Lecture 0 and 1

Question 1

What are Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems?

Answer 1

Incredibly large, extensive software packages used to manage a firm’s business processes.
Standard software packages that must be configured to meet the needs of a company
Database programs with the following functions:
Input
Storage/Retrieval
Manipulation
Output

Question 2

1. Components of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP also known as heart of ES):

Answer 2

• FI/CO: Financial Accounting/Controlling Module (Tracking) (Also, known as heart of ERP)
  
  • MM: Material Management (Buy)
  • SD: Sales and Distribution (Sell)
  • HR/HCM: Human Resource/ Human Capital Management (People)
  • PP: Production Planning (Make)

2. Components of Enterprise Systems (ES or Business Suite):
   • SRM: Supplier Relationship Management (Sourcing)
   • SCM: Supply Chain Management (Plan)
   • CRM: Customer Relationship Management (Demand)
   • PLM: Product Lifecycle Management (Idea)

Question 3

Data Types

Answer 3

Master Data
Any data that describes an object
Data that is relatively stable
Materials, Customers, Vendors

Transaction Data
Data that is relatively temporary
Data processed during a transection
Customer orders, purchase orders, production orders, customer payments

Operational Data

- Data generated by your day to day operations
- Stored at various stages of a business process (after transection is over)

Organizational Data
- Any data that describes an organization.

Question 4

SAP Versions

Answer 4

SAP R/1
SAP R/1was the first version and it is one tier architecture in which three layers Presentation, Application and Database are installed in one system/server
Server one – Presentation + Application + Database

SAP R/2
SAP R/2 is the mainframe version of software and it is 2 tier architecture in which three layers Presentation, Application and Database are installed in two separate server.
(Server one – Presentation, Server two – Application + Database

SAP R/3
SAP R/3 is the client/server version of the software and it is 3 tier architecture in which three layers Presentation, Application and data base are installed in three server/system
Server one – Presentation, Server Two – Application, server Three – Database.

Question 5

S4/HANA

Answer 5

4 layered architecture adding an in memory computing engine between Database and Applications. SAP S/4HANAis SAP’sERPfor large enterprises. It is the successor of R/3 and is optimized for SAP’s in-memory database.SAP HANA can be on premise, on cloud or a hybrid model.

Question 6

S4/HANA Cloud

Answer 6

Adds the cloud structure between the users and applications.