ERP-SD CAREER PROSPECTUS

Hi,
I need information on the furure prospectus of ERP-SD and its present
trend in the market.

Hi vijaya,
               as per your update about seeking a master s degree, Better thing would be to complete it so that you have a good combination of Bachelors and masters degree. Then if you still feel interested in ERP, then you need to see into which domain you want to work to gain the required functional exp.
Once you have the required functional exp then you can suitably select the correct SAP Module to go ahead with. But at the moment since you do not have any functional exp better would be to gain it as its very much essential to work on any ERP.
               Hope my feedback only helps you take a better decision and in no way do i want to discourage your interest in ERP. Its only to make it better.
               All the best.
Thanks & Regards
Sadhu Kishore

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Career in SAP with no proir experience in ERP

Hello everybody,
I am BS(Computer science) with 2 years of software development experience in J2EE. Although I do not have any experience with ERP or CRM or Supply Chain Management but whenever I heard people talking about ERP & CRM I really get excited.
So I have decided to move my career towards SAP. Furthermore, I am in Pakistan & Siemens offers some SAP certifications which are :
<a href="http://www.siemens.com/index.jsp?sdc_p=c135fi1175331lmno1397033pst15uz3&sdc_sid=8060024212&">http://www.siemens.com/index.jsp?sdc_p=c135fi1175331lmno1397033pst15uz3&sdc_sid=8060024212&</a>
After some initial research I found out that SAP in Pakistan is adopted by Manufacturing industry therefore I believe that Siemens Pakistan would be good in ERP- SD training than any other SAP CRM or anything like that.
What do you recommend that how do I start my career in SAP? Either as functional i.e.ERP-SD or technical i.e. Netweaver or ABAP.
Waiting for your helpful answers.
Regards,
Hashir Ahmed

Many thanks Sai & Vinay.
Yes my experience is with J2EE but I'm ready to let go that.
Furthermore, I am more interested in functional role besides that I am not impatient nor looking for an easy route, Netweaver would be easier for me but do you see some one like me obtaining a good position in ERP-SD with on job training(after certification)?
Furthermore, what is exactly the role of person with Netweaver knowledge? Can I move from Netweaver to functional role if I even start from Netweaver & doing so would benefit me?
Regards,
Hashir Ahmed

ISU or ECC6 SAP ERP Career advice

Dear All
I need to select a project between IS-U and ECC6 SAP ERP implementation, I need advice on which has more value addition to my career esp. with respect to overseas job market.
I will appreciate the relevent reply...

hmmm...not so easy 'Q' to answer!!! Both has their own strengths....Not sure of your location...If you are in Europe, there are very many Utility Cos' going for implementation..US utilities market too is good....Coming to FI/CO, there may not be many implementations....but it is good...wud be ever green always....but FICA is very good to learn compared to FI/CO
Hope this helps
Rgds
Rajendra

This is regarding the career suggestion between ERP consulting and ERP sales or presales.

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for reading this post as this would not give any knowledge to you but would help for my career progression.
I am presently working as SAP consultant in PP module in an MNC . I always had interest towards sales or pre-sales in the field of SAP.
I do not have idea why i want to shift y career path. But probably due to Monetary concerns.
I now want to know which career path is ore better and fruitful either SAP consulting or SAP sales or Pre-sales.
I have experience of 2 yrs as SAP consultant. I hold B.tech in mechanical and MBA in operations and systems.
It would be very appreciable if some one clarifies my ambiguity in between choosing the above mentioned careers.
Thanks!
Chaitanya.

Hi Krishna,
Let me answer your questions:
Interest & ability are not same. Some people might be interested but they have not done anything which actually proves the fact that the person is already established to make the call.
Are you interested in sales or consulting. If you say, you are interested in sales as they will give you more money then the next question you should ask yourself is, have you already enabled yourself to do the Pre sales or sales job.
Prerequisite to do Pre Sales/Sales job:
First: You should have good high level solutioning knowledge.
Second: You should be passionate to work on different industries.
Third: You should have already done 15/20 RFP.
Fourth: You have already worked as SME for some of the high level solutions that's given to client.
Fifth: You have already established yourself as a solution architect.
Sixth: You have more or less have good integration high level exposure.
Seventh: You are ready to travel with very short notices and always readdy with baggage.
You have mentioned that you have 2 years experience as SAP Consultant and with this much experience as consultant is probably not a very wise thought to move your career to presales.
So I would say consider the pre sales or sales option after you have at least 5 years or so and you have quite seen the functional side clearly. Though its not a very hard and first rules but it helps if you think in this way.
Let me know in case you have any other queries or need any clarifications.
Thanks & Regards
Subhasish

