Dear SAP Integrated Business Planning Professional Community,
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As of January 1, 2023, this program has changed.*************
Please refer to the updated blog found here:
STAY CURRENT WITH SAP IBP CERTIFICATION
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If you are a consultant certified in SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP), this blog is very important to you, especially the Q&A section below. If you do not follow the Stay Current program requirements launching with SAP IBP release 2105, you will lose your certification and badge validity, requiring that you re-certify.
About the SAP IBP Stay Current with Global Certification Program
The ‘stay current’ delta content and assessment(s) for
SAP IBP are available to external customers and partners only via the SAP Learning Hub. If you are currently holding an SAP IBP certification, you
must successfully complete the stay current content and the relevant assessment before each quarter’s deadline. Global Certification will send you an email upon every release, announcing the beginning of a new Stay Current cycle with relevant information and deadlines. Please read that email carefully.
In order to maintain your certification credential, you
MUST hold a valid individual SAP Learning Hub subscription and complete all future quarterly delta assessments on time; this is especially important as every customer-facing consultant is expected to hold a certification for SAP IBP.
Completing your Self-Paced Delta Training and Assessment:
Subscribers of
SAP Learning Hub (Professional edition or solution edition for IoT and Digital Supply Chain) can review ‘stay current‘ delta course(s) and complete the stay current assessment(s) by following the process below:
- Review the SAP IBP Learning Journey where you will find your core certification exam in the ‘Become competent’ scenario. Then, select the Stay Current course that is assigned to your exam and learning journey. The assessment itself is in the Stay Current delta course as well as a separate link in the learning journey Stay Current tile.
- Alternatively, if you already know what stay current course and assessment are assigned to your exam, log in to SAP Learning Hub, navigate to ‘Learning Content’, and there you can search for “SAP IBP 2202” (or later release) and the relevant stay current programs will be shown. Please keep in mind that the last 4 digits will change quarter over quarter.
Reminders from Global Certification:
- Reminder 1: SAP Global Certification will send you an announcement about the Stay Current program on the date when the stay current content and assessment of any given release are available, prompting you to start the stay current process.
- Reminder 2: Afterwards, Global Certification will follow up with an email reminder 4 weeks prior to your deadline to ensure that you do not miss it.
It’s that simple. Please find more information on the
SAP IBP Stay Current & Delta Schedule and
how to stay current with your certification pages on the training shop.
New to SAP IBP Certification?
It is necessary that you have an SAP Learning Hub subscription in order to maintain your certification quarter over quarter.
If you have not yet subscribed to
SAP Learning Hub (Professional edition or solution edition for IoT and Digital Supply Chain): navigate to the
Professional, Partner or the
IoT and DSC edition in the SAP Training Shop and complete your purchase of either edition. All currently and future certified professionals
MUST have a valid SAP Learning Hub user account to maintain certifications and badges for the SAP IBP exams with no exceptions.
Upon receipt of your SAP Learning Hub credentials…
- Log into SAP Learning Hub, professional edition or solution edition, and select the Learning Journeys navigation on the top left.
- Select ‘SAP IBP” using the Filter or type ‘SAP IBP’ to view the learning journey.
- Join the SAP Integrated Business Planning Learning Room for expert guidance and live sessions.
- Use the links in your learning journey course tiles to assign content to your learning plan and prepare for your core exam.
- When appropriate, select the ‘stay current‘ scenario and assign to your learning plan the delta content and assessment for the core exam you have passed and want to maintain.
Important Information Links:
To read more about Certification at SAP, Certification Hub, and the new Stay Current with SAP Global Certification Program for SAP IBP, please visit:
Q&A Section
Q: When will the stay current delta content and assessments for the exams be available in the SAP Learning Hub for me to complete?
A: The Stay Current content and assessments will be available on RTC in every quarter. You have until the subsequent release RTC date to complete the assessment and maintain your credential and badge: e.g. to stay current on the 2202 release, you have from Feb 2, 2022 until May 3, 2022 to pass the assessment assigned to your core exam(s). This logic is used quarter over quarter as the general rule.
Q: Will I receive any reminders or notifications from SAP Global Certification when these assessments are available?
A: Yes, you will receive an announcement via email that the latest Stay Current content and assessment is now available on the SAP Learning Hub, and then you will receive a reminder approximately 4 weeks prior to the deadline so that you do not miss the opportunity to keep your credential and badge.
Q: What happens if I do NOT complete the assessment during the stay current period, missing the deadline?
A: Your SAP IBP certification credential will expire, and your badge will show your status as expired. There is no grace period, so please mark your calendars accordingly to log onto the SAP Learning Hub and complete your stay current requirements. Once your certification credential expires, you will be required to re-book and re-take the Certification exam, to obtain a fresh Certificate / fresh Digital badge. This re-certification attempt will count towards your available certification attempts regardless of whether you are using the SAP Certification Hub or the free 2 takes that comes with the SAP Learning Hub Solution Edition for IoT and Digital Supply Chain.
Q: I don’t currently have a subscription/account for the SAP Learning Hub Professional or DSC & IoT Solution edition but am already certified in SAP IBP. What happens if I do not purchase a valid subscription when SAP IBP 2105 releases, for example?
A: The assessments are tracked by SAP Learning Hub user subscription account, so you will not be able to maintain your certification starting with the 2105 release unless you personally log into SAP Learning Hub with a
valid user account. This is the only way to access the ‘stay current’ materials and the assessments to maintain your certification credential every quarter.
Q: Will each one of the assessments count as an exam take with my Certification Hub subscription or with the bundled 2-exam takes in the SAP Learning Hub solution edition?
A: No. The stay current assessment uses SAP Learning Hub web assessments, and these are part of your SAP Learning Hub subscription.
Q: I just passed the SAP IBP exam on 2202. Do I need to pass the SAP IBP Stay Current assessment on 2202 (the same release as the exam) right away before the 2202 deadline?
A: No, you are already current. You will start your Stay Current journey with the 2205 release of the product, for example.
Q: I represent a partner company and am responsible for ensuring the SAP IBP Sell Authorizations remain valid for my company. Does the stay current program apply to my organization as well and my organization’s SAP IBP Sell Authorizations?
A: Yes, the Solution Consultant requirement of the
SAP IBP Sell Authorizations also requires your resource (that is maintained in the PartnerEdge PRM tool who holds the Solution Consultant requirement) to also follow the Stay Current with SAP Global Certification Program approach.
Q:
I am an SAP Partner organization. What happens if my Solution Consultant (maintained in the PartnerEdge PRM tool) fails to “stay current” for any given quarter?
A: During the Semi- annual PRM check, if your resource is indicated to have failed to stay current, your organization’s Sell Authorization will be demoted to “At Risk”. Ideally at this point, you must ensure to inform the consultant that he/she must re-certify if the time lapse is greater than 3 months or complete the missed “Stay Current: assessment, so that your organization’s Sell Authorization can revert back to “Authorized”. If your resource fails to complete the “Stay Current” assessment at this point, during the next round of PRM check, your organization will lose your SAP IBP Sell Authorization.
Thank you,
SAP Global Certification
