SAP R/3 Modules Overview and Applications

In this article we have discussed all SAP R/3 modules overview.

Basis - BC (BASIS Components) accessed through SAPGUI (Graphical User Interface). It is middleware that links the SAPGUI client to SAP applications, the database, and OS (Operating System).

ABAP- ABAP is a SAP proprietary programming language. SAP R/3 supports nearly all databases: Oracle, Informix, DB2 for UNIX, DB2/400, Microsoft's SQL Server 6.0 etc.

Financial - FICO (Financial Accounting and Controlling), EC (Enterprise Controlling), AM (Asset Management) / EAM (Enterprise Asset Management), TR (Treasury), IM (capital Investment Management), GL (General Ledger).

Applications – AP/AR (Accounts Payable/Account Receivable), AA (Asset Accounting), LC (Legal Consolidation), GL (General Ledger), FM (Funds Management), BL (Bank-related Accounting), TR-CB (Cash Budget Management), TR-MRM (Market Risk Management), TR-CM (Cash Management), TR-LO (Loans Management), TR-TM (Treasury Management), Profit and Loss Accounting, Cost of Sales Accounting, Parallel set of books, Integration of Controlling, Balance Sheet by any dimension.

HR (Human Resource) - PA (Personnel Administration), PD (Personnel planning and Development)

Applications- PA-APP Applicant Management, PA-BEN Benefits, PA-EMP Employee Management, PA-INW Incentive wages, PA-PAY Payroll, PA-TIM Time Management, PA-TRV Travel Expenses, PD-OM Organizational Management, PD-RPL Room Reservations Planning, PD-WFP Workforce Planning, PD-SCM Seminar and Convention Management, PD-PD Personnel development.

Logistic and Manufacturing - MM (Material Management), MRP (Materials Requirement Planning), Material Ledger, SD (Sales & Distribution), PP/DS (Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling), LO (General Logistics), Service Management, PM (Plant Maintenance), Central Functions.

Applications- MM-PUR Purchasing, MM-IM (Inventory Management), MM-WM (Warehouse Management), MM-IV (Invoice Verification), MM-IS (Information System), MM-CBP (Consumption Based Planning), MM-EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), SD-MD (Master Data), SD-CAS (Sales Support), SD-SLS (Sales), SD-SHP (Shipping), SD-TR (Transportation), SD-BIL (Billing), SD-SIS (Sales Information System), SD-EDI Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), SD-GF (General Sales Functions), PP-SOP (Sales and Operations Planning), PP-CRP (Capacity Requirement Planning), PP-MP (Master planning), PP-ATO (Assembly orders), PP-BD (Basic Data), PP-IS (Information System), PP-KAB (Kanban/Just-in-Time), PP-MRP (Material Requirements Planning), PP-PDC (Plant Data Collection), PP-PI (Production Planning for Process Industries), PP-REM (Repetitive Manufacturing), PP-SFC (Production orders), PM-EQM (Equipment and Technical Objects), PM-IS (PM Information System), PM-PRM (Preventive Maintenance), PM-PRO (Maintenance Projects), PM-SM (Service Management), PM-WOC (Maintenance Orders Management), LO-AB-TC (Trading Contract), LO-BM (Batches), LO-ECH (Engineering Change Management), LO-EHS (Environment Management), LO-EWB (Engineering Workbench), LO-HU (Handling Unit Management), LO-LIS (Logistics Information System), LO-MAP (Merchandise & Assortment Planning), LO-MD (Logistics Basic Data), LO-MDS (Merchandise Distribution), LO-PDM (Product Data Management), LO-PR (Forecast), LO-RIS (Retail Information System), LO-SCI (Supply Chain Planning Interface), LO-SRS (Retail Store), LO-VC (Variant Configuration).

Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) - QM (Quality Management), QM-QP (Quality Planning), QM-IM (Quality Inspection processing), QM-QC-AQC (Quality control), QM-IT (Test equipment management), QM-QN (Quality notifications), QM-CA (Quality certificates), PS (Project System), DMS (Document Management System).

Applications- SAP Project and Portfolio Management, SAP Environment, Health and Safety
SAP PLM Recipe Management, Audit Management, QM-CR (General functions), QM-PT-RP (Control in logistics), PLM400 (Quality Management) or LO170 (Quality Management), PLM405 (Quality Inspections) or LO705 (Quality Inspections), PLM410 (Quality Notifications) or LO710 (Quality Notifications), PLM425 (QM in Sales and Distribution/Quality Certificates) or LO725 (QM in Sales and Distribution/Quality Certificates), PS-CAF (Payments), PS-CON (Confirmation), PS-COS (Costs), PS-CRP (Resources), PS-DAT (Dates), PS-DOC (Documents), PS-IS (Information System), PS-MAT (Material), PS-PRG (Progress), PS-REV (Revenues and Earnings), PS-SIM (Simulation), PS-ST (Structures), PS-VER (Versions).

