It became a pioneer to shift client server which is used mainly today.
The idea is that users can check information when they want.

SAP ERP is made from various module such as SD for sales, MM for Distribution, Purchasing and Inventory, FI for Accounting, and PP for Production Planning. We have continued to draw together from the database of these modules.

As a necessary and sufficient condition for the integration database, we need to unify and normalize these sections. For example, the item which is made in a factory is stands for delivery for the factory, however, it stands for stock for warehouse. And the expense of factory might be cost. As mentioned, the words used in many sections in companies should be unified in a whole company.

The application has developed based on the constraint of 2) and 3) above.

As a result, all data have the same time axis.
This idea leads to the expression of real-time.

When each database is independent, each requirement should be connected by program for operational coordination. On the other hand, the coordination has already been guaranteed in integrated database.
That means sharing operational coordination, and those will be necessary for standardizing operations and operational reforms. On the other hand, it takes big budgets and periods to make and change programs for cooperation with he environment of a company which has changed every day, at the database which is not integrated.

y normalization and coordination of data section, there will be no plexus of data at the database, and it will be guaranteed to check that data you need.

1. For that, independent will be required to translate each database language.
2. And, because this is not normalized and the timing to change data is different, time axis will not match.

For the reasons above, “Visualization” is the biggest merit for integrated database, data section and normalization. That is the reason that the extensibility and flexibility is original for SAP ERP.

Among lots of merits mentioned, the biggest merit is to manage task progress.

1. Because you can check the data across other sections, you can check real-time data such as orders, delivery and stocks, products, invoice, and payment.
2. ② As a result, applications such as credit management and MRP are guaranteed.
3. lity gives high quality to accounting control as well.

Totally as a result, from the characteristics of SAP ERP mentioned above, control accounting has some characteristics below.

1. You can treat control accounting among the modules of SD, MM, PP, and FI.
2. You can make control accounting across more than two modules easily.
   For example, you can make a new analyzing sheet which has sales, profit, and cost of manufacture, stocks, and materials.
3. At the integrated data, time axis is integrated as well.
   Real time is guaranteed because time axis at all sections such as credit management, stocks, sales information, delivery and orders, and payments.
4. Standard cost accounting
   Estimated standard cost accounting is able when SOP (Sales and Operations Planning) of each section such as direct and indirect cost, and direct expense at the progress of each factory can be planned. This is one of the examples that shows Product Planning, Material Management, and Sales Distribution are integrated.