Role of a SAP Consultant?

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Rajesh Balakrishnan

student

197 Points Posted on 24 February 2011

I cleared my CA Final this November and am planning to take up a career in SAP. But the thing is, I do not have practical experience in this field. My articleship tenure mainly composed of Tax and Audit related work. My interest is in the advisory services and I was kinda confused as to whether I should start applying or whether I should undergo any of the SAP certified courses before I do that? So would you recommend me to take up a certification course in a module like say FI from Genovate or Siemens and get to know the modus operandi? A brief & concrete descripttion of the role of a SAP Consultant would also help me because, basically from what I've heard from most of them who have had any SAP exposure (not being involved with the implementation in any way, though) is that 'They translate the business requirements of the clients to the programmers' and I found that to be pretty vague. I haven't really gotten a chance to talk to someone who has been in the implementation side of things. So, if you can throw some light on that, it would be great, so that I can have an idea of what I'm getting into.

Thanks and looking forward to replies

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CMA.Baskar.V

Cost Accountant

400 Points Posted on 04 March 2011

Dear Rajesh,

You can become SAP-FICO consultant.

Siemens offered certified course and this is only institute authorized give certificate for consultant and Job market very wide and more demand for Certified SAP-FICO Consultant with good salary package, not only in India across the world.

Since you are CA Final Student, you can go for FICO (Finance and Controlling) module course and if your budget permits take MM (Material Management) Module and PP (Production Process) module course also, if you have certificate above module, in manufacturing industry your demand will be more.

If your budget not permits, take only FI-CO module only, it will enough for you, other module you can learn from your team at time of SAP implementation.

Role of SAP consultant is to get business requirement from Client and configure the same in SAP system. This process contains lot of steps

1. Preparation of AS-IS Business process

2. Preparation of AS-To be Business process in SAP\

3. Preparation GAP Analysis Report between AS-IS Report and AS-To Be report

4. Finalization of Business Process Blue Print

5. Start Configuration in SAP

6. Testing Business Requirement in SAP

7. Training to End-users

8. Go Live

9. Support on after implementation

I hope you understand Role of SAP Consultant