How to be SAP Consultant?

[former_member593180]

I'm from accounting background with 23 years of hands on experience in accounting. My highest qualification is Master in Management. I'm a SAP end user with SAP Certification (SAP Certified Application Associate in Financial Accounting). Interested to be a SAP consultant. My only minus is I do not have any technical knowledges/experiences: such as configurations ie. installing, maintenance and performance tuning of SAP servers and databases. I am willing to learn. Keen to know what I shall do to progress further in SAP field.

Thank you

[Anantpatel]

Hi Muniandy,

Please find the below link. There are so many videos that will cover most of the area regarding all modules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92JAeiJJ4E∈dex=1&list=PLAN4lvL4kFniJX8vodZRfvonLxhF3FKJh

Thanks & Regards,
Anant Patel

[former_member548624]

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[oliver]

irisostrin just a quick note that mod comments are visible to everyone with the pre TechEd changes we rolled out.

[ChrisPaine]

Hi,

Don't suppose you live in Melbourne and have PR? Worth a try!

So you are a knowledgable person with great experience, I suggest you apply to you local SAP consultancy firms. There's not much more to it than that. If you don't expect a huge salary given your need to be trained and you have an proven availability to be a team player and be sociable, there is likely someone who will take you on. I certainly would be interested in hiring someone with your depth of experience and desire to try new things (plus you bring on SCN isn't a bad thing).

Beware however, in the SAP world, there is about 2 degrees of separation. I likely know someone who knows you. And I live in Melbourne, Australia. If you are not a team player, or people have had bad experiences working with you, you will have to work much harder to find a position. I always get multiple references from my own contacts, not from the provided references, when I look at hiring someone with experience. So do not embellish any CV, your prospective employers will find out and will automatically disqualify you.

Good luck in your quest, I hope you find someone who will value your experience.

Cheers,

Chris

[Former Member]

Hi there,

accounting is the one of the best backgrounds that you can have to dive deeply into SAP and it will always come in handy even with the most technical areas of SAP like operating systems, servers, Basis and now cloud and last but not least ABAP which keeps it all together.

having said that it's not easy to get hold of the latest sandbox environment with an id that would give you maximum access and not add a complexity of managing access to different areas of the system and be affordable for self-training purposes. get ready to be the best friend of transactions like SE16, SE80, and SE93. the first one will give you table access, the second one programming environment, and the third one will explain how transactions are tied to the rest of SAP.

if you are an accountant you will immediately recognize tables like BKPF and BSEG and in the latest versions ACDOCA. basically those tables are behind the financial transactions stored in SAP. feel free to keep asking questions here and don't worry if you don't get an immediate answer or an answer that is vague or not helpful. if your questions are specific, have enough background, and show work that you have put in into asking them, your chances of getting a good answer are much better and remember that google and stackoverflow are learning tools as well.

good luck in making the transition into the tech world. i did it 20 years ago and have never looked back.

cheers, greg