SAP CRM SOLUTION

Crm functional role

2013-08-28T09:01:00.000-07:00

The Basic responsibility of a CRM Functional Consultant are

1. Understand the Clients Business Process
2. Mapping the Business Process with SAP CRM Process
3. Collecting the requirements of the client
4. Analyzing the requirements with respect to SAP CRM
5. Configuring the SAP CRM system according to clients requirement.

6. Co-ordinating with technical tem members to reach the technical requirements.
Precisely as a Functional Consultant, one has to interact with the client very often to map the business requirements with SAP CRM business Process.
CRM Functional consultant interacts with the customer , in order to understand his business processes and map with the CRM functionality in areas like
Marketing, segmentation , IC-WINCLIENT,WEBCLIENT, E-COMMERCE etc.
In each functionality , configuration of CRM system to meet customer business process requirement is done .'
Basic settings like transaction types, status profiles, partner determination , org determination etc are also done by functional consultants.
Master data like Business partner related field grouping ( like mandatory fields etc ) is done by functional consultant.
Also if the functionality is not available in standard scenario , then the abap- development is done with help of technical persons.
Middleware settings , configuration for replication of data with R/3 etc also done by functional consultants.

CRM Software System

2013-08-18T09:41:00.000-07:00

CRM Software System

CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software system is designed to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of any organization’s customer-focused business strategy. It facilitates enterprises to better manage their customers through the preface of reliable systems, procedures, and processes. The main objectives of implementing CRM software systems are the improvement of an organization’s revenue stream, profitability, and customer satisfaction.

CRM Software System - Overview

The evolution of CRM software systems was driven by three elements: technology, integration, and process. They have been used to establish better communication with customers. Better communication resulted in improved marketing, planning, forecasting, campaign management, and problem solving. Today, there are a number of CRM software packages on the market. An efficient CRM software system comprises methodologies, software, strategies, and web-based capabilities that let an enterprise to manage and organize customer relationships management practices easily and effectively.

Why to Use CRM Software Systems

CRM software systems provide significant tools for automating the entire part of daily business information management. Most of them support opportunity tracking, contact management, and other functional operations such as customer service, task management, marketing campaign management, and reporting. A CRM software system allows a business to serve the customer better, acquire new customers, retain good customers, and to determine which customers have to be given high level of service.

Mainly, CRM software systems focus on the areas such as personal information gathering and processing, automating business processes, and self-service. From managing sales leads, controlling email marketing campaigns to tracking customer service communication, a CRM software system can take many forms. It helps to keep all customer records in one central site that can be accessed to your whole organization through password administration.

CRM Software System Features

CRM software systems attempt to integrate and automate a variety of customer serving processes within a company. It can be characterized by the functionalities such as scalability, multiple communication channels, workflow, assignment, database, and customer privacy. Some of the features of CRM software system are order tracking, registered and non-registered shopping, order history, individual account management, order favorites, internal messaging, persistent shopping cart, product reviewing, assigned email groups, and product rating.

Benefits from CRM Software Systems

An excellent CRM software system can improve customer service by facilitating communication in several ways. It offers product information, product use information, and technical assistance on web sites. The CRM software systems can identify individual requirements and expectations of each customer. They provides a fast mechanism for correcting service deficiencies, registering customer complaints, handling problems, and managing and scheduling repair, maintenance, and on-going support. Additionally, CRM software systems gives a fast mechanism for managing and scheduling follow-up sales calls, repurchase probabilities, repurchase times, and repurchase frequencies.

CRM software system helps businesses of all sizes to become more efficient and powerful by enabling them to identify, obtain, and retain customers.

CRM Software System - Conclusion

Because of the changes in life activities, today’s customers have a number of requirements. The good software system can track buying habits, needs, and interests of each customer. As a result, the CRM software system guarantees repeated purchases, increased customer loyalty, decreased customer turnover, improved customer relationships, decreased marketing costs, and increased sales revenue profit margins. CRM software system can be used to other cross-functional systems to present production and accounting information to customers when they want it.

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How is the life after SAP Certification

2013-08-11T01:32:00.000-07:00

How is the life after SAP Certification

You need to really experience the life after a SAP Certification. It will not make any much difference for the professionals who are already working in SAP arena. However, the life of the people, who are really anticipating a job in SAP arena or breaking into SAP Consulting world, is with full of anxiety and tension. Taking any SAP certification will surely require considerable amount of time, resources, money, effort and patience. This is particularly true in case if you are going for the certification through training. Some people are lucky enough to know which SAP Certification they are going to do it. However, it is not the case with all the people.

They have to first of all enquire which certification is suitable for their future career. This may take a couple of months research in the market. Once they have finalized the Certification to be written, then they will have to plan for the Certification in terms of arranging for the money, taking leave from the current employer (if any), collecting the documents / materials etc. This would further take another two months of time. Then, if they are planning to attend the training, you can add further one month time. Some people are usually eager to give the certification immediately after training. This is good to some extent, because you will be surely in that flow. However, some people are really sceptical whether to go for certification after training or prepare for another month or so and then give the certification. This may also be good to some extent that you can plan well but at the same you will become more and more frustrated and nervous. Because you are reading the same material again and again, this makes you much nervous. By, putting all these items together, it may roughly take six months of your time from the day you decided for Certification in your mind to the day you really attempted the Certification. If the people are not lucky enough to pass for the first time, probably, they may have to add another month or so, which is really nerve wrecking period. You are already giving the Certification for second time, this makes more nervous, because you are investing more amount of money with lot of uncertainty. Therefore, six months of period in a professional’s life is really a big amount of time.

