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What is SAP?

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Looking through job postings I often encounter opportunites asking for SAP experience of various form.

Would anyone be able to tell me what SAP is?

 
Doesn't it stand for Special Audio Program, or Secondary Audio Program, or Spanish Audio Program? I've NEVER been able to get it to work on any TV I've ever seen. 😕
 
I haven't used it business "solutions" in my line of work, and fortunately, because I have been told horror stories about it's design and implementation.
 
SAP is HUGE. It is an integrated Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing. It has different modules in which you can be an expert, it also has it's own programming language called ABAP. I work with SAP doing User ID and authorizations, loading materials, writing reports, etc. There is money to be had you are right about that, but the training courses are expensive too.
 
If you don't have any exp with SAP, and the interviewer ask you about SAP, just tell them its a pain in the butt software to use, and it's down most of the time. they will laugh and agree with you. hehe

rich
 
Its an enterprise software package.

Exteremly powerful and can generally do all core business fuctions with a heck of a lot of flexibility due to abap:

Invetory
Supply chain
HR
Finance
Data Warehouse
Web Portal
etc.

anyone who says "its down most of the time" has a horrible implementation, must be running on windows.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Its an enterprise software package.

Exteremly powerful and can generally do all core business fuctions with a heck of a lot of flexibility due to abap:

Invetory
Supply chain
HR
Finance
Data Warehouse
Web Portal
etc.

anyone who says "its down most of the time" has a horrible implementation, must be running on windows.
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I don't know any ABAP, but I've spent a good percentage of my time in the last 2 years writing code to execute SAP transactions from our VB and ASP apps.
The whole reason I have a job is that SAP is horribly non-user-friendly.
That and the fact that it has to be down once a week for approx 4 hours for regular maintenance.
And the fact that getting data out of SAP in a useful form is quite troublesome.

Our project has several goals:
1. Hide SAP as much as possible from our employees.
2. Keep our 24x7 operations running during weekly scheduled SAP downtimes and during unscheduled SAP downtimes. It goes down unexpectedly probably once or twice a month. We queue up the data and upload it to SAP when it comes back up.
3. Eliminate dual data entry for data that employees were having to enter into our local production and quality control systems, then enter again in SAP.

 
Originally posted by: Shanti
Originally posted by: spidey07
Its an enterprise software package.

Exteremly powerful and can generally do all core business fuctions with a heck of a lot of flexibility due to abap:

Invetory
Supply chain
HR
Finance
Data Warehouse
Web Portal
etc.

anyone who says "its down most of the time" has a horrible implementation, must be running on windows.
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I don't know any ABAP, but I've spent a good percentage of my time in the last 2 years writing code to execute SAP transactions from our VB and ASP apps.
The whole reason I have a job is that SAP is horribly non-user-friendly.
That and the fact that it has to be down once a week for approx 4 hours for regular maintenance.
And the fact that getting data out of SAP in a useful form is quite troublesome.

Our project has several goals:
1. Hide SAP as much as possible from our employees.
2. Keep our 24x7 operations running during weekly scheduled SAP downtimes and during unscheduled SAP downtimes. It goes down unexpectedly probably once or twice a month. We queue up the data and upload it to SAP when it comes back up.
3. Eliminate dual data entry for data that employees were having to enter into our local production and quality control systems, then enter again in SAP.
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Maybe you should hire someone to implement it properly for you, seems like you're having problems not related to their software in itself, but rather the specific implementation.

I wouldn't dream of trying to go cheap on the costs of implementation with a software like that, if you're gonna pay a boatload of money for the software, you might as well pay a slightly smaller boatload to make sure it's implemented correctly.
 
Wasn't involved in the implementation.
But I can't imagine Eastman-Kodak "went cheap" on an implementation to support 80,000 employees.
 
Originally posted by: Shanti
Wasn't involved in the implementation.
But I can't imagine Eastman-Kodak "went cheap" on an implementation to support 80,000 employees.
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That really does sound like a poor implementation or poor planning.

I've never heard of having SAP be down for 4 hours for maintenance. Heck I can't remember the last time ours was down...maybe 18 months ago? There's a reason for development, QA and production systems. By the time it makes it to production it's been through plenty of testing.

I'd really suggest getting it fixed.
 
SAP is incredibly an flexible business enterprise software.

I have about a years worth of experience in the SD module of SAP R\3. I worked with a Siemen's Platinum Level consultant.

I was very impressed with what can be done with it and I only really looked at the SD module (Pricing). There are quite a few opportunities out there; unfortunately I didn't have a degree when I went job hunting. Getting back into working with SAP is my main goal after graduating. 🙂
 
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