SAP Glossary

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SADT

Structured Analysis and Design Technique

SD

Sales and Distribution

SAPmail

Electronic mail system in SAPoffice with which you can transmit messages.

SAPoffice

The electronic mail system and folder structure in the R/3 System allows you to send documents internally (to other R/3 users in the same system) or externally (to users in other systems).

SAP R/2

SAP R/2 was the first compact software package for the whole spectrum of business applications from the SAP corporation. SAP R/2 runs on mainframes, especially IBM, BS2000 (Siemens' machines) or Amdahl.

Modules of SAP R/2

RF Financial Accounting

RA Assets Accounting

RK Cost Accounting

RK-P Projects

RP Human Resources

RM-INST Plant Maintenance

RM-QSS Quality Assurance

RM-MAT Materials Management

RM-PPS Production Planning and Control

RV Sales and Distribution

SAP R/3

R/3 is the SAP client-server solution It has proved hugely popular in many countries. The solution is available to many more companies than R/2 as a mainframe is not required.

It consists of the following modules:

BC Basis (includes ABAP/4 Programming Language)

AM Asset Management

CO Controlling

FI Financial Accounting

HR Human Resources

IS Industry Specific Solutions

PM Plant Maintenance

PP Production Planning

PS Project System

QM Quality Management

SD Sales and Distribution

MM Materials Management

WF Business Work Flow

SAP Retail

Includes more than 200 new business processes that have been designed specifically for retail purposes. This is the integral part of R/3 release 4.0.

SAProuter

Software module that acts as part of a firewall system.

SAPscript

SAP-own word processing system. The text editor supplied with the R/3 System for creating and editing documentation.

SCOPE

Supply Chain Optimization Planning & Execution

SERM

Structured Entity Relationship Model

Session Log

Record of a batch input sssion run. For each run, a session log is created.

SO

Sales Order

SOP

Sales & Operations Planning Sales & Operations Planning(SOP) is a flexible forecasting and planning tool with which sales, production, and other supply chain targets can be set on the basis of historical, existing, and/or estimated future data. Resource planning can also be carried out to determine the amounts of the work center capacities and other resources required to meet these targets.