and features turned off, for afterward activation as required. All system requires a customized configuration, which is not took on in the cost of purchase and installation.

Modules ready with the SAP R/3 include: Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Sales, Distribution, Manufacturing, Production Planning, Purchasing, Human Resources, Payroll, and numerous more (including a few industry specific features); this variety of modules makes the system sincerely liable of managing all prospects of company activities.

SAP R/3 is, at this time, primarily applied by large enterprises, including many Fortune 500 companies. However, a number of smaller organisations and organisations have started implementing SAP R/3. Small organizations can profit greatly from the streamlining and coordination SAP R/3 offers, but can likewise have trouble budgeting for the high cost of the system. It is important for companies considering SAP R/3 to take care with their cost benefit analysis, to be sure that a return on investment can be reached in a average time frame.

The cost of implementing the system is a combining of per-user price, and price of installation, which includes how many work hours installation will get, resource demands, and hardware demands. As initially referred, the costs of configuration is extra, and can easily run over one million bucks, reckoning on the size of the corporation and complexity of the configuration. Most organisations use advisors for the customization operation, peculiarly if there is already an established with relationship with a consulting firm familiar with SAP R/3.

SAP R/3 does have different competing systems. It's smartest rivals are Oracle Financial (primarily built for financial enterprises ), and PeopleSoft (which has been bought by Oracle in recent years). Unlike its challengers, SAP R/3 provides a variety of industry specified answers, and is extending it's offerings to include CRM, or client relations management (Oracle offers a different system for customer relations, called Siebel); as well as applying mySAP.com, an internet based customer center, to assist enterprises in dealing with their system.

SAP is not planning on releasing an SAP R/4. Alternatively, the future of SAP will be mySAP.com, which will contain all SAP productions. Presently mySAP.com "sits on-top" of SAP R/3.

A note on SAP's industry specific solutions: until 1994/95, SAP ran a one-size fits all integrated result. Presently they provide twenty one Industry Answers; all of which are kept on a parallel path, and coordinated with their core development. Their website includes an Industry Solutions page where you can find data on advantages specific to your industry. - 15634

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