SAP ERP

SAP ERP is the ERP system of SAP. According to the results of 2007, the share of the decision on sales in Russia (in money) was approaching 50%. Used mainly in large companies.

Up to 1996 SAP R/3

SAP R/3 is a platform for building SAP ERP systems. It consists of a set of application modules that support the various business processes of the company and are integrated among themselves in real time:

• Financial Accounting (FI)
• Controlling (CO)
• Asset Management (AM)
• Project Management (PS)
• Production Planning (PP)
• Materials Management (MM)
• Sales and Distribution (SD)
• Quality Management (QM)
• Equipment Maintenance and Repair (PM)
• Human Resources (HR)
• Information Flow Management (WF)
• Industry Solutions (IS)
• Basic System (BC)

It lists only the main functions of the SAP R/3 system and does not mention the extensive Internet (intranet) functionality, external system access to SAP R/3 logic via BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface) interfaces, etc.

In 1996, they stopped marketing R. In 2005, SAP rebranded and the R/3 system was called SAP ERP.

Decision tasks

Managers need to know at any time what resources they have, how efficiently these resources are used, and how much profit they make. To be successful, the company always needs the most up-to-date, reliable and complete information, the analysis of which allows you to quickly respond to market changes. Enterprise Resource Management (SAP ERP) provides this information in real time. It helps to provide operational control over all activities of the enterprise and provides a reliable basis for making optimal decisions at all levels of management, both now and in the long term.

Enterprise Resource Management combines comprehensive, scalable, and efficient business management software and a flexible, open-source platform. This platform enables you to integrate SAP solutions with third-party systems. Management is provided with reliable information about the financial condition of the company for strategic planning and financial and economic forecasting. The huge information potential of the solution allows managers to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the company's activities in various planes and not only track the results, but also control the factors that affect the business performance indicators.

What is stored in SAP systems?

Finance

• Financial statements of the company\group of companies
• Budgetary documents
• Financial transactions with customers
• Financial transactions with suppliers

HR

• Item Information
• Wage information
• Experience Information
• Recruitment and other personal data

Intellectual property

• Product Development Plans
• Marketing plans
• Prototype and concept designs

Strategy

• Approved Company Strategy
• Strategic KPI
• Strategy of sales
• New Market Entry Strategy
• Development Strategy

CRM/SRM

• Data of clients
• Data of suppliers
• Condition of transactions
• Potential for future transactions with customers and suppliers

Logistics

• Transport and goods data
• Location of the item in warehouses
• Routes of goods movement

Documents

• Contracts
• Description of goods
• Vlozhennyedocumenta

Security Operations Center (SOC). How to address data collection

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Functionality

SAP ERP provides the full functionality needed to implement self-service, analytics, and financial, human, operational, and enterprise services. It also offers tools for system administration and for tasks such as user management, centralized data management, and Web service management. All solution functionality is based on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform.

Enterprise Resource Management includes four application areas:

• Financial Management (SAP ERP Financials)
• Human Resources (SAP ERP Human Capital Management, SAP ERP HCM)
• Operations Management (SAP ERP Operations)
• Enterprise Service Management (SAP ERP Corporate Services)

In the summer of 2011, it was reported that SAP applications based on the SAP NetWeaver 7.x architecture, such as SAP ERP and SAP Business Warehouse (BW), which have received certificates for compatibility with the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 database, can now be deployed using Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 and X2-8. With more than 1,000 installations, Oracle Exata is a proven platform for running mission-critical SAP business applications. Oracle Database is a database for SAP OLTP and BW applications.

Support to be completed in 2025

On December 31, 2025, SAP completes support for SAP Business Suite, or in other words, SAP R/3, SAP ERP, SAP ECC, and other versions with all modules and submodules. SAP will then only support business applications on SAP S/4HANA.

2021

The Ministry of Digital Affairs refused subsidies for the localization of SAP software to the subordinate research institute "Sunrise"

As it became known in early June 2021 Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation , it refused to issue Research Institute "Sunrise" subsidies for localization to the subordinate. software SAP

According to the publication of Kommersant, the Ministry of Digital Arts saw in this project a negative impact on the development of domestic software. The office of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko agreed with this opinion and stated that the project "was not properly worked out taking into account possible risks."

