Finance - Vendor
SAP
A family of software used by large organisations for finance, purchasing, manufacturing and supply chain management
What's it for?
Helps large organisations run core work such as finance, purchasing, manufacturing and supply chains.
For example…
A manufacturer uses SAP to manage purchasing, production, stock and finance across several plants
A purchase order created in SAP can update procurement commitments, inventory processes and financial records within the same enterprise platform
Think of it like…
SAP is the heavy-duty engine many multinationals use to run finance, supply chain, and operations in one stack
Often confused with…
- Concur (SAP Concur)Expense and travel software for submitting receipts, booking trips and managing spend
- SAP S/4HANASAP's current ERP suite for running core processes such as finance, procurement, manufacturing and supply chain
- SAP ECC (SAP ERP Central Component)SAP's older generation of ERP software, widely used before S/4HANA
- SAP SuccessFactorsSAP cloud HR software for employee records, recruitment, performance, learning and other people processes
- SAP AribaSAP procurement software for sourcing, purchasing, supplier management and spend processes
- SAP FieldglassSAP software for managing external workers, contractors and services supplied by third parties
- SAP Sales CloudSAP CRM software for managing customer accounts, sales opportunities and sales activity
- SAP Integration SuiteSAP's cloud integration platform for connecting applications, data, APIs and business processes
- SAP LeanIXEnterprise architecture platform for mapping applications, technology, dependencies and transformation plans