System Instance XIII: Installation Sequence Other

Table 37: Installation Sequence Other Components Sequence Software Units to Install

XIIIa Install the other components as described in steps IVa to IVd inSection 3.4.2.4 -SystemInstance IV: Installation Sequence Other Components.

4 Key Functional Areas of SAP ERP 6.0

Powered by SAP NetWeaver 7.0, the open integration, and application platform, SAP ERP 6.0 combines core ERP functionality with portal-based collaboration across the extended enterprise. SAP ERP gives you better control of your assets as well as business processes, such as financial supply chain management, E-Recruiting and profitability assessments of employees, departments and customers.

SAP ERP allows you to regain active control of your administrative and operations

environment, and helps you to increase efficiency and profitability. SAP ERP enables new levels of business processes and technology integration while laying the foundation for incremental evolution of the application.

The SAP ERP Business Map encompasses all key functional areas within SAP ERP. The SAP ERP Business Map is located on SAP Service Marketplace at

http://service.sap.com/businessmaps Cross-Industry Maps Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

Processes, role-based Work Centers, and Key Functional Areas

SAP ERP supports the many roles, which persons have in the enterprise with different means. It includes functions for approximately 300 generic business processes and for several role-based Work Centers.

Each process links to a key functional area, such as Analytics, Financials, or Human Capital Management. We have assigned each role-based Work Center to the End-User Service Delivery key functional area, and implement it by means of different SAP ERP business packages.

Find more information about the overall Role and Work Center Concept in the SAP Library help.sap.com SAP ERP Central Component Business Packages (Portal Content) Role and Work Center Concept.

In Particular holds that

A role in the portal enables users to access applications and transactions that they require to carry out the tasks of a particular role in the

enterprise. It provides users with simple, direct access to the services that they use more or less regularly, regardless of the system in which you execute the services.

A role can comprise several work centers, which bundle the services for a particular task within a role. A work center is therefore the starting point for an employee’s work in a particular task area. From a technical point of view, a work center is a workset in the business package.

SAP ERP includes the product instance SAP ECC Server. We have organized the

functionality of SAP ECC Server with composite roles, and single roles. You use these roles to assign authorizations to user of SAP ECC, as part of the Identity Management.

The following sections of the Master Guide include more information about SAP ERP processes, role-based Work Centers, and SAP ERP business packages but do not consider the user management. For more information about the following topics, see the Solution Operation Guide fromhttp://service.sap.com/erp-inst:

User management Composite roles Single roles

For most SAP ERP 6.0 processes, we provide implementation content in the SAP Solution Manager. We have structured the SAP Solution Manager in the same way as the SAP ERP 6.0 application map and the process component information used in this Master Guide.

With the exception of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Portal Roles, we group each process and role-based Work Center in the SAP Solution Manager by its corresponding key functional area. As an exception, the role-based Work Centers for the SAP NetWeaver usage type EP Core are part of the key functional area to which they belong, such as Human Capital Management or Financials.

In the SAP Solution Manager, the implementation content for SAP ERP role-based Work Centers are available within the configuration structure for the application SAP ERP. You can adapt the

configuration structure of your project accordingly. To do so, you use the tabstrip configuration of the system transaction configuration change (solar02). For more information, see the documentation of the SAP Solution Manager andSection 2.1.5 - SAP Solution Manager.

The Master Guide SAP ERP 6.0 discusses the following topics for each of the key functional areas:

Overview

Technical system landscape Implementation sequence

Software component Information

The actual sections of the Master Guide define the software components and product instances required to implement all key functional areas together or to implement individual processes and role-based Work Centers.

We have designed each generic business process to implement one defined business function (1:1 relation). Role-based Work Centers typically include different processes of SAP ERP (1: N relation). To implement a role-based Work Center, it may also be necessary to determine the technical requirements of individual processes covered by the specific role-based Work Center.

For more information about dependencies among processes, see SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/notes SAP Note824757 (Dependencies between SAP ERP component lists).

System Infrastructure Diagrams (Technical System Landscape)

The technical infrastructure diagrams use the general system landscapes shown above and represent one possible implementation. They enable you to understand the interaction between different software components and the dependencies that you must consider during the implementation phase, and they demonstrate a typical distribution of components among multiple hosts.

The design of an actual system landscape, however, depends on your own requirements, such as high availability, security and performance. Such requirements ultimately determine the dimensions of the infrastructure that you should implement.

For more information about technical infrastructure issues and network integration, see SAP Service Marketplace at

http://service.sap.com/sysadmin.