SAP SD
SAP Sales and Distribution is one of the key components of SAP ERP system and is used to manage shipping, billing, selling and transportation of products and services in an organization.
SAP Sales and Distribution (SAP SD) is a core functional module in SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) that allows organizations to store and manage customer- and product-related data. Organizations use this data to manage all of the sales ordering, shipping, billing, and invoicing of their goods and services.
SAP SD is part of SAP ECC’s Logistics function and integrates with other modules, including Production Planning (PP), Plant Maintenance (PM), Quality Management (QM), Materials Management (MM), Finance and Controlling (FICO), and Human Resources (HR).
SAP Sales and Distribution module is a part of SAP Logistics module that manages customer relationship starting from raising a quotation to sales order and billing of the product or service. This module is closely integrated with other modules like SAP Material Management and PP.
Key Components in SAP SD
In SAP Sales and Distribution module are:
Customer and Vendor Master Data
Sales Support
Shipping of Material
Sales Activities
Billing related
Transportation of products
Credit Management
Contract Handling and Management
Foreign Trade
Information System
SAP provides many components to complete SAP Sales and Distribution organizational structure like Sales Areas, Distribution Channels, Divisions, etc.
The SAP SD organization structure majorly consists of two steps:
Creation of Organization elements in SAP system
Second is to link each element as per requirement.
On top of this organization structure in the SD module, sales organization is at highest level and is responsible for distribution of goods and services. SAP recommends to keep the number of sales organizations in an organizational structure to be minimum. This will help in making the reporting process easy and ideally it should have a single sales organization. The next level is distribution channel, which tells the medium by which the products and services are distributed by an organization to its end users. Division in an organizational structure, which represents a product or service line in a single organization. A sales area is known as entity, which is required to process an order in a company. It comprises of sales organization, distribution channel and a division. In SAP SD organizational structure, each sales organization is assigned to a company code. Then the distribution channel and divisions are assigned to sales organization and all of these comprise to make a sales area. In the first step of an SD organizational structure, sales organization is assigned to a company code and then is to define a distribution channel and then division to a sales organization.
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SAP MM (Material Management) is one of the important modules in SAP ERP software and MM application module supports the procurement and inventory functions occurring in day-to-day business operations.
The typical procurement cycle for a service or material consists of the following phases:
Determination of Requirements
Materials requirements are identified either in the user departments or via materials planning and control. (This can cover both MRP proper and the demand-based approach to inventory control. The regular checking of stock levels of materials defined by master records, use of the order-point method, and forecasting on the basis of past usage are important aspects of the latter.) You can enter purchase requisitions yourself, or they can be generated automatically by the materials planning and control system.
Source Determination
The Purchasing component helps you identify potential sources of supply based on past orders and existing longer-term purchase agreements. This speed the process of creating requests for quotation (RFQs), which can be sent to vendors electronically via SAP EDI, if desired.
Vendor Selection and Comparison of Quotations
The system is capable of simulating pricing scenarios, allowing you to compare a number of different quotations. Rejection letters can be sent automatically.
Purchase Order Processing
The Purchasing system adopts information from the requisition and the quotation to help you create a purchase order. As with purchase requisitions, you can generate Pos yourself or have the system generate them automatically. Vendor scheduling agreements and contracts (in the SAP System, types of longer-term purchase agreement) are also supported.
Purchase Order Follow-Up
The system checks the reminder periods you have specified and – if necessary – automatically prints reminders or expediters at the predefined intervals. It also provides you with an up-to-date status of all purchase requisitions, quotations, and purchase orders.
Goods Receiving and Inventory Management
Goods Receiving personnel can confirm the receipt of goods simply by entering the Po number. By specifying permissible tolerances, buyers can limit over- and under deliveries of ordered goods.
Invoice Verification
The system supports the checking and matching of invoices. The accounts payable clerk is notified of quantity and price variances because the system has access to PO and goods receipt data. This speed the process of auditing and clearing invoices for payment.