Congratulations!!! You have passed the Certification, you are happy and everybody is happy. However, the real test is going to be started from the next day. The days are more nervous after certification, particularly for the people who are looking for a job / SAP consulting job based on their certification. They might have invested large amount of money and spent 6 months of marathon preparation and effort, but it does not give any guarantee that you are going to get a job in the market. The market has become extremely competitive and employers are more cost intuitive in rolling out the offer letters. You might be attending number of interviews and blowing off each interview with different reasons. In some cases, you are going up to last round, but at the end of the story you are listening story like you have not selected for the position. This type of interviews are really painful to the heart, it will take a week’s time to come out of that disgust. The number of interviews you are going to fail, you would be getting mentally that much stronger.

I am not going to put down the pessimistic views but even I had to undergo all these difficult periods in my life. There could also be some fortunate people who have taken a month’s leave to attend the training and certification, but as soon as the certification, they had to go back to their previous job, which is in a remote area. However, most of the consulting companies are in cities and they may need the people at a shorter notice. Furthermore, nowadays companies are expecting the candidates to attend the interviews by face to face interview. It would be difficult for such candidates every time to come for an interview from such remote area to the cities and attend personal interview. Due to logistics constraints, some of the opportunities might have been evaporated for such candidates.

Some of the people might have resigned their jobs with a hope of getting job after certification and taken a huge amount of loan. For those kinds of people, the life is really unimaginable. Because, the monthly income from salary might have been stopped and the bank might be started charging the EMIs on a monthly basis, otherwise, the interest might be charging to your loan account, if they have taken the loan by pledging gold or valuables. For them the life is astonishingly difficult and every day is a sleepless night because of the amount they have spent on training and certification. They would really praying every day, that any type of SAP job is OK and even they are really ready to compromise in terms of salary. The employers who really can gauge these candidates may benefit out of the salary negotiations. Those candidates who are desperately looking for a break into the market may not be much worried about the salary and ultimately this turns to be a heaven on the part of the employers.

Let us think you have done everything you would like to do in order to get a job. However, unfortunately, fate, market conditions, luck, economy is not in your favour. You have spent lot of amount for training and certification. You have attended few tens of interviews (if not hundreds), still you have not received any job offer from any employer. What are the things you must essentially concentrate after passing for your SAP Certification?

1. Prepare up to date CV

As soon as you have appeared and passed the SAP Certification, take 2 – 3 days rest, which you really deserved, this would make your mind refresh. Then prepare up to date CV, may be you need to emphasize on the following points while preparing your CV

a) Detail your SAP knowledge or skills you have acquired

     b) If you have any SAP project experience / end user experience / core team member experience, write down specifically what type of important tasks that          you have performed
     c) Try to give more weight to SAP Skills than your previous non-SAP skills
     d) Always try to show positive attitude and willingness to learn qualities
     e) Use your SAP Certification logo that you have received from SAP Education Team

2. Improve the contacts

You do not know who is going to help you or guide you. Everybody is looking like a god in their own way. You must have increased your listening skills for getting best and improved suggestions. You may better use different social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin etc. to your advantage. Particularly, you should utilise the power of Linkedin and update all your achievements, experiences, Certifications etc. Furthermore, try to be in touch with number of HR consultants, who are looking for skilled people. In addition, regularly watch the job sites and different reputed companies’ career sites. It would also beneficial if you could send your CVs to the companies through employee referral rather than directly applying on the website, as thousands of people might be uploading their CV and they might not have any time to look into those. Last but not least, do not forget to give a copy of your CV to training Institute, they might be having some contacts with some of the companies and they should be able to arrange the interviews for you.

3. Read and practice regularly

As soon as you are certified, your responsibility will be increased and you need to improve the habit of reading. There are different sites particularly https://help.sap.com, https://service.sap.com, www.sdn.sap.com, where lot of information and knowledge is available. Continuously reading these important sites would give you an up to date knowledge. This will not only improve the knowledge, but also give an idea what is happening with new technologies in SAP. In addition to this, continuously practice on the system. The better way to practice is to get the documents from SAP Best Practices and configure them. You have configuration, business process documents and presentations for different industries / countries. The more number of times you are configuring them, the confidence will be increased. No experience can replace you a real implementation project. However, these guides will gain you tremendous hands-on experience and keep you ready for next assignment.

4. Keep attending interviews

Interview is a chance to showcase your knowledge and skills and every interview is different in its own way in terms of expectations. There is no need to worry much even if an interview gone wrong. There could be different reasons why an interview has gone wrong and it is not necessarily relating to your skills and knowledge. However, each interview would give you an opportunity to know the expectations and what type of questions are expected. These interviews would give you an opportunity to refresh your knowledge and better prepared for the next interviews. Usually, your confidence will be increased from the interview number one to interview number five or so on, as you might be sensing the level of expectations from the interviews. At some time point, you would reach to a stage that you are going to convince the interviewers. This is almost like driving test, wherein only few lucky people are able to pass in the first time, but others have to try little more times. Perseverance is the key here.

5. Do not leave your passion and hard work

The most important thing you must remember is you are learning not just for job and money, but to keep up your passion on SAP. If you believe in your passion and hard work for SAP, the money will follow. Even after getting the job, you should never lose the same interest and intensity on SAP. This intensity and eagerness to learn will always put you ahead in getting the new skills and knowledge areas. Enthusiasm and passion to learn more and more areas in SAP is the key for success. Please remember that the skills are not developed over night. It takes years and years of continuous hard work to get to an master level. The kind of projects you are working will also take pivotal part in quickly developing skills. Working on few end to end implementation projects may give you more overview of the system than working on few years of support project. Whatever be the project, be pro-active and take every challenge as opportunity and try to help your colleagues and share knowledge. This is the key for your success.

Fresher to an expert SAP Consultant

2013-08-06T09:32:00.001-07:00

How to transform yourself from a fresher to an expert SAP Consultant?

