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FUNCTIONAL MODULES IN SAP:

Finanacial Modules: Financial Accounting (FI), Controlling (CO), Investment Management (IM), Treasury (TR), Enterprise Control (EC).

Logistics Modules: Material management (MM), Sales & distribution (SD), Production, Planning & Control (PP), Product Data Management (PDM), Quality Management (QM), Plant maintenance (PM), Service management(SM), Project systems (PS)

Human resource management Module: 

Personnel Management, Organizational Management, Payroll Accounting, Time Management, Personnel Development, Training & Event Management

Cross Application Module: Workflow (WF), SAP Office.

SAP Technical components

SAP Basis

SAP BC - BASIS Components ::

1. Identify the no of users and type of users

2. Design the technical system landscape of servers

3. Do the sizing based on users, documents created.

4. Convert your sizing requirement in to Hardware requirements

5. Consider the backup procedure also

6. Then start with the set-up of development landscape

7. Define client strategy, transport strategy, User management.

8. Fix the support package levels.

9. Tune the system for performance

10. set up the QA systems

11. Define client copy strategy

12. Set-up the PROD systems

13. Apply for Pre Go live report

14. Monitor system of db load

15. Apply post go live report

ABAP

ABAP - Advanced Business Application Programming

NetWeaver "Business Process Management" apps

SAP KMC - Knowledge Management & Collaboration

SAP DMS - Document Management Service

SAP CMS - Content Management Service

SAP XI - Exchange Infrastructure

SAP PI - Process Integration

SAP EP - Enterprise Portal

SAP BW- Business Warehouse

SAP BIW - Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing

IS (Information Systems) Management 

SAP CCMS - Computing Center Mgmt System

SAP MDM - Master Data Management

SAP BC-CCM-ADK - Archiving Development Kit

SAP CCM-API - Application Program Interfaces

SAP CCM-BTC - Background Processing

SAP CCM-CNF - Configuration

SAP CCM-HAV - High Availability

SAP CCM-MON - Monitoring

SAP CCM-PRN - Print and Output Management

SAP MDM100 - Master Data Management

SAP MDM101 - MDM GDS

SAP MDM300 - MDM Print Publishing

SAP MDM400 - MDM Data Modeling

SAP Business Suite Definition:

SAP Business Suite is a collection of various SAP enterprise software that ensure optimized execution of business strategies. It consists of the following SAP Systems:

 1.SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM)

 2.SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP ERP)

 3.SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM)

 4.SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM)

 5.SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM).

SAP  CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

SAP CRM supports all customer related processes and activities like sales and services. It enables the collaboration between the in-house employees, field employees, partners and customers. SAP CRM supports various types of interaction channels like internet, Mobile Phones etc to communicate with customers directly.

SAP  ERP (Enterprise Resource and Planning)

The application lets your people work more quickly and cost-effectively – connecting them directly to business processes and delivering the information and capabilities they need to make decisions and take action. It also enables you to innovate and adapt to the changing requirements of your industry – at lower cost and with greater speed.

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SAP ERP- SEM (Strategic Enterprise Management Software) ::SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP SEM) delivers end-to-end ERP software capabilities to support the entire performance management life cycle, including Consolidated Financial Reporting, Planning, budgeting & forecasting, Corporate performance management and scorecards & Risk Management

SUB Modules:

SEM-BCS - Business Consolidation

SEM-BIC - Business Information Collection

BW-BPS - Business Planning and Simulation

SEM-CPM - Corporate Performance Monitor

SEM-SRM - Stakeholder Relationship Management

SAP PLM (Product Life Cycle Management) :

·                     Product Lifecycle Management is a collection of solutions that can be used to digitally create and maintain product information to be made available to the entire organization at any point of time.

·                     It provides all needed information about the complete product and asset life cycle through the extended supply chain, thereby ensuring legal compliance.

SUB Modules

SAP PLM_RM - Recipe Management

SAP PLM_AM - Audit Management

SAP PLM400 - Quality Management

SAP PLM410 - Quality Notifications

SAP PLM405 - Quality Inspections

SAP PLM425 - QM in Sales and Distribution

SAP SCM (SAP Supply Chain Management)

SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) enables collaboration, planning, execution, and coordination of the entire supply network, empowering you to adapt your supply chain processes to an ever-changing competitive environment.

