SAP Modules

OutLookSoft

OutlookSoft BPC

BI IP System

Business Intelligence Integrated Planning

BW / BI System

Business Information Warehouse (BIW) 3.5 / Business Intelligence (BI) 7.0

* Data Warehousing
* Query Designing
* Reports (Excel)
* Reports (Web-based)
* Web Application Designer
* Business Planning and Simulation (BW-BPS)

Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) 4.0 / 6.0

* Corporate Performance Monitor (CPM) - Presentation (Part 1, Part 2)
* Business Intelligence - Integrated Planning (BI-IP) - Presentation (Part 1)
* Business Consolidation

R/3 System - ( 4.7c, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0 )

FI Financial Accounting (Tutorial) – essentially your regulatory ‘books of record’,including

* General ledger
* Book close
* Tax
* Accounts receivable
* Accounts payable
* Consolidation
* Special ledgers

CO Controlling (Tutorial) – basically your internal cost/management accounting, including

* Cost elements
* Cost centres
* Profit centres
* Internal orders
* Activity based costing
* Product costing

AM Asset Management – track, value and depreciate your assets, including

* Purchase
* Sale
* Depreciation
* Tracking

PS Project Systems – manage your projects, large and small, including

* Make to order
* Plant shut downs (as a project)
* Third party billing (on the back of a project)

HR Human Resources – ah yes, people, including

* Employment history
* Payroll
* Training
* Career management
* Succession planning

PM Plant Maintenance – maintain your equipment (e.g. a machine, an oil rig, an aircraft etc), including

* Labour
* Material
* Down time and outages

MM Materials Management – underpins the supply chain, including

* Requisitions
* Purchase orders
* Goods receipts
* Accounts payable
* Inventory management
* BOM’s
* Master raw materials, finished goods etc

QM Quality Management – improve the quality of your goods, including

* Planning
* Execution
* Inspections
* Certificates

PP Production Planning – manages your production process, including

* Capacity planning
* Master production scheduling
* Material requirements planning
* Shop floor

SD Sales and Distribution – from order to delivery, including

* RFQ
* Sales orders
* Pricing
* Picking (and other warehouse processes)
* Packing
* Shipping

CA Cross Application – these lie on top of the individual modules, and include

* WF – workflow
* BW – business information warehouse
* Office – for email
* Workplace
* Industry solutions
* New Dimension products such as CRM, PLM, SRM, APO etc

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