What Does The SAP R/3 Acronym mean?
The SAP R/3 acronym stands for System, Anwendungen, Produckte in der Datenverarbeitung or in English means System, Application & Products in Data Processing. The R/3 means Real time and 3 means 3-tiers, I’m sure that you’re all aware of the 3 tiers application, it means that the application is designed with 3 different layers, the Database layer, Application layer and the Presentation layer. But now the SAP R/3 product name has been changed into SAP ECC (ERP Central Component), the latest version the ERP ECC 6.0 The SAP R/3 (ECC) Modules Overview You can find eight basic modules in the SAP application, these modules are: MM • Material Master Data • Inventory Management- • Material Valuation • Warehouse Management System • Purchasing • Invoice Verification • Consumption based MRP PP • Engineering Change Management • Production Master Data • Sales & Operations Planning • Capacity Planning • Master Production Scheduling • MRP • Shop Floor Control • Product Costing QM • Inspection Planning
