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Enterprise Resource Planning

notes SAP also integrated the intranet and Internet technologies business solution. Through the
network and its Industry Business Units (IBUs), SAP develops new information technology
approaches. With this approach, customers become members of SAP development team and
share their experiences.
SAP R/3 system is the world’s most standard business solution for client/server system. With this
approach customer could get quick response, which makes the business process more flexible.
R/3 system is ideal for all types of industries and can optimize the business functions. The
system provides a powerful program for each department form the industry i.e. according and
controlling, sales and distribution, production and material management, quality management,
project management, human resource management etc. All these applications supports decision
making at the top level as warehouse conveniently edits external data and internal data.

r/3 application modules

The R/3 system provides a flexible organizational structure. It can connect all the business
processes together and every employee could have fast access to the required information. The
in house staff can do the work easily with reference ABAP/4R development workbench, which
is an integral parts of R/3. R/3 application modules are either used alone or in combination with
other solutions. Following are some R/3 modules:
1. Financial Accounting: It collects and controls the data relevant to financial accounting. It
provides reports and documentations and comprehensive information
2. Treasury: This module provides a complete solution for efficient financial management.
Treasury module helps in ensuring the liquidity of your company worldwide structures,
the assets profitability and minimizes risks.
3. Controlling: This module has a uniform reporting system for company wide controlling
with all procedures and controls content of the company’s internal processes.
4. Enterprise controlling: This module has been designed to monitor the company’s success
factors and performance indicators on the basis of management information.

5. Investment management: This module offers integrated management and processing
of investment measures. This also participates in pre investment analysis, depreciation
simulation. Investment management monitors the projects from planning to settlement.
6. Production Planning: Production planning provides all types of manufacturing strategies,
from repetitive MTO and ATO through processes, lot and MTS manufacturing, to integrated
supply chain management.
7. Material management: It manages the purchasing processes with workflow driven
processing functions. This also handles warehouse management and integrates invoice
verification
8. Plant maintenance and service management: This allows the planning, control and
processing of the inspection, maintenance, damages and service management.
9. Quality management: This offers all processes relevant to your quality assurance along with
supply chain, co – ordinates inspection processing and integrates laboratory information
systems
R/3 also provides its applications in HR managements, project management, sales and distribution
with all standard business processes and functionality.

Task Suggest what are the reasons behind the success of ERP?

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