Job for Consultant: Re: [sap-career] SAP Module to Increase Value of a SD Consultant

mardi 29 novembre 2011

Re: [sap-career] SAP Module to Increase Value of a SD Consultant

Posted by ManTaks
on Nov 29 at 10:08 AM

Hi Pamela,

SAP BW with SD will be a killer combination, but if you opt for
CRM, it will take you away from SD!

Manish Thakur

---------------Original Message---------------
From: Roy Brookes
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 9:58 AM
Subject: SAP Module to Increase Value of a SD Consultant

Hi Pamela,

CRM is possible but getting a job in the CRM world may not be so easy because it is a very attractive module (some would even say "sexy") right now. There are too many people competing for the available jobs, in my opinion. I would think more in terms of leveraging your existing skills by expanding sideways into say MM or SCM, or even PLM. I know guys here in Germany who have done this and now call themselves "Logistics" consultants instead of just SD, and a much bigger field is open to them. Also you can study the new functionality that has come along more recently like BADIs and BAPIs, Function Modules and the like which moves you more towards programming without making you into a programmer but enables you to write functional specifications for new developments that can blow the socks off the bosses. On another tack you can look at Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) which has many elements of the old credit management that used to be split between SD and FI but is now all under this one new hat and it goes a bit further with dispute management and so on which is CRM-related. That could be a back door into CRM longer term, but also involves notions of financials and could make you a fully-fledged "Order-to-Cash" consultant, covering all aspects of that business cycle. All of these things can be learned "on the job" with the help of standard SAP documentation and the internet so you only need to invest time and effort and little money. You see the way my mind is working? Like you I am not certified but have worked my way to the top of my field by being prepared to learn anything I have stumbled across on the way. Think it over and decide which way to go first or maybe write yourself a road map to get where you want to be bit by bit. Good luck with it.

Regards,

Roy

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