蘋果公司使用什麼 ERP 系統，是否也是 SAP？

01-06

蘋果公司在 1998 年做的 SAP 的實施。

實施期間歷時一年。

似乎上了 FI，SD，MM三個模塊。

實施的公司是 KPMG Consulting。

費用估計是 5千萬美元左右。猜測僱傭了 35 名左右的 SAP 實施顧問。

十多年後的今天是否仍然使用 SAP 的 ERP 系統是未知數。

（據說今天仍然使用了 SAP 的 ERP 系統和 Retail 系統）

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/38368851/SAP-R3-Implementation-at-Apple-Inc

這不是什麼秘密，Apple 就是使用 SAP，並且是全球最大的動態系統和實例之一，是支撐 Apple 日常商業運作能力的核心。應用範圍幾乎涵蓋了 Apple 的所有業務。我為什麼知道這些？僅僅從蘋果公司的招聘信息就能發現：

&> SAP production support organization is responsible for the upkeep of all our SAP production environments, that includes discrete instances for ECC, GTS, BW, CRM, APO, iTunes, Retail, Portal and business critical supply chain applications like Demantra and IOP based applications. Portfolio of services under the organization includes, but not limited to issue management, event management, change management, proactive system monitoring, regression testing, support pack implementations, scale testing and minor enhancements. Most of these critical services are delivered 24 X 7 by teams that are located both at the regions and multiple offshore locations in India. (via SAP Support Offshore Delivery Lead-India at Apple in Bangalore - Sales -India)

一些跟 SAP 直接相關的團隊和職位：

SAP Data Archiving team
Apple SAP Global IST organization
SAP Project Manager - FICO
SAP Archiving Functional Analyst at Apple in Singapore …
SAP CRM Order Management Functional Analyst
SAP Support Analyst
SAP Performance Analyst
SAP Project Manager
Senior SAP Project Manager
SAP Business Systems Analyst
Senior ABAP Developer
SAP Support and Project Manager
Senior Production Support Developer/Lead (Java SAP …
SAP SM/SD Functional Analyst
SAP Performance Analyst
SAP Technical Project Manager
WW Finance SAP Support Lead

了解更多可以看 ── apple sap site:www.linkedin.com/jobs2 - Google Search

SAP 簡直是我在 Apple 用過的最難用的系統了，Apple 把基本上所有的內部軟體都自己做了，除了 SAP，每次用 SAP 時候感覺像用 Windows。

在蘋果公司實習過。蘋果確實是用SAP。

THIS IS A SECRECT

Strike one: SAP

SAP is the industry standard resource planning software for high-end, big-time enterprise users.

Incredibly complex in some ways, this software is also incredibly powerful and designed to coordinate all the resources, information, and activities needed to complete business processes such as order fulfillment or billing.

This means SAP is the software Apple likely uses to ensure it keeps its inventories low. I"ve been unable to confirm if AAPL does, or does not, make use of all five of the most-used SAP modules: Financials and Controlling (FICO), Human Resources (HR), Materials Management (MM), Sales Distribution (SD), and Production Planning (PP).

You can make a reasonable guess that Apple uses this software in sales and distribution and materials management.

I say reasonable because a search of Apple"s recruitment site quickly reveals the importance of SAP to the company, with Apple Store Back Office Reps, AppleCare planners and many other admin/management posts required to possess at least some experience with the powerful enterprise software.

SAP sits at the core of Apple"s business machine.

Of course, there"s a little Apple in its admin systems. FileMaker is an independent company that"s entirely owned by Apple, and the company does look for knowledge of FileMaker"s database software and/or mySQL in some data management-related posts.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/16540/not_invented_here_apples_secret_applications

基於各種原因無法提供更多信息，但是各位如果在apple store網上下過訂單的話。收到的pdf訂單文件就可以看出端倪-若查看pdf文件屬性信息就可以發現是由SAP Netweaver生成的。

這也算Apple用SAP的一個佐證吧。

的確用的sap 當然還有別的一大堆自己開發的系統

曾經接過獵頭的電話，職位就是蘋果的SAP顧問。

全局用的SAP，局部用FileMaker？記得蘋果中國HR照過FileMaker工程師。FileMaker是蘋果全資子公司。

HANA聽起來不錯

apple 馬上要在全球範圍內上sap hana