You cannot transform yourself from a fresher to an expert SAP Consultant in overnight. It needs lot of commitment, dedication, sacrifice, effort, expertise and ability to become a reliable SAP Consultant. Unfortunately, there is no short cut to achieve this. Many people are of the opinion that the SAP Certification would bridge this gap however, in fact, it is not. SAP Certification would probably give you a better marketability, however, it does not make you complete SAP Consultant. For that matter, none of the Certifications in the market can you make you an expert consultant .

Many people have asked me that they are interested in SAP and wanted to know how to become a good SAP Consultant? Unfortunately, there is no short cut to become an expert SAP Consultant. There could be some people who followed short cut methods to become SAP Consultants, however, unfortunately, those consultants are only paper consultants. SAP Consultant jobs are lucrative, at the same time, they are mixed with hard work, lot of sacrifices, enormous amount of reading and flexibility to adopt new situations. Those consultants who have the real passion can only become the recognized consultants, remaining all become just workers working for salary. Your reputation lies in your hands by helping the people across the borders. You need to stretch yourself to level of helping people with selflessness and give them the real guidance possible.

There are number of qualities that are required to become a successful SAP Consultant. good education, business process knowledge, good configuration skills, communication, team playing, understanding the business needs, quality documentation, reading ability, sharing knowledge and many more. A certification cannot make you a successful consultant in a day, however, it would help you in your life long career journey. Nothing can replace your hard work. To become a great SAP consultant is a long term process, learning new points on a daily basis and constructing a palace of knowledge over a period is key to your success. The way SAP is coming up with new technologies, it is always difficult for the consultants to maintain that pace throughout their career. If you have a great listening quality, then you will always be open to learn new things. Learning is a process of life and there is no end to it. It is the greatest quality of any good quality SAP consultant. Furthermore, you should always willing to share the knowledge, rather than hiding it in your head. Many SAP consultants, lacking this great quality. The more you share, your knowledge would be doubled, unlike money.

Many people have asked me how I can become a good SAP Consultant. My only answer is passion. Without passion, we cannot be successful in what we do. I see myself SAP Consultancy is also skill like swimming. Before I learn swimming, I was always wondering how the people swim. Though I was so passionate for swimming, I did not know how to swim it. Once I learned swimming, then compete with other people and learning all other new skills. Similarly, the people who aspiring to become a good SAP Consultant, also must be wonder, how can they become a good SAP Consultant. Read as much as you can, practice whenever you find time and listen to what mentors are saying. Never feel you have reached a pinnacle once you become a SAP Consultant. Becoming SAP Consultant is not the end of story, it is the start of new life and new journey. New life also gives you more challenges, more awards, rewards, and sacrifices to achieve what you want in life. Learning new skill is always a challenge, to become a master in that skill it would take years together. Therefore, to become a great consultant, learn SAP with authority and do not keep any gaps in conceptual knowledge and basic fundamentals. If your fundamentals are strong, then you can build a great palace.

Many people try to fake / exaggerate their CVs to become consultants. Never try to do such things. It would hunt you for life. What you know is what you know. What you do not know is what you do not know. There is always a tomorrow to learn something new and exciting. There is no shame to accept that you do not know something. There is no hard and fast rule that you should know everything in this world. It is unlikely and not possible. There are also many people who are really reluctant to share their knowledge. Furthermore, they would discourage the people who are intending to share the knowledge with true spirit. Forget about SAP Consultant, being a social animal, every individual in the society has an ethical responsibility to share something and help the society. The life is only fruitful when you share something to this world and help the fellow human beings. If we are only taking and fail to give anything back to the society, then there is no difference between animal and us.

Though following qualities are not comprehensive list to become a good SAP consultant, however, they would immensely helpful in their life long journey.

Good Education

Strong Education is the great foundation for any knowledge based profession. Just becoming a graduate or becoming a MBA is not everything, cannot be called as a good education. Always stretch yourself to toughest professional courses, which will take your knowledge levels to a new a level. Always try for the new professional courses, which test the waters. You should have a zeal from the childhood to have good education. Good education does not mean that studying in great B-schools. Good education always comes from within the individual, that spirit would push you towards learning new skills, subjects and technologies. Unless, you have strong inclination towards learning and education, it is always not possible to become a good consultant. For example, if you are a chartered accountant or management accountant, it would always immensely help you to become a good financial consultant.

Business Process Knowledge

Good SAP consultant should always have sound business process knowledge. What is this business process knowledge? The process surrounded at each business activity / item. To make it simpler, when you are working in an organisation, you would see number of jumbling words. For example, credit note, debit note, invoice, bank statement, good received note, inventory control, stock taking, balance sheet, profit and loss account, trail balance, purchase returns, production, planning, forecasting, budget, cash flow statement, cost sheet, funds flow, standard cost, marginal cost, fixed cost, materials, purchases, hedging, negotiable instruments, inter-bank clearing, banking operations, petty cash, procurement, purchase order, purchase requisition and what not. Now the question is how can I improve my business process knowledge? Business processes are dynamic and need not necessarily they are same within the industry. It may change from company to company. You need to understand each such word in detail and understand the business process flow surrounded by it. The important things to know is what is the triggering point for this activity and what are the subsequent business activities that are going to be followed. If you work, on these items, over a period of time, you would get good base of business process knowledge.

Configuration Skills

Configuration Skills are the most important skills for any SAP Consultant. Unless, you master in this area, you are not going to get the confidence in any project and you will be dependent on other people. You should be master yourself not only just configuring the system, but also needs to understand the impact from end user point of view. There are number of consultants reluctant to put their hands on the key board, however, intended to become master consultants, that is never going to be happened. I have observed number of consultants, they would never take the ownership of doing anything on SAP system, however, sit next to you by just watching and talking. If you are going into that mode, you are never going to be a SAP Consultant. The number of times you are going to configure and follow the business process / end user documents, it would give great confidence. Therefore, try to gather configuration documents and do as much practice as you can. Exploring the options in system gives you enough confidence, as the troubleshooting skills are very required for SAP Consulting profession.

