- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (19 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130853402
- ISBN-13: 978-0130853400
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.8 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,335,424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Using SAP's leading enterprise software product R/3 as a backdrop, the book clearly demonstrates how common business process can be defined and then reengineered for maximum value. This new edition explains SAP's latest R/3 releases and strategic initiatives in language that's easy to understand and apply. It begins with a Business Engineering section that sketches the "big picture" for high-level decision makers, helping them understand the major features and tools of the latest R/3 release, and the key issues associated with its implementation. Next, the Process Design section introduces R/3's applications in specific fields such as sales, production, finance, and human resources. Finally, the Architecture, Framework, and Tools section provides up-to-date, detailed implementation help for IT professionals.
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The complete business and implementation guide to SAP™ R/3™!
In order to gain the maximum value from SAP™ R/3™, you need to understand the rich business framework embedded in R/3™ and know how to implement it within your unique organization.
The revision of this best-selling classic does both: documenting the deep process knowledge built into R/3™, helping decision-makers understand its benefits and offering start-to-finish guidance for R/3™ implementers organization-wide. Newly updated to reflect R/3™ Release 4.5, this book delivers:
- Detailed coverage of finance, human resources, production, purchasing, sales, and service management with SAP™ R/3™
- Key business-process scenarios, presented in common business terms
- An overview of the IT infrastructure provided by SAP™ for e-commerce and supply chain management
- Analysis of R/3™ middleware transaction management and application distribution
- Practical coverage of the R/3™ Repository, SAP™ Business Framework, and R/3™ Business Objecs
- Updates on the latest methodologies for R/3™ evaluation and the tools for R/3™ implementation
- A view of SAP™ R/3™ beyond Y2K and the challenges for the next generation enterprise using the Internet
You won't find a clearer guide to SAP™ R/3™. You'll discover how key components of R/3™ link together, how they integrate the entire enterprise, and how to keep deriving business benefits from R/3™ long after it's been installed.
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Excellent high level overview
9 May 2000
Format:Paperback
My company has been an SAP customer for years, but there was still a lot of mystery about what SAP is and why it's good. This book lays it out in perfect terms, integrating both the C-suite point of view and the IT perspective. I highly recommend this book to anyone working with SAP.
Good Source of SAP Background
4 Dec 2009
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I work at a company that's been running a version of SAP that's slightly later than this book references, but we're now going to the latest and greatest version. I wanted to take the opportunity to learn more about SAP and how it works. This isn't a step by step instructions on how to operate SAP, but gives an overview of why you might want to.
I'm not completely through the book, but I'm impressed with what I've seen. The first part covers why companies would go with a ready made system like SAP and how they can use the expertise and templates that SAP has developed to restructure their business. It sometimes feels like such common sense you'd think of the things, but it's good to actually read it and see it structured. This would be an exceptionally good section for companies trying to decide whether to go with a custom built piece of software or to go with something that's ready made and try to adapt themselves to it and it to them.
Later parts of the book get into more real and hypothetical scenarios on how you'd analyze and lay out set processes. For example, you'd go through how an order system would go from planning stages to taking the order, to manufacturing, and then shipping it and billing the customer. It's a good mental exercise in bringing together and helps you to learn to view the whole picture. You'll fast learn you should include people from multiple different roles/groups into one gigantic blitz instead of trying to manage things on a functional basis.
If your considering moving to SAP or just want a book to learn more about SAP, you have a lot worse places to start than this. Don't get too hung up with SAP versions, there are differences, but they don't tend to be drastically different. Even if you're not on version 4.5, there's still a whole lot of value in this book.
I'm not completely through the book, but I'm impressed with what I've seen. The first part covers why companies would go with a ready made system like SAP and how they can use the expertise and templates that SAP has developed to restructure their business. It sometimes feels like such common sense you'd think of the things, but it's good to actually read it and see it structured. This would be an exceptionally good section for companies trying to decide whether to go with a custom built piece of software or to go with something that's ready made and try to adapt themselves to it and it to them.
Later parts of the book get into more real and hypothetical scenarios on how you'd analyze and lay out set processes. For example, you'd go through how an order system would go from planning stages to taking the order, to manufacturing, and then shipping it and billing the customer. It's a good mental exercise in bringing together and helps you to learn to view the whole picture. You'll fast learn you should include people from multiple different roles/groups into one gigantic blitz instead of trying to manage things on a functional basis.
If your considering moving to SAP or just want a book to learn more about SAP, you have a lot worse places to start than this. Don't get too hung up with SAP versions, there are differences, but they don't tend to be drastically different. Even if you're not on version 4.5, there's still a whole lot of value in this book.
Excellent Book
21 Jun 2005
Format:Paperback
An excellent book that gives a good insight of the business processes and business objects of different SAP R/3 modules. I urge the author to write a new edition of the book that reflects the recent development in SAP.
Abdullah
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