Chapter 8. SAP ERP: SAP’s Core Product

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

  • The role of SAP ERP

  • Differentiating between SAP ERP, ECC, and R/3

  • A closer look at several SAP ERP solution offerings

  • An overview of core modules underpinning SAP ERP’s solution offerings

SAP ERP and its predecessors or components, ECC, R/3 Enterprise, and the original R/3, are online transaction processing (OLTP) systems—systems that by their very nature are employed by end users, day in and day out, in the course of doing their job. Within ERP or R/3 are a number of modules or subcomponents. At a high level, this includes finance, logistics, human resource management, customer service, and quite a few others we will look at this hour.

Did you Know?

OLTP systems are nothing new; ...

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