SAP now are moving away from describing their system as a set of modules, and now are using the term ‘solutions’, which is much better. If you visit SAP’s website you will find that they have structured their Solutions tab as follows:

1. Financials
2. Human Resources
3. Customer Relationship Management
4. Supplier Relationship Management
5. Product Lifecycle Management
6. Supply Chain Management
7. Business Intelligence

If you’re still looking for that list of modules, here they are:

FI Financial Accounting – essentially your regulatory ‘books of record’, including

• General ledger
• Book close
• Tax
• Accounts receivable
• Accounts payable
• Consolidation
• Special ledgers

CO Controlling – basically your internal cost/management accounting, including

• Cost elements
• Cost centres
• Profit centres
• Internal orders
• Activity based costing
• Product costing

AM Asset Management – track, value and depreciate your assets, including

• Purchase
• Sale
• Depreciation
• Tracking

PS Project Systems – manage your projects, large and small, including

• Make to order
• Plant shut downs (as a project)
• Third party billing (on the back of a project)

HR Human Resources – ah yes, people, including

• Employment history
• Payroll
• Training
• Career management
• Succession planning

PM Plant Maintenance – maintain your equipment (e.g. a machine, an oil rig, an aircraft etc), including

• Labour
• Material
• Down time and outages

MM Materials Management – underpins the supply chain, including

• Requisitions
• Purchase orders
• Goods receipts
• Accounts payable
• Inventory management
• BOM’s
• Master raw materials, finished goods etc

QM Quality Management – improve the quality of your goods, including

• Planning
• Execution
• Inspections
• Certificates

PP Production Planning – manages your production process, including

• Capacity planning
• Master production scheduling
• Material requirements planning
• Shop floor

SD Sales and Distribution – from order to delivery, including

• RFQ
• Sales orders
• Pricing
• Picking (and other warehouse processes)
• Packing
• Shipping

CA Cross Application – these lie on top of the individual modules, and include

• WF – workflow
• BW – business information warehouse
• Office – for email
• Workplace
• Industry solutions
• New Dimension products such as CRM, PLM, SRM, APO etc

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