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In the past when people were discussing SAP, the conversation very quickly boiled down to modules, for example: SAP’s courses were structured along module lines so that you would attend MM 101, 102 and 103. While at the course you would learn many things about MM, but not much about the rest of the SAP system and how MM fits into it. A conversation with a SAP recruiter might go something like this: Recruiter … “which modules do you work with?”Candidate … “well, I have a lot of purchasing process experience” Recruiter … “yes, but which modules do you work with?” Candidate … “well, it’s purchasing functionality … so that would be, umm, MM, FI and CO mainly” Recruiter … “great I have just the job for you” Candidate … “fantastic, is it purchasing?” Recruiter … “well it says here that they want an MM, FI and CO person and that’s you, right?” Not necessarily! A MM, FI, CO role might include Inventory Management (MM), Accounts Receivable (FI) and Profitability Analysis (CO) – none of which a purchasing person is guaranteed to have Many programme teams were organised along module lines, so that you would have a FI/CO, an MM and a HR team, for example. Training courses were (therefore) often prepared and delivered along module lines too. The result of this was that solutions were frequently optimised along module lines, and less often well integratred, and as for users, well, they were pretty much trained up in a module and left to get on with it post go-live. Fortunately those days are mostly passed, and more and more programmes (from design to build to training) are being organised along process lines such as: Order to Cash (including parts of SD, FI-AR and probably TY as well) Purchase to Pay (including MM-Purchasing and FI-AP) Record to Report (FI-GL etc) SAP now are moving away from describing their system as a set of modules, and now are using the term ‘solutions’, which is much better, as follows: Financials Human Resources Customer Relationship Management Supplier Relationship Management Product Lifecycle Management Supply Chain Management Business Intelligence If you’re still looking for that list of modules, here they are:
	FI Financial Accounting (Online Training, Tutorial, SAP Access) – essentially your regulatory ‘books of record’, including General ledger Book close Tax Accounts receivable Accounts payable Consolidation Special ledgers
	CO Controlling (Online Training, Tutorial, SAP Access) – basically your internal cost/management accounting, including Cost elements Cost centres Profit centres Internal orders Activity based costing Product costing AM Asset Management (Online Training, SAP Access) – track, value and depreciate your assets, including Purchase Sale Depreciation Tracking PS Project Systems (Online Training, SAP Access) – manage your projects, large and small, including Make to order Plant shut downs (as a project) Third party billing (on the back of a project) HR Human Resources (Online Training, SAP Access) – ah yes, people, including Employment history Payroll Training Career management Succession planning PM Plant Maintenance (Online Training, SAP Access) – maintain your equipment (e.g. a machine, an oil rig, an aircraft etc), including Labour Material Down time and outages MM Materials Management (Online Training, SAP Access) – underpins the supply chain, including Requisitions Purchase orders Goods receipts Accounts payable Inventory management BOM’s Master raw materials, finished goods etc QM Quality Management (Online Training, SAP Access) – improve the quality of your goods, including Planning Execution Inspections Certificates PP Production Planning (Online Training, SAP Access) – manages your production process, including Capacity planning Master production scheduling Material requirements planning Shop floor SD Sales and Distribution (Online Training, SAP Access) – from order to delivery, including RFQ Sales orders Pricing Picking (and other warehouse processes) Packing Shipping CA Cross Application (Online Training, SAP Access) – these lie on top of the individual modules, and include WF – workflow BW – business information warehouse Office – for email Workplace Industry solutions New Dimension products such as CRM, PLM, SRM, APO etc Go here to see our full list of our best SAP Tutorials, including one on the SAP FI Module and one on the SAP CO Module. If you need more go here to find over 450 more pages of free SAP Articles. We hope you have enjoyed reading this article. If you are interested in learning more, check out the online SAP training courses offered by Michael Management Corporation Cost Centre Accounting Internal Order Accounting Profit Centre Accounting Revenue Accounting Asset Accounting Investment Management Project System Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) SAP Query Report Design SAP Solution Manager (SOLMAN) ... and many more covering all parts of SAP ...