SAP Basics Flashcards
SAP stands for:
Stands for Systems applications and products in data processing
What is SAP?
SAP ERP is an enterprise resource planning software
What does ERP stands for?
Enterprise resource planning
Benefits of a centralized system
- It eliminates the duplication, dicontinuity and redundancy in data
- Provides information across departments in real time
- Increases productivity, better inventory management, promotes quality, reduced material cost, effective human resources management
- Better customer interaction and increased throughput. It also improves customer service.
Modules concepts
SAP is very flexible and almost anything is customizable,
to achieve this flexibility SAP has different modules. Depending on the organization you can have one module, a few or all of SAP modules.
SAP system is divided in two types of modules, functional and technical Each module has a submodule.
Modules
Financial, logistic, Human resource management and cross application modules
Dev server
Development server is also known as sand box client. It is the server where the consultants do the new customization, write new programs as per the business requirement. It has three clients
Dev server clients
- Sand Box – Sand box client is the place where all the system design work takes place
- Customizing client – After configuration in the sand box, if everything is ok then recreate the same configuration in configuration client
- Development-testing – This client is used for unit testing. In some projects integration testing also done in this client.
Quality Assurance (QA)server
Quality server is where the team members and other members test the new customization, programs etc.
Production Server
Production Client is also known as Golden Client. It is the server where the live data of the company is recorded after project go live. The authorization for production client is very limited.
Minimum landscape environments
DEV, QAS, PRD
ABAP
(Advanced Business application programming): A high level programming language created by SAP, the syntax is similar to COBOL
Account group
Controls the creation and maintenance of master records, determines which data is required for the master records and the number range assigned to those master records. It determines which screens and fields are necessary for entering master data, how master record numbers are assigned, and whether the business partner is a one-time customer or one-time vendor.
Account type
Is denoted by one character out of five default characters in SAP. It specifies different areas to which a general ledger a/c belongs.
Chart of accounts
Is a list of GL accounts that used to post transactions from cross modules and FI modules. Can be used for reporting like balance sheet, p&l, and trial balance