SAP Modules

SAP now are moving away from describing their system as a set of modules, and now are using the term ‘solutions’, which is much better. If you visit SAP’s website (as we urge you to do) you will find that they have structured their Solutions tab as follows:
Financials
Human Resources
Customer Relationship Management
Supplier Relationship Management
Product Lifecycle Management
Supply Chain Management
Business Intelligence

If you’re still looking for that list of modules, here they are:

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