$AP stands for System,Analysis and Products in Processing. It is a set of applications developed for enterprises and is also termed as SAP ERP. There are other ERP vendors in the market but SAP is the leader right now. Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) systems are software packages used to manage an organizations business processes. SAP Product Suite consist of below system: R/3 – Core ERP system
APO – Supply Chain Planning System
CRM – Customer Relationship System
BW – Reporting System
SRM – Supplier Relationship System
Others – PLM, XI, Netweaver...
R/3 is the heart of SAP and can further be divided into different modules: Logistics
Sales and Distribution(SD)
Materials Management(MM)
Production Planning(PP)
Human Resource (HR)
Financial FICO
Finance FI (includes AR, AP, GL…)
Controlling CO
Profitability Analysis …
APO which is the Supply Chain Planning component of SAP contains: Demand Planning (DP)
Supply Network Planning (SNP)
Globa...
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