Career Guidance in SAP

Hi,
Can anyone please guide me through choosing career in SAP.
I have done B.com and i got 6 years of experience in Finance and Accounts field with exposure over SAP.
Currently appearing for MBA exams and wanted to enhance my skills in SAP in Finance and Accounts.
Your valuable suggestion could make a difference to my career.
Regards,
Faiyaz

Dear Faiyaz,
As you have good experience in this field. So I will suggest you go for SAP ERP 6.0 Certification. That has a great demand in the market with great package.
And there are lots-off training institutes in the market for SAP Certification. Who are partner with SAP. Some of them are:
1. Seed
2. Koenig-Solutions
3. LearnSap
etc.
These are big names in the market.
I hope this information will help you.

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1) SAP Education - https://training.sap.com/us/en/ (pick the right country)
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Hi SAP Seniors/Experts,
This has reference to SAP Career Guidance.
Let me brief you, I m student of Victoria University and pursuing Master of Business in ERP at Singapore. In this course they are covering 7 modules of SAP which would be overall view of SAP system.
I found that each module demands in depth research wherein the university is going to provide general views on each module.
I would like to have your advice on SAP career journey. I do understood that i need to gain mastery in any one module to start employment with any organization. As such you seniors have vast experience in SAP, would you pl. advise me which module should pick up to gain in-depth knowledge looking towards to future demand. I m likely to finish Master of Business in ERP by Jan 2009.
Seeking your guidance.
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"Together, Transform Business Process by leveraging Information Technology to Grow and Excel in Business".

Dear Devang Nandha,
A very relevant question.
I feel that you should gain good knowledge in one of the modules. Please do not select the module based on the popularity. Select the module based on your work expereince and your interest. Trust me there is enough in any module to learn and to contribute.
Devang, you are in a very good position as you have the choice of selecting the module. Make the most of this opportunity. For any specific query, please let me know.
Welcome to SAP world and best of luck for your future endeavors.
Regards,
Rakesh

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I am new to this portal and would like some guidance on SAP as a career.
My qualifications are as under:
Qualification :- B.E ( electronics and telecom) and MBA marketing and finance
Location :- India
Yrs of Exp:- 10.5 Yrs in sales in life science industry
Although I have been working in sales I had all the time this bug for IT and hence I was planning to make a mid career change.
I would like to do SAP SD or SAP CRM module.
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Can you also throw some light as to-
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Hi,
I am new to this portal and would like some guidance on SAP as a career.
My qualifications are as under:
Qualification :- B.E ( mechanical) and mtech automobile first year
Location :- India
Yrs of Exp:- fresher
I would like to do SAP MM module
Please suggest/advice.
my dream is to become a sap consultant .
how can i prepare myself to reach my goal

Career ladder in SAP

Hi
Can anyone advise on what is the career ladder in SAP. It starts with working as a consultant. what are the next steps ? Where does it end ? what is the highest end ?
Thanx
Pankaj

Hi ,
Have a look at the blogs collected at SAP Career Blog Links. Specifically, FAQ: Different Career Paths in SAP and the aforementioned How did you get your start in SAP?.
You've mentioned the first step as "consultant". It might be a cultural difference or just a terminology difference, but for most folks, the first step is junior member of the support team. Consultants, in the US, are outside folks hired by businesses for their expertise to accomplish a short term goal (project). Contractors are hired long term to do day-to-day tasks that would normally be accomplished by employees. In either case, businesses tend to want to hire folks with experience as contractors or consultants.
The typical route for someone who did not get recruited into an SAP consulting practice prior to graduating from college is to get an entry level position in the Information Technology department or in a functional department and then gradually move from that entry level position into a support role position and THEN to leave and become a consultant or contractor.
This is covered in Advice for Recent College Graduates (aka "Freshers") and Advice for Students Interested in a Career in SAP.
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--Tom

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2. MCA (persuing)
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Career Prospects In SAP SCM

Hi everybody,
I am working in freight forwarding industry and having experience of more then 10 Years in various department right from documentation to sales. I have worked with shipping lines, Inland Container depot and freight forwarders. To enhance my skills and giving it a technical edge i want to do a training in SAP SCM. As I don't have any exposure to SAP except doing some documentation work on SAP based Shipping Lines.
I need your valuable suggestions on how should I go about it. Can I go for classroom learning directly or i need to have some experience with SAP based organizations prior to that.
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Akanksha

Hi Akanksha,
i have done my Engineering from L.N.C.T . Indore. I know indore and its market, i don't think you will get any good training at Indore, so you have to move either Bangaluru, Pune/Mumbai or at Delhi NCR.
As at Bengaluru you will get tough competition with fellow SCM employee, so not suggested.
SCM market is good but its a domain specific , as i don't know much more about SCM , so just posting some useful links, from where you can gain knowledge. SCM market is consistent as far as i know, so take a foot ahead for a new begining, you will surely get what you wants .
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https://help.sap.com/scm
SAP SCM - Supply Chain Management (SCM) - SCN Wiki
http://www.sap.com/solution/lob/scm/software/overview/highlights.html

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I am sajesh ,did my diploma in Mechatronics i have a 4 years of experience in the maintenance field(production industry) .Now i would like to change my career in to SAP. I have experience in using SAP in my previous organisations.I got an opening with Westmount Technology Pvt Ltd Singapore for 6Months Training in SAP & Job.
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Edited by: devjannan on Oct 28, 2009 4:40 AM

Dear,
SAP Warehouse Management --- I can say its an extension of Inventory management activities which closely related with MM.
The SAP Warehouse Management (WM) application provides flexible, automated support to assist you in processing
all goods movements and in maintaining current stock inventories in your warehousing complex.
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Coming straight to answer you question : will it suite with my Experience ???
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Hi SAP Community!
I'm Mike. I had been an SAP consultant for about 13 years. The last 3 years, have not been working as SAP consultant.
My experience:
SAP Basis 5 years .
SAP BPS 2 years.
SAP BW / BI / BI-IP 6 years.
I have never been a team leader. Always a consultant. a Doer.
I am now in my late 30's. I would like to progress/ transition into a more suitable position.
I have attained my PMP certification 2 years ago. But, as said, no management experience.
In the last 3 years when I was out of the scene, I was doing all kinds of low wage jobs. It started with the financial crisis.
Back then, not many projects were available. What made worse was SAP BI-IP had a replacement of sorts : BPC, BO and BI Accelerator.
I had given up SAP BI for the last 3 years. Now, I want to be back into SAP line. Outside of SAP line, I feel like a loser.
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I feel that I am too old to keep repeating learning technical things that keep changing. i have the ability to keep learning. I have proven this in my career. But I like to have a career using my SAP experience and use my PMP.
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Thanks for reading. Hope to hear from you.
Best regards
Michael

Hello,
I don´t have any special advice, since you´re much older and more experienced and I cannot tell how to put your skills into the best use. But.. if you would like to start with something new, "cutting edge", like BO a blog of mine could help. Check it here: /people/otto.gold/blog/2010/07/20/how-to-play-around-with-sap-and-crystal-reports-trial-versions-only Using the blog you should be able to recreate a training landscape (and it should not take you like weeks since you have "some" basis experience) and you can give it a try for free before you decide to go this way or not. If nothing else, I could spare you some money.
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Hi Sandeep,
I would like to give you some brief of SAP job market in India. It will help you to do further analysis and take a decision.
For a job as an SAP SD consultant, the requirments are 2 yrs(minimum) of domain (sales) experience and some good (may be 3 yrs of hands on with SAP SD.
The domain exp part is not important if you are applying as a fresher (the fresher needs to be SAP certified , else no chance in India)
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