Currently in SAP, is it better to start with programming (ABAP) or being functional like Sales Processing etc?
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Depends on your educational and functional profile. ABAP is SAP's propreitary programming language. It is purely technical stuff. By functional Sales processing, I assume you are refering to SD module. That requires some basic Sales process related exposure. It has nothing technical.
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If you are a textile engineer and has interest in the workflow and business of the industry then SAP is a very good thing to study. SAP has a very good footing within ERP databases and I doubt whether there would be a good competitor to SAP in many modules in recent future. Oracle ERP is trying hard to rach there but as of now there are far behind. One good thing is if you know SAP, two years down the line you can learn other ERP products making your skill set wider. Hence if you continue to study I do not see a problem.\n\nAlso read my earlier reply to the same question:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AiTH8s2_B9ftgVKV__ZQfqQezKIX?qid=1006053114822
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Well as on today ERP is the hot.\n1.Sap\n2.Peoplesoft\n3.Oracle Apps\nThese three are most prominent domains in ERP.You can get high rewards if u have a blend of technical and analytical skills.ERP implemetation is going on at large scale in India and in US/UK there are lots of maintenance/upgradation projects.\nAlso u can try to venture into CRM after ERP  as it is going to be next big thing.I am into Peoplesoft.u can mail me for further info.
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SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is the leading ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software package. SAP was the first to integrate a corporation's worldwide functions tightly into one application. Five former IBM programmers founded SAP AG in Germany, and released the first version of their software, SAP R/2, in 1979. Its domination of the market occurred during the 1980s, expanding first throughout Europe (early 1980s) and then North America (1988). SAP R/3, an advanced, client-server based version of the popular R/2 product, was released in 1992 and sparked a stunning takeover of America's largest businesses — 44% of US companies were using it within five years of its expansion.[1] In 1999, SAP introduced its newest major product upgrade. Named mySAP.com to emphasize its shift to an e- business focus, mySAP.com builds on the strengths of the SAP R/3 product in a fully Internet enabled architecture. MySAP.com also incorporates SAP's newest business applications for CRM, Supply Chain Management (SAP APO), and Data Warehousing (Business Information Warehouse or BW). Prior to the introduction of mySAP.com, these applications had been incorporated as add-ons to SAP R/3 and were known as New Dimension products.
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PeopleSoft is still the most advanced ERP product in the market today (especially in HCM). That's what they are increasingly realizing at Oracle. I can give you advice split in two. If you want to be a functional consultant in HCM then PeopleSoft is great to jump at, because Peoplesoft will be leading in functionality and User Interface for Fusion. If you're a technical consultant then go for Oracle eBusiness Suite because the technical foundation for Fusion will be J2EE (Oracle JDeveloper), which is the current technical foundation of eBusiness Suite.
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Now, the technology is straight forward.  When you do the MBA you will learn what business rules you need to create. Since you already would know how to write them (SAP) you will be a star
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Hi,\n\nSAP is has big market share in the ERP business market.\n\nSince there are many modules in SAP, you need select the one based on your work experience.Not necessarily IT.\n\nIf you have industry experience in functional support then you can obt for functional modules like MM (Materials Management), SD (Sales and Distribution), FI , CO (Costing), PP (Production Planning) etc\n\nIf you are not technical then you can select either ABAP development or BASIS (Technical Module).\n\nIt's quite open as I am not aware what is your specialization area.\n\nThanks\nYatin Bhatt
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There is no training material available per se given that every implementation is different.  Typically companies have their own.  If you want to look at generic functionality, take a look at SAP's web sites (sap.com, help.sap.com, etc...).
