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b. SAP Convergent Charging:

SAP convergent charging offers a rating and charging business solution for high-volume data processing in service-based industries. The main motto of using this SAP convergent business suite is to deliver price design capabilities, high-performance business ratings, and balance management.

c. Customer relationship management (CRM):

Unlike other Customer relationship management, the SAP’s Customer relationship management (CRM) a part of the SAP business suite. The main motto of this business suite application is to reduce the application cost, increases the decision-making abilities, address the short-term business services with effective outcomes, and achieve differentiated capabilities over the long term services.

d. Enterprise resource planning:

ERP business suite is a foundation to compete and win in the business global marketplace. The SAP ERP business application supports the basic functionalities of business processes and operations. This is the specific need for many business application modules such as SAP ERP financial management, SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP), SAP ERP HCM (Human capital management, SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) operations, and SAP ERP corporate service management.

e. SAP Environment, safety, and health management:

SAP business suites support various environments, business occupational, and safety-related to product services, regulatory compliances, and responsibility. This business suite application is accomplished by several corporate policies, business compliances, and environmental setup, health and safety measurements with the global business process for human resources, business logistics, productivity, and finance management.

f. SAP global traceability:

The SAP business suite allows you to trace objects like a batch which is implemented across both SAP and Non-SAP systems. When in the event of recall or withdrawal process, SAP global batch traceability assures timely compliance with legal timelines. This SAP GBT helps you to minimize the resource cost and reduces the risk exposure. With the help of SAP GBT, you can also analyze multiple business objects, for example, batches, in a single run.

g. SAP product life cycle management:

This business suite is applicable to those whose service wants to survive in the ever-changing tech environment. With the help of products, life cycle management enables you to create and deliver innovative products or services. The SAP Product life cycle management (SAP PLM) offers 360- degree business support for all the product or service related process (this may include requirements to product manufacturing process).   

h. SAP supplier life cycle management:

SAP supplier life cycle management considered to be one of the holistic approaches to manage supplier relationships. This business suite also helps to establish the relationship between the suppliers, customers, and organization.

i. Supply chain management:

While working with any project, you may face a lot of pressure to reduce maintenance costs, increase product innovation, and provide effective customer services. SAP supply chain management (SAP SCM) offers collaborations, planning, analysis, execution, and coordination of the entire supply management network, and also empowers the supply chain process to ever-changing business environments.

j. Supplier relationship management:

With the help of SAP, supplier relationship management enables you to examine the forecast purchase behavior, reduce the time of procurement cycles, and also helps you to work with real-time partners. This business suite helps to develop long-term business relationships with all the suppliers and also offers better communication with reliable partners.

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k. Governance, risk, and compliance:

You cannot avoid the risk, but it’s possible to manage the risk. With the help of SAP governance, risk, and compliance you can balance the risk and opportunities.

l. Sales and operations planning:

This type of business suite provides long-term future demand; the services included are sales and marketing, finance, demand planning stricture, and supply chain planning demands.

SAP NetWeaver: 

SAP NetWeaver is a combination of SAP kernel (This kernel is also known as SAP operating system basically of type web Application system) and SAP software tool for business environments.

This SAP NetWeaver specifies all the software types and services used for business process enablement. As I said earlier, SAP business suites like ECC and SRM consist of software components.

Below are the important points to be considered while working with SAP NetWeaver:

1. SAP NetWeaver is popularly known as an open technology platform and provides a comprehensive set of multiple technologies for running critical business applications and enables to the integration of people, information, and process.
2. SAP NetWeaver is a web-based application, supports open integration, and an application platform that serves as the foundation for various enterprise service architecture (This is also known as enterprise SOA) and helps to integrate information, and business processes.
3. the help of SAP NetWeaver helps you to utilize the open standard business applications and also enables you to make use of any open-source and technology.
4. SAP NetWeaver is also considered as the foundation for SAP business suite and also helps many business applications to adopt SAP designs. This also helps in empowering partner solution and custom-built applications.

The below diagram will illustrate the SAP NetWeaver application:

SAP NetWeaver components:

The following are the important components of SAP NetWeaver;

1. SAP NetWeaver application server:

This SAP NetWeaver application server offers platform-independent web application services, business applications, and standard developments, and also enables you to leverage already existing technologies for various web-based service-oriented solutions.

2. SAP NetWeaver business warehouse:

This component enables you to integrate business data across the organizations and enterprise into practical business information. And also provide an effective decision-making facility.

3. SAP NetWeaver Gateway:

This SAP NetWeaver component enables developers to create the business application that links the business user to the SAP software environment.

4. SAP NetWeaver Master Data management:

This component supports cross-system data consistency and integrates the business process development across the extended value chain management.

5. SAP NetWeaver process orchestration:

This type of SAP NetWeaver component improves the process, simple workflow methods to integrate a business process that offers the span applications and organize the boundaries. The functions included are business process management, business rules management, and process integration.

6. SAP NetWeaver Portal:

This unifies the critical information and business applications to provide users’ role-based view that helps you to understand the project lie cycle and also guides you to take advantage of resources.

7. SAP Auto-ID infrastructure:

This NetWeaver component gives all the capabilities to auto integrate devices namely RFID readers, Bluetooth devices, Printers, embedded systems, and USB devices.

8. SAP NetWeaver Identity management:

This component addresses the device access and helps you to solve the issues which are facing typical enterprise-related issues. NetWeaver identity management also enables you to create a new opportunity to integrate business processes and integrate devices in any heterogeneous IT environment.