SAP Help

SAP Help is like a Bible. Every day start reading sap help. http://help.sap.com SAP help is written with utmost care by experts. The more number of times that you are reading it would give enormous conceptual clarity. Whatever be level of your skill and knowledge in SAP, you should never forget reading SAP Help. SAP Consultants who mastered has spent thousands of hours reading this. You need to have many years reading on daily basis and it is not an easy job. Many people find it difficult to read huge amount of text regularly and religiously. At one point when the consultants become good in their own area, they tend to ignore reading this. They would refer only as and when required. However, in my opinion, reading SAP Help is habit that needs to be practiced in case if you need to transform yourself to a great consultant.

SAP Community Network

Over the years, SAP Community Network http://scn.sap.com/ has transformed itself to a rich source of SAP knowledge. SAP should itself feel proud of what a great platform that they have created to bring together the thousands of consultants across the globe. Points etc. has motivated number of people to contribute to the great extent. More than points, it is knowledge that is being shared through forums, articles, blogs, videos etc. are really amazing. Without being part of SAP Community Network, I do not consider you as a SAP Consultant. You may be highly knowledgeable, however, without that being shared for the community, there is really not much value. I do not think you would get any better platform to share your knowledge than this and get recognized. It is always worth to contribute / read the forums on a daily basis. This good habit would keep yourself with good amount of knowledge. Please do not only ask questions, try to share / answer whatever you can. There are number of people only tend to ask questions, but never tend to give answers. This is a very bad practice, life is to share and help. Just asking questions would make you nowhere.

Service Market Place

There is no better place than Service Market Place https://service.sap.com for SAP Consultants. It is really surprising to know that there are many certified consultants who do not even know where to login and how to login to this great resource. I understand you need to have the logon credentials to access this, if you do not have one, please ask your SAP Basis administrators. If you are already certified, please ask SAP Education / Help Desk, they would give your password. There is not just one type of document. For everything, you would be asked to refer a particular SAP Note, without having access to this, you could never know what the Note says. This is not just for referring notes, when you need to raise OSS (Online SAP Support) notes for your customers. It is not just limited to these things, it has everything. I cannot imagine a SAP consultant without having access to this great place.

SAP Best Practices Building Blocks

Being new to the consultant world, people tend to configure the system and test end user transactions how it works. However, there is no idea where to start and how to integrate between various modules. SAP Best Practices Building blocks would give a great amount of confidence to the consultant, as they provide the detailed configuration documents, business process documents and scenario overviews etc. The following link would be helpful. There are different versions of it. It contains guides across industry / country. If you have problem in accessing the following links, use Internet Explorer (IE) rather than google chrome browser. If you configure various scenarios in your demo system and test as per the business process documents, then your confidence levels will be immensely increased. The number of times you configure various scenarios, you would be mastered in that area.

Networking

21st Century has started with Professional Networking / Social Network. You cannot imagine anybody without having linkedin / twitter / facebook. You always need to maintain the network and develop them over a period. Being knowledgeable is half of your task, whereas maintaining professional network is the other half. Both are like two sides of the same coin. Linkedin the best professional network site, everybody should have one and keep your profile up to date. You profile is the snapshot of your skills, education and achievements etc. If you give a name of a person, people tend to search in linkedin. If you do not have linkedin account, then they would think either you are fake or you do not exist. It is really awful to work in a professional organisation and do not have an up to date linkedin account. Personally, if I cannot see a person in linkedin, I surely believe, that person is a fake. Therefore, please update your linkedin profile, have good professional network and try to get recommendations from others.

Sharing Knowledge

There are number of people who are very reluctant to share their knowledge. You will only be recognized when you share your knowledge with your clients, colleagues and the community around you. If you do not share your knowledge, the knowledge inside you will be rusted over a period of time. Therefore, always open to learn to new things at the same go for an extra mile to share the knowledge with others. I have been negatively criticized by some of my friends / colleagues for writing blogs. When the whole world is writing blogs, why cannot we? I may not be expert in writing blogs, if anybody is being motivated with my blog, the very purpose of my task is accomplished. It is not required to have great amount of knowledge to share, but you should have wonderful heart. If you just work for yourself, earn yourself and educate yourself, then you would never get an identity in the world. Remove every barrier around you and start using your fullest potential to share the knowledge.

Communication Skills

Last, but not the least is Communication Skills. 90% of success to your career is dependent on your communications. Do not underestimate the power of communication skills in your career. It is not that everybody would have great amount of communication skills. It all depends on the natural skills, environment you grown up, the education you have undertaken etc. If you think you do not have them, then try to develop over a period of time. Communication Skills are not just talking in English, being a SAP Consultant you should always learn to talk both in Business Language and Technical Language. When you go to client places, it is always expected to talk to them in business language. At the same you should also have good command on the technical abilities when you are conveying to the other consultants. Nobody is perfect in this world, keep pushing yourself to fill the gaps in this area.

Sap solution manager

2013-08-02T11:18:00.003-07:00

SAP Solution Manager is a centralized support and system management suite. An SAP system landscape may include a large amount of installed SAP systems. SAP Solution Manager tries to reduce and centralize the management of these systems.

In such a landscape, SAP Solution Manager is the managing system, and the business suite applications (e.g. ERP, CRM, BI, EP) are the managed systems.

The current version of SAP Solution Manager is SAP Solution Manager 7.1.

SAP Solution Manager provides an extensive set of features in the IT Support area for enhancing, automating and improving the management of SAP systems:

Central System Administration
Project Management
Test Management
System Monitoring
Business Process Monitoring
IT Technical Reporting
Centralized Alerting
Installation Keys
Early Watch Reporting
Change Management (Change Request Management & Maintenance Optimizer)
Service Desk

SAP is actively improving and extending all these areas, so this list may be outdated.

