There are 3 areas of knowledge the good SAP consultant should have:
Gaining any one of them helps you to kick-start your SAP career. There are currently too many people on the market who only obtained, or think they have obtained, the technical knowledge. They pretend to be “SAP certified freshers”. Because of this, I would not recommend anyone starting his career development exclusively from SAP trainings or SAP courses. That’s a pure waste of your time and money. I have recently found an excellent article which describes the steps of becoming a SAP consultant through gaining business domain knowledge. Please read it, it is definitely worth spending 5 minutes of your life. Let’s imagine now you have checked your personal qualities against the list of qualities an SAP consultant should have. Today I want to tell you about yet another, although less known, way to become an SAP consultant. It is through gaining some consulting experience. Obviously, SAP is not the only piece of software in the world. There are many more applications that require implementation, help to the end-user, trainings delivery, post-implementation support, and so on. All these steps are parts of a consulting life, consulting experience, consulting skills. Generally speaking, it is not only the software implementation of SAP that requires consulting skills. There is also business consulting and tax consulting involved, and even to a certain degree consulting regarding audit and sales experience. So, why not start getting your consulting skills polished before getting onto SAP?
There are many ways you can get your consulting skills. Just few of them are below:
What you get through this?
All these, and many more, are mandatory skills if you want to become a top-grade SAP consultant. Once you have all of these skills in your CV, you can start looking for positions in SAP consultancies by offering them your extensive consultancy experience in exchange for SAP knowledge. Or, maybe… Your new position, your new role and your new career perspectives will outshine the options on the SAP consulting market! Sounds interesting? Then, start acting!
PS. Do you want an example of people who succeeded this way? I have at least one: myself. I became an SAP consultant exactly via this route! Before joining the SAP world, I was consulting on implementations of a less known and less sophisticated local-market accounting system.
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thanks for these valuable suggestions. I need some more help
I am a project management professional working in telecommunication field Most of my experience is in ON-SITE , i wanted to do SAP. Please help me to choose appropriate module . As per my research PORTFOLIO & PROJECT MANAGEMENT suits my expereince.
Nishant,
you can become an SAP project manager. It is not necessary to know any module in this case. However, some technical knowledge would be beneficial.
If you dealt with project management, then you can try yourself in PS or IM parts of SAP, I think.
Dear Nishant,
Even though you can theoretically do project management without knowledge of a specific module, I would strongly advise against it. Get to know one module that is closer to your business knowledge so far. You have no chance of becoming a project manager without several years experience in SAP, and, to my humble opinion, you can only make good use of these years by working as an application consultant. In this manner you will understand how SAP works and what it takes to do the “consultant” things. How else could you expect to manage a whole project and a team of consultants? đ
Also remember: as in every other trade, there are professionals and claim-to-be-professionals. Which of the two do you want to be?
Yannis
Very good explanation. A helpful material for the aspiring consultants and the recruiters.
The advice given in this subject is very good, i have all three capability, have a very good business knowledge, technical knowledge and problem solving skill also with me but still i am waiting to enter a SAP consultant.
I hope you will get your job soon. And I hope this will be sooner than for the people who don’t have the skills like yours. đ
Good luck and all the best!
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