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Unit 01: ERP
ERP Basics (p.2-22)
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Computer Science
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05/18/2011

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Term
What is ESA?
Definition
(1) Enterprise Services Application
(2) Allows business innovation by leverageing existing assets, maximizing agility, and reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Term
What Platform Supports ESA?
Definition
SAP NetWeaver
Term
Three phases of SAP
Definition
(1) SAP R/2 (Centralized computing), SAP R/3 (Client-Server Architecture), mySAP ERP (Service-Oriented Architectures)
(a) SAP R/3 my SAP ERP
(i) More adaptable
(ii) Added NetWeaver, Self Services, SAP SEM, etc
(iii) Offers a bundle of components and add ons
(iv) No technical changing is necessary when changing license to mySAP ERP
Term
What kind of Architecture does SAP now have?
Definition
(i) Two layer – SAP Basis and SAP Application
Term
What is SAP ECC?
Definition
(i) ERP Central Component
(ii) It’s the core of the ERP system
Term
What are the subcomponents of NetWeaver?
Definition
(1) PIPA
(2) People Integration – Collaboration, Multi Channel Access, and Enterprise Portal
(3) Information Integration – Knowledge Management, Master Data Management, Business Intelligence
(4) Process Integration – Integration Broker, Business Process Management
(5) Application Integration – ABAP, J2EE, DB and Abstraction, mobile business
Term
What lies above SAP NetWeaver in SAP ERP?
Definition
(a) Human Capital Management, Analytics, Financials, Operations, and Corporate Services
Term
MySAP Business Suite
Definition
(a) The solution suite that mySAP ERP lies within
(b) Based on: SAP’s listening to customers, user groups, and further inputs from analysts and other thought leaders to better serve market demands
(c) Ready to service operation, tactical, and stategiv needs of enterprise and beyond
Term
What are the components of mySAP Business suite?
Definition
(i) ERP, CRM, SCM, SRM, PLM
Term
What is Client?
Definition
Highest in SAP
Term
Company Code
Definition
Highest in FI
Term
Plant
Definition
Central Org in ; can only go to one CC
Term
Storage Location
Definition
can be mult in a plant
Term
Sales Area
Definition
Sales Org, Division, Dist Channel
Term
Controlling Area
Definition
self-contained org structure where costs and revenues can be managed; separate unit of cost accounting
Term
Purchasing Org
Definition
Each country where there’s a plant, there’s a purchasing org
Term
Three types of Master Data and the org structure associate with them:
Definition
(1) General Data: Client
(2) Sales Data: Sales Area
(3) Fin Accounting Data: CC
Term
Transaction v. Document v. Output
Definition
(1) Transaction: execute business process
(2) Document: record generated (have for everything)
(3) Output: something printed
Term
What's on the Material Master Record?
Definition
Price per quantity, stock per storage
Term
OLTP
Definition
(1) Online Transaction Processing
(2) External Data, SD, FI, MM, PP

Part of the Operative Enviroment
-Data dumping
Term
Data Warehouse
Definition
Aggregated Information
Term
OLAP
Definition
Online Analytical Processing
(1) analysis tools
(2) for staging information from large amounts of operative and historical data
(3) permits multi-dimensional analyses according to various business perspectives

Part of the informative enviroment
Term
LIS
Definition
(1) Quantitative reduction by aggregating on period level
(2) Qualitative reduction by selecting specific key figures
Term
SIS
Definition
Analyze aggregate information, leads to imrovement of the response times and quality of results
Term
Administrator Workbench
Definition
allow you to control, monitor, and maintain all data procurement processes
Term
What does Business Explorer provide?
Definition
users with extensive analysis
Term
What does ESA do?
Definition
-solutiions with lower TCO
-increases flexibility and extendability of business processes
Term
Business Process Management
Definition
allows the modeling and acceleration of processes in a dynamic IT enviroment
Term
What two things does the Application Platform support in a single enviroment?
Definition
J2EE and ABAP
Term
SAP Business Information Warehouse Advantage
Definition
-closely integrated with SAP
-Open architecture (Crystal, Ascential)
-high quality business data
Term
Master Data Management Advantage
Definition
-consistent storage of data
Term
SAP Exchange Infrastructure Advantage
Definition
-proxy generation and mapping tools
-integration directory with content
-enterprise and vendor potential of SAP
Term
What actions can an enterprise service represent in various systems?
Definition
-send a confirmation to customer
-remove an order from production
-cancel the material req
-change order status
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