SAP ECC and Modules Explained in Simpler Terms
SAP is the German company that owns these products which were started in the early 70s, roughly translated to systems, applications and products (in data processing). SAP is the global leader in Enterprise Resources Planning - the main system designed to store all data for across most (if not all) departments for any (large) corporation. An example is a retail store - has inventory, has product descriptions/prices/discounts, etc. vendors where product bought from, customers, sales for the day etc. now apply that to 1000s of products, millions of sales, hundreds of stores, multiples of vendors per product, 1000s of customers, etc etc. it generates an extremely large amount of data across various areas of the business - many accountants to look after the sales, a lot of HR/payroll to manage and schedule stuff, staff to manage inventory and delivery etc. And that's just one industry, SAPs core product, its ERP system, is called ECC6 and was previously called R/3 and some outda...