SAP was founded in 1972 in Walldorf, Germany. The name is an acronym for “Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung,” meaning “systems, applications, and products in data processing.” SAP is in a consistent state of change with over 9,000 developers and researchers adapting it to the market and striving to offer consistently better business solutions. As a result, the company is the world’s leading enterprise resource planning software provider.
With over 30 years of experience and being utilized in over 25 industries and approximately 34,600 companies, it is estimated that SAP has approximately 120 million users in more than 120 countries around the world. With such an impressive history it is not surprising that today SAP offers a wide range of solutions, products, and applications. This book is focused on the mySAP ERP application, which is the follow-up product to SAP R/3 software. mySAP ERP is one of the applications within the mySAP Business Suite, which includes
At the time of writing this book, the latest release of mySAP ERP is SAP ERP Central Component (ECC6). Within mySAP ERP there are a number of applications, such as Financials and Manufacturing. Of these applications we are focusing on the Sales and Distribution application.
