The standard set of applications delivered with each R/3 system are
the following:
- PP (Production Planning)
- MM (Materials Management)
- SD (Sales and Distribution)
- FI (Financial Accounting)
- CO (Controlling)
- AM (Fixed Assets Management)
- PS (Project System)
- WF (Workflow)
- IS (Industry Solutions)
- HR (Human Resources)
- PM (Plant Maintenance)
- QM (Quality Management)
- CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
These applications are called the functional areas, or application areas,
or at times the functional modules of R/3. All of these terms are synonymous
with each other.
Traditionally, businesses assemble a suite of data processing applications
by evaluating individual products and buying these separate products from
multiple software vendors. Interfaces are then needed between them. For
example, the materials management system will need links to the sales and
distribution and to the financial systems, and the workflow system will
need a feed from the HR system. A significant amount of IS time and money
is spent in the implementation and maintenance of these interfaces.
R/3 comes prepackaged with the core business applications needed by
most large corporations. These applications coexist in one homogenous environment.
They are designed from the ground up to run using a single database and
one (very large) set of tables. Current production database sizes range
from 12 gigabytes to near 3 terabytes. Around 8,000 database tables are
shipped with the standard delivery R/3 product.
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