Cross Application (X-Apps) - xApp for Manufacturing Integration & Intelligence, APO (Advanced Planner and Optimizer) – Live Cache, WF (Workflow), BW (Business Warehouse) 3.5, BIW (Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing), Analytics, xPD (Product Definition)

SAP Business Suite(formerly New Dimension) - ERP 6.0 (2005) with ECC 6.0, CRM (Customer Relationship Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management), SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure, SAP Supply Network Collaboration, SAP Extended Warehouse Management, SRM (Supplier Relationship Management), SAP Catalog Content Management, SAP SRM as Add-on for ECC.

Applications- Analytics, Channel Management, Interaction Center, Field Applications, Implementation & Operation, Sales with mySAP CRM 2005, SAP Marketing, SAP Service, Planning, Manufacturing, Order Fulfillment, Enterprise Buyer, Procurement.

NetWeaver "Business Process Management" apps – KMC (Knowledge Management & Collaboration) for 2004s - Document management service, Content Management service; XI (Exchange Infrastructure), morphing to PI (Process Integration), EP (Enterprise Portal)

IS (Information Systems) Management - CCMS (Computing Center Mgmt System), Master Data Management (MDM 5.5 SP04).

Applications- BC-CCM-ADK Archiving Development Kit, CCM-API Application Program Interfaces, CCM-BTC Background Processing, CCM-CNF Configuration, CCM-HAV High Availability, CCM-MON Monitoring, CCM-PRN Print and Output Management, MDM100 (Master Data Management), MDM101 (MDM GDS), MDM300 (MDM Print Publishing), MDM400 (MDM Data Modeling).

GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) SDN - Virsa, GTS, xEM, CPM (Corporate Performance Management), SEM (Strategic Enterprise Management): Strategy Management, Business Planning and Simulation (BI), Credit Management.

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Self Discipline To Master Yourself

Your skill and capacity to discipline you, to master yourself, to manage yourself, to control yourself, goes hand with success in every field of career. According to Elbert Hubbard, “Self- discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” People can develop following habit to make their bright future - goal orientation, result orientation, action orientation, people orientation, health orientation, honesty, integrity, and self discipline.

Make a decision clearly on the new good habit. If your want to develop your self discipline, write it down as a target in a paper or stand up in front of mirror and say “I am an extremely well disciplined individual in everything I do.” This will increase your confidence in you. Repeat this as often as possible, and with as much enthusiasm and conviction as possible. The more you repeat this, the more likely it is that your subconscious mind will in the end accept it and start to adjust your thoughts, words, action and behaviors to be consistent with it.

Imagine yourself as if you already had the new good habit prototype. Visualize yourself as already being accurately the person that you want to become in the future. Keep in mind, your intuitive mind is activated and automatic by mental pictures. All development in your life and character start with a development in your mental pictures. Use your imagination on a regular basis in combination with your positive affirmations.

Emotionalize the confirmation and the imagination. Take a few minutes each day to actually experience the feeling of being the outstanding, exceptional, brilliant human being that you have determined to become. Start into your new good habit with confidence. Suppose the role, acting as if you had been hired to do this role in a movie or play. The more you act exactly as if you already had the habit, the more you really become the person that you want to be.

Tell others that you have determined to build up this new habit. When you tell others, you motivate and support yourself. But do not share this with anyone who is not your good friend. You also force yourself to consistently act in accordance with your new targets because you know that others are watching. Repeatedly review your development progress on a regular basis. At the end of day, summarize your behavior during the day relative to the values and habits you are trying to build up.

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Conflict Management Steps to Resolve

Conflict management in the organization develops the harmonious relationship among employees. To manage the conflict, first step is to identify different conflicts a person has experienced. Then identify appropriate ways to resolve a conflict and practice the conflict management steps to resolve a conflict.

Conflict management involves conversation, discussion and practice of conflict resolution skills. The employees should have training and/or the skills in business communication, boldness, and anger management. These skills are necessary to resolving any conflict. Conflict resolution is a hard skill to master. It is important to stress to the employees the importance of using “outs” when their skills are not helping resolve the conflict. The “outs” include leaving the area, approving to disagree, and getting a third party involved to help in the conflict resolution.

Discuss with employees different conflicts they have been facing in day to day activities. Have they talked about how to resolve it? Talk about the positives and negatives about how they resolved the conflict. Positive ways can consist of trying to know the other person’s point of view, compromising, talking about it, etc. Negative ways include yelling, refusing to modify, change or compromise, refusing to work out the conflict, etc.

Instruct the following steps to resolve the conflict. Control employee’s emotions and use recreation techniques. Take yourself out of the conflict situation. Express your feelings positively to create harmony. If there is a conflict, try to identify the root cause. Who is responsible for conflict? If it is needed, take time away from the person to think about the conflict and prepare a good strategy to resolve as soon as possible. Ask the employees if they have time to talk.

This will cause a communication between them and most of the cases communications resolve the conflicts. Discuss your feeling. Tell the person why you are reacting like you are (i.e., you have not paid your incentives of the sales for the last three months). Listen carefully completely and allow the person to respond. Discuss with the person different options for resolving the conflict. Continue to discuss peacefully. If the conflict can not be resolved and/or you are getting irritated, inform the person that you need to go away and you would like to talk about it afterward. Do not give up, wait for some time and try again.

