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Technology Provides ERP Expertise for Enterprise SAP R/3 - SAP ERP Implementations
With SAP, you gain the visibility to pinpoint inefficiencies – and the capabilities to transform them into
competitive advantage. The foresight to identify new opportunities – and the agility to respond.
The functionality to optimize your operations – and resources to extend best practices to your entire
value chain.
The most difficult part of SAP R/3 is its implementation. Simply because SAP R/3 is never used the
same way in any two places. For instance, Atlas Copco can have a different implementation of SAP R/3
from Procter & Gamble and so forth. Two primary issues are the root of the complexity and of the
differences:
Customization configuration - Within R/3, there
are tens of thousands of database tables that may be used to control
how the application behaves. For instance, each company will have
its own accounting "Chart of Accounts" which reflects how its
transactions flow together to represent its activity. That will
be specific to a given company. In general, the behavior (and
appearance) of virtually every screen and transaction is controlled
by configuration tables. This gives the implementor great power
to make the application behave differently for different environments.
With that power comes considerable complexity.
Extensions, Bolt-Ons - In any company, there
will be a need to develop interface programs to communicate with
other corporate information systems. This generally involves developing
ABAP/4 code, and considerable "systems integration" effort to
either determine what data is to be drawn out of R/3 or to interface
into R/3 to load data into the system.
Due to the complexity of implementation, these companies recruit highly skilled SAP consultants
to do the job. The implementation must consider the company's needs and resources. Some companies
implement only a few modules of SAP while others may want numerous modules.