What is an SAP transaction?

An SAP transaction is essentially a GUI command that executes a particular program in the application. There are over 100,000 transactions though many business users would typically only need to use 10-20 transactions for their jobs.

SAP Command Line

SAP Command Line

 

SAP transactions are typically four characters long (e.g., VA01 to create sales orders, MM02 to change material masters, etc.).