SAP – APO - SAP Advance Planning and Optimization

SAP – OCH - SAP Inventory Collaboration Hub

SAP – EM - SAP Event Management

SAP SRM (Supply Relationship Management)::

 Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) enables the full range of supply and procurement activities from the strategy stage to execution

SAP Functional Modules

SAP FI - Financial Accounting:: 

Designed for automated management and external reporting of General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), and Asset Management (AM) with a user-defined chart of accounts.

External reporting, such as income statement and balance sheetRepresents cost and revenue flows throughout the organization

Aids in organizational decision making

Supports internal reporting such as cost centre reports

SUB Modules

SAP FI-GL - General Ledger

SAP FI-AP - Accounts Payable

SAP FI-AR - Account Receivable

SAP FI-SL- Special Purpose Ledger

SAP FI-BL – Bank Accounting

SAP AA - Asset Accounting: AA provides tools to acquire, depreciate, evaluate, and retire assets. The kinds of assets covered are fixed, low value, leased, and real estate.

Low value assets depreciate in the year they are bought and are often aggregated as a single asset master record.

Depreciation often needs to be tracked (for more than one reason), so SAP R/3allows you to depreciate the same piece of equipment in several parallel ways.

SAP CO – Controlling ::  SAP CO Module helps management by providing reports on cost centers, profit centers, contribution margins, profitability, etc. They also deal with cost accounting processing, analytical reporting, and audit-controlling spectrums.

SUB Modules

SAP CO-CEA - Cost Element Accounting

SAP CO-CCA - Cost Center Accounting

SAP CO- Internal Orders

SAP CO- Activity-Based Costing

SAP CO-PC- Product Cost Controlling

SAP CO-PA- Profitability Analysis

SAP CO-PCA- Profit Center Accounting

SAP CO-OM- Overhead Cost controlling

SAP CO-ML- Material Ledger

SAP TR – Treasury

SUB Modules

SAP TR-CB - Cash Budget Management

SAP TR-MRM - Market Risk Management

SAP TR-CM - Cash Management

SAP TR-LO - Loans Management

SAP TR-TM - Treasury Management

SAP TR-FM - Funds Management

SAP IM - capital Investment Management ::

It used for planning, budgeting and monitoring of a comprehensive budget .An investment program represents the planned or budgeted costs for the capital investments of an enterprise. Using investment programs, you can obtain an overview of planning and budgeting processes in complex enterprise structures for all investments and large projects of the group, while at the same time maintaining strict budgetary control.

SAP Human resource management Module

Human Resources - HR

 SAP HCM(Human Capital Management) Or SAP HR - Human Resource:: Takes care of payroll, time recording, applicant administration, and organization data. It supports the planning and control of personnel activities. It consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to complete the Hire to Retire (or, as some say, Fire) process.

SUB Modules

Organizational Management (OM)

Personnel Administration (PA)

SAP PA - Personnel Administration 

SAP PA-APP - Applicant Management

SAP PA-BEN - Benefits

SAP PA-EMP - Employee Management

SAP PA-INW - Incentive wages

SAP PA-PAY - Payroll

SAP PA-TIM - Time Management

SAP PA-TRV - Travel Expenses

 Personnel planning and Development(PD)

SAP PD-OM - Organizational Management

SAP PD-RPL - Room Reservations Planning

SAP PD-WFP - Workforce Planning

SAP PD-SCM - Seminar and Convention Management

SAP PD-PD - Personnel development

Recruitment

Time Management (TM)

Travel Management (TM )

Payroll

Benefits

Compensation Management

Personal cost Planning

Budget Management

Training and Event Management

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Logistic and Manufacturing - Mainly SD/MM

SAP SD - Sales & Distribution:: This module includes the business processes used to sell and deliver products and services to customers and business partners. Information about the product and customers (both of which are stored in the master data) is used in SD.

SUB Modules

SAP SD-MD - Master Data

SAP SD-CAS - Sales Support

SAP SD-SLS - Sales

SAP SD-SHP - Shipping

SAP SD-TR - Transportation

SAP SD-BIL - Billing

SAP SD-SIS - Sales Information System

SAP SD-EDI - Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

SAP SD-GF General Sales Functions

SAP LE - Logistic Execution

SAP MM - Material Management::

The grouping of management functions supporting the complete cycle of material flow, from the purchase and internal control of production materials to the planning and control of work in process to the warehousing, shipping, and distribution of the finished product.

