Career in SAP from a fresher's perspective

[Former Member]

I am a final year engineering student, and I am really looking forward to a career in SAP. But the problem I am facing is that I cannot find any instance where someone just after college got trained from an institute. All are working professionals, I understand the fact that they get to know about all this during their employment. But I would like to start it right away without wandering in some other production job and then go to SAP which was the initial plan. Other question is, Is it really necessary to have a prior job experience. One more thing I read somewhere that being a B.tech passout and a fresher in professional industry I can only take up ABAP, and cannot do other modules.

It would really help if there are some meaningful responses.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Nice to know about your in SAP.

From which specialization you have completed your engineering.

Regards,

Saurabh.

[Former Member]

I have my specialization in Electronics and Communication. Also I have good enough background of programming in Java, Web Development and C.

[VeselinaPeykova]

It is not like you cannot find a job as a functional consultant right after college, the problem is that without an actual industry experience, users will not take your advises seriously.

Configuration is a very small part of what functional consultants do - the really important aspect of the job is to understand the business processes and to be able to suggest an optimal solution, improvements of the business practices etc. University education does not prepare you well for such tasks, it is usually more focused on theoretical stuff.

In your case, it will be easier if you pursue a career initially in programming or in system administration and learn the business little by little (if this is what you really wish) and later decide to switch from technical to functional opportunities.

[former_member182378]

pradyumn,

Try it out and evaluate for yourself.

Enroll in a online training module, these don't cost a huge sum (unlike the SAP authorized training). While doing the training, you will see that the level of understanding of people with work experience is better and of more depth than your understanding. When we talk about functional modules (SD, MM, FI etc.)

As a functional analyst, I experience that those ABAPers with some business processes experience understand what and why I make some requests to them, during building. This comes from working in the domain themselves or having interest in learning from the functional analyst about the business processes behind the developments.

You are tested when you interact with the end users/business. If you can not provide value to them (for example understand these issue, identify if this is something to be dealt with by the business with better processes Or it is something to be dealt with in SAP, explain the design of the solution and persuade them that it is the best solution for their business needs) then you will have a hard time surviving as a SAP functional analyst.

My suggestion - for two years work in a company. There is no short cut to gather quality and richness in your choosen module.

Understand

the business processes from departments POV -

CS - Getting orders from customers, and inputting those in SAP

Logistics; Transportation and Warehousing - Transporting goods to the customer location.

Billing - Sending bills to customer. Resolving claims

Finance - Payment to customer. Resolving claims

types of Business processes -

Sales, Returns, Cash Sales etc.

TW

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