SAP

SAP (Systems Applications and Products) came into existence to provide customers with the ability to interact with a common database along with a comprehensive application range. Today SAP is being used by leading companies like Microsoft and IBM.
SAP was in fact founded by five IBM employees in 1972 from Mannheim, Germany. SAP applications have gone through various changes and modifications, and the latest R/3 (business applications from SAP) provides immense capabilities to manage financial assets, production operations, plants, personnel, materials, archived documents and cost accounting. The latest R/3 framework runs on several platforms that include Windows 2000 and it uses client/server models. It also includes internet enabled packages for better information exchange.
SAP has been continuously adding onto its product offerings with new e-business applications, web interfaces, tools for supply chain management, customer relationship management and much more. SAP systems comprise various fully integrated modules covering almost every aspect of business management. While most businesses today are looking to work upon a SAP framework, a SAP certification is increasingly becoming important for the career of employees. Not just regional job prospects, but SAP entertains hiring across the world. SAP is a globally recognized business platform today in various functional fields including Financial Accounting and Controlling (FICO), Production Planning (PP) and Materials Management (MM). The demand for SAP expertise is increasing in both production facilities are managerial workplaces, with companies coming up with a wide spectrum of SAP facilitated modules.

If you are planning to work in a manufacturing firm, SAP Production Planning (PP) module will be a good option for you. SAP PP is designed specifically for production planning and management. SAP PP module collaborate with master data, sales and operations planning, distribution resource planning, material requirements planning, Kanban, product cost planning and so on while working towards production management in enterprises.
If you are planning to work in logistics or SCM functions then SAP Materials Management (MM) will be a good option. SAP MM module manages materials required, processed and produced in enterprises. Sub-components in SAP MM module are vendor master data, consumption based planning, purchasing, inventory management, invoice verification and so on.
Certification on SAP PP and MM together is very good options for all engineers in core branches of engineering.