Problem in Career and Job

Hi All,
We are facing crictical issues in career and Job after we moved all our objects to quality machine.
We are using mySAP ERP 2005 Buss pack 1.0 with ECC 6.0, Portal 7.0 SP12 and E-rec 600.
The career and Job especially - Apply Directly and candidate applications throws most of the time "Internal error occured". This error occurs with all the user ids in quality machine. This used to work properly in development.
When we check tcode - slg1 - it says the employee is not an candidate.
We identified that - before using this services an employee needs to be registered as an candidate via the report - RCF_CREATE_USER or SYN_HR_PERSON. Is that true ?
If this is the case, then we need to run this report for all our thousands of employees.
Also, after running this report for one user id and when we logged into Portal.
The user is able to apply diretly and see the candidate applications. Unless untill it keep on giving messages "Internal errror occured"
Please share your experiences. Need your valuable inputs. points assured.
Regards,
Nazeer

HI prathmesh,
After installing SAP e-Recruiting 3.00 with Support Package 1, or higher,for career and job workset related applications to work,have you made the following settings in the Implementation Guide (IMG):
1.Choose the following IMG path: Cross-Application Components ? Homepage Framework ? Resources ? Define Server for Resources. Enter the server name and the port of your e-Recruiting system.
2.Assign the server to all e-recruiting resources and add the URL parameters stored. To do so, choose the following IMG path: Cross-Application Components ? Homepage Framework ? Resources ? Define Resources.
Enter the e-recruiting server for the following resources. Add the relevant URL parameters by replacing in the BSP client the 000 client with the client of your e-recruiting system.
EMPLOYEE_CANDIDATE_APPLICATIONS_SERVICE
EMPLOYEE_CANDIDATE_DATA_OVERVIEW
EMPLOYEE_CANDIDATE_DIRECT_APPL_SERVICE
EMPLOYEE_CANDIDATE_FAVORITES_SERVICE
EMPLOYEE_CANDIDATE_PERSONAL_SETTINGS
EMPLOYEE_CANDIDATE_PROFILE_RELEASE
EMPLOYEE_CANDIDATE_PROFILE_SERVICE
EMPLOYEE_CANDIDATE_SEARCH_JOBS_SERVICE
Ho[pe this helps,
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Siddhartha

SAP Business Workflow in a multiple ERP environment

Hi,
Our organization is looking to implement Peoplesoft for HR and SAP ERP for other business processes. Business users would ues UWL for their approval tasks. The SAP Business workflow or SAP NW BPM would be the tool for the approval process. Question: is there best practice for this scenario? I.e. the business process is designed and implemented via SAP ERP or SAP NW BPM and the HR maintains the organizational structure in Peoplesoft (or a non-SAP ERP) environment.
To my knowledge, the following options are available for SAP Business Workflow for agent determination (approval process):
1. Implement a realtime design (e.g. RFC) to connect to the non-SAP ERP: the non-SAP ERP would implement agent determination rules that can be called by SAP, since the Org. structure is maintained in that environment
2. Share the Org. structure and HR data with SAP: not preferred option, I guess, due to sync problems (not realtime)
Your input is much appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi.
I would consider carefully that do you even need the HR structure in ERP for your non-HR business processes? What kind of workflow processes will you have in ERP that require HR structure?`Aren't your HR processes in Peoplesoft system, and you are running the HR processes there? You don't necessarily even need the HR structure in SAP. Maybe you can build your own approval "paths" with some other way. Invoices can be approved by WBS responsible users (not organizational managers), etc. Or maybe you can build your own simple approval organization in HR, etc.
Also pay attention to the fact that the approvers in workflow will eventually be the users - not employees. So if you have org.structure in Peoplesoft, you should also map the SAP users to this organization/employees. I mean that if you can do some kind of RFC or web service call to Peoplesoft system to find the approvers, you should pay attention that the SAP user ID is found.
Think really carefully what you will do. Maybe sharing the HR data with SAP is not that bad idea either (I have no idea how difficult this is between SAP and Peoplesoft). I don't see that org.structure is something that must be "real-time". It is just fine if it is updated for example once in a way - IF it is used only by workflow for determining approvers.
Just think carefully before you do something unnecessarily complex.
Kind regards,
Karri

Help me shaping my Career!!