SAP Solution Manager helps in implementing and managing complex system landscapes. Globally, systems are being distributed across geographies and business processes cover more than one system. In such complex scenarios, integrating technical and business requirements is important for the success of IT. SAP Solution Manager provides SAP customers with an efficient means of handling both the technical and business process side of solution implementation.

As part of SAP Solution Management Solutions, the customers receive best practices, relating to:

Global Strategy and Service Level Management
Business Process Management
Management of MySAP Technology
Software Change Management
Support Desk Management

SAP delivers this using support programs during implementation of the system solution. Some of the benefits of using SAP Solution Manager are that it helps:

Manage the technical risk associated with the implementation of the solution ensuring technical robustness
Leverage users core competencies in implementing solutions
Ensure the solution works as intended with best practices built in
To manage the incidents more effectively and efficiently and eases the settlements of the support cost.
Have centralized support messages handling system, real-time monitoring of systems, business processes, and interfaces, which reduces administration effort.
The Installation of SAP Solman system is on dual stack,it has both ABAP and JAVA Stac

Guidelines for Interviews

2013-07-30T21:13:00.001-07:00

Top 10 Guidelines for your SAP Interviews

Technical Interview is one of the main hurdle in the selection process, SAP Technical Interviews are not exception to that rule. Every interview is demanding and different from its own perspective. The expectations could be different from interview to interview. You need to understand the requirements of the prospective employer in order to become successful in your interviews.
Though the expectations are different in each interview, most of the interviewers would expect conceptual clarity, business process knowledge, clear communication, positive attitude and willingness to learn. Therefore, you need to demonstrate these skills throughout the interview process and convince the interviewer. There are number of candidates failed in the interviews, one of the main reason, they failed to demonstrate the positive attitude. Number of candidates are being rejected because lack of positive attitude. Though with reasonable amount of technical knowledge. real positive attitude could help you. However, most of the times, with wonderful technical knowledge, but a negative attitude or arrogance would miss you the boat. There is a very thin line between your success and failure, which is your attitude.

Failing in an interview does not mean that you lost everything in your life. It is part and parcel of professional career. The key in success lies when you learn something from the unsuccessful interview. Each unsuccessful interview would be a stepping stone and give you a different kind of experience. There are many factors that could eliminate you from the selection process. Therefore, you should not take your failure too much to your heart, however, try yourself to rectify the mistakes you have done in the interview. Nobody is perfect in this world, as, nobody knows all the questions. Each failure is a stepping stone and would give you increased check point for your future interviews. Please remember even thousand miles journey starts with just a single step. Initially, when you have given your first interview, you would be expecting so many weird questions from the interviewers. However, after some years of experience, you would be in a position to take the interviews from Senior Consultants.
The interviewers would really appreciate your sincerity if you categorically accept if you do not know something, rather than bluffing. Particularly, in SAP you have two types of answers, "yes" or "no", but, it cannot be "yes" and "no". The more important thing in interview is try to give the honest answer. If we do not know something, we should not hesitate to accept the same. When you try to bluff something or attempt to answer which you do not know the head and tail, then the suspicion would start in the minds of the interviewers. Furthermore, whenever you know something, you try to explain it with some business process examples, which would give a good impression to the interviewer. Interview is not just explaining the transaction codes or configuration screens. There is obviously something beyond, which is correlating something with the business process scenarios.
The following guidelines would be handy for the candidates who are attending SAP interviews.
1. Updated CV
Always keep your CV up to date. You will only get interview calls based on your CV. Therefore, you must take utmost care in drafting your CV. I do NOT believe in taking help from the professional writers who write the CVs for money. If you cannot write a quality CV of yours, then what a Client can expect from you? How can you resolve and communicate the issues of the Client? Therefore, you are the right person in order to write your own CV in a better way. The CV should showcase your most relevant experiences, strengths, capabilities, education and certifications etc. When you are presenting a professional CV, you would not afford to have the grammatical mistakes. You may think, it is a small matter, but you should give reasonably good importance to this point, other your CV could be rejected at the entrance. By reading your CV, the client should visualise yourself as a prospective candidate. If you are successful with this activity, then half of the task is completed.
2. Be Honest
Not just you, most of you disagree with my statistics. However, my conscience says, 90% of the CVs in the market are either falsifying or exaggerated. I know many people would try to find fault with my 90% statistics. However, if they ask their conscience, definitely, I believe, my 90% would be a smaller figure Falsifying is something you have never done and exaggerating is something which you do not have. Furthermore, the kind of quality-less and basic questions that are being asked in SCN is provoking me that my statistics are correct. Trust me, you would never be successful in your life without honesty. Sanskrit proverb says "Satyameva Jayathe" (Truth alone triumphs). Even if you fail by honest, you would enjoy that failure and your moral spirit would always be upbeat. If you are successful by dishonest, you would die every minute and every second in your life. Therefore, please write your CV honestly and answer your interview in a honest manner. Please accept proudly if you do not know something. There is no shame in it. If you try to falsify anything, then please remember, you are cheating your conscience, yourself, your parents, society, country, environment. Not only this, you are cheating your prospective employer and Clients. Be proud in being honest.
3. Positive Attitude
Show your self respect in interview with your positive attitude and willingness to learn / share. Never be arrogant, which would not give you any any benefit, but would give you every chance to fail. Try to express in your feelings how you are inspired to learn something and how you are inspired to help others. This is the best quality that the employers are looking for. Just having good knowledge may not be sufficient, if you fail to show the right amount of attitude. You would find number of people with good amount of technical knowledge, however,very bad attitude. Attitude is not quantifiable by any means, however, it can only be felt by others. You should know how you can demonstrate this immensely powerful quality. If you see in the society, some people are always respected, because of their positive attitude and helping nature.
4. Punctual

You are going to Interview, but not your friend's marriage. Try to be at the interview at least 15 minutes before, in case if you are attending a face to face interview, unless it is a genuine reason why you are late. First impression would be your best impression. If you are early, usually, you would be in a a peace of mind. If you go to interview in a hurry way, usually, you would loose your peace of mind. Not only just punctual, some of the employer even could ask you to get some documents, if so, please be prepared that you have collected them to produce for them. You cannot afford to miss the employer's organisational policies.

