Career in SAP ABAP

SAP – one of the ERP system has @40% share in the ERP market & is one of the leading ERP software in the market. Almost 40-50% of the Fortune 500 companies have their businesses running on SAP. The demand for SAP has consistently being growing. This eventually has lead to a lot of career opportunities in SAP.

There are various modules in SAP & following are few which have requirement in most of the projects

• Sales & Distribution  (SD)
• Materials Management (MM)
• Production Planning (PP)
• Quality Management (QM)
• Finance/ Controlling (FI-CO)
• Human Resource (HR)

All the folks who work on above modules are called as Functional Consultants & those who work on SAP ABAP are called as Technical Consultants

Here we will discuss about career in SAP ABAP.

Min. Education required/Eligibility for Freshers

Most of the Indian IT companies prefer a MCA or B.Tech candidates but from any stream of engineering. It is not limited to Software or IT engineering branch due to demand supply ratio. So any B.Tech candidate from any stream is eligible.

Training

There are 2 options :-

1. You may try to directly apply to top 5 IT companies as a fresher. The companies have their own selection process after which they provide training in SAP ABAP.

2. There are many private small IT training firms in most of the leading cities which provide ABAP training. If you get any first hand positive feedback about the quality & content of SAP training, then you may opt for such institutes. Institute like Genovate, Siemens, SAP also have their training centre’s across India.

Areas in SAP ABAP which have good demand

1. A normal developer with knowledge of Reports, ALV, Dialog programming , Smartforms, Sapscripts, User Exits
2. A Workflow Consultant – This is treated as a niche skill
3. Webdynpro, Adobe Forms, XI/Portal – This is again a new area which is in need of highly skilled developers
4. Advanced ABAP – Enhancements, LSMW, IDocs, BADI, RFC, Interfaces, BSP
5. ABAP HR – This is again treated as a niche skill

Certification

1. Candidates with SAP ABAP certification always have an edge over those who are not SAP certified
2. Most of the companies do insist on SAP ABAP Certification, so having it will always be beneficial

Job Market

• The Top 5 Indian IT companies always look for experienced SAP ABAP developers with a minimum experience of 2 years
• If you are SAP ABAP certified then many IT companies give brownie points. Entry at fresher level with a SAP ABAP certification always adds a weight to the CV in the job market

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