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1. SAP or PeopleSoft or
Oracle Apps are ERP (Enterprise Resource
Planning) systems. There are more than a dozen
reputed ERP systems in the world like BAAN, JD
Edwards etc. Each ERP have functional modules
like HRMS( Pay Roll, Administration, Time and
Labor etc), Financial ( GL, AP, AR, AM etc), SCM
( Inv, Order Management, PO etc) and PP/MM (
Manufacturing, Bill of Materials, Production
Planning etc). All these involve to streamline
the organizational internal processes to reduce
the errors, improve the automation, increase
productivity and reporting purposes.
2. All the major Software
vendors like SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle and some
others have CRM(Customer Relationship
Management) which includes functional areas like
- Support, HelpDesk, Sales, Marketing, Order
Capture etc. These systems are deployed in any
organization to interact with Customers.
Customer centric approach.
3. When you want to join
SAP/PeopleSoft/Oracle or some thing else, first
you should decide whether you wnt to be a
techical consultant or Functional Consultant.
4.If you want to be
a successful Functional Consultant, you should
have an excellent idea about how the system (
Ex: Order Processing, Recruiting, Sales process
etc) works in various verticals like
Telecom, Banking, Media, Manufacturing etc. You
also are expected to know end-to-end
functionality of the software that you are going
to work with. For example- You are going to work
as Functional Consultant in General Motors
(GM) who is implementing SAP Financial (PO
module), you are expected to know how the
purchasing process works in any automobile
manufacturing industry specific to General
Motors and all the functionalities of SAP PO
module. There are people called 'Business
Analysts' in IT market where his/her role will
be just to analyse the organizational processes
and give the feed back to Functional Consultants
of the project. Functional consultants should
have an excellent communication skills!!
5. If you are willing to
be Technical Consultant, you will be doing lots
of software coding, modifying the pages,
reports, integrating with various internal and
external systems. So, any individual who would
like to take the career in Technical side, need
to have a good programming skills and good
understanding of database (RDBMS).
6. When you decided to get
into Software, things to do are-
a.
Decide whether to be a Functional Consultant or
Technical Consultant.
b.
What are the domains you want to focus -
Financial or SCM or CRM or HRMS etc
c.
Analyse which SW (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sybel,
JDE etc) have better opportunities in the market. Look
at long term prospective. For example all
PeopleSoft Consultants feels that there is no
future for PeopleSoft Technology after the
acquisition of PeopleSoft by Oracle Corp.
Contrary to this- We do find lots of
opportunities for JD Edwards resources even
after so many years of acquisition of JDE by
PeopleSoft. So this is very critical to take
decision.
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