Hi Gurus,
I am working with an infrastructure firm since last one year as a SAP MM Consultant. This is the total experience I have in SAP. I wanted to know what would be the best possible career option for me :-
a) If I continue as SAP MM Consultant with my current firm and side by side I apply to other companies as well.
b) I go for ABAP course
c) I go for M.S. Program in SAP from Victoria University, Australia.
d) I go to Canada, Ragina region for PGDM course in SAP.
Please help guys!!
Thanks!

You are probably at the best place where you should be. Most difficult part of SAP career is breaking into an SAP CAREER. Almost all of the SAP jobs are for experienced professionals and it is very tough for the beginners to enter, even after doing SAP Certification which costs a lot. Luckily you are already into it. Stick with it. Gain 2-3 years of overall experience in the present company if you have good learning opportunity there. Else try to do a part-time course into MM module only and make sense out of the things at your present job. Once you understand Materials Management processes, your doubts will automatically go away and you will be confident in applying for jobs. If you want more credentials to add to your profile, SAP Certification can a good choice. The discussion on the topic of SAP Certification can be very lengthy. [You can read the following educational resource on SAP Certification.|http://www.best-career-guide-for-erp.com/sap-certification.html]
Hope it helps
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Career Prospects in SAP xMII

Hi All,
I want few suggestions from you guys. I am basically a Java Professional. I have 2 years experience in Java, and now, I have been working in SAP xMII for only 1 n half months. I find xMII very interesting. Can anybody please tell me about the career prospects in xMII? I am thinking of proceeding in this line. Do you people find this as a sensible decision? If yes, then how should I proceed? Any kind of suggestion or information regarding this is most welcome.
Thanks in Advance,
Lipsa.

I agree with Ryan - I see lots of demand for xMII skills, and the product is pushed considerably by SAP - I see a reference to xMII in every second SAP PowerPoint presentation (ok, maybe that's a slight exaggeration...)
I also think that some knowledge/proficiency in the technologies surrounding xMII will be very useful. Some examples of this in the SAP space could include XI/PI, Enterprise Portal, ERP, CAF, Visual Composer, etc. Some understanding of MES concepts and products would also be useful.
In my opinion, a broad knowledge of the above would help since xMII is an integration product and thus has touch points to a variety of other (non-SAP) systems...
But I guess a lot depends on how xMII is implemented...

Career and Succession Planning

Dear experts.
I am in the phase of BBP. We are working with ESS&MSS 1.41. ERP 6.0 ehp6.
My question:
What are the Business Package that I need for work with Career and Succession Planning in the portal?
What are the steps of customizing in the system ERP?
Who can share documentation with me?
Thanks

Dear Nidhi,
First of all, is this a technology question (Nakisa) or a functional question?
If you are new to Career and Succession Planning then you should be working with an experienced consultant, because implementing these modules require experience of business processes. This person can help you.
Without knowing your customer, their culture, their business challenges, their goals, their existing processes, and the technology being implemented then it is not possible to help you.
Best regards,
Luke

ESS - Career and Job - Career Profile: Page not found

Hello,
we are facing a problem. When I try to open the Service "Career profile" in subarea "Career" of area "Career and Job" we are getting the error "Page not found or not available". The default-log of the java server lists the following error:
#1#javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Object not found: com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.area_career_job/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.career_service at portal_content/com.sap.pct/every_user/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.bp_folder/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.roles/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.area_career_job. Root exception is javax.naming.NamingException: Object not found: com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.area_career_job/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.career_service at portal_content/com.sap.pct/every_user/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.bp_folder/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.roles/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.area_career_job
I tried to find out, what item in the IMG has to be changed to solve the problem but I cannot identify a service or a resource where the path com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.area_career_job/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.career_service at portal_content/com.sap.pct/every_user/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.bp_folder/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.roles/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.area_career_job is listed.
Can anyone give helpful hints?
Thanks in advance,
André
Edited by: Andre Siegling on Jun 14, 2010 4:40 PM

Hi,
The Resource you need to change is EMPLOYEE_CAREER_PAG and the URL location should be as below:
ROLES://portal_content/com.sap.pct/every_user/com.sap.pct.ess.employee/com.sap.pct.ess.roles/com.sap.pct.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.ess.area_career_job/com.sap.pct.ess.area_career_job
This should solve the issue.
Cheers-
Pramod

