Anyone here familiar with SAP?

[z0mb13]

I need to read up on SAP ERP for my new job, can anyone recommend a good book to read?

TIA

EDIT: I am looking for a general book first, something like SAP 101, or ERP 101..

 

[jdoggg12]

SAP is the biggest PITA our company has to deal with - its slow and difficult to use. Its just so dammn functional....


And no, i got nothin for ya. But you'll learn to hate it all on your own

 

[Chryso]

I do workflow and portal stuff with SAP.
Don't know any books though.

 

[iamwiz82]

It makes otherwise productive people completely unproductive.

 

[Auggie]

SAP = shrimp alkaline phosphatase? I used it yesterday, to take the phosphate off the 5' end of my vector before I cloned in my insert gene.

By taking the phosphate off the terminal 5' nucleotide on your vector, you ensure that the ligation reaction won't simply reclose the vector you're using, since single-molecule ligations are orders of magnitude more efficient than joining insert+vector.

 

[spidey07]

There is no one book. What do you need to know? Are you developing, are you basis, are you implementation?

Details man!

oh, and agree that SAP turns productivity into a dead stop. But man, people lap up the kool-aid and pay damn good money for you to feed it to them.

 

[her209]

What's the alternative?

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: her209
What's the alternative?

Peoplesoft.

You're gonna pick one of the two.

Not surprisingly, the industry is moving back to mainframe computing for ERP.

 

[Kadarin]

Our company decided against SAP in favor of Siebel for a new ticketing system. That's sort of like choosing between Hannibal Lechter and Geoffrey Dahmer to have as dinner guests...

 

[cKGunslinger]

PeopleSoft, FTW!


I have no clue, other than that being what my company uses. But we also use LotusNotes, so what the fuck do we know?

 

[mrrman]

crappy software

 

[nonameo]

I hope you're getting paid a lot.

 

[ultimatebob]

It could be worse... they could ask you to support IBM's Rational products (shudder)

 

[her209]

Hmmm... so why hasn't Microsoft gotten into the game?

 

[CPA]

Our company uses Peoplesoft and is moving towards SAP. We've been at if for two years now implementing SAP at a test site with no end in sight.

BTW, Peoplesoft is actually owned by Oracle. The two main players are Oracle and SAP, with some others way behind.

 

[Rubycon]

Das Leben ist eine Verschwendung von Zeit, die Zeit ist eine Verschwendung von Leben, so verschwendet man all die Zeit und die Zeit Ihres Lebens. Sie können Ihr Leben erweitern, indem sich selbst, sondern zu vertiefen sie benötigen Sie einen Freund. Jedes Mal, dass sich eine Freundschaft, aus der sich eine Lebensader. Man kann nie zu viele, nur allzu viele richtig kümmern. Ich möchte glauben, wenn ich sterbe, habe ich mich wie ein Baum, Sauen Saatgut jedes Jahr im Frühjahr und nie zählt den Verlust, da es sich nicht um Verlust, es ist das Hinzufügen von den künftigen Leben. Es ist der Baum der Art und Weise des Seins. Stark verwurzelt vielleicht, aber Verschütten ihren Schatz auf der Wind.

 

[vital]

Our company has like 3 fvcking ERP systems... including SAP and Peopelsoft.

 

[Ilikepiedoyou]

SAP as in the structural engineering program?

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: her209
Hmmm... so why hasn't Microsoft gotten into the game?

They are but it's more mid-level. Great Plains, Solomon and Navision. They bought what they could. Look up MS Dynamics.

 

[RalphTheCow]

This SAP thing is horrible. Our company just keeps hiring people to deal with it.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: RalphTheCow
This SAP thing is horrible. Our company just keeps hiring people to deal with it.

I have yet to hear of a smooth SAP rollout.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: CPA
Our company uses Peoplesoft and is moving towards SAP. We've been at if for two years now implementing SAP at a test site with no end in sight.

BTW, Peoplesoft is actually owned by Oracle. The two main players are Oracle and SAP, with some others way behind.

Yep, you're gonna do one of the two evils.

Does everything, but does nothing well.

 

[Chryso]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: RalphTheCow
This SAP thing is horrible. Our company just keeps hiring people to deal with it.

I have yet to hear of a smooth SAP rollout.

Ours wasn't bad. But we have only implemented HR and payroll.

 

[Chryso]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: CPA
Our company uses Peoplesoft and is moving towards SAP. We've been at if for two years now implementing SAP at a test site with no end in sight.

BTW, Peoplesoft is actually owned by Oracle. The two main players are Oracle and SAP, with some others way behind.

Yep, you're gonna do one of the two evils.

Does everything, but does nothing well.

I have heard that Peoplesoft does HR well.
Which explains why we have SAP for HR...

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: RalphTheCow
This SAP thing is horrible. Our company just keeps hiring people to deal with it.

I have yet to hear of a smooth SAP rollout.

Never going to happen. The only people who make out on the deal are the consultants. They roll in, tell you to document how you do everything (EVERYTHING!), then they set up the system mostly like that. When you find out that out of 1,000,000 details you forgot a few, well, time to pay more money to fix things. The things that the consultants screwed up, you pay them more money to fix those too, because it's impossible to find out exactly what they were supposed to do when the answer is somewhere in a 500-foot high stack of documents they created.

"Here's a 400-page document that describes your process for purchasing material. Please review it and indicate any corrections. We will have a meeting tomorrow to go over any issues." Yeah, right.