SAP jobs – apply for the right job!
If you intend to start a career in SAP, make sure that you apply for the right job for you.
Not all SAP jobs are the same and it is usually admitted that following major categories of SAP jobs exist :
- SAP end user
- SAP Business Analyst
- SAP Technical Analyst
SAP Technical Analysts are responsible for challending and implementing the business requirements translated into technical terms by Business Analysts. While the added value of Business Analysts comes essentially from their business knowledge, the added value of Technical Analysts comes from their knowledge of the SAP system.
- SAP ABAP Developer
- SAP BC, basis or system administrator
SAP end users use the SAP system as a tool to achieve their business objectives. Jobs falling in this category are not properly speaking SAP jobs since they usually consider the SAP system only as a tool that applicants need to be able to use to achieve their objectives which don’t focus on the SAP system itself but rather on the execution of business processes that are implemented in the SAP system.
The SAP Business Analyst is responsible for the analysis of the business requirements and their translation into SAP requirements. This function is at the same time highly functional as the Business Analyst must understand the business of end users but also technical as these requirements need to be translated into a system oriented language that is understandable by SAP Technical Analysts.
SAP ABAP Developers functions include all technical development roles. This covers ABAP but also Workflow, Web developments, …
This category of SAP jobs designates the SAP system administrators. This function covers the installation and maintenance of the SAP system and the servers on which SAP is installed. It may also cover some very technical tasks like the management of the authorization profiles in the system.
Not all companies apply formally this categorization of the SAP functions but all the needs covered by these functions exist in all companies that run SAP systems and it is important to understand what profile a company is looking for when they publish a job offer.
Identifying the employer’s needs at an early stage of the recruitment process may help you avoid later disappointments as functional jobs may be very different from technical jobs in SAP and applying for the wrong job may have dramatic consequences.
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Debugging the Enterprise Consolidation data monitor
A quick post to remember where to set a breakpoint when required to debug the Enterprise Consolidation data monitor (transaction CXCD).
A good place to create a breakpoint so that the debugger is launched when a button of the data monitor screen is pushed is in program FICMON00 / include FICMON00_CL_APPL and more specifically in METHOD USER_COMMAND.
From that point it is possible to start a debug of the different functions offered by the data monitor.
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