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iKons Internship-
January 2024
Lesson 1
Introduction to SAP
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About iKons
IT Engineering and Consulting company
- IKONS, founded in Western Balkans region, has since expanded its footprint covering Albania, Serbia, Kosovo,
Malta, the UK, and Spain to serve our clients internationally.

- Provides highly skilled IT professional solutions, software design, development and implementation, IT remote and
outsourced services and solutions

- Provides high-quality services at competitive rates

- IKONS specializes in a variety of domains, including but not limited to SAP technologies, Business Intelligence,
Web, Cloud & Mobile technologies.

- Has a large portfolio of practices and has worked with a wide variety of international clients

- Sustainable hiring approach and training delivered by dedicated Training Center, in partnership with local
universities

⮚ Our team consists on: Software Developers, Business Analysts, Quality Assurance specialists, IT
recruiters, Project Managers/Scrum Masters, Business Development Experts, Management
Consultants and Marketing Professionals
 An introduction to iKons

Mission

Our mission is to deliver quality services and

commitment to diligence and care for our clients and
partners. Our mission envisages the inclusion of the
highest values of our employees.

Vision

We are determined to become acknowledged as an

innovative player in the IT consultancy industry in
Southeast Europe. Our aim is to make the
difference in the regional professional service
providers.

Values

Our values are closely linked with the commitment to

quality, diligence, problem-solving, transparency, 11+ Markets: Italy,
accountability and integrity in our business. 100+ 200+ Consultants Over 60’000 Spain, UK, Albania,
Scandinavia; US;
Projects & IT Developers Freelancers in Netherlands;
Completed our database Belgium, Germany,
Switzerland, Austria
 Training Program

• Our Training Program consists of a three months on-the-job training session where we train our future
developers to deal with project challenges and tasks.
• We perform tailor made training programs with the aim to become reliable competence center to
our customers.
• Our approach is conceived for supporting fast scalable and multilingual teams.
• The training environment is configured to be like a real client system with the following technologies:
SAP /ABAP/UI5/Fiori; Salesforce; Java Spring FW; Front End Development Angular/React
• The programmer is formed through a series of lectures and exercises, since the first steps (System
navigation, Code and Reports creation) to the most complex ones on a Junior level (i.e: Module Pools
with multiple screens that modify custom or standard objects).
 Lets talk about ERP systems
Enteprise Resource Planning

⮚ ERP term is used for software that controls whole organizations different
departments.

⮚ Examples: SAP, Oracle, People Soft, JD Edwards are some of the top ERP
software systems.
 Lets talk about ERP systems

• Consider a large enterprise like

PepsiCo, which has a number of • All these need to be integrated
divisions under it. together for effective functioning.
• This is done by a specific software
• There is:
known as Enterprise Resource
o Financial Department Planning.
o Logistics Section • Use of this package makes it possible
o HR Department to track and manage, in real-time,
o Warehousing sales, production, finance accounting
o and human resources in an
Sales and Distribution
enterprise
 Welcome to SAP
• SAP is an ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning) system .
• SAP - means System, Applications and Products.
• There is n number of ERP softwares in market today, of
which SAP is used in medium to large enterprises.
• SAP is a leader when it comes to easy integration among all
departments.
 Your Career In SAP

SAP is the world’s largest provider of enterprise application software, and they’re still growing at a steady clip.
According to SAP’s 2019 corporate fact sheet more than 437,000 customers in 180 countries use the company’s
services.

• SAP customers include:

• 92% of the Forbes Global 2000 companies
• 98% of the 100 most valued brands

• Their customers distribute:

• 78% of the world’s food
• 82% of the world’s medical devices

• 77% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP system

 Why Your Career In SAP

SAP implementation is a very complex yet organized process. It is a process that needs excellent skills and knowledge.
Some of the benefits people choose a career in SAP technology include:
• On the job learning
• Financial stability
• In demand
• Interesting profession
• Challenging tasks
• Transfer of skills
As you choose your career in SAP, the route you take will also depend on whether you are aiming at technical or functional roles. You can go
for programming if you are more inclined to programming. On the other hand, functional is for you if you like dealing with daily activities
and the needs of clients
 Lets talk about SAP

• SAP SE is a German company found in 1972 that creates software for enterprise resource planning

processes.

• The most used version of SAP is SAP ECC known as SAP ERP Central Component.

• SAP S/4HANA is the latest version of SAP and also the future of the customers using SAP.

• SAP ERP is build using the ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) language and the

focus of this internship is learning ABAP ☺

• SAP has a client server architecture.

• Users can access SAP system in two ways:-

1.Through SAP GUI
2.Through Web browser
 Lets talk about SAP

• SAP R/3 is a 3 tier architecture consisting of 3 layers:

1.Presentation
2.Application
3.Database
• R signifies Real-time system, 3 represents – 3-tier
architecture.

