2014 May 26 11:09 AM
Hello All,
I am new to SCN and i need your help.
I am currently working as a Sales Executive with an IT consulting firm specialized in SAP & Oracle consulting services.
I want to enter into SAP world and i thought that SAP SD is best for me because of my education (MBA-Marketing) & current experience.
When i research on SAP SD i got to know that Domain knowledge is very important for a consultant. I felt happy because I have around 3 Years of Sales experience for Oracle & SAP consulting services.
After enrolling for SAP SD education one day I heard that experience of services industry is not counted as a domain experience.
I had already invested huge money for SAP SD education and now i am feeling helpless because of this news.
Please help me with your experience whether IT services sales experience can be counted as a domain experience for SAP SD Fresher or not?
Waiting for your response.
Your Junior,
Alok
2014 May 26 12:20 PM
Alok,
Don't worry! IT service sales experience can be counted as domain experience for SAP SD career.
After being in SAP for some years (as an end user, key user, SD consultant), the most important things are clear process thinking, perseverance, honest hard work and communication.
If you have the above qualities, then you will succeed in SAP!
SAP SD is the logistics side of sales. In other words, there is a Laptop repair shop. If SAP SD is implemented, it will take care of creating repair order, creating billing document. So it is not about selling but about maintaining those "records" in SD.
The above example is of service. This too is part of SD.
So if someone has experience in sale of service that is relevant domain experience.
Apart from this you have to understand, imagine - sale of products.
In sale of products, there will be one addition step - delivery of product, from the manufacturer to the customer / consumer.
Focus you mind on learning.
Good luck!
Typewriter
2014 May 26 12:20 PM
Alok,
Don't worry! IT service sales experience can be counted as domain experience for SAP SD career.
After being in SAP for some years (as an end user, key user, SD consultant), the most important things are clear process thinking, perseverance, honest hard work and communication.
If you have the above qualities, then you will succeed in SAP!
SAP SD is the logistics side of sales. In other words, there is a Laptop repair shop. If SAP SD is implemented, it will take care of creating repair order, creating billing document. So it is not about selling but about maintaining those "records" in SD.
The above example is of service. This too is part of SD.
So if someone has experience in sale of service that is relevant domain experience.
Apart from this you have to understand, imagine - sale of products.
In sale of products, there will be one addition step - delivery of product, from the manufacturer to the customer / consumer.
Focus you mind on learning.
Good luck!
Typewriter
2014 May 26 1:23 PM
Thanks TW for good explanation on my issue.
As per your suggestion i will focus on product delivery process because I never encountered with that in my Service Sales Experience.
Thanks a lot.
Alok
2014 May 26 12:39 PM
Hi Alok,
i think most of the points has been cleared by TW, but a few words from my side, actually what happens in sap is that you should have working knowledge in sap (as it is counted in experience), however as you have knowledge about the process involved in SD, what you will need is to have the knowledge of implementing those stuffs in SD module, for job purpose what i will suggest you to search job in non-it companies priorily because they don't have so much constraints of working knowledge in SD, if you have learnt the process involved in SD, then please prepare yourself so that you are able to play in SD module, means practice well.
Then talk to all your contacts clearly indicating that you have 3 yrs. of Sales related knowledge and have enough exposure to work on SD module, as i told you , you should try in non-it companies, i hope someone surely provide you an opportunity to work with him, initially don't see how much they are paying for it, once you will get real time working experience then you can negotiate it .
I hope you will succeed one day, if have any query please revert.
2014 May 26 1:33 PM
Sanjeev,
Thanks for your input, will definitely focus on your key point.
Getting a job in Non-IT industry is quite hard because recruiter don't entertain the person from different domain or industry(It is my observation, might be i'm wrong) but i will keep trying.
Thanks,
Alok