Job for Consultant: Re: [sap-career] Which of These Five Modules are More Promising?

vendredi 4 novembre 2011

Re: [sap-career] Which of These Five Modules are More Promising?

Posted by Roy B (SAP Financials Expert)
on Nov 4 at 1:29 PM

You are asking the wrong questions. It is not a question of which is the more promising but more a question of which one do you stand a chance of getting into? Your Oracle experience is not of much use in trying to break into the SAP market. The systems are not alike. Your apparent lack of accounting experience just about rules out FI-CO completely, because these modules are for people who are every strong in accounting and finance, often qualified accountants with many years of experience. FI-CO will always be in demand as it is THE core that everything else feeds into.

Your experience tends towards either SD or MM, and I would say more SD than MM, although the Ariba stuff might be more MM oriented. I would say rank the modules in this order:- SD, MM, CO, FI, HR. The real challenge is going to be getting a job in any of them afetr you have done your corse, and I think it would be better to see if you have any chance whatsoever of getting a job before spending money on training which may prove to be an expensive waste of time.

Rgds, Roy

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---------------Original Message---------------
From: martin8
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 1:09 PM
Subject: Which of These Five Modules are More Promising?

Hi,

I have worked in IT for 20 yrs in various roles in end user environment of Fortune 500 IT company - system engineer, network engineer, IT operation, Business analyst, project manager, IT manager, project portfolio management,. In last few years, I worked on sales and distribution related project using Oracle ERP to replace the application I designed 12 years ago. My involvement in this recent Oracle ERP project for 3 years as BA (Business Analyst) in Billing, Receivable ,and PM/lead BA in data migration.

Ten years ago I worked on Oracle Financial application, 1 year in GL module to rollout Oracle application; another year as project manager & lead BA to deploy Ariba sourcing application with integration to Oracle PO, AP and Project Accounting modules.

Recently I left the company and was offered SAP training by a institute. I have to choose 1 out of few modules - FI (Accounting), CO (Management Accounting), MM (Material Management), SD (Sales and Distribution) and HR (Human Resources).

Though I incline to FI and SD module, I am open for suggestion. Which of these 5 modules are more promising?

Suggestion and input for my career path is appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Marc

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