SAP -Product life cycle management-scenario map

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Life_Cycle_Management



http://www.sap.com/solutions/business-suite/plm/index.epx

Lifecycle data management
Enterprise asset management
Program and Project management
Life cycle collaboration and analytics
Quality management
EH&S/Emissions management

Lifecycle data management

Document management- Part of enterprise content management

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management

Customer specific engineering

A bill of materials or bill of material (abbreviated "BOM") describes a product in terms of its assemblies, sub-assemblies, and basic parts. Basically consisting of a list of parts, a BOM is an essential part of the design and manufacture of any product

http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/8B15C46C0A2C42B381DA444F931B340E.htm

New Product Development

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_product_development http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/7CCEDD1C4E6D4EFBA6AF96CA6AA09F2B.htm

Process engineering

http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/21A4E1752328452F97F95F7FD08C9DAA.htm

CAD Driven design process

http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/991F613D6C6E4325ADFB06DCE294F352.htm

PLM data replication in a distributed environment

http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/9F433A8F8AC048C2A48BE729720B51DA.htm

Engineering change managment

http://www.johnstark.com/ec3.html
http://www.visitask.com/engineering-change-order.asp http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/D0A45D785990457D990738D4CC4FD4C6.htm

Order change management

http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/8CBE330C2BFD4EF4BC65A1E541CE4CED.htm

• Enterprise asset management

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_asset_management http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/32C13E8009BB4598B2A499A6554E0E67.htm

IT asset life cycle management http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/6ED52BDFBC6B4229A580D24112344E0F.htm

Fleet management

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_management

http://www.enterprise.com/fleets/home.do

http://www.sap.com/solutions/businessmaps/2B72C474181D4A5D93356C7A4727F83A/index.epx

Condition based maintenance

http://www.plantservices.com/articles/2006/199.html

Condition based maintenance with calibration inspections

http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/D4D9A6DF46B64855BDFBDAB2FA63666A.htm

Cross-Department Completion Confirmation

http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/A724FB07FBC547108CD00A1CDD2993C4.htm

Optimizing asset effectivness

http://www.automationworld.com/view-2752
http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/D66A94F5CC33482E90A1B64B64217334.htm

Outsourcing Maintenance Services

http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/EF9E99C6AC6A4DAF96812F0A0BDA017F.htm

Procurement of New Equipment

http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/EE5371E253594252A8871567213644A6.htm

Refurbishment Process

http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/D6EC519D3E75475383B1F801278D89B6.htm

Spare parts management

http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/B8DF92D5B4984E1A81DB3E90D99C4572.htm

• Program and Project management

• Life cycle collaboration and analytics


• Quality management


• EH&S/Emissions management

letter of credit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_credit

SRM-also called sourcing , strategic sourcing

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid21_gci871756,00.html

http://www.epiqtech.com/supplier_relationship_management.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_sourcing

CRM -issues

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid21_gci1165970,00.html

links

http://www.sap-img.com/sap-overview/help-to-understand-sap-licenses.htm


SAP as a foundation rather a house
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/83/8319it1.html
Companies are starting to look at Sarbanes-Oxley as a requirement that goes beyond just financials into other areas of operations

SAP PM

The SAP Plant Maintenance comprises of the following activities such as inspection, to measures and establish the actual condition of a technical system, preventive maintenance to measures and maintain the ideal condition of a technical system, repair to measures and restore the ideal condition of a technical system and other measures that need to be taken using the maintenance organization.

SAP PM is closely integrated with other modules (for example, Materials Management, Production, Sales and Distribution, Personnel Management, and Controlling) the data is always kept current and processes that are necessary for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service are automatically triggered in other areas (for example, a purchase requisition for non-stock material in the Materials Management/Purchasing area).