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SAP ABAP
ABAP stands for Advanced Business Application Programming. It is a programming language developed by SAP. SAP is a German company that develops ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning System) systems. These systems are used by companies to track all information related to the business integrating finance, sales, and materials data. ABAP/4 is the programming language used for the thousand tiny embedded programs called transactions that make up the application. The /4 means it is a fourth-generation language.
SAP is very flexible, it can be used for specific business functions rather than the whole enterprise and can be modified for the companies specific needs. Every SAP installation has its own specific configuration and set of functions. The cost of customizing is that when upgraded every customization must be identified in the ABAP code and changes made.
Special features and the larger ABAP infrastructure
ABAP doesn’t stand alone, and it is highly integrated with other features of the SAP NetWeaver ABAP application server. Among these are the following:
- Logical database connections, which allow code to be abstracted from a specific database. The actual database connections are configured outside of ABAP code, allowing the same code to be used in different database environments.
- Open SQL, an abstraction of SQL syntax that is part of the ABAP language and which the ABAP runtime environment converts to native SQL that is appropriate for the database being used. Open SQL has many similarities to Microsoft .NET’s Language Integrated Query (LINQ) concept.
- Internal Tables, which hold collections of objects that are accessed using special language keywords or Open SQL. This ABAP concept contrasts with the concept of typed arrays like in Java or C++.
- Security, in which ABAP is integrated with SAP NetWeaver’s security infrastructure.
- Data Dictionary, a universal dictionary of data structure definitions, often including business logic, which is available to all ABAP programs in a system.
- Change and Transport System (CTS), which tracks changes to development objects and manages the promotion of development objects to quality assurance and production environments.
- Shared development system, which is an important aspect of ABAP. ABAP differs from most newer languages in that development usually takes place on a shared system, with all developers working on the same set of development objects at the same time.
ABAP and HANA
ABAP continues to be an important part of SAP’s technology stack.
Though it has played a reduced role in many products with the advent of the HANA platform, it is still central to SAP’s most widely deployed products, plays an important role in SAP’s next-generation S/4HANA ERP platform and has been announced as a runtime for the SAP Cloud Platform.
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SAP S4 HANA
SAP HANA DATABASE
SAP HANA is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed and marketed by SAP. Its primary function as a database server is to store and retrieve data as requested by the applications.
In addition, it performs advanced analytics (predictive analytics, spatial data processing, text analytics, text search, streaming analytics, graph data processing) and includes ETL capabilities as well as an application server.
Today’s business users need to react much more quickly to changing customer and market environments. They demand dynamic access to raw data in real time. SAP HANA empowers users with flexible, on-the-fly data modelling functionality by providing non materialized views directly on detailed information.
Traditional database management systems are designed for optimizing performance on hardware with constrained main memory. Disk I/O was the main bottleneck. The focus was on optimizing disk access, for example, by minimizing the number of disk pages to be read into main memory during processing.
The SAP HANA database is designed from the ground up around the idea that memory is available in abundance, considering that roughly 18 billion gigabytes or 18 exabytes are the theoretical limits of memory capacity for 64-bit systems, and that I/O access to the hard disk is not a constraint. Instead of optimizing I/O hard disk access, SAP HANA optimizes memory access between the CPU cache and main memory. SAP HANA is a massively parallel (distributed) data management system that runs fully in main memory, allowing for row- and column based storage options, and supporting built-in multitenancy.
SAP HANA serves as a foundation to develop future in-memory analytic and transactional applications. The SAP HANA database can potentially provide performance improvements for existing SAP applications where, for example, SAP applications that use Open SQL can run on SAP HANA without changes.
Only SAP HANA takes full advantage of all-new hardware technologies by combining columnar data storage, massively parallel processing (MPP), and in-memory computing by using optimized software design.
