SAP AG is a German company founded in 1972 by 5 IBM employees who understood the benefit and the need of an ERP product which can fullfill all the business process needs of an enterprise big or small . They developed the ERP package with the same name SAP (Systems Applications and Products) and now is among the fourth largest independent software supplier across the world. Among the various products of SAP AG is SAP R/3 ,which fullfills all the business needs of an organization by providing various applications like
Material Management(MM),
Sales and Distribution(SD),
Production Planning(PP),Material Management(MM),
Sales and Distribution(SD),
Quality Management(QM)
Finance and Controlling(FI/CO) ,
Human Resources(HR) among others.
New Dimension Prodcuts are
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Supply Relationship Management (SRM)
Advance Planning & Optimisation (APO) and others.
R/3 as it is popularly know is highly customizable and integrated product where all the applications running on it are tightly integrated. Under mySAP.com SAP provides various web enabled products and services. It is a market leader in client/server enterprise application software and is based on best business practices and helps business achieve cost and competitive advantages.
The SAP skills that are in demand today are:
Functional consultants: Without them business process can't be mapped to SAP so functional consultants in any module will always be in demand for a long time.
ABAP programmers: This skill has good market value and will continue to be around forever because of changes done to existing projects and new developments. Demand for HR ABAP programmers have vanished. But programmers with experience in multiple modules, ESS, SAP Script, BAPI, and RFC etc. will persist to be in demand.
Human Resource (HR): Specialized knowledge of Payroll Mangement ,Travel and Expenses module, Recruitment, Tax configuration, extremely good Payroll functional consultants are still in good demand.
BASIS consultants: Consultants that have good experience in upgrading new versions, UNIX or Windows NT skill and database administration will be in demand. Role involves installation , recovery , performance tuning, networking , upgradation , user authorizations , archiving etc.
APO (Supply chain)
Business Warehouse (BW): many were thinking BW will be the next hot skill and they were right ! .
Project Management: Customers that are planning to upgrade will need experienced Project Managers & Team leaders to drive the project from scoping and planning all the way through implementation.
Human Resource (HR): SAP 46X version of HR is very user friendly and has many added functionalities. Good payroll and time functional consultants will continue to be in demand.
ALE/EDI: Very few consultants get opportunity to do ALE, so there is still shortage of expert ALE consultants.
ABAP programmers: This skill has good market value and will continue to be around forever because of changes done to existing projects and new developments. Demand for HR ABAP programmers have vanished. But programmers with experience in multiple modules, ESS, SAP Script, BAPI, and RFC etc. will persist to be in demand.
Human Resource (HR): Specialized knowledge of Payroll Mangement ,Travel and Expenses module, Recruitment, Tax configuration, extremely good Payroll functional consultants are still in good demand.
BASIS consultants: Consultants that have good experience in upgrading new versions, UNIX or Windows NT skill and database administration will be in demand. Role involves installation , recovery , performance tuning, networking , upgradation , user authorizations , archiving etc.
APO (Supply chain)
Business Warehouse (BW): many were thinking BW will be the next hot skill and they were right ! .
Project Management: Customers that are planning to upgrade will need experienced Project Managers & Team leaders to drive the project from scoping and planning all the way through implementation.
Human Resource (HR): SAP 46X version of HR is very user friendly and has many added functionalities. Good payroll and time functional consultants will continue to be in demand.
ALE/EDI: Very few consultants get opportunity to do ALE, so there is still shortage of expert ALE consultants.
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