Introduction

SAP R/3 is an integrated business system designed to help organizations run such business processes as managing inventory, creating requisitions, processing sales orders, paying invoices, and so on. SAP R/3 covers a wide spectrum of business processes.

In the past, computer systems were specified and brought into organizations by each individual department: Human Resources chose its own system, Materials Management chose its system, Accounting chose its system, and so on. Although each system may have been the best choice for a particular department, keeping them working together was very expensive. This kind of complex patchwork system inhibited change in organizations—and we all know what happens to organizations that can't change ...

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