Competitive Quality Areas of Concern

Quality is very important for the organization in this competitive business world. If you want to compete your competitor, you have to win their customer and make new customer. This is only possible if your give them better product at lower cost. Competitive quality can offer this. To have this in you business process you should understand the area of concerns. Following are the few points which will help to improve your business quality.

• Does the company have a common vision, which is shared by all the employees in its true sense?

• Are the company’s strategies targeted for quantified measurable improvement in important areas and is building for future seen as more important than short-term benefits?

• Does the company make effort to integrate employees’ job performance with key quality improvement targets and business results?

• Does the company have an effective appraisal system, which takes care of the career progression of all the employees?

• Does the company promote creativity & innovation and encourage employees to for ‘out of box’ thinking?
• Is there a system for employee recognition and is good performance rewarded?

• Is everyone in the organization given training on time management & stress management so that they can carry out the company’s task in the productive manner?

• Does the company organize training programs for the suppliers to improve their ability to meet key requirements and response times?

• Does the company have a system to generate healthy competition among suppliers of similar items to improve performance?

• What is the level of your supplier satisfaction?

• Are the suppliers paid in time?

• Does the company constantly endeavor for development of capabilities of its suppliers?

• Does the company regularly analyzes the quality costs and ensures that maximum focus is given to preventive measures?

• Does the company effectively use JIT for reducing inventory?

• Does the company use ERP system for their process?

• Does the company make efforts to find out information from best in the class and make use of this information for process improvement?

• Is the criterion of benchmarking well defined and documented?

• Has the company introduced a system of quality MIS so as to ensure that the organization is on a constant hunt for opportunity signals for improvement.

• Has the company significantly improved its market share from the previous year?

• Is the company information management system accessible to every one without any difficulty?

• Does the management involve them in recognizing the employee contributions?

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What Keeps You Positive and Optimistic to Get Success in Your Life?

Everyone knows that to get success in life, positive attitude plays a vital role. But many of them do not know how to be positive and optimistic throughout the day. What are the things or steps are important to keep you positive and optimistic. Always think positive, thinking positive will give positive result. If you think you can win, you have already won 50 per cent.

Use your golden hour (first hour of the day) in constructive work. It’s the hour during which you planned your mind and set your emotional tone for the rest of the day. The difference between successful person and less successful person is positive thinking and planning. Successful person plan their activities in the first two hours. If you get up in the morning at least two hours before you have to be at work, or before your first appointment or meeting, and spend the first hour to make better plan by reading good books. If you do not do this and you invest your precious time in the newspaper or magazines, your whole day will flow accordingly. If you invest your golden time in constructive work, planning, reading good books, your whole day will flow more smoothly.

You’ll be more positive, cheerful, hopeful and optimistic. You’ll be calmer, confident and relaxed. You’ll have a greater sense of humor, better control and well-being by the very act of reading healthy material for the first hour of each day. After just few days of reading for 30 to 60 minutes in the morning, you’ll notice a profound change. As a result of your early morning reading, you’ll feel so excellent about yourself and your life. You will feel more confident and energetic throughout the day. This will help you in taking right decisions, proper management of workflow, etc.

Try to adopt this process for some days and see. It’s a magnificent experience, and it can have a deep impact on the rest of your life. In the period of time before work, another thing that extremely successful people do is plan and prepare for their entire day. If you also want to be successful start practicing this habit from today. I hope from this article you will get some guidelines or help to make your life even better.

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Important Skills to Achieve Great Success

Everyone wants to achieve great success in life, but they do not know how to achieve. In this article, I have focused on some important skills which lead your life towards great success. Vocational training and life skills play an important role to accomplish job tasks. These skills constitute a variety of knowledge and aptitudes that are necessary for a person to function without any help and to avoid breaks of the employment experience.

Job skills are very important and it needs to be increased day by day by vocational training program. Other skills like dressing sense, communication skills, presentation skills, body language, time management skills, smile and sense of humor are as important as job skills. All these skills can be polished by daily practice. These skills are responsible for your overall personality. If you are good in these skills you will be successful person in any field. If you are lacking in any one of these skills, start practicing from today to enrich your personality. You can join some training institute or practice by yourself.

Most of the time person identifies and understand their negatives, but fail to convert those negatives in positives. If you are facing same type of situation, be ready to adopt some changes in your daily life activities. You can take help from your spouse or close friends to identify your negatives and discuss how to convert them in positives. If you used to reach late in your office, it will ruin your impression no matter how good you are in job. To solve this problem you can start your day half an hour early, if you reach office half an hour late.

Communication skill can be improved by joining business communication classes. If you improve your communication skills, it will help in improving presentation skills. Dressing sense can also be improved by watching and adopting successful person’s dressing sense. If you are in the office, wear formal dress only. Keep harmonious relation with your colleagues and boss by enhancing your interpersonal skills. Be ready to give supports to your colleague when they required.

Apart from all these job skills, your other skills are also important. You should not postpone any work and try to complete it on or before time. If it is not possible, discuss with your boss before the deadline. Your boss may put some other person along with you to complete job at given time.

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