SAP BUISINESS SUITE 4 HANA (SAP S/4 HANA)
SAP S/4HANA® is SAP’s next-generation business suite, providing a digital core for your organization. It is a new product fully built on SAP HANA®, one of the most advanced in-memory platforms today, employing modern design principles with the SAP® Fiori® user experience (UX). SAP S/4HANA delivers massive simplifications in areas such as customer adoption, data model, user experience, decision making, business processes, and models. And it offers innovations for the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, business networks, and mobile-first to help businesses Run Simple in the digital economy.
SAP S/4HANA is designed to integrate with and utilize the IoT, Big Data, mobile, business networks, third-party systems, and more. SAP S/4HANA helps our customers create a truly Live Business:
- It is immediate – empowering business users with insights to act in the moment
- It is intelligent – beyond automation to predictive suggestion
- It is integrated – not only between your departments, but connected to the world
SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (or SAP S/4HANA) is a business suite that is built on SAP’s proprietary operational database system and in-memory computing platform called SAP HANA.
Basically, SAP has re-engineered the S/4 platform to maximize the in-memory capabilities of HANA database.
S/4 HANA provides a new data model by removing old tables, aggregate tables and index tables to create fewer columnar-based tables and deliver a real single version of the data. Due to the optimized database model, data footprint is substantially reduced since the calculations are performed on database layer instead of the traditional application layer.
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SAP Bank Analyser
Bank Analyzer is product that supports overall bank controlling by calculating, evaluating, and analyzing financial services.
The structure of Bank Analyzer is based on the Integrated Finance and Risk Architecture which meets current requirements for a value range of financial products such as:
| International Accounting Standards |
| Basel II |
| Risk Adjusted Performance |
| Measurement |
| Sarbanes-Oxley |
And a product family consisting in some additional subcomponents as:
| (FS-BA-DL) | Data Load Layer |
| (FS-BA-SD) | Source Data Layer |
| (FS-BA-PM) | Processes and Methods |
| (FS-BA-RD) | Results Data Layer |
| (FS-BA-AN) | Analytics |
| (FS-BA-IF) | Infrastructure |
| (FS-BA-TO) | Tools |
This division of components ensures that data is stored in an integrated and consistent way.
The Source Data Layer (SDL) is the original data basis for the processes and methods of Bank Analyzer while the valuation results of processes and methods are stored in the Results Data Layer (RDL).
SAP Bank Analyzer AFI
Large international companies, particularly banks, are constantly challenged by not only local accounting and reporting regulations, but also international ones. To meet those challenges SAP introduced the Bank Analyzer module AFI (Accounting for Financial Instruments), which allows for valuation and accounting of financial instruments, impairment, and hedge accounting based on diverse accounting standards and regulations.
Viraaj Software has profound expertise not only in the various accounting standards and their business implications, but also in-depth knowledge of the regulated financial products, be it from specialty financing companies, commercial banks, investment banks or globally operating financial conglomerates. In addition to the subject matter and business know-how Viraaj Software also has the technical expertise to implement SAP-AFI and Smart AFI, and can be your ideal consulting partner.
BA – CRM / LRA
To fulfill the regulatory requirements, it is usually not sufficient to comply with Basel II or Basel III. It is also necessary to calculate liquidity indicators like LCR (Liquidity Coverage Ratio) and NSFR (Net Stable Funding Ratio), and to monitor and stress test based on shifts in market data, PD, LGD and others.
In all the above areas Viraaj Software has deep subject matter expertise and can provide support in the implementation of the business requirements. In addition we can support you in-depth in the implementation of CVPM processes and configuration of the CRA.
SAP Cost and Revenue Allocation for Financial Products
The new module “Cost and Revenue Allocation” combines the fast HANA architecture, without having to hold data, with the allocation of income and expenses based on complex algorithms, and with the calculation of Funding Rates and Inventories using the market rate method
We frequently supported our clients particularly in the implementation of complex controlling Systems.
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SAP HRF
SAP HANA Rules Framework provides tools that enable application developers to build solutions with automated decision and rules management services, implementers and administrators to set up a project/customer system, and business users to manage and automate business decisions and rules based on their organizations’ data.