5. Refresh Weak areas
Interviews are stepping stones. Not every consultant in this world is successful in their first interview. Particularly, the competition is enormous and the expectation from the employers are also at high magnitude. Therefore, do not much bother even if you fail in an interview. Please note down the areas you are failed to answers and brush those areas for the next interviews. The more number of interviews that you are giving, the confidence would be definitely boosted. For example, in the initial interview, if you have failed to answer the integration points between different modules, then refresh those areas thoroughly and educate yourself in those areas. This could help you in your future interviews.
6. Know the expectations

As I said, the expectations of each interview is different. You may not be knowing but you can easily guess the expectations of the employer. You cannot use the same approach and preparation for all the interviews. You may have to use different approaches and strategies in order to be successful in your interviews. For example some of the interviews particularly look for configuration skills, therefore, you need to demonstrate them how good you are in configuration of the application. Some people would expect you to be more business enriched personality, you need to attempt the questions with more business acumen. Particularly, if you are going to interviews with Top 4 Consulting firms they would expect you to have more excellent communication and advisory skills. You need to demonstrate such skills with them. Therefore, be prepared with different approaches for each interview.

7. Self Confidence
Self confidence is the key for your success. I know when you are really new to this interview process, you would be much tensed up with the kind of questions that interviewer may ask you. Though this is very much natural, there is no point in getting panic before interview. This would only push you towards the wrong side of the coin. Therefore, be confident and be prepared for anything. Maximum what is going to happen, you might not get the job. It is not end of the world, there is definitely better side of the coin. Every human being is living with a hope. Hope is the driving force of our lives. There is definitely a brighter sunshine after today's night. Therefore, there is no need to panic, be confident and be positive in your interviews.
8. Give Business Examples
You are going to interview NOT just to explain the configuration screen. You need to explain the SAP system / configuration with business process examples. This would give you good amount of confidence and the interviewer will be surely impressed with you. By seeing the different interviewers of various countries, there is a vast difference between how the interview questions are being asked in different countries. Mostly if it is SAP Technical Interview in India, then they would expect you to remember the screens and transaction codes. Therefore, you would have very less chance to bluff with them. However, in Western countries, though they are Technical Interviews, they are mostly process driven interviews. If you are conceptually clear about the processes, then they would not put much stress about the screen, check boxes and radio buttons. Therefore, you may have to prepare the interview accordingly. In any case, giving business example would showcase your good amount of analytical skills.
9. Concentrate on Communication

Communication is the most successful element of your whole interview process. I would say it is 90% deciding factor whether to get success or failure in your interview. There are number of consultants with very limited technical knowledge, still managing the get through the interview only with communication skills. Once selected, they are some how managing the show by pinching the other people . You cannot expect everybody would have excellent communication. However, you should ensure yourself to have a reasonable amount of communication skills. In case if you are failing in this area, your utmost importance would be having good amount of communication skills. If you have good communication skills and reasonable amount of technical knowledge, it would help you to crack the jinx. If you have good amount of technical skills and conceptual knowledge, but if you fail to communicate them, then definitely, it would not serve the purpose. Therefore, please never underestimate the importance of the communication skills

10. Present yourself well

The most important thing is how you present yourself. Your appearance, the way you dress, your body language, your sense of humour and your communication; all these would really matter. Therefore, you can show the better body language when you have peace of mind. If you are tensed up, whatever you do, probably, you are going to mess up. Therefore, keeping yourself cool and looking confident is important. As a consultant, you would be expected to visit number of client place for them. Therefore, your prospective employer would expect such presentation skills from the day of interview. Some people tend to ignore these small things, however, they play a pivotal role in taking the decision of your selection.

For further details see : http://scn.sap.com/people/ravisankar.venna

ASAP METHODOLOGY

2013-07-29T01:24:00.001-07:00

· AcceleratedSAP methodology is proven, repeatable and successful approach to implement SAP solutions across industries and customer environments.
It provides content, tools and expertise from thousands of successful implementations.

· Phase 1: Project Preparation :

· During this phase the team goes through initial planning and preparation for SAP project.
Define project goals and objectives
Clarify the scope of implementation
Define project schedule, budget plan, and implementation sequence
Establish the project organization and relevant committees and assign resources

· Phase 2: Business Blueprint
The purpose of this phase is to achieve a common understanding of how the company intends to run SAP to support their business. Also, to refine the original project goals and objectives and revise the overall project schedule in this phase. The result is the Business Blueprint, a detailed documentation of the results gathered during requirements workshops.

· Phase 3: Realization:
The purpose of this phase is to implement all the business process requirements based on the Business Blueprint. The system configuration methodology is provided in two work packages: Baseline (major scope); and Final configuration (remaining scope). Other key focal areas of this phase are conducting integration tests and drawing up end user documentation.

· Phase 4: Final Preparation:
The purpose of this phase is to complete the final preparation (including testing, end user training, system management and cutover activities) to finalize your readiness to go live. The Final Preparation phase also serves to resolve all critical open issues. On successful completion of this phase, you are ready to run your business in your live SAP System.

· Phase 5: Go Live & Support:
The purpose of this phase is to move from a project-oriented, pre-production environment to live production operation. The most important elements include setting up production support, monitoring system transactions, and optimizing overall system performance.

Mobile Application updates

2013-07-27T01:41:00.002-07:00

German applications giant SAP has announced its intention to acquire Syclo, a US-based company whose technology allows customers to build mobile apps that call data from their enterprise systems.

The acquisition adds to SAP's existing mobile enablement portfolio, which is based principally on assets it acquired along with database and mobile technology vendor Sybase in 2010.