SUB Modules

SAP MM-PUR - Purchasing

SAP MM-IM - Inventory Management

SAP MM-WM - Warehouse Management

SAP MM-IV - Invoice Verification

SAP MM-IS - Information System

SAP MM-CBP - Consumption Based Planning

SAP MM-EDI - Electronic Data Interchange

SAP MRP - Materials Requirement Planning

SAP ML - Material Ledger

SAP PP - Production Planning ::

This module supports functions for the overall level of manufacturing output and other activities to best satisfy the current planned levels of sales (sales plan or forecasts), while meeting general business objectives of profitability, competitive customer lead times as expressed in the overall business plan. One of its primary purposes is to establish production rates that will achieve management’s objective of satisfying customer demand, by maintaining, raising or lowering inventories or backlogs, while usually attempting to keep the workforce relatively stable.

Sub Modules

SAP PP-SOP - Sales and Operations Planning

SAP PP-CRP - Capacity Requirement Planning

SAP PP-MP - Master planning

SAP PP-ATO - Assembly orders

SAP PP-BD - Basic Data

SAP PP-IS - Information System

SAP PP-KAB - Kanban/Just-in-Time

SAP PP-MRP - Material Requirements Planning

SAP PP-PDC - Plant Data Collection

SAP PP-PI - Production Planning for Process Industries

SAP PP-REM - Repetitive Manufacturing

SAP PP-SFC - Production orders

SAP DS - Detailed Scheduling

SAP PM - Plant Maintenance::

Supports the planning, processing, and completion of plant maintenance tasks. Allows for planners to schedule routine maintenance in a way that is least disruptive for manufacturing and sales requirement.

SUB Modules

SAP PM-EQM - Equipment and Technical Objects

SAP PM-IS - PM Information System

SAP PM-PRM - Preventive Maintenance

SAP PM-PRO - Maintenance Projects

SAP PM-SM - Service Management

SAP PM-WOC - Maintenance Orders Management

SAP QM - Quality Management::

 Supports the quality inspection aspects of the business, including purchasing, research, and sales. Allows for buyers and manufacturing personnel to track inspection lots and test results

SUB Modules

SAP QM-QP - Quality Planning

SAP QM-IM - Quality Inspection processing

SAP QM-QC-AQC - Quality control

SAP QM-IT - Test equipment management

SAP QM-QN - Quality notifications

SAP QM-CA - Quality certificates

SAP QM-CR - General functions

SAP QM-PT-RP - Control in logistics

SAP PS - Project System ::

Helps you to plan, manage, control, and figure the cost of R&D projects, and soon. The common tasks revolve around allocation of people, resources, and money within the framework of schedule and task relationships.

SUB Modules

SAP PS-CAF - Payments

SAP PS-CON - Confirmation

SAP PS-COS - Costs

SAP PS-CRP - Resources

SAP PS-DAT - Dates

SAP PS-DOC - Documents

SAP PS-IS - Information System

SAP PS-MAT - Material

SAP PS-PRG - Progress

SAP PS-REV - Revenues and Earnings

SAP PS-SIM - Simulation

SAP PS-ST - Structures

SAP PS-VER - Versions

SAP LO - General Logistics ::

SUB Modules

SAP LO-AB-TC - Trading Contract

SAP LO-BM - Batches

SAP LO-ECH - Engineering Change Management 

SAP LO-EHS - Environment Management

SAP LO-EWB - Engineering Workbench

SAP LO-HU - Handling Unit Management

SAP LO-LIS - Logistics Information System

SAP LO-MAP - Merchandise & Assortment Planning

SAP LO-MD - Logistics Basic Data

SAP LO-MDS - Merchandise Distribution

SAP LO-PDM - Product Data Management

SAP LO-PR - Forecast

SAP LO-RIS - Retail Information System

SAP LO-SCI - Supply Chain Planning Interface

SAP LO-SRS - Retail Store

SAP LO-VC - Variant Configuration

SAP LO170 - Quality Management

SAP LO705 - Quality Inspections

SAP LO710 - Quality Notifications

SAP LO725 - Quality Certificates

SAP LE - Logistic Execution

Cross Application Module

Cross Application (X-Apps)

SAP MII for Manufacturing Integration & Intelligence

SAP APO - Advanced Planner and Optimizer

SAP Live Cache

SAP WF – Workflow::

Links the integrated SAP R/3 application modules with cross-application technologies, tools, and services, including e-mail.

Workflow allows you to set up the followings:

Maintain your company’s organization structure according to responsibility.

