“Who needs an ERP system anyway?”

20 Pages·2013·1.78 MB·English

by  Trina Admin

“Who needs an ERP system anyway?”
Nitin Kale
[email protected]
Information Technology Program, VSoE
Spring 2013
Outline
•  Why ERP?
•  SAP Background
•  SAP Architecture
•  Integrated Business Process
–  Sales
•  About ITP/SAP Program
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NEED: An all-in-one
system
Sell Music
SOLUTION: ERP System
Make new
Sell Macs
products

Sell iPods/
Manage
iPhones/
production
iPads
Keep
Manage
In 2008, 6.5 million songs
customers
Vendors
happy were downloaded per day.
That is 75 songs per sec!
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ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
•  Enables a company to integrate its
business processes
•  Ties together disparate business functions
(integrated business solution)
•  Helps the organization run smoothly
•  Real-time environment
•  Scalable and flexible
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ERP
•  Who are the big ERP vendors?
–  SAP, the German juggernaut
•  Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der
Datenverarbeitung or
•  Systems, Applications, and Products in Data
Processing.
–  Oracle/PeopleSoft/J. D. Edwards
–  Microsoft Dynamics, aimed at smaller companies
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SAP - World Leader in ERP
•  Founded in 1972, based in Walldorf,
Germany
•  The Company’s main product is SAP ECC
–  4th largest software vendor worldwide
–  12 million users
–  >53,000 employees
–  >109,000 customers in over 120 countries
–  Over 120,000 installations worldwide
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Customers
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Top Software Companies
Softwaretop100.org
http://softwaretop100.org

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Three-Tier Client/Server
Environment
Central Database
(Storage / Retrieval
of all data)
Access to Database:
(Read / Write data)
Database Layer
Input / Output
of data to users Processing of data
using application logic
Also provides means of
Application Layer balancing load placed
on DB server
Presentation of the
processed data to
the user
Presentation Layer
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