How SAP Module is structured?

[Former Member]

Dears,

Can someone help to understand how SAP modules is structured,

For example, what modules does the SAP ECC include, where does (SAP TM, SAP BW/BOBJ, SAP EP, SAP PI, Solution Manager) fit in that structure,

I already created a structure, but I am not sure if it is correct or not,

Fincical   and controling (FICO) - Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM)	Part of Enterprise Core   Component (ECC)
Human Capital Management (HCM)	Part of Enterprise Core Component (ECC)
Sales and distrpution (SD)	Part of Enterprise Core Component (ECC)
Material Management (MM)	Part of Enterprise Core Component (ECC)
Production Planning (PP)	Part of Enterprise Core Component (ECC)
Quality Management (QM)	Part of Enterprise Core Component (ECC)
Plant Maintainance (PM)	Part of Enterprise Core Component (ECC)
Solution Manager (Solman)	Part of Enterprise Core Component (ECC)
Employee Self Service (ESS) -   Managers Self Service (MSS)	Different module under Human Capital Management (HCM)
Transportation Management  (TM)
Enterprise Portal (EP)
Process Integration (PI)
Business Information Warehouse   (BW) - Business Intellgince (BI) - Business Object (BOBJ)
Business Process Consilidation   (BPC)
Customer Relationship   Management (CRM)
Strategy Management

Kind regards,

[wolfgang_hegmann · Accepted solution]

You raised in deed a very good question. For people new to SAP products it is not always clear what belongs to what since a lot of stuff is part of SAP ERP (deployed as a SAP ECC system).

To answer most of your questions:

Most of the things above are in deed part of ECC. ESS/MSS is part of ERP HCM and therefore ECC. But many companies dont deploy HCM with the rest of ECC, but put HCM in a seperate installation/deployment - so two deployments of ECC.

SolMan is not part of ECC. It comes as an own system which need to be deployed seperately from ECC. SolMan helps IT departments with ITIL processes, technical monitoring, etc.

TM is based on SCM, I am not sure if it can run with other SCM modules.

BW as well as BO are seperate and used for data warehouse and reporting toolsets.

PI is SAP's Enterprise Service Bus and also used for SOA.

CRM is for Sales and Marketing processes - a seperate deployment deeply integrated with ECC.

For Strategy management and BPC I am not 100% sure.

Hope that helps!

Wolfgang

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

You can also download from here SAP Naming guide that takes you step-by-step through the process to search for a particular name or to get an entire list of all approved names that you can then export in Excel or HTML format. To get an entire list, you have to enter a date range.

The direct link to the approved names database is:

http://naming.sapbrandtools.com/app/naming/naming_archive.aspx

Hope this helps.

[Former Member]

Dear Wolfgang, Dear Marissa,

Thank you for your valuable input,

It was very helpful,

Regards,