SAP for Beginners – Get Started with SAP

In this lecture, you'll learn what SAP really is — both the global software company and its powerful ERP systems like SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA. Discover how businesses use SAP to manage processes like purchasing, accounting, HR, and more. A perfect introduction for anyone new to SAP or looking to understand its real-world impact.

Explore the evolution of SAP from its beginnings with R/1 to today’s SAP S/4HANA. Learn why SAP was built as modular software, how its interface developed, and why standard software became the global norm. This lecture helps you understand SAP’s structure, real-time processing, and modern tools like Fiori apps—essential context for using SAP today.

Discover why modern companies need ERP systems like SAP. Using a real-world example from the automotive industry, this lecture shows how SAP connects departments like sales, purchasing, production, and accounting—automating workflows and ensuring smooth information flow across the business.

Getting access to SAP isn't as easy as installing standard software. This lecture shows different options to access an SAP test system – through your company, via SAP directly, or from independent providers. Even without access, you can still follow the course. But if you want to practice hands-on, we show you where to start.

Learn how SAP is structured into modules like Materials Management, Sales & Distribution, Finance, HR, and more. This lecture guides you through basic SAP navigation and shows you how to use transactions to perform key business tasks.

Understand the full Order to Cash (OTC) process—from creating a sales order to delivering goods and issuing an invoice. Learn how SAP handles pricing, availability checks, shipping, and accounting integration. This lecture gives you the foundation for posting OTC documents in SAP in the next sessions.

Learn how to create a sales order in SAP using transaction VA01. This session covers key inputs such as customer, material, quantity, pricing, payment terms, Incoterms, and delivery details. Understand how SAP automatically calculates prices and how to manually adjust them. Includes practical tips on checking document completeness before saving.

Follow the full process of creating and processing a delivery in SAP, including outbound delivery creation, selecting shipping points, picking items, and posting goods issue. Learn how to work with transaction codes, navigate between menus, and verify delivery status using the document flow. Includes explanation of key concepts like storage location, pick quantity, and GI date.

Learn how to manually create an invoice (billing document) in SAP and see how the process integrates sales and financial accounting. The video covers invoice creation from a delivery, choosing billing types, understanding key document fields, and viewing the automatically generated accounting document that reflects revenue, taxes, and customer receivables.

Get a clear overview of the Purchase to Pay (P2P) process in SAP. This lecture explains the full cycle—from creating purchase requisitions and purchase orders to receiving goods, posting invoices, and making vendor payments. Includes both manual and automated steps, highlighting how SAP supports procurement workflows across different industries.

Learn how to create a standard purchase order in SAP using transaction ME21N. This video guides you through key steps including selecting the vendor, entering material, quantity, plant, and pricing data. You'll also see how header data and item details like delivery tolerances are managed. The purchase order is finalized and ready for electronic or manual dispatch to the vendor.

Learn how to post a goods receipt in SAP and verify the stock situation before and after the transaction. Using transaction MIGO, you'll see how to confirm that delivered materials are correctly recorded in the system. The video also covers how to check stock levels using the MMBE transaction and explains how SAP updates inventory data across different stock types.

Learn how to post an invoice receipt from a vendor in SAP using the MIRO transaction. This video walks you through logistics invoice verification, linking invoices to purchase orders and goods receipts. You'll also see how taxes, baseline dates, and general ledger accounts are handled. Finally, understand how invoices are released for automatic payment in the system.

This video explains what master data is and why it's essential in SAP. You’ll learn how master data — like customer addresses, material weights, or sales prices — is entered once and reused across many processes. The video also covers the impact of poor master data quality and why a single source of truth is critical for smooth business operations.

This video shows how to change customer master data in SAP, using the example of updating an address. It explains the role-based concept of business partners in S/4HANA, how changes in master data automatically affect documents like sales orders, and how fields like delivery priority and incoterms are defaulted into transactions. You’ll also see how to verify changes in a new sales order.

This video gives a beginner-friendly overview of SAP configuration. You'll learn what configuration means, why it’s essential in every SAP project, and how it maps organizational structures and selects system functionalities. Using real-life examples, the lecture shows how SAP adapts to different company needs — all without coding, using settings in the implementation guide.

This video demonstrates how to optimize SAP processes using configuration. You'll see how a real-world business requirement—automatically creating a delivery after saving a sales order—can be implemented with just one small change in the SAP system. The lecture walks you through the full process, from navigating the IMG to applying and testing the configuration live.

This lecture introduces SAP S/4HANA, SAP's latest ERP system. You’ll understand the difference between S/4 and the HANA database, explore the benefits of Fiori apps, and learn how SAP has evolved from R/1 to its current high-performance, in-memory platform. The session also explains why all companies using SAP must eventually migrate to S/4HANA.

This video introduces SAP Fiori apps and their role-based concept. You'll learn about the three types of Fiori apps—transactional, analytical, and informational—and how they simplify SAP usage with modern, mobile-friendly interfaces. A live system demo shows how app access changes depending on the user's role, using examples from sales management and sales representatives.

A short wrap-up message congratulating you for completing the course. You’ve gained deep insights into SAP, explored key business processes, and learned to navigate the system confidently. Thanks for joining, and well done on making it to the end!