Foundations of SAP ERP: Master the Basics

Discover SAP ERP modules, from technical infrastructure to functional modules, and how they integrate to support finance, logistics, production, and human resources.

Master data forms the foundation of SAP databases, covering people, places, or objects. Transactional data records day-to-day actions like orders and schedules, hinging on accurate master data.

Explore SAP clients as self-contained business units and log in to a specific three-digit client, then identify production, non-production, quality assurance, sandbox, and training environments.

Explore how SAP security roles map user profiles to access permissions for transactions and organizational levels, enforcing segregation of duties and ensuring the right people perform the right transactions.

Explore the SAP financial accounting module within SAP ERP, covering the general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, asset accounting, and bank accounting with real-time integration.

Explore SAP controlling, or CO, to plan and monitor business operation costs with submodules such as profit center accounting, cost center accounting, internal orders, product costing, and profitability analysis.

Explore the SAP sales and distribution module's cycle from pre-sales to billing. See how it handles orders, distribution, invoicing, stock check, credit check, and integration with materials management and finance.

Explore the SAP production planning module, including bill of materials, routings, capacity planning, and materials requirement planning, with a metal picture frame example for repetitive and discrete production.

Explore the SAP plant maintenance (PM) module, covering inspection, preventive maintenance, and repair, and review plant maintenance orders and costs to keep production areas optimal.

Master SAP project system (PPS) to manage a project life cycle using the work breakdown structure (WBS) for planning, scheduling, and cost allocation in internally and externally financed projects.

Explore SAP HCM and its core areas, including organizational management, employee administration, time management, benefits, recruiting, and learning management, with hands-on demonstrations in a test environment.

Launch SAP Logon Pad to access the SAP GUI and SAP S/4HANA 1709. Log on with client 150, username student 001, and password to access the SAP Easy Access screen.

Navigate SAP using the menu tree or T codes to post incoming payments in accounts receivable; learn F28, the command field, and how T codes indicate create, change, or display.

Customize your SAP experience by adjusting theme settings, tooltips, and displaying technical names, then manage favorites with add, delete, download, and upload on the SAP Easy Access screen.

Explore common icons, buttons, and system messages in SAP ERP, including required fields, error and success prompts, tab navigation, checkboxes, and dialog boxes while updating materials and creating orders.

Navigate multiple SAP sessions and use transaction codes and the slash commands to switch within and across sessions, enabling efficient data search with match code and wildcards for materials.

Set up the default printer in SAP through the maintain user profile defaults, select an output device with the match code, and enable printing to produce physical copies of reports.

master sap report selection using va05 to define criteria across areas: sales document data, sold-to party, person responsible, partner, and organizational data; then execute or stop transactions to refine results

Master the multiple selection tool in SAP to refine report criteria by including or excluding values, using ranges and copy functions, and running targeted sales order reports.

Create and reuse a search variant in SAP VA05 to run the open orders report for sales organization 1710, saving it as 1710 open and loading it with get variant.

Edit SAP report layouts using display variants in VA05, optimize column width, and save a global layout with a slash-prefixed name for reuse.

Sort a SAP ERP report by net value or document date and filter by material in VA05 to narrow results after running the report.

Learn to print and export SAP reports by using VA05, previewing layouts, selecting output devices, saving as PDF, and exporting to Excel for further analysis.