• The Project System (PS) module facilitates the planning for and control over new research and development (R&D), construction, and marketing projects. This module allows for costs to be collected against a project, and it is frequently used to manage the implementation of the SAP ERP system. PS manages build to- order items, which are low-volume, highly complex products such as ships and aircrafts.
• The Financial Accounting (FI) module records transactions in the general ledger accounts. This module generates financial statements for external reporting purposes.
• The Controlling (CO) module serves internal management purposes, assigning manufacturing costs to products and to cost centers so the profitability of the company’s activities can be analyzed. The CO module supports managerial decision making.
• The Workflow (WF) module is not a module that automates a specific business function. Rather, it is a set of tools that can be used to automate any of the activities in SAP ERP. It can perform task-flow analysis and prompt employees (by email) if they need to take action. The Workflow module works well for business processes that are not daily activities but that occur frequently enough to be worth the effort to implement the workflow module—such as preparing customer invoices.
Modules