Link the predefined standard tasks with the authorized agents in your company.

Activate existing event receiver links between triggering events and consuming workflow tasks.

Name a technical person responsible for each standard workflow template.

SAP GRC -Governance, Risk, and Compliance

SAP SDN - SAP Developer Network

SAP Virsa

SAP GTS - Global Trade Services

SAP EM - SAP Emissions Management

SAP CPM - Corporate Performance Management

SAP SEM - Strategic Enterprise Management

SAP BPS Business Planning and Simulation

SAP SM Strategy Management - Service Management (SM) module is fully capable to support customer demands more effectively. It has got an excellent reporting functionality, which helps the management by providing the reports, which would help them, identify areas of improvement.

SAP PS- Project systems ::

Project System provides tools to track project milestone, costs and resources. SAP's Project System module contains tight integration to the Controlling, Human Resources, and Logistics modules. It utilizes personnel records from HR, rolls costs into Controlling and links to materials or customers in the Logistics modules.

SAP IS - Industry Solutions ::

IS is  scaleable and flexible, and can be tailored to the specific needs of each business. Examples are: SAP Aerospace and Defence, SAP Automotive, SAP Banking, SAP Chemicals, SAP Consumer Products, SAP Engineering and Construction, SAP Telecommunication, SAP Utilities, SAP Service Provider.

SAP for Oil and Gas overview::

SAP has developed an industry solution for the oil and gas industry (IS-OIL), featuring tools and automated processes designed especially for this sector. SAP IS-OIL is the leading integrated solution for the entire value-added chain of the oil and gas industry-from the wellhead to the gas station. With SAP IS-OIL, you can provide your employees with uniform process and tools that make their day-to-day activities easier. Your other sites and applications are easily integrated into IS-OIL. The solution also gives you access to Web-enabled e-business applications and information.

search engine optimization

1.     What is search engine optimization?

SEO is the process in which your website undergoes redevelopment to more effectively communicate your keywords to search engines.

Optimizing your website enables it to rank higher on major search engines. Search engines rank websites based on two major factors:

unique content that contains pertinent keywords, and link popularity - the number of quality incoming links to your website.

Other important factors that determine your ranking with search engines are the architecture of the site,

the visibility of your content, its underlying code and how natural your site appears to the engines.

2.     Where is the free submission page?

Free submission page is at:   google.com various number of  free Submission sites

3.     How do I place META Tags on my page?

Your webpage editor may already have an option for META Tags.

 Try looking for it in the Page Properties.

If you have built your site using an online website builder  in  such,you do not need the META Tags generator. Most online website builders will allow you to insert META Tags. Please consult their help section or tech support for details for related Website builder of technical team.

4.     How can I get my page placed in the top 10 of the search engines?

There are two major ranking factors:

1) site content and with having good  keywords in the site content and

2) Link Popularity, meaning the more links there are towards your site from other sites.

There are many other factors and details how search engines rank pages, which cannot be explained in a few lines.

The following  learn more  Ranking pages Google ranking page

In addition please visit  any other  SEARCH ENGINE FORUMS 

5.     How long will it take for my site to be listed in the search engines?

It usually takes about 2-10 weeks to get your site listed in the major search engines.

You can check for your listing of that particular website.

6.     I am new to Search Engine Marketing. How can I learn more about Search Engine Optimization and Cost-Per-Click Advertising?

Please visit various types of SEARCH ENGINE FORUMS, Google analytic  where you can learn more about Search Engine Optimization, Cost-per-click Search Engine Advertising and get all your related questions answered.

