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Unit 7: ERP Market

product and technology notes

SAP has developed extensive library of more than 800 predefined business processes. These
processes may be selected from SAP library and included within installed SAP application
solution to suit the user exact requirements.
SAP software has special features like, linking a company’s business processes, and applications
and supporting immediate responses to changes throughout different organizational levels
and real time integration. Also, the new technologies are available regularly to cop-up with the
changes of the new business trends. The international standards have been considered while
designing the software like support of multiple currencies simultaneously, automatically handles
the country specific import/export, tax, legal and languages requirements e.g. The R/3 system
has an unbeatable, combination of functionality and technology. The modules of R/3 can be used
individually as well as user can expand it in stages to meet specific requirement.
SAP has 27 major industry verticals and is continuously being upgraded.Some of them are as
follows:
1. Aerospace and defence

2. Automotives
3. Chemicals
4. Consumer products
5. Engineering,construction and operations
6. High tech

7. Health care
8. Industrial machinery and components
9. Mill projects
10. Mining

11. Oil and natural gas
12. Pharmaceuticals
13. Retail
14. Professional services
15. Utilities

16. Wholesale distribution

r/3 system

R/3 employees’ three-tier client/server architecture widely recognized by SAP customers,
industry analysts and technology partners to solving some of today’s most demanding
information management challenges.
There are three functional layers and each support the demands of its functions.
1. The first layer is data layer resides on control servers.
2. Second layer i.e. the application layer holds the processing logic of the system, prepares
and formats the data for individual offices and departments.
3. The presentation layers handles all the tasks related to presentation of data including tasks
interfaced by users of personal computers.

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