9. SAP NetWeaver Information lifecycle management:

This NetWeaver component allows developers to perform data archiving and implement regulatory retention rules in the environment.

SAP – Logging Onto SAP system:

In this section we are going to explain how to login into the SAP system, Firstly let me explain about SAP logon:

SAP Logon:

SAP Logon is used to generate any icons to logging into SAP R/3 systems. One important to be considered here is that usually SAP logons are not placed in the SAP R/3 windows group, instead, they are generated through the SAP logon menu. This type of SAP logon is available once you have installed the SAP GUI at your workstations.

SAP Logon icon:

The below diagram will give an idea about the SAP logon Icon:

SAP logon Pads:

Point to remember:

1. The SAP logon menu can be used as a one-stop shopping store, with the help of this logon, end-users can choose logon icons, logon groups, and also create customized logon icons.
2. Logon icons will log any user into one specific application server. A logon group will help the user to log onto one of several application servers that depends on the best performance system environment.

Adding a new SAP application server:

Steps:

To create a shortcut for connecting the new SAP application server, you should follow these steps:

1. The First click on the SAP logon from the windows desktop -> then SAP logon pad will open -> then click on the “new” button as shown in the below screenshot:

2. Now click on the “next” button as shown below;

      3.Next step is to fill in this information:

• Description: in this section, you have to provide meaningful short text details.
• Application server: here provide the IP address details of the application server, which is provided by the basic administrator.
• System number and System ID: this gives the system number details provided by the SAP basis administrator. Initially, it should be given as 00(by default).
• SAP router string: provide the SAP router string information, which is given by the SAP basis administrator, sometime it is available in the left blank.

4. Click on the finish button to complete the configuration. Now newly created SAP application server is available.

SAP GUI types:

Below are the important GUI types available;

1. SAP GUI for Windows environments
2. SAP GUI for Java environments
3. SAP GUI for HTML environment.

SAP project life cycle:

This SAP project life cycle will explain the work environment and tells which transaction code, this project life cycle contains various stages and subsequent. The below diagram will explain this:

Stages of SAP project life cycle:

1. Evaluation: this stage may be a decision that has to be chosen between different vendors or various product sections.
2. Project preparation: this stage explains the SAP implementation and organization process details. The project preparation stage also provides complete knowledge of the business process.
3. Business Blueprint: A business blueprint specifies the SAP product modules and mapping of the existing business process.
4. Realization: here the actual work of customization begins and also helps to sync the SAP software with different organizations. In this stage, the business process can also be done.
5. Testing: The changes made in the realization stage need to be tested for effective results. Testing can be done by SAP testers, and there are different types of testing available.
6. Final preparation: here the production system will be prepared on the basis of changes made from the realization and testing phase. Certain system activities also take place in this stage.
7. GO –live: once you are done with the final product, now it’s time to release this product to the end-users. This type of go-live may be done in a phase-by-phase manner.
8. Sustain or support: The now the product will move to the “sustain or support stage.” Here you can find whether the end-users are happy with the final product or not if they are not then you have to cross-check the final product and do all needed steps.

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SAP transaction codes:

Transaction codes in SAP are used to access various stages. Let me list them:

ABAP/ Tables /Data Dictionary

1. SE 11 – dictionary definitions
2. SE14 – Database utility
3. SE16 – Data browser
4. SE16n – Modify the sap edit.
5. SD11 – data model
6. SM30/SM31 – table view maintenance
7. SE54 (SOBJ) – tables or View cluster
8. SE37 – function module editor
9. SE38 /SE39 – program editor or split-screen
10. SA 38 – program execution
11. SE80 – ABAP development workbench
12. SE84 – Object navigator
13. SE18 – BADI definition
14. SE19 – BADI implementations
15. SE24 – Class builder
16. SW01/2 – Business object builder or browser
17. SMARTFORMS – smart forms administrations
18. SE71 – SAP scripts (Form painter)
19. SE43 – Area menu maintenance
20. SE91 – message maintenance
21. SE93 – transaction maintenance

Runtime/ logs/ database

1. SM21- system log SM31 update requests
2. ST22 – ABAP Runtime errors
3. SM12 – table look entities
4. SM56 – number range buffers
5. SNRO – number ranges
6. SE30 – runtime analysis
7. ST01 – system trace
8. ST05 – SQL trace
9. DB02, ST04 – database tools or performance
10. ST02, ST06 – database tune summary
11. SCU3 – table logging

Jobs/ Batches / events

1. SM36 – job definition
2. SM37/ SMX – job overview
3. SM50 – process overview
4. SM34 – view cluster maintenance
5. SM49/ SM69 – External commands
6. SM66 – process overview

Batch Input:

1. SM35 – batch input: session overview
2. SHDB – batch input recorder

Paths and connections

1. AL 11 – SAP file directory
2. FILE – Logical file path
3. SM58 – transactional RFC
4. SM59 – RFC connections

Spool (Output)

1. SP02 – Spool request selections
2. SP02 – List of own spool requests
3. SPAD – spool administration.

Conclusion:

In this SAP tutorial blog, I have explained SAP’s definition, history, advantages, and what makes it so popular ERP system. Learning this blog will help you to gain theoretical knowledge but to get some hands-on experience; you must take any online course. In today’s business market SAP ERP module has been dominating other programming applications. Due to this reason almost all the fortune 500 companies are coming forward to recruit SAP consultants with good packages.