AcuteSoft SAP Career Opportunities

Question	Guidelines to think
1. Whether SAP Certification gives me a guaranteed job?	SAP Certification is NOT a job guarantee program. SAP Certification is only to certify you in a particular area that you have reasonable amount of knowledge at that point of time. This would help the employers to believe SAP, being a third party, while recruiting the consultants on the board. SAP Certification is one of the ingredient in the recruitment process, hence, it is in the hands of the consultants to keep the right expectation regarding the SAP Certification.
2. Whether to train from recognised / non-recognised Institutes?	SAP Curriculum offers standard, structured and systematic approach to learning. SAP Education is offered by SAP / Educational Partners. At the same time, there are thousands of Institutes offering, which could be illegal and the quality may not be guaranteed. If you are particularly looking for Certification, nobody other than SAP can issue the Certification. Therefore, any certificate by non-recognised institutes is illegal. Whatever the kind of institutes, it is largely depends on the core strength and knowledge of the Trainer.
3. How can I appear SAP Certification in other countries?	Every country has its own evaluation process. Some countries like India, they have their own stringent rules in evaluating the rules. Therefore, some are opting to write the Certifications in other countries. If you want to write certification in other countries, you need to contact that country's local SAP Education team, they will evaluate case to case basis and advise you whether you are eligible to write the Certification. Visa processing etc. all are on your own risk. SAP is not involved with your visa processing.
4. Is Certification a mandatory thing to get a job?	Certification is not a mandatory thing get a job in SAP field. There are many good consultants without SAP Certification. There are also many good consultants failed to pass the SAP Certification. At the same time, all the certified consultants are not good consultants. You will find some very few certified and good consultants. Certification is always good to have and in some situations, the employers may tend to go for Certified consultant when they receive equal type CVs.
5. Am I eligible to write SAP Certification & what is the exam fee?	Every country has their own evaluation process. Mostly countries like USA, UK etc. no much evaluation, just pay the fee and write the exam. However, India or some of the APAC region countries have their own evaluation process. You need to pass all their rules in order to eligible to write the examination. This would be on a case to case basis. Therefore, in general, it is not possible to ascertain by anybody whether you are eligible or not. You need to contact your local SAP Education team to find your eligibility and fee details.
6. What if I want to write certification at Pearson VUE?	Certification exam at SAP and Pearson VUE is exactly the same. If you are writing exam at SAP / Education Partner’s site, then the S User ID is created by them. If you are booking at Pearson VUE, then you need to ask your company’s basis team or SAP Education team to help you. If the S ID is created by your company, then they may delete when you are moving the company. Recently written exam at Pearson VUE, the exam is under CCTV and you cannot keep anything with you other than your dress. They would also take your photograph along with identification process. However, this is not the practice at SAP / Education Partner, they would identify you using your passport / driving license.
7. I am SAP Certified, but getting no job opportunities?	You cannot blame SAP Certification for everything in the world. SAP Certification is not a medicine for all the diseases. You need to look for the grey areas to be improved upon. SAP Certification is only complimentary to your skills. However, employers do look for your education, domain knowledge, communication skills, business acumen, hands on experience, cultural fit and attitude etc. Therefore, please keep right expectations regarding SAP Certification.
8. I am Certified, shall I go and do more SAP Certifications?	Nothing inspires you like success, nothing experience you like failure. When you are certified and the people around you are congratulating, it is always a morale booster. Some people tend to go and do more certification out of their own personal interest. Whether all those certifications will give a real benefit or not is a different matter altogether. It is your personal choice whether to go for more certifications or not.
