C and still bloody skint In IT/Telecoms.

 

-A) I haven't paid myself for the last seven months

 

D...but have been spending like a mad man!!!!...so has the wife!!...and the 3 year old angel!!!!(Girl)....trying to save money for a rainy day...

used to have 3 Scoobs now drive a rover coupe!!!!

talk about falling from grace!!
PS in IT

 

C with Jaguar cars.......
and skys the limit on part time side line

 

Maybe you should put G on there so i can fit into a category

 

D - Marketing
Living in NE so equivalent to G++ !!!

 

J

 

Am D as an IT contractor, switching to C when I go perm at the end of the year.

 

Merkin I notice you are a trainee fluffer,

now my understading of this is that they keep **** actors hard during scenes?

You must be a woman or gay? (pay for gay?)

 

SAP is a company and the name of the product they produce.

It is correctly pronounced ess-ayy-pee. It is actually an acronym for System, Application and Products in data processing.

The company is currently 29 years old and was founded by 5 former IBM employees.

The software was originally focused at Financials for manufacturing. It has established itself as one of the leader (current market share is larger than competitors) of the products formally known as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning).

Now it covers areas from:
Financials, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, Human Resouces, Payroll, Logisitics, Production Planning, Plant Maintenance.

It also covers:
Supply Chain Management, CRM, ESS, Portals, e-Procurement and Business to Business processing.

It is able to operate in multiple languages and in different lagnuage scripts (including Japanese). It is capable of operating with multiple currancies and as a 24/7/365 system.

It was certified Y2K compliant alsmost as soon as the certifications became available.

The original company SAP AG is based out of Walldorf in Germany and SAP AG employees around 10,000 people. The whole of the SAP group employees around 27,000 people worldwide.

SAP also has several partner organisations for development and implementations of the systems.

The current system is known as R/3 which does not stand for Release 3 (a common mistake) but actually Real-time 3 tier architecture. This system runs on a client-based system.

The client list is very expansive.

I hope that answers any questions.

 

(Time Limited Answer)

Telecommunications.

Official title - Voice Technical Specialist.

[Edited by Mice_Elf - 9/19/2002 2:13:59 PM]

 

Thats a new one!. Where i'm from, a fluffer is someone who does bugger all all day (much like me at the moment)
when i'm not in training to fluff, I am a derivatives trader

 

lol

 

A But I think that I am worth B

And that is doing privately managed funds admin. We do so much and get paid nowt

 

D, work in I.T as a Software Consultant/Project Manager.
Mortgage currently E but soon to be F (B~gger!).

 

B at the moment but hope to be making my way to C in November if Mr John -fat, own pocket lining, 2 Jag owning, public punching, motorist taxing, Churchill dog look-a-like b@5tard- Prescot gets his head out of his own @rse !

Paul

 

MATTel....You forgot to add......

SAP has several layers. The Basis System is the heart of the data operations and should be not evident to higher level or managerial users. Other customizing and implementation tools exist also. The heart of the system from a manager's viewpoint, are the application modules. These modules might not all be implemented in a typical company, but they are all related and are listed below:
FI Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting -- is designed for automated management and external reporting of general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable and other sub-ledger accounts with a user defined chart of accounts. As entries are made relating to sales production and payments journal entries are automatically posted. This connection means that the "books" are designed to reflect the real situation

CO Controlling
Controlling -- represents the company's flow of cost and revenue. It is a management instrument for organizational decisions. It too is automatically updated as events occur.
AM /AA Asset Management/Asset Accounting
Asset Management--is designed to manage and supervise individual aspects of fixed assets including purchase and sale of assets, depreciation and investment management.
PS Project System
Project System -- is designed to support the planning, control and monitoring of long-term, highly complex projects with defined goals.
WF Workflow
Workflow -- links the integrated SAP application modules with cross-application technologies, tools and services
IS Industry Solutions
Industry Solutions -- combines the SAP application modules and additional industry-specific functionality. Special techniques have been developed for industries such as banking, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, etc.
HR Human Resource
Human Resources -- is a complete integrated system for supporting the planning and control of personnel activities.
PM Plant Maintenance
Plant Maintenance--In a complex manufacturing process, maintenance means more than sweeping the floors. Equipment must be services and rebuilt. These tasks affect the production plans.
MM Materials Management
Materials Management--supports the procurement and inventory functions occurring in day-to-day business operations such as purchasing, inventory management, reorder point processing, etc
QM Quality Management
Quality Management--is a quality control and information system supporting quality planning, inspection, and control for manufacturing and procurement.
PP Production Planning
Production Planning--is used to plan and control the manufacturing activities of a company. This module includes; bills of material, routings, work centres, sales and operations planning, master production scheduling, material requirements planning, shop floor control, production orders, product costing, etc
SD Sales & Distribution
Sales and Distribution--helps to optimise all the tasks and activities carried out in sales, delivery and billing. Key elements are; pre-sales support, inquiry processing, quotation processing, sales order processing, delivery processing, billing and sales information system.
CS Customer Service
Customer Service- helps manage service calls, spare parts, contracts, customer history, returns etc.
BW Business Information Warehouse
Business Information warehouse - Business Information Warehouse (sometimes shortened to "Business Warehouse" or BW) is a packaged, comprehensive business intelligence product centred on a data warehouse that is optimised for (but not limited to) the R/3 environment from SAP. Like most data warehouses, BW is a combination of databases and database management tools that are used to support management decision-making

