This is not entirely new information but since this is a “Cross” SAP blog, I wouldn’t want to skip out this definition. It is always useful to know what application areas does SAP cover. First of all, let me refresh you the SAP roadmap strategy for the following years.

This is where SAP intends to go, focusing on a Business Model Innovation strategy:

From an upgrade and maintenance point of view, SAP will drop extended maintenance for R/3 4.6c by the end of 2009. Further maintenance will be “customer specific maintenance”.

Each business process has a segment previously set. Each one of these segments is known as a Business Application Area. These areas are comprehensive and help us know and keep the whole system in context. They also provide us the level of SAP R/3 (or currently SAP ERP) covering.

Even if we’re not aiming to implement a specific module, sometimes we’ll have to set it partially. It happens commonly due to the integrated nature of the system, since functionalities have been put together establishing modules. The official division has the following configuration:

CA – Cross Application Functions

• Document Management System
• Classification System
• CAD Integration
• SAP Office
• Plant Data Collection
• General Task Functions
• Documentation Tools
• Distribution (ALE)
• Eletronic Data Interchange
• ArchiveLink
• Message Control
• Translations

FI – Financial Accounting (FI/CO transaction codes)

• Global Settings
• General Ledger Accounting
• Accounts Receivable
• Accounts Payable
• Legal Consolidation
• Consolidation Preparation
• Asset Accounting
• Special Purpose Ledger
• Electronic Bank Statement
• Financial Information System

TR – Treasury

• Cash Management
• Cash Budget Management and Financial Budgeting
• Commitment Accounting

CO – Controlling (FI/CO transaction codes)

• Controlling General
• Overhead Cost Controlling
• Product Cost Controlling
• Profitability Analysis

IM – Investment Management

• Investment Programs
• Investment Orders
• Investment Projects

EC – Enterprise Controlling

• Profit Center Accounting
• Executive Information System

LO – Logistics General

• Managing Material Master Data
• Business Partners
• Environment Data
• Variant Configuration
• Engineering Change Management
• Logistics Information System

SD – Sales and Distribution

• Schedule Agreement Processing
• Availability Check and Requirements
• Pricing and Conditions
• Sales
• Shipping
• Transportation
• Foreign Trade
• Billing
• Sales Support
• Credit Management
• Information and Analysis

MM – Materials Management

• Consumption-Based Planning
• Purchasing Guide
• Inventory Management
• Valuation and Account Assignment
• Invoice Verification
• Material Evaluation
• Warehouse Management
• Vendor Evaluation
• Material Ledger

QM – Quality Management

• Quality Plannning
• Quality Inspection
• Quality Certificates
• Quality Notifications

PM – Plaint Maintenance

• Equipment and Technical Objects
• Preventive Maintenance
• Maintenance Order Management
• Maintenance History

PP – Production Planning

• Bills of Material
• Demand Management
• Routings
• Sales & Operations planning
• Master Plannning
• Capacity Planning
• Material Requirements Planning
• Production Orders
• Kanban
• Repetitive Manufacturing
• Work Centers

PS – Project System

• Task Management
• Reference Guide

PD – Personnel Planning and Development

• Organizational Management
• Training and Event Management
• Personnel Development
• Workforce Planning
• Personnel Cost Planning
• Room Reservations Planning
• Structural Graphics

PA/PY – Personnel Administration and Payroll Accounting

• Personnel Administration
• Benefits
• Recruitment
• Time Management
• Incentive Wages
• Travel Expenses
• Payroll: Country Specifications

IN – International Development

• Africa (South Africa)
• Asian Pacific Area (Australia, China, Japan, Singapore)
• Europe (Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom)
• North America (Canada, Mexico, USA)
• South America (Argentina, Brazil)

BC – Basis Components

• Workflow Management
• Frontend Services
• Report Tree
• Computer Center Management System
• ABAP/4 Dictionary
• ABAP/4 Workbench
• ABAP/4 Query
• SAP Graphics
• SAP Communication
• Style & Layout set Maintenance
• Modification and Enhancements
• Authorization Administration
• Computer Aided Test Tool
• Application Data Archiving and Reorganization