Anyone on the board work with/in SAP? What do you do? (BASIS, Security, Programming, Functional) Who do you work for? (Oil and Gas, Consulting Firm) Have you worked with other ERP systems or have you switched from SAP to another system and why? Oh and where did you learn SAP... Did you take a course on it, did you learn on the job, or do you really not understand SAP and just act like you do? :grin:
I think getting into SAP at this point is too late. You can still do ok in it but you aren't going to be banking like the people that were implementing it about 5 years ago. Those are the people that are also going to continue to make the big bucks now because they have all of the experience.
I know a bit about SAP and I work with a SAP team on one of our projects. I use SAP to look up info as well. I really don't like it because it's not that user friendly.
The last time I did anything with it was 2001. I was a developer at Shell and did some work against the database tables for pricing. No training, just dive in and figure it out.
I have worked on and off with SAP for my entire career. It is the major FI/CO and ERP system at every company I've worked for. I'm mostly in MDM and FI/CO modules, dabbling a little in MM. My current specialty is working with master data (FI/CO), and because of that niche I'm usually in demand if I ever want to change jobs, especially around projects. I've worked in data warehousing where our feeder systems are SAP, I've worked in SAP itself, I've worked in BW...all of it. I disagree that its too late to learn it and get into it. We actually often have a shortage of folks that can use SAP when we run projects, and we often have a need for regular users, not necessarily power users, that are entry and mid level employees, not the 15 year vets that command premiums. I was in the IT industry, I am now in O&G.
I am a pipeline integrity technician for a company that produces and pipelines Hydrogen gas, and we use SAP for almost everything. My main SAP functions are limited to creating work order notifications, eMOC's, my time and my expense reports - all of which i learned on the job. We have a planner in our department that is a power user and handles any of the more complicated functions of SAP. I guess it's not that bad, but if I make a mistake on any of the reports it will usually lock up and force me to start over.
I am already in SAP. I used to do ABAP programming for a consulting firm, but now I am working for a German company and am more involved with MM and Security. Yea, I don't think the big bucks are as easy to come by anymore, but I still know of people that get paid well over $150 an hour on certain projects. SAP is so vast, it just seems crazy that one person can work in a certain aspect and never even deal with or know about another part of it.
On the job...especially when I first interned for Compaq in 2000, I worked in UAT for a pretty big tax project with SAP. Basically running through script after script for an entire summer made me very familiar with it, then as I got more finance and accounting experience over time I actually figured out WHY SAP works the way it does. I also have had some outside refresher courses from time to time, but nothing major, and no certs.
I've been working in SAP for about 7 years The first 5 as a BI developer (Business Warehouse) For the last 2 as the local contact and user rep for a 200+ user site that is running SAP remote from the parent company in Finland. Basically, I help people get data out of SAP, use if more effeciently, some initial debugging, and do IT translation when we need to deal with the technical team in Finland. I had BI training but most of what I learnt was on the job -- dig in.
Only Spanish is in SAP? You can put whatever language you want. It's not "Spanish Audio Program." But, yes to your question.
