According to the work form, SAP consultants are generally divided into implementation consultants and operation and maintenance consultants. Implementation consultant belongs to consulting company, which specializes in consulting and implementing SAP information for enterprises. Taking the project as a unit, the whole project process includes investigating the current business process, preparing the business blueprint, implementing the SAP system, training the end users, supporting the system to go online and maintaining the system after it is put into use.
Generally speaking, the operation and maintenance consultant belongs to the internal consultant of the company, and is responsible for the normal operation of the enterprise information system, the processing of business data, the investigation and handling of system problems, the optimization and change of business processes, and the secondary development. Of course, the operation and maintenance consultant can also be a consultant of a consulting company and outsourced to a client enterprise for long-term operation and maintenance.
According to the work content, SAP consultants are divided into technical consultants and business consultants. Business consultants are mainly responsible for the optimization of enterprise front-end business processes and their application in the system. According to business functions, there are several modules: MM material management, FICO financial management, SD sales management, PP production management and PS project management. Each module consultant determines the business process and makes the blueprint according to the investigation and analysis of the system requirements of the corresponding departments, and configures the system after being confirmed by customers. After testing and verifying that the business can run normally and the data is accurate, they began to prepare for the system to go online. After the initial data and business master data were formally imported, the project went online on time and began to test and run. During the operation, there is no problem, the old and new systems are officially delivered, the old system is offline, and the daily operation and maintenance of the system begins. ?
SAP technical consultants are mainly BW, ABAP and BASIS consultants. BASIS is mainly responsible for the hardware architecture of the system server, network communication, system loading and optimization, SAP system software update and communication interface setting. ABAP is responsible for the special function development of business and technology, and realizes the non-standard business function requirements in the system through code. BW is mainly responsible for the presentation of enterprise reports and data consolidation between businesses.
Every consultant has one or more proficient modules, and it is impossible to cover everything. Proficient in a module can be competent as an SAP consultant, because a project needs the cooperation of different consultants.