EC Enterprise Controlling
Enterprise Controlling includes business planning, executive information systems (executive reports) and profit centre accounting.
APO Advance Planning Optimiser
Advance Planning Optimiser - helps in the area of supply chain, covering managing demand and delivery to the network of users, sales agents etc.
6. MySAP Industry Solutions

MySAP Aerospace & Defence
MySAP Automotive
MySAP Banking
MySAP Chemicals
MySAP Consumer Products
MySAP Engineering & Construction
MySAP Financial Service Provider
MySAP Healthcare
MySAP Higher Education & Research
MySAP High Tech
MySAP Insurance
MySAP Media
MySAP Mill Products
MySAP Mining
MySAP Oil & Gas
MySAP Pharmaceuticals
MySAP Public Sector
MySAP Retail
MySAP Service Providers
MySAP Telecommunications
MySAP Utilities


7. Languages

ABAP/4
BASIS Middleware (platform specific)

8. Typical SAP Project Life Cycle

· Blue Printing – Client discussion, scooping, analysis
· Conceptual Design – Design
· Sign Off – Client acceptance of initial design
· Configuration – Fitting of system to clients processes
· Pilot System – Sign off of a pilot
· Test – functional, technical, user testing of systems
· Go-Live
· Training – Super users and users.
· Production Support – the system passes from development into daily use and is supported, usually by the Production Support Team




9. SAP Glossary

GUI (Graphic User Interface)
A graphical interface used by SAP environment as part of the three tiers. Also known as front-end.
IMG (Implementation Management Guide)
It is a hierarchical structure that reflects the R/3 component hierarchy and contains every configuration activity. Released from version 3.0 onwards.
Instance
It means application server and each one has its own set of work processes.
SysID
A set of three letters or number that identify a system. Some sets are not allowed because they are used by SAP. They are informed when the system is installed.

ITS (Internet Transaction Server)
It links the R/3 application server with one or more Web servers, thus enabling the R/3 to communicate with the Internet.

OSS (Online Service System)
SAP's Online Service System offers fast and effective help for R/3 System problems. It is also the basic element of communications between customers, partners, and SAP.
RFC (Remote Function Call)
A way to implement communication between application programs via Abap/4 function call.
IDoc (Intermediate Document)
An IDoc is a data container for data exchange between SAP systems or between an SAP system and an external system.
Archiving – SAP’s terminology for the functionality that purges transactions and master data from the SAP database. The SAP literature states that archived data can be restored to the production system. For practical purposes however, this is not recommended.
DART – An acronym for Data Archiving and Retention Tool. This is SAP functionality that allows you to periodically extract and retain data from your R/3 system. The data is extracted into a sequential file. DART provides tools for viewing the retained data in different ways.
Legal Data – As used in this document, this refers to the requirements imposed by the IRS, State tax authorities and other tax authorities for the long-term retention of business data to support taxes paid and other legal requirements.
Operational Data – As used in this document, this refers to the requests from customers, vendors or employees for business data.
Management Data – As used in this document, this refers to data that is used by management for business decisions.
10. Useful for Information
Sites for information on SAP
www.sapfans.com
www.planetsap.com
www.sap.com
www.sapinfo.net
www.basisconsultant.com
www.ittoolbox.com

 

Use to be in C-D bracket now in the U (for unemployed) bracket
Was in Telecomms

Tony

 

Ooh, tell me more. PLEEESE!!

 

Uh, I'm in an earnings bracket I am happy with. I just hope I can continue to get contracts...

 

Currently I am in E bracket, but Ex-misses and CSA take B back from me

Cheers Phill C

PS Technical Consultant

 

lol @ telboy

 

C Software Engineer/Solaris/NT Admin/Networking/IP etc Telecomms (read dead ) industry.

Missus A

Need more!!!

 

E's are good, E's are good - Ebineezer good

Ha Ha to all you minimum wagers - where do you all work tescos? - Gonna get promoted to shelf stackers ey LOL

Bonus is, I don't to **** all all week - get the IT nerds to sort out the crap and just do strategy meself.

cue song number 2..

"The only way is up"

cos - you gimps cant get any cheaper

Disclaimer.

I am not responsible for any suicides, I thank you

 

Spot the SAP consultant...

(yawn....)

Mak

 

SAP - is this a reference to what you have to be to buy it ??

We just merged with a company that was using it, and have just binned it along with the 500 IT people who ran the project - wouldn't mind so much but there was only 507 people in the company in total LOL

 

Who was that Adam?

 

NDA mate - only half true so don't worry too much - they did have 90 IT staff, where half the size of us, and yet we had 4 IT staff in the same function - bananas.

[Edited by what would scooby do - 9/19/2002 2:36:45 PM]

 

3 times F + higher level of C.

I do work hard but consider myself very lucky at the same time and am ever the humbler for it!!!

5 years ago, I was earning B so if I can do it, anyone can with a bit of luck and being in the right place at the right time.

 

C

Spend D

Analyst/Programmer/Networking