• The Presentation Layer contains the software

components that make up the SAPgui (graphical user
interface). This layer is the interface between the R/3
System and its users. The R/3 System uses the SAPgui to
provide an intuitive graphical user interface for entering
and displaying data.The presentation layer sends the
user’s input to the application server, and receives data for
display from it. While a SAPgui component is running, it
remains linked to a user’s terminal session in the R/3
System.
 Lets talk about SAP

• The Application Layer consists of one or more application

servers and a message server. Each application server contains
a set of services used to run the R/3 System. It uses this
information to assign an appropriate server when a user logs
onto the system.
• The Database Layer consists of a central database system
containing all of the data in the R/3 System. The database
system has two components – the database management
system (DBMS), and the database itself. SAP has manufactured
its own database named Hana but is compatible with all major
databases such as Oracle. All R/3 data is stored in the database.
For example, the database contains the control and customizing
data that determine how your R/3 System runs. It also contains
the program code for your applications. Applications consist of
program code, screen definitions, menus, function modules, and
various other components. These are stored in a special section
of the database called the R/3 Repository, and are accordingly
called repository objects. R/3 repository, objects are used in
ABAP workbench.
 Understanding SAP

• Lets suppose you own a big pharmaceutical company in Albania and you want to implement SAP to

manage all the departments of it.

2. All the modules of SAP that the company bought

1. You buy the SAP system
from SAP SE need to be customized according to
and SAP licenses to access
the needs of your pharmaceutical company.
the system.
(Example: The way how the taxes are calculated in
Germany is different from the taxes in Albania).

3. At this point the company needs SAP consultants to do the customizations. The
SAP Consultants are divided in Technical, Functional, Basis.
 Understanding SAP

Technical Functional Basis

Consultant Consultant Consultant

Abap FI Finance
Fiori MM Material Management System maintanance
Neptune PP Production and Planning
BTP SD Sales and Distribution
RAP Ect.
 SAP Modules

SAP solutions include a number of functional modules, which support transactions to

execute key business processes.

Functional SAP ERP Modules:

•Finance (SAP FI) - Maintenance of Fiscal Year, Posting Periods, defining Document types, posting keys, Number
ranges for documents
•Controlling (SAP CO) - facilitates coordinating, monitoring, and optimizing all the processes in an organization.
•Human Resource Management (SAP HRM), also known as Human Resource (HR)-enter employee-related data
for administrative, time-recording, and payroll purposes
•Material Management (SAP MM)-deals with movement of materials via other modules like logistics, supply
chain management, sales and delivery, warehouse management, production and planning.
•Financial Supply Chain Management (SAP FSCM)
•Sales and Distribution (SAP SD) - support sales and distribution activities of products and services, starting
from enquiry to order and then ending with delivery.
•Production Planning (SAP PP)
•Project System (SAP PS)
•Plant Maintenance (SAP PM)
•Quality Management (SAP QM)
 Most Used SAP Modules

SAP FI (Financial Accounting) SAP CO (Controlling) module facilitates coordinating,

is accountable for tracking the flow of financial data monitoring, and optimizing all the processes in an
across the organization in a controlled manner and organization. It controls the business flow in an organization.
integrating all the information for effective strategic This module helps in analyzing the actual figures with the
decision-making. planned data and in planning business strategies.
Creation of Organizational Structure Cost Element Accounting
Financial Accounting Global Settings Cost Center Accounting
General Ledger Accounting Activity-Based-Accounting
Tax Configuration & Creation and Internal Orders
Maintenance of House of Banks Product Cost Controlling
Account Payables Profitability Analysis
Account Receivables Profit Center Accounting
Asset Accounting
Integration with SD and MM

Finance and Controlling (FICO)

SAP FICO is a combination of two ERP modules, i.e., Finance Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO).
 Most Used SAP Modules
Sales & Distribution Management (SD)
is one of the most important modules in SAP.
SAP SD is used by organizations to support sales and Material Management (MM)
distribution activities of products and services, starting
from products enquires, quotation (pre-sales activities), Material Management deals with movement of materials via
placing order, pricing, scheduling deliveries (sales other modules like logistics, supply chain management, sales
activity), picking, packing, goods issue, shipment of and delivery, warehouse management, production and planning.
products to customers, delivery of products and billings.

Setting up Organization Structure

Assigning Organizational Units
Defining Pricing Components
Setting up sales document types, billing types, and tax-
related components
Setting up Customer master data records and
configuration
Human Resource (HR)
The most important objective of master data
administration in Human Resources is to
enter employee-related data for
administrative, time-recording, and payroll
purposes.

The HR module is comprised of major areas

of functionality known as sub-modules. The
HR module is a true demonstration of the
strength of the SAP product in Enterprise
Resource Planning.

The HR system has very strong integration

points (where data is passed back and forth
without human intervention) with just about
all of the other SAP modules. In addition,
there is very tight integration amongst the
HR sub-modules.
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