STANDARD MODULES

FI module "Financial management" (along with its constituent parts Accounting, Controlling and Financial Management) plays a key role for the management of all divisions by providing communication with the supply chain. This all makes it possible to optimize the internal processes in the Company.

The FI module is the central module of the SAP ERP system. He is responsible for external accounting and reporting, working with the accounts of the general ledger (where the transactions, which are performed in other modules, are recorded, before the data on them are entered in the balance sheet and income statement). Here are the most important of its features; the Module consists of the following parts:

• ledger - main records / charts of accounts, accounting transactions of documents, display of accounting transactions and balance, bank information, etc.;
• creditor accounts - master records of suppliers, accounting transactions of documents, display of accounting transactions and balance, clearing open items, settlement program, etc.;
• debtor accounts - customer master records, accounting transactions of documents, display of accounting transactions and balance, clearing open items, top-down payments, credit management, etc.;
• closing operations - closing of the period: day / month / year in external accounting and reporting, tax reports, etc.;
• information system of finance - information system of debtors / creditors and general ledger.

In addition, FI contains automation procedures (automatic accounting transactions, clearing), grouping facilities and special registers.

The FI-AA module is used to manage and monitor fixed assets using the SAP system. It serves as an auxiliary book to the General Ledger in the Finance module (FI). It contains detailed information on the movements of fixed assets.

The module consists of the following parts:

• traditional accounting of fixed assets;
• processing of leased fixed assets;
• preparation for consolidation;
• information system.

Traditional accounting of fixed assets covers the entire period of operation of the fixed asset, starting with the purchase order or the initial receipt (control is possible as for the NCS object) and before its retirement. The system automatically calculates most of the values for depreciation, interest, insurance and other parameters for this period of time; and with the help of the information system it provides this information in a variety of forms. The system has a report on the forecast of depreciation charges and on modeling the dynamics of the value of fixed assets.

The system additionally offers special functions for accounting of leased fixed assets and objects of unfinished capital construction. The system allows one to process values in parallel currencies using different types of estimates. This makes it easier to prepare for the consolidation of multinational concerns.

The CO module (controlling) is intended for management accounting and is aimed at providing management with the entire list of necessary management information. Data, which comes from other modules, is used in this case.

The CO module provides an accounting of the costs and profits of the enterprise and includes:

• cost accounting by place of origin (cost centers);
• cost accounting for orders;
• project cost accounting;
• calculation of expenses;
• control of profitability (results);
• control of profit centers (profit centers);
• accounting for manufacture;
• controlling the activity of the enterprise.

This module allows one to perform the following operations:

• planning and accounting of expenses for individual structural units of the enterprise;
• recalculation of expenses between individual structural units; calculation of internal orders;
• an estimation of profitability of separate kinds of activity;
• formation of planned and actual production costs of certain types of products;
• drawing up of the business plan of the enterprise and other management reporting.

The SAP MM module is responsible for management of material flows. The most important elements of this module are:

• procurement - purchase of basic materials;
• maintenance - offers of suppliers (catalog of services, works), placing of orders, acceptance of rendered services;
• inventory management and stocktaking;
• invoice verification and material evaluation;
• warehouse management;
• cost-driven material requirements planning;
• supplier attestation.

The system of sales organization in the SAP system is focused on automation of routine operations at the stages of data processing during the sale, shipment and invoicing of an order. It is an advanced marketing support tool and provides consolidated cash flow accounting in the sales area.

Sales module allows one to:

• create a single organizational sales structure, which is integrated with other applications;
• a unified mechanism for concluding and executing contracts for products sold;
• improve the mechanism for registration, storage and retrieval of trade documents. Maintain the history of the execution of contracts;
• implement the possibility of managing the price policy, allowing to take into account the regional (geographical), international sales structure, personal relations with buyers (debtors);
• improve the pricing mechanism for the sale of finished products, goods, and services;
• accelerate the receipt of payments from customers through the automation of the forming of financial documents and exclusion of errors;
• receive operational information on sales and marketing of finished products, goods and services, at various levels of management;
• implement tracking of payment behavior of customers and reduce non-payments;
• receive the necessary sales reports for the management of the enterprise and state bodies.

