The R/3 version at IAG - Louvain School Management / ISYS  is mySAP ERP ECC 5.0 with ERP Java adds-on running on Netweaver 04 SR1. IDES (see below) is loaded in ECC.  The Application Server runs on  Web AS 6.40 SR1 ABAP + Java. SAP GUI clients are versions 6.4 and 7.0. Databases run on SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. The IAG SAP landscape is deployed with SAP Solution Manager 4.0. The installation is for teaching and research use.

IDES in the R/3-based System represents a SAP model company. It consists of an international group with subsidiaries in several countries. IDES contains application data for various business scenarios that can be run in the SAP System. IDES not only covers the Logistics area, but also Financials, and Human Resources. It demonstrates how the R/3 System supports practically all types of industries, from discrete production through to process industries, from engineering-to-order to repetitive manufacturing. However, IDES is not a sector-oriented model company. The individual processes are based on practice-oriented data for sectors such as Retailing or Banking. The IDES group manufactures products as diverse as elevators, motorcycles, and paints. IDES ECC 5.0 is installed on mySAP ERP at IAG - Louvain School of Management.

R/3 stands for real-time / three-tiered architecture (Presentation/Application/Database Layers). Back in the nineties, it was also at that time the third release of the SAP ERP system while the previous release R/2 has been dedicated to mainframe architectures. Since 2004  mySAP ERP ECC replaces the traditional R/3 back-end core system in the mySAP Business Suite. ECC stands for ERP central components. It can support, throught the SAP Netweaver technology, the Java stack notably for e-business  web services deployment. The classical ABAP stack is still available but integrated to Netweaver. SAP Web Application Server allows Enterprise Portals and E-business Web Services Deployment for ECC. Liike R/3, ECC  is arranged into distinct functional modules, covering the typical functions in place in an organization. The most widely used modules are Financials and Controlling, Human Resources, Materials Management, Sales & Distribution, and Production Planning.

ECC 5.0 includes the following back-end business modules already present in R/3: Financial Accounting (FI), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Treasury (TR), Controlling (CO), Enterprise Controlling (EC), Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Warehouse Management (LE-WM), Quality Management (QM), Plant Maintenance (PM), Customer Service (CS), Production Planning (PP), Project System (PS), Personnel Administration and Payroll Accounting (PA), Personnel Development (PA-PD), Basis Components (BC), Business Work Place (BWP), WorkFlow (WF) Business Warehouse (BW), ...

Universite catholique de Louvain
IAG - Louvain School of Management
ISYS Information System Unit
Place des Doyens, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium