What Does The SAP R/3 Acronym mean?
The SAP R/3 acronym stands for System, Anwendungen, Produckte in der Datenverarbeitung or in English means System, Application & Products in Data Processing.
The R/3 means Real time and 3 means 3-tiers, I’m sure that you’re all aware of the 3 tiers application, it means that the application is designed with 3 different layers, the Database layer, Application layer and the Presentation layer.
But now the SAP R/3 product name has been changed into SAP ECC (ERP Central Component), the latest version the ERP ECC 6.0
The SAP R/3 (ECC) Modules Overview
You can find eight basic modules in the SAP application, these modules are:
MM
- Material Master Data
- Inventory Management-
- Material Valuation
- Warehouse Management System
- Purchasing
- Invoice Verification
- Consumption based MRP
PP
- Engineering Change Management
- Production Master Data
- Sales & Operations Planning
- Capacity Planning
- Master Production Scheduling
- MRP
- Shop Floor Control
- Product Costing
QM
- Inspection Planning
- Inspection Process Guides
- Quality Notifications
- Certifications
PM
- Plant Maintenance Master Data
- Maintenance Planning
- Order Processing
- Service Management
- Structuring Technical Systems
HR
- Personnel Administration
- Travel Expenses
- Payroll Accounting
- Benefits Administration
- Compensation Administration
SD
- Customer Master Data
- Sales Processing
- Shipping
- Billing
- Pricing / Conditions
- Credit Management
- ATP / Requirements
FI
- Accounts Receivable
- Accounts Payable
- General Ledger Accounting
- Closing and Reporting
- Special Purpose Ledger
- Consolidation
- Project Systems (PS)
- Asset Accounting (AM)
CO
- Overhead Cost Management
- Cost Center Planning
- Accounting, Reporting
- Product Costing
- Internal Orders
- Activity Based Costing
- Profitability Analysis
HR
- Personnel Administration
- Travel Expenses
- Payroll Accounting
- Benefits Administration
- Compensation Administration
The SAP is providing solutions to various different kind of industries such as
- Engineering & Construction
- Oil & Gas
- Utilities
- Health Care
- Automotive
- Media
- Aerospace & Defense
- Service Providers
- Mills
- High Tech & Electronics
- Consumer Products
- Transport
- Public Sector
- Telecom
- Chemicals
- Pharmaceuticals
- Retail
- Banking & Insurance
- Mining
SAP enables a company to change its fragmented and invisible processes into transparent & Integrated processes. Others SAP Key Benefits are:
- A real time platform that provides accurate and easy to use Management Information System
- Provides information transparency and increase decision making capability
- Enables global management and information sharing among companies, divisions and business units.
- Reduced or eliminating non-value-adding work
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