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SAP Introduction\nSAP means Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung. This is german for System analysis and program development.\nThe name was later changed into Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung: Systems, application and products in the data processing.\n\nThe company is specialized in large application supporting large corporations.\nSAP is well known for its ERP solution R/3. The modularity of the product allows a certain fexibility in the implementation and use.\n\nThe major components within R/3 are\n\nFinancial system\nProject system\nLogistic system\nHuman ressource\nDeveloppment system (ABAP)\n\nThe major components outside R/3 are :\nNetweaver\nSAP Business Warehouse and Strategic Entreprise Management\nOthers
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Hi Mark,\n\nI do not know what exactly you want to know here. I am not much aware about SSA but as far as SAP and Oracle are concerned, here is my explanation.\n\nOracle has many products which includes the big share of its database software. Now SAP is an ERP software which can run on ORACLE as a database.\n\nBut when you talk about Oracle ERP products like they took over JD Edwards, Sieble CRM etc. they are coming in to competition with SAP in the field of ERP.\n\nI hope you understand the point better now.\n\nRegards,\nYatin Bhatt
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The interview questions can help you a lot :\n\nThere are good posts :\n\nhttp://www.sapbrain.com/TUTORIALS/TECHNICAL/ABAP_tutorial.html\nhttp://www.geocities.com/abap_sap_tutorial/\nhttp://www.sap-basis-abap.com/bc/basis-interview-questions.htm\n\nhttp://www.geekinterview.com/Interview-Questions/SAP-R-3\n\nhttp://sap.ittoolbox.com/documents/popular-q-and-a/sap-mm-interview-questions-3586\n\n\nhttp://big4guy.com/index.php?cat=29\n\nWhat shoud you know as SAP consultant ?\n- Security structure (role based)\n- How to use a debug function (/h)\n- Where can you see the table definition (se16)\n- What is netweaver (a toolset of import export and integration functions)\n- What is a functional consultant\n\nMore:\n\nhttp://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/career/sap-career\n\nhttp://www.fundoosite.com\n\nhttp://www.kyapoocha.com/category/sap-abap-interview-questions/\nhttp://classifieds.sulekha.com\nhttp://searchsap.techtarget.com\n\nSAP, ABAP interview question and answers\nhttp://www.geocities.com/sap_interviewquestions/\nhttp://www.sap-img.com/abap/more-than-100-abap-interview-faqs.htm\nhttp://www.sapgenie.com/faq/abap.htm\nwww.techinterviews.com/?p=198\nwww.onestopsap.com/interview-Question/edi/\nwww.geekinterview.com/Interview-Questions/SAP-R-3/ABAP\nwww.sapabapfaqs.blogspot.com\n\nmrbra.com/abap_interview_questions.ivnu\n\n    a piece of the information there :\n    =>Is a logical database a requirement / must to write an ABAP/4 query ?\n    =>What are Change header/detail tables ? Have you used them ?\n    =>What do you do when the system crashes in the middle of a BDC session ?\n    =>What do you do with errors in BDC batch sessions ?\n    =>How do you set up background jobs in SAP ? What are the steps ? What are the event driven batch jobs ?\n\nHR\nwww.sap-img.com/human/hr-faq.htm\nwww.sapfans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p\nwww.sapcookbook.com/preview_hr_questions\nwww.atomhr.com/library_full.htm\nwww.sapdevelopment.co.uk/hr\nwww.planetsap.com\nexpertanswercenter.techtarget.com\n\nwww.kyapoocha.com/category/sap-abap-interview-questions/\nA piece of the information there:\n\n    What is Bex?\n    Categories: SAP-ABAP Interview Questions\n\n    Name some drawbacks of SAP.\n    Categories: SAP-ABAP Interview Questions\n\n    Define Meta data, Master data and Transaction data.\n    Categories: SAP-ABAP Interview Questions
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Interesting question.. previously if you are a programmer.. then go for SAP ABAP, if not choose DWH coz the core concept in this is based on data analyzing. Well about Testing.. i don't know much about that.
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Try SAP BW for free here:\n\nhttp://erp.wu-wien.ac.at/sapbw/01_index.htm
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Hi, You need to find the skill sets for that position.  Once you do that you should try matching up your personal experience to those skill sets.  In regards to SAP it id very difficult to settle into that type of position because of the vast amount of experience that is needed.  You may want to start looking at vendors of SAP/ HYPERION/ HP and such, become an Account Manager and move into an analyst position that way.
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If you are a fresher you can choose the programming or the networking side of SAP. However if you already have an experience in some other are then you need to do some R & D and then choose to go for the suitable module. You will have to spend lots of time in doing research. It is not easy to get a job in the present day if you are not up to the mark.\nyou can drop to any centre in you city to get an idea of what SAP is. then take a decision.\n\nAll the Best!
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SAP ? I understand that you should be having volumnous data and many modules of control.\n\nSAP can handle from planning, finance, production, accounting, budgeting, costing and the list goes on. And the best thing is all these functions act on an integrated platform. They interchange data between modules. \n\nHope you got the point. You can contact me on my mail id.
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Check out the links below:\n\nhttp://www.sap-img.com/abap/abap-interview-question.htm\nhttp://www.sap-img.com/abap/answers-to-some-abap-interview-questions.htm\nhttp://sap.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=3240\nhttp://www.techinterviews.com/?p=198\nhttp://www.ittestpapers.com/interviewquestions/abap1.htm\n\nAlso check these sites for online test and info on ABAP.\nhttp://www.sapdomain.com\nhttp://www.rmtiwari.com