How to become an SAP Certified Professional? – [PART 1] [target audience: for professionals & students in India]

 

SAP AG, Established 1972 at Walldorf, Germany 

 

                 SAP is has been for a while one of the most sought after career paths in India and across the world; offering a wide range of jobs for IT professionals and other professionals with domain expertise like sales, finance, human resources, marketing, etc.  So if you are searching for information about SAP or want to decide whether SAP could be a career for you, then these questions might help. I hope to discuss each of these questions in detail and hence will handle one question for each post.

 

 Ask yourself:

 

1. What is SAP?
2. Do SAP Courses have good value?
3. Where will I fit in SAP?
4. How can I learn or choose my SAP Course?
5. How do I take up the Certification Exam?
6. How can I get a new job offer after my SAP Course?

 

1. What is SAP?

              SAP AG, is the company behind SAP (Systems, Applications and Products in data processing) and the numerous business solutions it offers. A business solution is/can be software that is used by organizations to perform/monitor their business activities; like creating/sending a purchase order for raw materials to the supplier, or creating/sending an invoice to the customer for the goods he/she purchased, or planning & scheduling production, maintaining customer data, material data and much more. And all these business data and functions are integrated onto a centralized database thus providing businesses with higher efficiency and more profit.

 

Integrates all business functions onto a centralized Database

 

SAP AG is the best among the companies that build software/solutions for these kinds of business activities. Few products that SAP AG offers are:

 



SAP Solutions



-          SAP ECC/ERP – SAP Enterprise Core Component is the core for a business organization as it handles areas like Finance, HR and Logistics.

 

-          SAP CRM – Customer Relationship Management helps to manage all customer related activities like campaigns, marketing, customer support services, order management etc.

 

-          SAP SRM – Supplier Relationship Management helps to manage all vendor related activities like vendor data management, vendor selection, purchase order management, procurement strategy etc.

 

-          SAP SCM – Supply Chain Management helps to integrate/monitor activities from the point of raw-materials/vendors, the organization and up to the finished product/customer

 

Other products and areas include, SAP EP – Enterprise Portal, BI – Business Intelligence, PI – Process Integration, SAP KM – Knowledge Management, SAP Basis – SAP System Administration.

 

Here are a few facts about SAP:

• World’s largest Enterprise Application Software Company
• 4th largest software company in the world
• 40 years of experience providing solutions to the world’s best-run businesses
• Presence in more than 120 countries
• More than 183,000 customers worldwide
• 12 million daily Users worldwide
• More than 19 industry specific solutions
• More than 27 enterprise core modules

 Here are a few facts about SAP in India

• 11 out of 14 “Navratnas” run SAP
• 9 out of 10 most profitable and largest companies run SAP
• 24 out of 30 companies in Sensex run SAP
• 37 out of 50 companies in Nifty run SAP
• 36 out of 50 in ET 500 run SAP
• 21 of the top 25 brands in India run SAP
• 18 of the 20 companies listed in the BCG Global Challengers list run on SAP
• 25 out of the 40 Largest Indian Companies named by Forbes run SAP
• 7 of the 13 Indian firms named by Business Week in 'Asia's Hot Growth Companies' list run SAP

So if your line of work or your career interest lies within any of these business areas, then YES you can definitely consider making your future in SAP!

 

You can find more information about SAP at: SAP History

 

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