615260 Enterprise Systems SAP Stream Wednesdays

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615-260 Enterprise Systems SAP Stream
(Wednesdays)
What is SAP R/3?

• Lecturers
• Peter Seddon p.seddon_at_unimelb.edu.au
• Cheryl Calvert (Lectures 5, 6, 7)
  cherylcalvert_at_optushome.com.au

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Lecture Plan

• Role of SAP lectures in this subject
• What is SAP R/3?
• SAPs client-server architecture
• Using R/3 4.7 for this subject
• Getting your account number
• Logging on
• Running a program, including Help
• Running a program using its transaction code
• Recording your name
• Multiple sessions

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Role of SAP lectures in this subject
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Role of SAP R/3 in this subject

• SAP R/3 is an example of PEAS
• We are here to learn about ES and PEAS, not SAP
  R/3.
• You will end up knowing a lot about SAP and R/3.
• You will also know hardly anything about SAP and
  R/3!

(a small amount of knowledge about a HUGE topic
is still a lot!)
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Packaged Enterprise Application Market 2003
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Definition of ERP (Deloitte Consultings ERPs
Second Wave report, 1998)

• An Enterprise Resource Planning system is a
  packaged business software system that allows a
  company to
• Automate and integrate the majority of its
  business processes
• Share common data and practices across the entire
  enterprise
• Produce and access information in a real-time
  environment.
• n          

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The major PEAS vendors (2002 revenue)

• SAP 7.4B p.a.
• PeopleSoft J.D.Edwards 3.0B p.a.
• Oracle (Applications) 2.6B p.a.
• Seibel 1.5B p.a.
• Microsoft 0.7B p.a.
• i2 0.4B p.a.
• Hundreds of smaller vendors

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Most of what we cover in this steam will be about
SAP

• I struggle to keep up with all there is to know
  about SAP. You will too.
• Being on top of all the vendors products is too
  much for any single person.
• Just as we only teach one programming language in
  IS (Java), if you understand what one PEAS vendor
  is doing, you have a good basis for understanding
  the others.

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2. What is SAP R/3?
This is the old picture
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SAPs NetWeaver architecture
Software to support organizational processes
Application infrastructure
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SAP NetWeaver Turning the Enterprise Services
Architecture Vision Into Reality
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What is SAP R/3?

• Most of SAPs non-R/3 products on the previous
  slide are new, e.g., post-1999.
• When you hear someone say we are using SAP,
  there is a high probability that they mean R/3
• In this subject, we use the latest version, R/3
  4.7, also known as R/3 Enterprise. Some
  organizations are still using version 3.1i, which
  is about seven years old.

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3.SAPs client-server architecture
Internet
Client PC running SAP SAPgui
Server in Queensland running SAP R/3 4.7
gui graphical user interface
Database server (Oracle)
3-tier
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The emerging 4-tier architecture
Internet
Server running portal software
Browser (thin client)
Server running SAP R/3 4.7
We will not be using this
Database server (Oracle)
4-tier
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4. Using SAP R/3 Enterprise (v.4.7) in this
subject

• You can use any SAPgui program anywhere in the
  world to talk to the servers at QUT.
• We use server S03 at QUT.
• We are clients 200 and 400.
• A client is like a separate company.
• Our two clients share the server (and SAP R/3
  code). When you are on one client you will not be
  aware of students on the other one.

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Get your account number, initial password (and
some group details for Module 9, Project 3) from
Webraft
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Your SAP account number

• You need client, username, and password.
• If your username is UM-2, use client 200
• If your username is UM-4, use client 400
• Cut and paste your password for first login (you
  will be asked to change it then)

Client 200
User UM-2
Password 3?/a9_at_
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Logging on (Our Lab is UG24)

• To logon, click the yellow man icon
• You get a window like
• (This menu is defined in a file called
  SAPlogon.ini that you download to your Windows
  directory from sap.fit.qut.edu.au)
• Select server
• S03 R/3 Enterprise 4.7 (UM/USA)
• Click Logon

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Logging on (2) (see p.1.18 of Notes)

• Change the client code to 200 or 400
• Enter username and password
• Language defaults to English
• Click the green tick, or press Enter
• The first time you logon, you will be asked to
  change your password

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SAP R/3 Main menu
logout
Session 1
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Running a program, e.g., Accounting, Financial
Accounting, General Ledger, Account, Display
Balance
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Clicking on the search icon shown takes you to a
query screen to select accounts of interest
Traffic lights to stop program.
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Account code 1000, Company code 3000, Fiscal year
2000. Context sensitive Application Help, from
SAP
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Context sensitive Help is delivered via the web
browser (it can be stored locally as well).
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To see Transaction codes Extras, Settings,
Display technical names
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To see Transaction codes Click the yellow and
white icon pointed to by the blue arrow
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Running R/3 by entering transaction codes
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Record your name for your account System, User
Profile, Own Data
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Create a second session (useful if you are
halfway through a transaction and remember you
need to do something first). Can have up to 6
sessions.
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Recall SAPs three-tier client-server
architecture
Internet
Client PC running SAP SAPgui
Server in Queensland running SAP R/3 4.7
gui graphical user interface
Database server (Oracle)
3-tier
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To install SAPgui at home

• Buy or borrow the SAPgui CD
• Follow instructions on page 7 of Subject Notes,
  which direct you to the QUT website
• sap.qut.edu.au (no www at start)
• After you install the SAPgui, download the login
  file from QUT into you root Windows directory
  (e.g. /WINDOWS)
• SAPlogon.ini
• SAP Help is available from help.sap.com

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Minor details

• There is a web-based version of the SAPgui,
  called WEBgui. It is slower and less easy to use
  than SAPgui. You can try it on sap.qut.edu.au
• Our lab classes are in lab UG24 (upper ground)

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Summary

• Role of SAP lectures in this subject
• What is SAP R/3?
• SAPs client-server architecture
• Using R/3 4.7 for this subject
• Getting your account number
• Logging on
• Running a program, including Help
• Running a program using its transaction code
• Recording your name
• Multiple sessions