The FI-FM-Funds Management module is an integral part of the FI module and provides the forming of the budget for all receipts and expenditures for certain areas of responsibility, monitoring future financial flows in relation to the existing budget, as well as avoiding budget overruns.

It is fully integrated with other components of the SAP R/3 system and is designed to perform the following functions:

• budget planning;
• control over the actual receipt and expenditure of financial resources;
• forming of budget performance reports.

The FI-FM module allows one to compile a budget; to do the documents of reduction and increase on it; to control budget overruns both on the basis of the outflow from the cash desk and on the creation of the document of obligations (creditor invoices, purchase orders, documents for allocating funds from the budget, etc.).

The HCM "Personnel management" module on the SAP R/3 platform allows one to perform the functions of planning, analytics and operational management of personnel, the formation and development of human resources, and the management of intra-corporate communications.

The HR module greatly simplifies the tasks of personnel management. This module is suitable for use both within a country and in transnational companies due to the availability of country-specific info-types and support for multiple languages.

Key elements of the HCM module are as follows:

• personnel administration;
• payroll calculation;
• temporary data management;
• calculation of travel expenses;
• calculation of benefits;
• recruitment of new employees;
• planning and training of personnel ;
• the use of labor;
• management of seminars;
• organizational management;
• personnel information system.

The key elements of the application module are: Specifications (BOM), Routings, Work centers (locations), Sales planning (SOP), Production planning (MPS), Materials requirement planning (MRP), Production management (SFC), Production orders, Costing on the product, Process cost accounting, Serial production, Kanban (Just in time), Continuous production planning.

The functional of the module solves the following problems of discrete, serial and continuous production:

• Creation of a production program.
  • Calculation of requirement for materials.
  • Production capacities planning.
  • Calculation of expenses for the object.
• Enlarged and long-term planning of production and sales.
• Maintenance of specifications and process maps.
• Accounting of workplaces.
• Control at each stage of the life cycle of orders: from production to settlement and closure.

It includes three modules:

• The Access Risk Analysis module is a tool for automatically analyzing the separation of authority, which detects conflicts and reports violations. It provides an opportunity to identify the causes of conflicts in real time.
• The Business Role Management module allows creating user roles, performing their testing, support and documentation. This tool provides the ability to work together for business users and IT administrators.
• The Access Request Management module provides the ability to assign access rights to the user throughout the cycle from hiring to dismissal through the web-based claims process. The process of approvals, which is implemented in the system, allows creating requests for granting access, approving requests, automatically granting authorities, confirming that the rules of separation of powers have not been violated, to inform users of their passwords. Access Request Management can use the organizational structure of SAP HR, allowing you to implement a system for approving requests based on the positions held.
• The Emergency Access module provides the means of monitoring emergency or special actions. Such actions are either special operations by personnel support service; or they are monthly / yearly actions, access to which is restricted in the rest of the time. All actions performed by users in the framework of the powers received to perform emergency or special actions (FireFighter) are registered. This allows one to see all the operations and data changes that the user has performed.

Modules for industry solutions include typical SAP Business All-in-One (SAP) solution packages. Industry SAP solutions are adapted to the specifics of the industry. The main advantages of SAP industry solutions are best practices of implementation of processes, short implementation times, economical budget, and ease of use, tangible returns and investment protection. At present there are industry solutions in the following areas:

• Aerospace and defense industry
• Automotive industry
• Banking sector
• Chemical industry
• Consumer goods
• Defense and security
• Design, construction and service
• Healthcare
• High tech
• Higher education and scientific research
• Mechanical engineering
• Insurance
• Biological sciences
• Mass-media
• Manufacturing industry
• Mining industry
• Oil and gas industry
• Professional services
• Government sector
• Retail trade
• Sports and entertainment
• Telecommunications
• Travels and transportation
• Power engineering and Housing
• Wholesale trade