How is SAP software used?
SAP is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software by the same name of the company. SAP is a german acronym which is spelled in English as “Systems, Applications and Products in data processing”. The best place to study SAP is through its certification programs. The SAP website (SAP Software Solutions | Business Applications and Technology) gives complete details of it. You can browse to your country and find the registered training institutes. There are various modules of SAP. You may choose any module as per your expertise and plan a training.An ERP is simply a logical representation of the business which is centrally connected, helps in doing the necessary transactions and real time reporting.For example, suppose you are working with Amex and Amex has various divisions. e.g. Risk Analysis, Accounts Payables, Sales & Marketing, CRM, etc. If there is an ERP (SAP), it will have the necessary ‘specific’ screens to capture the transactions happening in various departments and the access is also restricted. i.e. A CRM person cannot access the Risk Analysis screen, etc. And when your MD or MIS team wants to review the performance at various levels, they can simply pull out various reports of the transactions happened in various functions.To conclude, with the help of an ERP, the organizational teams are able to work independently, with the necessary access controls and approvals and finally the management is able to consolidate and integrate organizational performance reporting.To add to the following, SAP is divided into different modules which are ideally specific to a business function. e.g. SD module for Sales & Distribution (Logistics), MM (Materials Management) for Purchase & Stores, CRM module for Customer Relationship Management, and many more modules are available which you can easily get on SAP and other related websites. There is a BI/BO tool of SAP which is specifically used for analysis. These are standard packages meaning it does not need coding to configure. This is called the functional part of SAP.You can do customization in SAP through a language called ABAP. This requires coding knowledge. This is called the technical part of SAP.Hope this answers your question.