The Ministry of Digital Affairs refused the subordinate research institute "Sunrise" to provide subsidies for the localization of SAP software

As the general director of SAP CISandrei Filatov told the newspaper, the company continues to look for opportunities to gain a foothold in the Russian market.

The company is actively negotiating at different levels about the form of cooperation. We see interest from the Russian side - both from business and from the state, "he said.

According to Deloitte's partner in the CIS, Alexander Ilyin, by June 2021, SAP is actually localizing itself in Russia. The company has a very stable position in the large business segment and constantly adapts solutions to Russian specifics. This can be called localization, he explained.

CorpSoft24 CEO Konstantin Renziaev in a conversation with the publication said that the idea of ​ ​ localizing SAP software received a tough reaction from the market. He noted that the goals of the Voskhod Research Institute in the proposed project were not entirely clear. There are domestic systems on the market, such as 1C, which are not only not inferior to SAP products, but sometimes surpass them.

The idea with a subsidy for localizing SAP could only be offered by those who do not understand the scale of the system, says information technology expert Vadim Podolny. Konstantin Renziaev agrees that Voskhod would not have enough competence to localize, and the company would have to attract third-party organizations, which would entail additional costs.^[1]

Research Institute "Sunrise" asks the government for subsidies for the localization of SAP software

The Voskhod research institute (Scientific Research Institute Voskhod) sent the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko the letter with a request for granting subsidies for localization in Russia program obespecheniyaSAP. This became known on April 19, 2021.

According to Kommersant, citing this appeal, Voskhod intends to create a Russian ERP system together with SAP, which can be implemented in Rostec, Rosatom and Russian Railways. The research institute told the publication that in order to develop domestic ERP products and create new ones, it is necessary to analyze and take into account the experience of leading manufacturers. At the request of the publication, SAP refrained from informative comments about the Voskhod letter and only noted the company's readiness to localize products. SAP also called the Russian market important.

Research Institute "Sunrise" asks the Government of the Russian Federation for subsidies for the localization of SAP software

According to Ilya Massukha, director of the Center for Import Substitution Competencies in ICT, SAP is trying to circumvent import substitution, since the company does not intend to lose the Russian market. The expert believes that the task of localization lies with the manufacturer, and not with the state.

Here it turns out that Voskhod is requesting state money to localize the German manufacturer, "he said.

Sergey Vikharev, Director of Technology Practice at KPMG in Russia and the CIS, believes that if a special center is created to finalize individual versions of SAP products and transfer rights to them, the results of the intellectual activities of such a structure could potentially be recognized by Russian software with the corresponding project claims for state subsidies.

The initiative of the Research Institute does not make foreign software Russian, and under the conditions of sanctions, foreign vendors will maintain the possibility of influencing the economy and security of the country, said Renat Lashin, executive director of the Domestic Software Association.^[2]

2020

Development of module for integration of SAP ERP with Docsvision platform

DoxVision announced on July 28, 2020 the development of a module for integrating the Docsvision platform and SAP ERP. The solution allows companies to organize the storage of SAP transaction files in the Docsvision archive, maintain seamless access to data in a single interface of the accounting system and abandon the use of similar imported software products. More details here.

SAP: We have twice as many cloud ERP implementations than Oracle

In April 2020, SAPKristian Klein, co-executive director, said in an interview with Cloud Wars that his company has twice as many implementations of cloud ERP systems than its main competitor, the American corporation Oracle.

This remark was made after Oracle CEO Larry Allison, commenting on financial results, announced competitive superiority over SAP in December 2019, arguing that the German company "never rewrites its ERP applications to the cloud."

SAP Co-CEO Christian Klein said in an interview with Cloud Wars that his company has twice as many implementations of cloud ERP systems than the main competitor - the American corporation Oracle

When you compare the figure of 2.3 thousand customers of our cloud ERP system with the figure of approximately 7 thousand customers, to which a certain other vendor in the market is approaching, as he himself says, you should be careful. Since this is not always a comparison of the same things, said Klein.