Problems with ESS in "Career and Jobs" in option "Appraisal Document"

hi
My problem with ESS in "Career and Jobs" menu in the option "Appraisal Document" is not appear the appraisal documents or my my question is...
What I can customize for appear the "Appraisal Documents"?
My ESS shows the following screens:
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/3451/appraisalportal.jpg (there is also a problem with the flash player, I marked with red rectangle)
I found looking on the internet that had to configure the Performance Management
I entered in SPRO tcode, follow these steps
http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2598/appraisal1.jpg (Entered in "Define Templates in Performance Management")
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6233/appraisal2.jpg
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/4243/appraisal3.jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/622/appraisal4.jpg
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/1842/appraisal5.jpg (click in "End Configuration")
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/8746/appraisal6a.jpg (Error screen part 1)
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1261/appraisal6b.jpg (Error screen part 2)
I hope the answers and posts, I wonder if my chosen way(configuring the Performance Managemente) is correct
thanks for posts
Ivan

thanks Chris for comments,
Now I customize the "Appraisal Document"
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4640/uiapraisal.jpg (Here I can see the evaluation that was done in the back-end)
but, I clicked in the hiperlink of "Appraisal Document Name", I see this error:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8157/uiapraisal2.jpg (Error:Page not found or not avaible)
even before I saw another error ("There is no iView available for system "SAP_ERP_HumanResources": object "employee". For more information, contact your administrator.") in others posts(questions in sap forums) mentioned, These included the following notes
1468466 Performance Management Launchpad Configuration
1463821 Performance Management Portal Configuration
1416756 OBN Configuration in Performance Management
1408243 Configuration for object-based navigation
They recommended me in the back-end include roles in the resources:
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/8048/uiapraisala.jpg
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/9359/uiapraisalb.jpg
The note number 1463821(especially), I recommend the following
<a href="https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lcyZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/sapnotes/index2.htm?numm=1463821" target=nieves>note 1463821</a> (link note)
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7484/uiapraisal1.jpg (LPD_CUST tcode)
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7405/uiapraisal1b.jpg (Check in "Restricted Parameters" and "Active" - "EXT_HEAD")
but in these notes appointing a role that I could not find on my system that is:
pcd:portal_content/com.sap.pct/line_manager/com.sap.pct.erp.mss.bp_folder/com.sap.pct.erp.mss.14.bp_folder/com.sap.pct.erp.mss.14.pages/com.sap.pct.erp.mss.hcm/com.sap.pct.erp.mss.appraisal_document_wd_ui
because, I was looking at my porta's role (With reference "Appraisals Document")
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/5167/uiapraisal3a.jpg
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/5643/uiapraisal3b.jpg
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/4585/uiapraisal3c.jpg
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/4605/uiapraisal3d.jpg
Finally, my main error is :Page not found or not avaible (I referred at the beginning of the post http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8157/uiapraisal2.jpg)
Why I see this error (Page not found or not avaible)?
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8157/uiapraisal2.jpg (Error:Page not found or not avaible)
I hope the helps, and thaks very much.
Ivan

Problems with ESS in Career and Jobs in Appraisal Document

HI
Iam Facing a problem in ESS career and job .
in Appraisal documnets
iam using BP ERP5 ESS1.41 sp6
and updated Common parts
My problem here is when i click the appraisal link the page for appraisal is opening with some records.but when i click on that record the appraisal template must be displayed,but my link is displaying an error in that page as page is not found.
i had done required OBN as of SAP NOTE 1416756 , 1408243.but my issue doesnt soleved
iam just postinga screen shot of that error
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8157/uiapraisal2.jpg
can u people help me in solving this issue.wat might be the problem and how to get trhe solution
pls help me as iam in very emergency with this issue
Bye
Waiting 4 response

sandeep, im still looking for you to provide the
URL of both pages in your screenshot.
Outside of a weird firewall issue or something, you have 1 of 2 issues.
1. Your OBN Target configuration you did in the notes is wrong. which means the target URL is not pointing to the iview properly.
2. Your iview for the sap page called appraisal_document is not in accessible in the correct content area.
here is the location in the standard SAP portal area, not sure if you copied and already using a custom ESS tab....
pcd:portal_content/com.sap.pct/every_user/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.bp_folder/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.14.bp_folder/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.14.iviews/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.14.career_job/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.appraisal_document_pmp
also, on the previous post, it was wrong the wrong webdynpro's that were told you. The POWL webdynpro's you already have access to, its when from that application you try to launch the document. You want to launch this webdynrpo, which is configured in the appraisal_document iview:
HAP_AC_PMP_MAIN - for predefined
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ESS/MSS - Career and job

