Learning From Practitioner-Session

Enterprise (E) is a business organization. Resource (R) in an enterprise comprise of: - Men, Material, Methods, Machinery and Money. Planning (P) means effective allocation and utilization of resources. Is an extended method to integrate marketing, finance, manufacturing and human resource in single information system. Standardized record keeping permits information sharing throughout the organization. Sales and Distribution structure consist of: Company Code Sales organization (VKOR / VKORG) :- Required for legal obligations. Required for goods and services sold. Distribution Channel (VTWEG) :- Consist of means through which sales material reaches customers. Division (SPART) :- Group of products. For example API/FDF. Sales Area :- Combination of sales organization, distribution channel and division. It is basic necessity of an organization.

Master Data: - Pool of data which is accessible by all the divisions or everyone throughout the organization. Kinds of Data: General Data Company Code Data Sales Area Data - KNBI - KNAI - KNVV

Resources with Departments: Manpower - Human Resource (HR), Environment Health Friendly (EHF), Training. Money - Finance, Accounts, Costing. Material - Warehouse, Transport, Material Management, Purchasing. Machinery - Production, Maintenance, Quality Control. Marketing - Sales, Distribution, Marketing Methods - Administration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Research and development (R&D), Customer relationship management (CRM).

Other kind of ERP solutions available: SAP: Software solution for business process management. 41 years old. No major competitor Acquires around 63% of Market Share. 24450 customers & 84000 installations till date. BAAN for Supply Chain Management (SCM). Oracle for Financials specialization. NAVIGEN for Financial specialization. PEOPLE-SOFT for Human Resource (HR) and Payrolls. ORION for Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Financials.

Kinds of SAP Projects: SI - System Integration of Implementation Projects. AO - Application Outsourcing or Support for day to day transactions. Roll outs - When company try to tune SAP across all the divisions across the world after successful installation in one division. Maintenance It is a kind of change management. Process followed in System Integration (SI): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. ASSI - Day to day basis activities and key issues are documented. BPM* Business Process Mapping done for activities documented. Design Build Deploy Testing GO-LIVE Post Sale Support

System Landscape: Development Server Quality Server Production Server

NOTES: - *Processes which are not mapped in BPM are mapped by FIT-GAP.