Modules of SAP

What is SAP?

SAP is enterprise resource planning software that is built to organizations belonging to different industrial sectors, regardless of their size and strength.

The below mentioned modules in SAP are important from Business Process.

• Financial Accounting (FI)

• Controlling (CO)

• Materials Management (MM)

• Sales and Distribution (SD)

• Logistics Execution (LE)

• Production Planning (PP)

• Quality Management (QM)

• Plant Maintenance (PM)

• Project System (PS)

• Human Resources (HR)

Financial Accounting (FI): This Module helps us to track the financial data of the organization which will be used for the legal reporting/ requirement.

Further modules of SAP FI are below:

• General Ledger (GL)

• Accounts Payable (AP)

• Accounts Receivable (AR)

• Asset Accounting (AA)

•  SAP Banking

Controlling (CO): Controlling module facilitates coordinating, monitoring, and optimizing all the processes in an organization. Controlling have two important attributes to identify the costing and revenue.

1. Cost element

2. Revenue Element

Sub-Modules of controlling  

• Product Costing (CO-PC)

• Periodic Allocations

• Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)

• Cost Center Accounting (CCA)

• Profit Center Accounting (PCA)

Sales and Distribution:

SAP SD is used by organizations to support sales and distribution activities of products and services, starting from enquiry to order and then ending with delivery.

Material Management (MM):

Material Management deals with the material movement with the other Modules like Logistics, supply chain Management, SD, Production Planning.

Logistics Execution (LE):

This Modules deals with Pay to Purchase and Warehouse Management integrated along with Sales and Distribution, MM and Production Planning.

Human Resource (HR)

The most important objective of master data administration in Human Resources is to enter employee-related data for administrative, time-recording, and payroll purposes.

SAP Quality Management (QM)

SAP QM is an integral part of several key business processes of SAP like production, sales, procurement, material management, etc. It helps businesses to reduce defects, implement and conduct quality control programs, and continuously improve the business processes. 

 Plant Maintenance (PM).

SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) is a component of the SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) that helps businesses support and maintain equipment and systems.

Production Planning (PP).

It tracks and makes a record of the manufacturing process flows, for example, the planned and actual costs. Also, goods movements from the conversion of raw material to semi-finished goods.