By Eli Griffin
If you are looking out for a SAP job, it is important that you know certain important things on it before you turn up for the interview. The first essential thing that an interviewer would ask you is what you know about SAP. If you give a good answer to this question with a tone of confidence in every word you speak out, you will have a great time ahead.
If this question is asked, you can answer in brief that SAP was established by five ex-IBM engineers in 1972 in Germany. It stands for Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing. The parent company is known as SAP AG, and is situated in Walldorf with subsidiaries in above 50 countries. Keeping your answer short and to the point is important during the interview unless you are asked for further explanations.
Various Modules and How Each Module of SAP Works
The next important thing that you must know is about SAP modules and their usage. Here goes a list of the various SAP modules and for what purpose they are used:
· FI Financial Accounting: It is used in matters related to tax, general ledger, consolidation, accounts receivable, special ledgers, book close, and accounts payable.
· AM Asset Management: It is used in matters related to tracking, evaluating, and depreciating one's assets, which includes sales and purchase too.
· CO Controlling: It is used for accounting of internal cost/management that includes product costing, cost centers, internal orders, cost elements, activity based costing, and profit centers.
· PM Plant Maintenance: It is used for maintaining equipment that includes down time and outages, labor, and material.
· PS Project Systems: It is used for managing large and small projects including plant shut downs, make to order, and third party billing.
· CA Cross Application: It is used in business information warehouse, workflow, industry solutions, office, and new dimension products like PLM, APO, CRM, SRM, etc.
· MM Materials Management: It is used for supporting the supply chain that includes purchase orders, requisitions, accounts payable, BOM'S, goods receipts, master raw materials, and inventory management.
· SD Sales and Distribution: It is used in matters from order to delivery that includes pricing, RFQ, shipping, sales orders, picking, and packing.
· HR Human Resources: It is used for succession planning, employment history, career management, payroll, and training.
· PP Production Planning: It is used for managing production process that includes master production scheduling, capacity planning, shop floor, and material requirements planning.
· QM Quality Management: It is used for improving the quality of goods that includes planning, execution, inspection, and certificate.
Why is SAP Implemented?
If asked why SAP is implemented, you must answer that it is implemented to replace the back dated IT Architecture to save money, to keep at par with the business process change, and at the same time gain competitive advantage.
Points to Remember
Gather whatever you know about SAP before appearing for the interview.
Eli Griffin is the founder of UltimateSAP - http://www.UltimateSAP.com.
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If you are looking out for a SAP job, it is important that you know certain important things on it before you turn up for the interview. The first essential thing that an interviewer would ask you is what you know about SAP. If you give a good answer to this question with a tone of confidence in every word you speak out, you will have a great time ahead.
If this question is asked, you can answer in brief that SAP was established by five ex-IBM engineers in 1972 in Germany. It stands for Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing. The parent company is known as SAP AG, and is situated in Walldorf with subsidiaries in above 50 countries. Keeping your answer short and to the point is important during the interview unless you are asked for further explanations.
Various Modules and How Each Module of SAP Works
The next important thing that you must know is about SAP modules and their usage. Here goes a list of the various SAP modules and for what purpose they are used:
· FI Financial Accounting: It is used in matters related to tax, general ledger, consolidation, accounts receivable, special ledgers, book close, and accounts payable.
· AM Asset Management: It is used in matters related to tracking, evaluating, and depreciating one's assets, which includes sales and purchase too.
· CO Controlling: It is used for accounting of internal cost/management that includes product costing, cost centers, internal orders, cost elements, activity based costing, and profit centers.
· PM Plant Maintenance: It is used for maintaining equipment that includes down time and outages, labor, and material.
· PS Project Systems: It is used for managing large and small projects including plant shut downs, make to order, and third party billing.
· CA Cross Application: It is used in business information warehouse, workflow, industry solutions, office, and new dimension products like PLM, APO, CRM, SRM, etc.
· MM Materials Management: It is used for supporting the supply chain that includes purchase orders, requisitions, accounts payable, BOM'S, goods receipts, master raw materials, and inventory management.
· SD Sales and Distribution: It is used in matters from order to delivery that includes pricing, RFQ, shipping, sales orders, picking, and packing.
· HR Human Resources: It is used for succession planning, employment history, career management, payroll, and training.
· PP Production Planning: It is used for managing production process that includes master production scheduling, capacity planning, shop floor, and material requirements planning.
· QM Quality Management: It is used for improving the quality of goods that includes planning, execution, inspection, and certificate.
Why is SAP Implemented?
If asked why SAP is implemented, you must answer that it is implemented to replace the back dated IT Architecture to save money, to keep at par with the business process change, and at the same time gain competitive advantage.
Points to Remember
· Be confident about yourself while answering.
· Do not fumble.
· Keep your tone soft yet confident.
· Answer only what is asked to you.
Gather whatever you know about SAP before appearing for the interview.
Eli Griffin is the founder of UltimateSAP - http://www.UltimateSAP.com.
