How To Become SAP Consultant In 2 Months?

Why Career in SAP?

SAP (Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing) is the world's leading business software provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions.

SAP is implemented in 9 out of every 10 Fortune 500 companies in 110 countries. In Russia, the system has been implemented at the country's largest enterprises and in many government agencies.

SAP consultants earn some of the highest salaries in the IT industry.

Types of SAP consultants.

1. SAP Business Consultants / Sales Managers, whose main task is to sell solutions to the end customer, not knowing much about the very functionality of the SAP system.
2. The SAP Functional Consultant is responsible for the implementation of customer business processes in the SAP system: they collect the requirements of key users, prepare documentation, and configure SAP in accordance with the requirements. Functional consultants also prepare specifications, according to which ABAP consultants develop additional functionality and reporting.
3. Technical consultant - Abap-developer. Responsible for the development of programs in the programming languages??ABAP / Java, WebDynpro (more details can be found in this interview).
4. SAP Basis consultant. Mainly assists in system installation, maintenance, performance tuning of SAP servers and databases.

Knowledge and skills required to become a SAP Functional Consultant

• Knowledge of the basics of specific SAP modules (eg FI-Finance, CO-Controlling)
• Knowledge of the subject area, business processes in the implemented industry (for example, logistics, trade, banking)
• Have good communication and presentation skills, as SAP consultants often need to interact with the client to understand and agree on their requirements for implementation in the system. SAP Consultant must be excellent at explaining technical information to non-technical people
• Ability to operate as part of a team and possess excellent interpersonal skills
• Higher education (Postgraduate studies, MBA is a nice, but not mandatory addition)

A little about ZP.

According to the Super job company (for 2013), a consultant with less than 1 year of experience can be offered (rubles):

in Moscow 75.000 - 85.000

in St. Petersburg 60.000 - 70.000

in Ufa 32.000 - 36.000

Although in practice, a salary from 25,000 to 50,000 rubles is more common.

How to become a SAP consultant in 2 Months?

There is no single answer here. There are many ways to enter the SAP market. Here are some of them:

Get a job in an IT integrator company and get trained in SAP CIS under the affiliate program. Get certified there. The main thing is to choose a SAP module in which it will be interesting to develop further. SAP training is expensive, many Russian companies oblige to work out this training for the n-the number of years, but at the initial stage it is worth the investment

Complete an internal internship program at an IT integrator. This is also a great way to get into the profession. Internship programs are usually started by companies on the eve of new projects, so there is a high probability of immediately getting into an implementation project

While studying at the university, you can take training courses as part of the SAP University Alliance program

You can get into the customer support service at the stage of maintenance or implementation. In this way, too, you can study the system. On the other hand, you will not have a complete knowledge of all project stages and system implementation methodology.

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