Syclo was positioned as a 'challenger' on analyst company Gartner's Magic Quadrant for mobile enterprise application platforms, for its Agentry mobile platform. The Agentry platform can hook into back end systems including SAP, Oracle and IBM's Maximo asset management software. It can be used to build applications for Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, iOS and, as of July last year, Android.

Syclo claims to have over 750 customers, including Lockheed Martin and Coca Cola.

SAP has had a 'co-innovation' agreement with Syclo since 2009. The two companies have jointly developed an "80% prebuilt, preintegrated" version of Syclo's SMART Mobile Suite for use with SAP's applicaitons.

"For years now, Syclo has been SAP’s go-to mobility partner for [enterprise asset management] and CRM service projects in utilities, oil and gas, life sciences, telecommunications and many other industries," Sylco s mobile solutions fully support the Sybase Unwired Platform strategy and architecture, ensuring that the solution you deploy today will be fully supported, upgradeable and complementary to your future SAP mobility initiatives," it adds.

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Sap Crm Tcodes for sales,marketing and service

2013-07-27T01:38:00.001-07:00

RMBS02 Maintain Status Profiles
CRMBS03 Display Status Profiles
CRMBS42 Maintain Status Selection Profiles
CRMBS43 Display Status Selection Profile
CRMBS52 Maintain Authorization Keys
CRMBS53 Display Authoriztaion Key

CRMBWST Genertd DataSource for BW Status Obj
CRMBWTARGETS Release Data Target for BW Upload
CRMBW_CIC_ATTRIBUTES BW Key Figures for CRM
CRMCACTARC Archiving Control CRM Activity
CRMCPRMSG Configure Customer-Specific Messages