Hi Experts,
i am using standard ESS/MSS when i click on Career and job i am able to see skills,candidate Profile,Jobs,Personal Setting
under that when i click on it shows an error that
*Business Server Page (BSP) error
What happened?
Calling the BSP page was terminated due to an error.
SAP Note
The following error text was processed in the system:
<htmlb:content>: Use the element once only
Error type:
Your SAP Business Server Pages Team*
what need to be done to solve this problem.
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Do we need any settings in R3 side.
i have gone thru help.sap also.
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these services in ESS correspond to E-recruitment in backend ECC.
Make sure, you are using E-rec 600 component in ECC backend and it is configured properly. Check System -> Status -> Installed Components.
Try to start configuring the things in backend with your HR Consultant and as per as your business requirements.
Is your E-recruitment is on the same server of your ERP system ? If yes, then check this [documentation
|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/45/8150635e9c40c1e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm]
Also, check this [documentation|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/72/c9b54015c4752ae10000000a155106/frameset.htm] for Configuration of E-rec in the backend.
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ESS Career and JOB error in DSM and SSO

Hi All,
I have installed ECC in WAS 6.4. All other pages are working except career and job. When I am clicko on JOB search then I am getting a popup saying :
Session Management will not work !
Please check DSM log for details.
You can turn off this alert inside 'Support Desk' -> 'SAP Application'
Afetr clicking OK it is giving message
Logon ErrorLogon requires activated Single Sign-On on this server. This is not the case. Contact your system administrator
Same server I am using as ITS server and there SSO is working. I have exported certificate from portal (WAS 6.4 java) and imported in WAS ABAP (ECC 5.0)
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Raktim

The alias SAP_WebDynpro_XSS is the alias on the portal for a myERP2004 system.
If you search for the Installationguide for MySAP ERP 2004 Java components,
you will see that this includes a XSS component 5.0 and contains amongst others ESS and MSS.
This needs to be configured as well.
The other alias above mentioned need to be created on the myERP2004 system using this URL (Webdynpro Admin):
<http://<ERPserver>:<PortNo>/webdynpro/dispatcher/sap.com/pcui_gp~xssutils/XssMenu
More information can be found here :
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/38/e8584c2a664547b60442646bee23b6/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/ca/115e4088dc0272e10000000a155106/content.htm
Hope that helps,
Kai
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Career and Job workset in ESS

Hi Guys,
I have a problem in ESS role, I am having SP12 portal with ESS SP8,ADS SP10 and WebDynpro 6.4. In Ess role there is a workset called "career and job" when I try to open "Candidate Profile" under this workset I get an error regarding
com.sap.portal.appintegrator.sap.WebDynpro::WebDynpro/TopLayer
DefinitionType: Java
System : SAP_WebDynpro_XSS
DynamicParameter : sap-cssversion%3D6.0.12.0.0%26rcfLogAppl%3DPROFILE_BUILDER%26sap-wd-cltwndid%3DWID1129022201017%26sap-ext-sid%3DtR%2BgBA7MR1%2F%2FcEUuvhfClw%3D%3Dmrlts5WFF7AVeT%2FwEkiv2w%3D%3D
DebugMode : No
Can any one tell me how can I solve this error? Thanks in advance
Regards
Yasir Noman

The alias SAP_WebDynpro_XSS is the alias on the portal for a myERP2004 system.
If you search for the Installationguide for MySAP ERP 2004 Java components,
you will see that this includes a XSS component 5.0 and contains amongst others ESS and MSS.
This needs to be configured as well.
The other alias above mentioned need to be created on the myERP2004 system using this URL (Webdynpro Admin):
<http://<ERPserver>:<PortNo>/webdynpro/dispatcher/sap.com/pcui_gp~xssutils/XssMenu
More information can be found here :
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/38/e8584c2a664547b60442646bee23b6/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/ca/115e4088dc0272e10000000a155106/content.htm
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Kai
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