9. Should I opt for Class Room or e-learning training?	Class room training and e-learning, they have their own pros and cons. Class room training is more expensive, however, highly effective. Whereas, e-learning is cost effective, however, you may tend to become lethargic. You need to consider the right choice considering your financial position, availability and the way you want to learn.
10. Why I have not received my Certification yet?	Usually SAP Certification is delivered to 4 – 8 weeks. Fortunately, I never had a sad stories in this area. If you have written proper address along with your post code etc. usually you should receive it in time. In case if you do not receive by 8 weeks, please contact your local SAP Education Team.
11. How will I get my S User IDs / Passwords?	SAP normally send you your S User ID and password by post, once you are successful in your SAP Certification examination. If you do not receive it, then you may please contact your local SAP Education team, they should be able to help you out. S user ID is nothing but the Certification Number on your Certificate, preceded by S.
12. Are there any grace marks in SAP Certification examinations?	There are no grace marks in SAP Certification. There are many consultants who failed just by short of 1%. There are only two things, either pass or fail. If you pass, enjoy and get the certificate. If you are fail, still you are interested, then go and re-book the examination.
13. How will I get SAP Certification materials?	Please note SAP Certification materials are copy righted materials and I am afraid, they cannot be distributed freely, any such distribution is illegal and may liable for legal action. Unfortunately, many unauthorised people are selling them and keeping them on the internet, please be aware with such individuals.
14. How will I get SAP Certification exam questions?	When you are writing SAP Certification, you are going to sign a non-disclosure agreement that you would not disclose SAP questions outside. My best suggestion is frame your own questions from the curriculum books. There are some yahoo groups put some sample questions. Please note Certification questions are far different from these sample questions. Furthermore, we cannot discuss the answers to the questions on the SCN forums.
15. Will I get a Logo, if I pass the SAP Certification?	You can email SAP Education team, they should be happy to provide you with the relevant SAP Certification Logo. You can use them on your CV.
16. Whether hands-on experience is necessary to pass SAP Certification?	It is always good to have hands on experience; however, it is really not necessary in order to pass the Certification. In order to pass the certification, you should have good clarity on the concepts. Particularly, in technical examination, you would expect to have hands on knowledge, as the questions may be around field length etc.
17. What is the validity of the SAP Certification?	There is no validity period as such for SAP Certification. However, being the technology changing very fast and there are new SAP versions are coming up. It is always good to have the latest certification, if you are interested. It may not be really impressive, if you are you are certified in 4.0 versions, when the market is going with SAP ECC 6.0 Ehp 6.
18. Whether SAP Certification is a replacement for project experience?	Nothing replaces your SAP Project Experience; you would learn many things hand in hand. Each project is distinct in one way or the other, there are number of issues will give you real challenges always. When you explore many things, you should be able to learn the things effectively. Therefore, Certification is not a replacement for your project experience. Without your project experience, Certification is a salt less curry.
19. What kind of placement assistance provided by SAP / Educational Partners?	If you are trained at SAP / Educational partners, they MAY help you with the placement assistance. Please do not confuse this with job guarantee. There is nothing like job guarantee. They would forward your CV to prospective employers / recruiters and arrange some interviews. At the end of the day, it is your ability that fetch you job.
20. When to appear for Certification exam after completed the training?	If you are on class room training, it is always expected to appear the exam at the end of the academy or maximum after a week of the course. Because, the content will be still fresh in your mind. The more you give gap, the more chance to forget the concepts. If you are on e-learning, it is up to you to decide when to go for certification. However, it is advised not to give too much time for Certification.