In daily business, strategic plans and mission critical tasks are implemented by a countless number of operational decisions, either manually or automated by business applications. These days – an organization’s agility in decision-making becomes a critical need to keep up with dynamic changes in the market.
HRF Main Objectives are:
- To seize the opportunity of Big Data by helping developers to easily build automated decisioning solutions and\or solutions that require business rules management capabilities
- To unleash the power of SAP HANA by turning real time data into intelligent decisions and actions
- To empower business users to control, influence and personalize decisions/rules in highly dynamic scenarios
HRF Main Benefits are:
Rapid Application Development | Simple tools to quickly develop auto-decisioning applications
- Built-in editors in SAP HANA studio that allow easy modeling of the required resources for SAP HANA rules framework
- An easy to implement and configurable SAPUI5 control that exposes the framework’s capabilities to the business users and implementers
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SAP Business One
What is SAP Business One
SAP Business One is an affordable, integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution designed to enable growing small to midsized enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises with subsidiary operations to better manage their entire company. SAP Business One provides one simple solution that streamlines business processes, provides real‑time information, and helps boost overall business performance.
What is the key difference between ERP and accounting software?
SAP Business One is an affordable, integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution designed to enable growing small to midsized enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises with subsidiary operations to better manage their entire company. SAP Business One provides one simple solution that streamlines business processes, provides real‑time information, and helps boost overall business performance. Accounting software packages only handle the individual business function of accounting, whereas an ERP application handles the entire range of business functions of an organization. ERP applications, like SAP Business One, fully integrate all major functional areas of business including: Finance, Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, Logistics, and more. This eliminates the need to support your business with a multitude of manual processes and non‑integrated business applications.
What are some of the benefits of using SAP Business One?
Targeted business growth through streamlined operations Improved customer retention and satisfaction through quicker response times and instant access to customer information Operational efficiency achieved by eliminating redundant and manual data entry errors with integrated core functionality Closer relationships with key stakeholders including customers, vendors, and employees through better supply chain management Lower technology costs and speed time to value
Features
The most important core features of SAP Business One are:
- Financial Management– SAP Business One offers a complete set of tools for streamlined financial operations to help businesses improve margins, reduce errors and enable more profitable decision-making. These tools include accounting, a fixed asset management system, banking and reconciliation features, and financial reporting and analysis.
- Sales and Customer Management– with this tool, users can oversee the complete sales process and customer lifecycle from initial contact to final sale, after-sales service and support. This feature offers tools to address sales and opportunity management, marketing campaign management, customer management, service management, reporting and analysis, and mobile sales.
- Purchasing and Inventory Control– this features improves purchasing practices and controls costs by enabling users to manage the complete order-to-pay cycle, including receipts, invoices, returns and payments. This tool includes master data management, streamlined procurement processes, accounts payable, warehouse and accounting integration as well as the ability to generate integrated reports with real-time data.
- Business Intelligence– this feature enables users to create timely, customizable and accurate reports based on data from across the business. Users can create reports using intuitive tools, analytics with predefined metrics and data visualizations.
- Analytics and Reporting– this module lets users make better business decisions by capturing all the critical data in real time and making it instantly available company-wide via dashboards and reports.
Benefits of using SAP Business One
The key benefits of deploying SAP Business One include:
On-premises
- Compliance with internal data security policies
- Direct control and access to data
- Customize and extend business process more efficiently
- Leverage internal hardware and existing IT infrastructure and resources
- Perpetual licensing – higher upfront cost but better total cost of ownership in the long term
- Less dependence on always-connected internet
In the cloud
- Easy and affordable implementation
- Secure browser-based access from anywhere, at any time
- Access to the most up-to-date functionality without having to rely on in-house IT employees
- Subscription licensing means no capital expenditure
- Manage critical business functions in the Web browser
Mobile app
- Instant access for employees who need to view and update data from anywhere
- Integrated analytics enable real-time decision making
- Comprehensive sales and service functions
- Enables employees on the road to be more productive
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