SAP ERP Financial Accounting and Controlling Configuration and Use Management book

[Abdelghaffar Abouelghait]

?What Is SAP
SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products) in data processing is the leading ERP (Enterprise Resource
Planning) business application software in the market today. The software provides a unified platform that
allows business processes integration. ASAP is developed by SAP AG, a German software company founded in
1972 by five ex-IBM employees. With its headquarters in Germany, SAP has regional offices around the world.
ASAP is used by many Fortune 500 companies worldwide as a business solution for processing
operational data and for generating reports in real-time, which helps all levels of management make better
decisions and enables them to manage business processes effectively and efficiently.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
ERP is accomplished through business software packages like the SAP that are made up of application modules
that companies use to store data and manage business processes as a whole. Modules involve accounting,
human resources, security, supply chain management, and more. These modules are used to manage the
“8Ms,” (Man, Material, Machine, Money, Method, Minutes, Management, and Marketing). The idea is to
improve efficient management enterprise resources.
Besides SAP, ERP packages are produced by Oracle (PeopleSoft), BAAN, JD Edwards, and Siebel,
among others.

The Importance of SAP ERP
Since its inception in 1972, SAP has gained international acceptance across the world by large organizations
as the most preferred business solution package. SAP ERP is structured in three-tier layers, which makes
it a robust ERP software solution. Apart from being the most widely used application software in the world
today, the following benefits are derived from the use of SAP ERP.

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