AcuteSoft SAP Career Opportunities

Question	Guidelines to think
1. What is the best SAP Module to be selected?	This is not something that the other people would decide. This is always the course which you intend to spend your life time on the module. You need to understand your core strengths, your domain knowledge, your programming or technical skills if any. If you listen others words and choose the module, then probably, you would not be able to justify it.
2. I am late 30s or early 40s. Is SAP a right career for me?	Age may not be a constraint as long as you have right conviction and attitude to learn. But at the same you also need to consider the other constraints like your current salary. If you coming to simple reason of money, then it is not worth trying into SAP. Learn passionately, then the growth and opportunities follows.
3. I am a Project Manager in other Technologies, can I become SAP Consultant?	Being a Project Manager in other technologies, you must be already at high paying salary. Whereas, when it comes to SAP Consultant roles, you must be a junior / consultant. The salary might not be that good. Alternatively, you can try with few modules of SAP and jump towards SAP Project / Programme Management.
4. Is it good move for me to shift from Java to ABAP?	There are number of people asked this question, is it good to shift from Java to ABAP. It is very easy for people to learn ABAP, when they are good in Java. Furthermore, number of SAP Netweaver Technologies run on Java and ABAP technologies. Therefore, it is always advised to learn ABAP alongside your Java.
5. What is the best suggestion to learn more SAP modules?	Being a functional consultant, it is always tend to learn the other modules, however, your core strength will be in one module. To get a mastery in a module takes few years, therefore, you need to carefully plan whether learning a new module would really help you in your long term career. Otherwise, there is no point in spending time learning a new module.
6. Whether faking my CV would help me?	Sorry guys, I still strongly reiterate more than 90% of the CVs in the market are either fake or exaggerated. Many CVs speak volumes, however, the knowledge levels of the consultants are very poor. People may not accept my 90% figures, still I stick to it. There are number of people in my life asked this question, I would only tell them, do NOT fake your CVs, it would hunt you forever. I also personally against creating multiple CVs, you cannot have different CVs for different Job. Belive in single CV concept.
7. I am on a long career break, how to handle this?	This is always a difficult and challenging situation, as you are on the long career break due to birth to child, long hospitalisation or sabbatical leave etc.. The morale is low as there are already new people and technologies in the market. It may be difficult, but definitely not impossible. Refresh the subjects, try to learn new technologies in your field and start attending the interview, not much worry about the results, you should be surely there.
8. How much money would I get?	Money is the last thing that you should think in SAP. I know people talk a lot about money and salaries. If you think Money as a priority in SAP, then you would not learn anything out of it. SAP should give you enough passion to lead your life. I am privileged to meet and work with very few consultants who work tirelessly with lot of passion on SAP Technologies.
9. Should I go for Permanent or Contracting roles?	If you are in India, 99% of the people would go for permanent job. The1% left out opt is the people who do not get best jobs, opt for contracting. Whereas, it is the other way around in Western Countries. Contractors demand good rates, because of their skills, ability and knowledge. Whereas, permanent people may get less salary, however, it has security. When it comes to Contracting, it has good returns, but at the same time high risk.
10. What are the new technologies that I can go for?	SAP is changing very fast. SAP is no longer like 15 years back, where only concentrated on OLTP systems. Now, they are doing amazing things in OLAP systems. Sky is the only limit in this area. HANA, BOBJ, BPC, Mobile Technologies etc. are many hottest skills in the module. But, please note directly jumping into these areas is not that easy, it is good to have ECC / BI / ABAP etc. experience.
11. I am a Support Consultant? How would I get Implementation experience?	Particularly if you are in offshore, you hardly see any type of implementation exposure. Even in onshore locations also the implementation projects are dried up. Some of the upgrade / business re-engineering projects are going on. You should always patiently wait to grab the implementation projects. Irrespective of the project type, always concentrate on learning new things on a daily basis.
12. Completed few E2E Projects, still many grey areas?	E2E Project would help you to understand the overall life cycle of the Project. However, it does not mean that you are going to master in all activities. SAP Program works at a high level and it may be required you need to be part of number of implementation projects. It is also largely depends on how complex projects that you have worked. Always E2E is an opportunity and try to grab as much as you can.
13. Should I go for position or role?	Being a contract consultant, you are always interested in role rather than a position. Whereas permanent employee is always interested in position, rather than a role. The more challenging roles that you do, the more competitive you would become. I personally do not much believe in position, as it is not a permanent thing in life.
14. What is the best way to change the company?	It is purely depends on person and your loyalty. Money may not be always important, as long as company works the same hard for your personal development as well. If the company is not working for your growth, then automatically, any individual start looking for other opportunities. Before changing any company need to decide what is motivated to change the company – Money / facilities / training / growth / recognition etc.
15. How to get the overseas SAP Job opportunities?	Every country has its own requirements, some countries welcome the best talent in the world, and some countries are having very restrict market. You need to first decide whether to go overseas and working in more challenging work environment. First need to decide which country you intend to go and know the immigration rules affect your employment. Then find the sponsors / companies that could help you in achieving your career dreams.
16. Tried hard for SAP Job? Is it time to give up?	Many people have asked me that they have tried very hard to get the SAP Job, still not successful. No defeat is final until you give up. You may not be aware that you are about to get a break, but, unfortunately, you might have left the ground. Therefore, once you have committed, never stop trying, whatever be the odds. Keep trying and pushing yourself always.
17. Can I become techno-functional consultant?	People always dream to become techno-functional consultants. However, it is very hard to find a good techno functional consultant. Technical people always scare about functional terminologies and functional people always scare about the programming skills. If you strongly believe you can spend time in mastering both the areas, it is always advisable to have the techno-functional skills.
18. No trainings provided by my company, what to do?	Unfortunately, you may have work in your life with companies, who never intend to personally develop their resources. But, that does not mean that you should not develop your skills. You should always keep some income out of your salary and keep it aside. Learn the new areas / skills with that money. If you do not learn new things, then you would be last in the queue.
19. How can I move from Consultant to a Project Manager?	Usually consultant after certain years of experience tend towards project management. Many people may go into project management, because they may get good salaries. This is the general tendency in India. Whereas in western countries, most people do the same roles, however, they become masters in their own area and command with authority. If you have any plans, then you can think of doing PMP or Prince2 to achieve your dream.
20. How to manage life when I am on the Bench?	Life on the bench is always a difficult time. Considering the negative economic scenario in the world, bench is always considered to be a terrifying thing. There is no need to worry much regarding the things which are not in our control. However, during this time, you may make yourself more productive by learning new things, reading SAP Help / making SCN Contributions / visiting Service Market Place. These things would surely help when you get a real project.

Please note the above views are purely my personal opinion, they in noway related to SAP. The above points / answers are written considering the most optimistic view. They cannot be generalised, sometimes, you may need to consider the exact situation. You would be most welcome if you have any better suggestions / additions to this blog.