How to Start a Great SAP Career

Why Become An SAP Consultant? Firstly, SAP has more than 100,000 corporate customers worldwide and it is the most popular and highly respected business software in the world. SAP is rapidly growing and as a result, there is an increasing demand for SAP trained professionals providing enormous opportunities for newcomers.
These opportunities exist in every country around the world so there is plenty of opportunity to travel and work. Secondly, SAP jobs are the highest paid in the industry. What better reason than that! How to Become An SAP Consultant? One common entry pathway into SAP consulting is with people who make a transition from an Accounting or Administration position into SAP consulting.
This is a natural progression as business administration knowledge is essential to become a successful SAP consultant.
Accountants are highly trained, have good business and computer skills and already have worked with financial software so the transition is easy. Accountants make good client-facing functional consultants who can effectively communicate with the client and understand their functional business requirements. Another common entry pathway in to SAP consulting is from business analysis or programming careers.

These people tend to specialise in the technical aspects of one or more SAP modules including ABAP programming. They enjoy configuring and programming the screens and reports of SAP to customise the system to the client's requirements.
A third entry point into SAP consulting is from the human resources career pathway.
As the HR module is one of the most widely implemented SAP modules there are plenty of career opportunities for people with human resources skills to specialise in SAP HR consulting. If you have knowledge and experience with employee establishment, organisational management, recruitment, performance appraisal, remuneration and payroll you may well have the right skill set to transition to a SAP HR consultant.

A final entry point into SAP consulting is from the software training and help desk career pathway.

A significant portion of the business change management process to implementing SAP software is to provide appropriate training, user documentation and user support.

The usual implementation training strategy is for SAP consultants to train a group of key business users.

The key business users, with the help of SAP consultants, develop user manuals to train the system users to use SAP to perform their daily job functions.
Training is often overlooked in terms of its importance.

It doesn't matter how good the software or implementation, if users are not trained properly there will be problems that will require a high level of support which will cost the business more money. What About SAP Training? If you are new to SAP it is recommended to download a trial version of the SAP software and acquire a home study course.

This is the best and most affordable way to learn SAP.

Start with a basics course, next learn the FICO (finance & controlling) module followed by the SD (sales & distribution) module.

Later you may want to learn a more specialised module such as MM, HR, PS, ABAP etc.