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    SAP modules are the different functional areas or applications within the SAP software. Historically, SAP training and roles were organized along module lines such as SAP MM for materials management. However, this led to solutions being optimized for individual modules rather than integrated processes. Now, SAP focuses on solutions like supply chain management that cut across multiple modules. The main SAP modules include financial accounting, controlling, project systems, human resources, plant maintenance, materials management, quality management, production planning, sales and distribution, business warehouse, and ABAP for custom development.

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    SAP modules are the different functional areas or applications within the SAP software. Historically, SAP training and roles were organized along module lines such as SAP MM for materials management. However, this led to solutions being optimized for individual modules rather than integrated processes. Now, SAP focuses on solutions like supply chain management that cut across multiple modules. The main SAP modules include financial accounting, controlling, project systems, human resources, plant maintenance, materials management, quality management, production planning, sales and distribution, business warehouse, and ABAP for custom development.

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    SAP modules are the different functional areas or applications within the SAP software. Historically, SAP training and roles were organized along module lines such as SAP MM for materials management. However, this led to solutions being optimized for individual modules rather than integrated processes. Now, SAP focuses on solutions like supply chain management that cut across multiple modules. The main SAP modules include financial accounting, controlling, project systems, human resources, plant maintenance, materials management, quality management, production planning, sales and distribution, business warehouse, and ABAP for custom development.

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    SAP modules are the different functional areas or applications within the SAP software. Historically, SAP training and roles were organized along module lines such as SAP MM for materials management. However, this led to solutions being optimized for individual modules rather than integrated processes. Now, SAP focuses on solutions like supply chain management that cut across multiple modules. The main SAP modules include financial accounting, controlling, project systems, human resources, plant maintenance, materials management, quality management, production planning, sales and distribution, business warehouse, and ABAP for custom development.

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    SAP Modules Overview

    In the past when people were discussing SAP, the conversation very
    quickly boiled down to modules, for example:
    SAP
    • SAP training courses were structured along SAP module lines so
    Modules that you would attend SAP MM 101, 102 and 103. While at the
    course you would learn many things about MM, but not much
    SAP Modules
    about the rest of the SAP system and how SAP MM fits into it.
    Introduction
    • A conversation with a SAP recruiter might go something like this:
    SAP SD
    Recruiter … “which SAP Modules do you work with?”
    SAP FI Candidate … “well, I have a lot of purchasing process
    experience”
    SAP CO Recruiter … “yes, but which SAP Modules do you work
    with?”
    SAP HR Candidate … “well, it’s purchasing functionality … so that
    would be, umm, SAP MM, SAP FI and SAP CO mainly”
    SAP ABAP Recruiter … “great I have just the job for you”
    Candidate … “fantastic, is it purchasing?”
    Recruiter … “well it says here that they want an MM, FI
    SAP MM
    and CO person and that’s you, right?”
    SAP BW
    Not necessarily! A MM, FI, CO role might include Inventory
    or Management (MM), Accounts Receivable (FI) and Profitability
    Analysis (CO) – none of which a purchasing person is guaranteed
    to have
    What Is SAP
    • Many programme teams were organised along SAP module
    or
    lines, so that you would have a FI/CO, an MM and a HR team,
    for example. Training courses were (therefore) often prepared
    Online and delivered along SAP module lines too. The result of this was
    SAP Training that solutions were frequently optimised along SAP module lines,
    and less often well integrated, and as for users, well, they were
    or pretty much trained up in a SAP module and left to get on with it
    post go-live. Fortunately those days are mostly passed, and
    Monthly more and more programmes (from design to build to training) are
    SAP Access being organised along process lines such as:

    Order to Cash (including parts of SD, FI-AR and probably TY as well)


    Purchase to Pay (including MM-Purchasing and FI-AP)
    Record to Report (FI-GL etc)

    SAP now are moving away from describing their system as a set of SAP
    Modules, and now are using the term ‘solutions’, which is much better, as
    follows:

    • Financials
    • Human Resources
    • Customer Relationship Management
    • Supplier Relationship Management
    • Product Lifecycle Management
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Business Intelligence

    Go here for Online SAP Training,


    and if you are interested in having your own SAP
    system available to you 24/7
    then check this out SAP Access

    If you’re still looking for that list of SAP Modules, here


    they are:

    SAP FI Module - where FI means


    Financial Accounting – essentially
    this SAP module delivers your
    regulatory ‘books of record’,
    including

    • General ledger
    • Book close
    • Tax
    • Accounts receivable
    • Accounts payable
    • Asset Management (SAP
    AM)
    • Consolidation
    • Special ledgers

    Go here for more details on the


    SAP FI Module, or here for a
    4 page SAP FI Tutorial

    SAP CO Module - The CO stands for Controlling – basically the SAP


    Module which allows you to manage your internal cost/management
    accounting, including

    • Cost elements
    • Cost centres
    • Profit centres
    • Internal orders
    • Activity based costing
    • Product costing
    Go here for more details on the SAP CO Module, or here for a 4 page
    SAP CO Tutorial

    SAP PS Module - and PS is Project Systems – this SAP Module is where


    you can manage your projects, large and small, including

    • Make to order
    • Plant shut downs (as a project)
    • Third party billing (on the back of a project)

    SAP HR Module - ah yes, the HR is for Human Resources ... people are
    the important part of this SAP module, including

    • Employment history
    • Payroll
    • Training
    • Career management
    • Succession planning

    Go here for more details on the SAP HR Module

    SAP PM Module - where Plant Maintenance is the PM – this SAP module


    is where you maintain your equipment (e.g. a machine, an oil rig, an
    aircraft etc), including

    • Labour
    • Material
    • Down time and outages

    SAP MM Module - one of the most important SAP Modules where MM is


    Materials Management - underpins the supply chain, including

    • Requisitions
    • Purchase orders
    • Goods receipts
    • Accounts payable
    • Inventory management
    • BOM’s
    • Master raw materials, finished goods etc

    Go here for more details on the SAP MM Module

    SAP QM Module - and QM stands for Quality Management in this SAP


    module – improve the quality of your goods, including

    • Planning
    • Execution
    • Inspections
    • Certificates
    SAP PP Module - one of the really big SAP modules is Production
    Planning – manages your production process, including

    • Capacity planning
    • Master production scheduling
    • Material requirements planning
    • Shop floor

    SAP SD Module - another one of the large SAP modules is Sales and
    Distribution – from order to delivery, including

    • RFQ
    • Sales orders
    • Pricing
    • Picking (and other warehouse processes)
    • Packing
    • Shipping

    Go here for more details on the SAP SD Module

    SAP BW Module - where BW stands for Business (Data) Warehouse


    which includes the following main functions:

    • Data extraction from source systems


    • Some technical and functional transformation of the data
    • Storage of the data in what are called Infoproviders
    • Reporting (which uses Infoproviders)

    Go here for more details on the SAP BW Module, or here for a 10


    page SAP BW Tutorial

    SAP ABAP - is not really a module - it stands for Advanced Business


    Application Programming and this is the is the structured programming
    language for custom development including reports. Go here for more
    details on SAP ABAP, or here for some SAP ABAP Tutorials

    Go here to see over 200 pages of our best SAP Tutorials, including one
    on the SAP FI Module and one on the SAP CO Module. If you need more
    go here to find over 450 more pages of free SAP Articles. Go here for
    Online SAP Training, and if you are interested in having your own SAP
    system available to you 24/7 then check this out SAP Access

    We hope you have enjoyed reading this article on the SAP Modules. If
    you are interested in learning more, check out the online SAP training
    courses offered by Michael Management Corporation

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