SD is short for Sales and Distribution, and refers to (depending on what kind of industry the business is in) the following types of business transactions - quotes, sales order, shipping, delivery, invoices, etc. ECC6 too have separate modules that align to a business area. can use the analysis to predict future market demands, plan for more inventory or better sales etc.Īlthough ECC6 is costly to license, implement and maintain (Starting price of $10 million out of the box), due to its ability to handle large amount of transactions, global support and built in smarts, in the long run it saves a company a lot of money as well as help make money.Īs mentioned, ECC6 helps many departments of a company to record their data such as payroll/HR, supply chain, sales, accountants, etc. Less inventory due to demand, better sales etc. Analysis such as vendor gave 10% discount on wholesale price compared to last purchase. In this example, say you use one product, throughout the systems that same data is reused over and over, but from an advanced user's point of view, they can track that product's history from beginning to end and also analyse that information. buys products from vendor via a purchase order, the vendor then generates a delivery to one of its stores, the store is aware delivery will be in a week, HR schedule extra staff to handle the increased work load and inventory in store, accountants pay the invoice of the vendor, the marketing team creates an ad to promote product with a sale campaign. It doesn't just focus on one area like how MS Office has separate applications like Word and Excel, but it allows different areas to use same data but also have that data displayed in a way that's relevant to that area. Its core job is to be able to keep track of the company's transactional data - data that the business generates. it generates an extremely large amount of data across various areas of the business - many accountants to look after the sales, a lot of HR/payroll to manage and schedule stuff, staff to manage inventory and delivery etc.Īnd that's just one industry, SAPs core product, its ERP system, is called ECC6 and was previously called R/3 and some outdated companies are still using ECC 4.x.

now apply that to 1000s of products, millions of sales, hundreds of stores, multiples of vendors per product, 1000s of customers, etc etc. vendors where product bought from, customers, sales for the day etc.

SAP is the global leader in Enterprise Resources Planning - the main system designed to store all data for across most (if not all) departments for any (large) corporation.Īn example is a retail store - has inventory, has product descriptions/prices/discounts, etc. SAP is the German company that owns these products which were started in the early 70s, roughly translated to systems, applications and products (in data processing).

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