He explained that Oracle manipulates numbers to look better against the backdrop of SAP.

According to him, when calculating the number of cloud ERP implementations, Oracle takes into account not only the number of customers using the Oracle ERP Cloud enterprise resource management system, but also separately users of the cloud product for managing relationships with Oracle Procurement Cloud suppliers and Oracle HR Cloud users - a cloud solution for human resources management.

Our own human resources management product SuccessFactors is already fully integrated into the S/4HANA Cloud. And by the end of the II quarter of 2020, the platform will fully include the Ariba solution for managing relations with suppliers, "commented the top manager.

If you take into account the number of customers using these two solutions separately - I will not disclose specific numbers now - you can estimate today that the total number of users of cloud ERP systems is almost double that of Oracle, "he concluded.[3]

2018: The chances of success of SAP projects are 50 to 50

In February 2018 consulting , Resulting IT published the results of a study that states that only half of the implementation projects software SAP can be called successful. More. here

2014: SAP ERP for Belarus

On September 17, 2014, EPAM Systems announced the completion of certification of its SAP localization solution for finance and logistics in the Republic of Belarus.

The localization package is designed according to the SAP process and methodological guidelines and is a separately installed application (Add-On) to the standard SAP ERP system. As part of the solution of setting up the main processes, forms and reports covering the standard or basic processes in the field of accounting and tax accounting of the Republic of Belarus, they are in demand in any project within which the full outline of business processes is introduced.

The advantage of using the finished EPAM Systems package lies in the ability to adapt it to the individual characteristics of the customer, since the solution is delivered in two parts (the main functionality and settings of BC Sets). The solution does not depend on updates to the Russian localization package due to the use of its own groups of settings and objects for the Republic of Belarus. It is possible to install the package on operating systems.

The use of the EPAM solution will minimize cost and time when implementing SAP ERP implementation and support projects. The reliability and sustainability of the solution leads to savings in the development of the implemented system and its migration to subsequent versions. Additionally, the risks of damage to the operating system are minimized, as well as the cost of regression testing is reduced.

Arkady Barhan, Head of Corporate Information Systems Implementation at EPAM Systems, noted: "When creating SAP Add-On for the Republic of Belarus, we took into account the interests of all customers working on the SAP ERP platform. The solution was developed with the fruitful cooperation of EPAM Systems with SAP Globalization Services, the department responsible for localizing all SAP products, as well as with the SAP Collaborative Innovation Laboratory (SAP COIL). The cooperation agreement with the laboratory guaranteed EPAM intellectual property protection and provided the opportunity to work on the project together with SAP Globalization Services specialists based on the COIL cloud infrastructure. Our package can be used by customers who have implemented or are planning to implement SAP software from ERP 6.0 and any later enhancement package (EHP). "

2012: SAP ERP for Kazakhstan

In early September 2012, SAP CIS introduced the first unified version of SAP ERP for Kazakhstan, developed taking into account local legal requirements. The release of this version means that SAP sees great prospects for further development in Kazakhstan and invests in the country seriously and for a long time. The localized version will be available to SAP customers in Kazakhstan for free.

At the first stage of Kazakh localization, a solution for financial management was developed, including VAT accounting and reporting, accounting for import operations from the Customs Union countries, calculating corporate income tax and taxes on transport and property, as well as reporting on land tax, transport tax and property tax. In the next phase of localization, the solution will be supplemented with the ability to maintain primary accounting documentation and accounting. You are also currently working to localize the SAP ERP HCM HR solution.

The project, carried out in a record 6 months, was carried out in cooperation with the large international holding ENRC, engaged in the extraction and processing of natural resources, and the influential audit and consulting company Deloitte. This made it possible to involve the best specialists in accounting and tax accounting of Kazakhstan and experts in the SAP ERP system. This localization is the third in the CIS countries after Russia and Ukraine, and its creation is due to the prospects of the Kazakh market.

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