sap module business coverage area.docx

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SAP Financial Accounting (SAP FI)The Financial Accounting (SAP FI) module in SAP is designed to capture organizations business transactions in a

manner that will satisfy external reporting requirements. Local legal considerations are pre-delivered with the

system and the ability to manage and report on multiple companies in multiple countries with multiple currencies is

part of standard functionality. Integration with Sales and Distribution, Purchasing and Materials Management allows

for the ability to select any financial transaction and "Drill Down" to the originating transaction whether it is a

purchase Order, Sales Order or material movement.

Financial Accounting includes the following sub-modules: General Ledger (FI-GL)

Accounts Payable (FI-AP)

Accounts Receivable (FI-AR)

Bank Accounting (FI-BL)

Asset Accounting (FI-AA)

Funds Management (FI-FM)

Travel Management (FI-TV)

Special Purpose Ledger (FI-SL) (I am not sure this is really considered a module anymore)

Business process associated with the SAP FI module:



SAP Controlling (SAP CO)The purpose of the Controlling (CO) module in SAP is to provide organizations with a method of slicing and dicing

data to view costs from an internal management perspective and provide a view of profitability beyond that of basic

financial reporting. This allows the organization to create information in a manner that is tailored to their specific

business measurements needs. Controlling allows an organization to: Plan and track overhead costs within the company's specific organizational structure.

Track costs related to specific projects or events and either capitalize those costs or charge them to

appropriate departments upon completion.

Perform "Activity Based Costing".

Perform Product Costing, measuring production cost and variances.

Report profitability by product line, division, or other internal measurement.

Report sales and gross profitability by external measures such as market segments or customer groups.

Controlling consists of all master data, configuration, and reporting required to analyze both spend and revenues,

both within and across organizations. This includes the following master data:

Cost Elements - cost and/or revenue accounts

Cost Centers - departmental units

Profit Centers - business lines, product lines or divisions

Internal Orders - projects or events

Functional Area - Cost of Sales Accounting

Statistical Key Figures - non financial statistics for allocating or measuring financial costs

Activity Types - Labor or other activity costs

Subcomponents of the SAP Controlling (SAP CO) Module: CO-OM - Overhead Management

- CO-OM-CCA - Cost Center Accounting

- CO-OM-OPA - Internal Order Accounting

- CO-OM-CEL - Cost Element Accounting

- CO-OM-ABC - Activity Based Costing

CO-PCA - Profit Center Accounting

CO-PA - Profitability Analysis

CO-PC - Product Costing



Business process associated with the SAP CO module:



SAP Materials Management (SAP MM)The Materials Management module (SAP MM) consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to

complete the Procure to Pay process. This process map spans from MRP generated procurement proposals through

final invoice receipt and verification.

SAP Materials Management Components or Sub-Components:

Vendor Master and Material Master data

Consumption Based Planning

Purchasing

Inventory Management

Evaluation of Materials

Invoice Verification

Subcomponents of the SAP Materials Management (SAP MM) Module: Purchasing

Inventory Management

Logistics Invoice Verification

Physical Inventory

Material Valuation

Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

External Services Management



Procure to Pay business process associated with the SAP MM module:



SAP Production Planning (SAP PP)Production Planning consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to complete the Plan to

Produce process.

Material Master, Bill of Material, Routing and Work Center data

Sales and Production Plans

Long Term Planning

Demand Management

Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

Capacity Planning

Production Orders

KANBAN

Diagram of the typical Plan to Produce business process associated with the SAP PP module:



SAP Production Planning (SAP PP) is compromised of the following modules: Master Data - includes the material master, work centers, routings and bill of materials.

SOP - Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) provides the ability to forecast sales and production plans based

on historical, current and future data.

DRP - Distribution Resource Planning allows companies the ability to plan the demand for distribution

centers.

Production Planning - includes material forecasting, demand management, long term planning and master

production scheduling (MPS).

MRP - Material Requirements Planning relies on demand and supply elements with the calculation

parameters to calculate the net requirements from the planning run.

Shop Floor Control - includes the processing of production orders, goods movements, confirmations and

reporting tools for production.

Capacity Planning - evaluates the capacity utilized based on the work centers available capacity to show

capacity constraints.

Repetitive Manufacturing - in repetitive manufacturing, the manufacturing process is usually simple in that

the same products are produced over a long period of time. This module provides the transactions and

business process for companies to run repetitive manufacturing in SAP.

KANBAN - is a process of replenishment based on a pull system using KANBAN cards to generate the

replenishment cycle.

Product Cost Planning - is the process of evaluating all the time values and value of component materials

to determine the product cost.

SAP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD)The Sales and Distribution (SAP SD) consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to complete

the Order to Cash process. It includes the following information and processes:

Customer Master and Material Master data

Sales Orders

Deliveries Pricing

Billing

Credit Management



Order to Cash business process associated with the SAP SD module:



Subcomponents of the SAP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD) Module: Master Data

Sales Support

Pendulum List Indirect Sales

Sales

Shipping and Transportation

Billing

Empties Management

Credit Management

Foreign Trade/Customs

Sales Information System

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