One of the largest suppliers of supply chain management and enterprise resource planning software is SAP, based in Walldorf, Germany. SAP stands for Systems,___and Products in Data Processing.

One of the largest suppliers of supply chain management and enterprise resource planning software is SAP, based in Walldorf, Germany. SAP stands for Systems,___and Products in Data Processing.

• A. Applications
• B. Systems
• C. Data
• D. Processing

Answer: (A)

Think of SAP as an acronym built from three parts describing what the company provides: systems, applications, and products in data processing. The middle word should be Applications, because the phrase reads “Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing.” Applications fits between Systems and Products and reflects the software programs that run business functions. Data and Processing stay together in the final part of the name, not as separate options. Historically, SAP comes from the German name Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung, where Anwendungen means Applications.

Think of SAP as an acronym built from three parts describing what the company provides: systems, applications, and products in data processing. The middle word should be Applications, because the phrase reads “Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing.” Applications fits between Systems and Products and reflects the software programs that run business functions. Data and Processing stay together in the final part of the name, not as separate options. Historically, SAP comes from the German name Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung, where Anwendungen means Applications.