CRMCUSTOM Monitoring Middleware System
CRMC_ACTION_CONF Configure Action Profile
CRMC_ACTION_DEF Define Action Profile
CRMC_ACTION_JOB Action Monitor
CRMC_ACTION_PRINT Configure action profile (old)
CRMC_ACTION_WIZARD Action for Definition via Wizard
CRMC_ACTIVITY_H Customizing Maintenance Activity
CRMC_ACT_CATEGORY Cust. Maint. Activity: Category
CRMC_ACT_OBJ Cust. Maintenance Activity: Goal
CRMC_ACT_SURVEY Cust. Maint. Activity: Questionnaire
CRMC_AM_JCLASS Alert Modeler Java Class
CRMC_ATP_PROFILE Customizing Maintenance: APO Profile
CRMC_BLUEPRINT Maintenance for BSP Blueprint
CRMC_BLUEPRINT_C IMG Call
CRMC_BL_CHECK Check Blueprint Tables
CRMC_BL_COPY_QUERIES Copy Report Delivery Queries
CRMC_BP_CCKPT_PB Cust.Maint. BP Cockpit: Pushbuttons
CRMC_BSP_ANALYZE Starts CRMC_BSP_FRAME: Analysis Mode
CRMC_BSP_WD_MSGDEFH Message Default Handler Assignment
CRMC_BUAG_NUMBERS Number Range Maintenance: BUAG
CRMC_BUPA_CONSUM Maintain reference business partner
CRMC_BUPA_INITIAL Table Maintenance CRMC_BUT_INITIAL
CRMC_BUS_SUBOB_C Assign. BUS – Allowed Appl. Areas
CRMC_BUS_SUBOB_I Assignment BUS-allowed app.area item
CRMC_BUT_CALL_FU Establishing FMs for Data Exchng BP
CRMC_CAI_COCKPIT CAI – Test Cockpit
CRMC_CATAGORY_WP Cust. Maintenance Application Area
CRMC_CATALOG_DEFINE Create Catalog
CRMC_CATALOG_OVV Catalog Overview
CRMC_CIC_AB_LSYS_ASS Action Box: Assign logical systems
CRMC_CIC_AB_LSYS_CRE Action Box: Create logical systems
CRMC_CIC_AB_LSYS_RFC Action Box: Assign LogSYS to RfcDest
CRMC_CIC_AB_NAV Action Box Navigation Area
CRMC_CIC_AB_WEBGUI Define ITS for WebGui Mode
CRMC_CIC_ACT0 Transaction component profile
CRMC_CIC_AM_LANG Lang. dependent text – Alert Modeler
CRMC_CIC_AM_META Define Customer-Specific Meta Model
CRMC_CIC_AM_PROFILE Maintan Alert Modeler Editor Profile
CRMC_CIC_BP_PROFILE Maintain Profile Templates
CRMC_CIC_BROAD broadcasting profile assign
CRMC_CIC_COMP_ACTION Component Actions (for locator, BDD)
CRMC_CIC_EXT_INB_ACT Activate Agent Inbox
CRMC_CIC_FW_MAINTAIN Maintain Framework ID and Parameters
CRMC_CIC_MAIL_ADDR Addresses for Agent Inbox
CRMC_CIC_MAIL_E_RESP Maintain Rules for E-Mail
CRMC_CIC_MAIL_F_RESP Maintain Rules for Fax
CRMC_CIC_MAIL_GLOBAL Define Global Settings
CRMC_CIC_MAIL_IBXPRF Define Inbox Settings
CRMC_CIC_MAIL_TASKS Task Classification
CRMC_CIC_MAIL_WF Assign Agent for E-Mail Handling
CRMC_CIC_RESTART Set Time & Memory for Restart
CRMC_CIC_SEARCH_CNTR Maintain Search Components
CRMC_CIC_SEARCH_RULE Maintain Search Attributes
CRMC_CIC_TITLE_TEXTS Maintain Window Title
CRMC_CIC_WSP0 Workspace Definition
CRMC_CIC_WSP1 Inbox Profiles
CRMC_CIC_WSP2 E-Mail Editor Profiles
CRMC_CIC_WSP3 Default Workspaces Profile
CRMC_CIC_WSP_EDITOR2 Editor Profiles
CRMC_CLM_ACTION_CONF Configure Action Profile
CRMC_CLM_ACTION_DEF Define Action Profile
CRMC_CLM_ACTION_WIZ Action for Definition via Wizard
CRMC_CLM_BTSYNC Business transaction synchronization
CRMC_CLM_CALLATTRS Call Attributes
CRMC_CLM_CALLRESULTS Call results
CRMC_CLM_CLDP Call list determination procedures
CRMC_CLM_CLTYPES Call list types
CRMC_CLM_CMPGPM Campaign priority mapping
CRMC_CLM_CTMAP Calling Times Mapping
CRMC_CLM_ORCC Order control components
CRMC_CLM_RSCHVL Rescheduling validation procedures
CRMC_CLM_SORCC Standard order control profiles
CRMC_CLM_STMAP Call State Mapping
CRMC_CPRICPROC Definition of Cust. Determ. Proced.
CRMC_CP_BADI_F Copying BADI – Text Maintenance
CRMC_CSDR_ADD_CUST Design Registration Project
CRMC_CSDR_APPL_CUST Design Registration Project
CRMC_CUST_APPLLAYOUT ViewCluster Mtnce CRMV_APPLLAYOUT
CRMC_DPRICPROC Definition of Document Procedures
CRMC_EXEC_BAB CRM: Start business applic. builder
CRMC_EXEC_BAB_C CRM: Start OAS in customer mode
CRMC_EXEC_BAB_D CRM: OAS in customer design mode
CRMC_EXEC_BAB_S CRM: Start OAS in SAP mode
CRMC_IC_ACPROF Maintain Activity Clipboard profiles
CRMC_IC_ACTIONPROF Maintain Actions profiles
CRMC_IC_ACTIONWZ Start Action Box Wizard
CRMC_IC_ALERTMODELER Alert Modeler customizing
CRMC_IC_AMWZ alert wizard
CRMC_IC_AM_PHS Maintain Alert Modeler Placeholder
CRMC_IC_AM_PRM Alert Modeler Input Parameters
CRMC_IC_AUI_FWD Define Forwards for Inbox Items
CRMC_IC_AUI_GEN Agent Univ. Inbox – CRMV_IC_AUI_GEN
CRMC_IC_AUI_MAINCAT Define Main Categories
CRMC_IC_AUI_MAP_PRI Map Native to Inbox Priorities
CRMC_IC_AUI_MAP_STA Map Native to Inbox Status
CRMC_IC_AUI_PARTNER Agents Universal Inbox – Partners
CRMC_IC_AUI_PROFILE Define and Assign Inbox Profiles
CRMC_IC_AUI_QUICKS Define Quick Searches
CRMC_IC_AUI_TIMEPER Define Time Periods
CRMC_IC_BDCCONTEXT Specify alternative BDC context
CRMC_IC_BPPROF Define Profiles for Customer Identif
CRMC_IC_BTPFAS Assignment of Partner Functions
CRMC_IC_BTPROF Profile for Business Transaction
CRMC_IC_CHTPROF Maintain profiles for Chat
CRMC_IC_CLMPROF Call List Profile Maintenance
CRMC_IC_CM Content Management Customizing
CRMC_IC_EMLPROF Maintain profiles for Email
CRMC_IC_EVENTING Event management customizing
CRMC_IC_EVENTS IC WebClient Events
CRMC_IC_MAIL_E_RESP Maintain Rules for E-Mail
CRMC_IC_MAIL_F_RESP Maintain Rules for Fax
CRMC_IC_MAIL_WF Assign Agent for E-Mail Handling
CRMC_IC_MAIN Main Component Customizing
CRMC_IC_MCM_CCPRO Define Com Mgmt Software Profiles
CRMC_IC_MKTPROF Campaign Profile Maintenance
CRMC_IC_NAVBARWZ CRMC_IC_NAVBARWZ
CRMC_IC_NAVBAR_PERM Nav Bar Permanent Profile
CRMC_IC_NAVBAR_PERS Nav Bar Personalizing Profile Defaul
CRMC_IC_RTFRAMEWORK IC WebClient Runtime Framework
CRMC_IC_SCRIPT Maintain Interactive Scripting Prof
CRMC_IC_SPH_AGENTPRO Maintain Profiles for SPH Agent
CRMC_IC_TLBPROF Maintain profiles for Toolbar
CRMC_IC_TRACE Activate activity tracing for agent
CRMC_IC_WCTPROF Maintain profiles for Web Context
CRMC_IC_XML_TEMPLATE XML template maintenance
CRMC_IIA_KERNEL IIA: Customizing for Learning Engine
CRMC_IIA_REPORT IIA: Customizing for Learning Engine
CRMC_IOBJ_FIN_STATE Change Status of Individual Objects
CRMC_IPMO_BWSELOPT BW Select Optns: IPMO Sett.DataColl.
CRMC_IPMO_SRVUSE IPMO: Usage from Feature
CRMC_IPM_CLRRUL Clearing Control – Diagram Form
CRMC_ISA_IUSER Internet User Settings
CRMC_ITEM_CAT_GR Item Category Usage
CRMC_ITEM_MA Customizing Maintenance: Item Cats
CRMC_IT_ASSIGN Customizing Maint.: Item Cat. Dtrmtn
CRMC_IT_COPY_IF Copy: Item category determination
CRMC_IT_COPY_MA Copy Item Categories
CRMC_IT_TYPE_US Item Category Usage
CRMC_LAYOUTC_GENE Generation of Customer Table Layout
CRMC_LAYOUT_GENERATE Generation of Layout Table
CRMC_LOGS Maintenance of message classes
CRMC_MAP Customer Maintenance Mapping
CRMC_MKTCA_WF_CUST Workflows Campaign Automation
CRMC_MKTLIST_WF_CUST Workflows External List Management
CRMC_MKTPL_ACT_CONF Configure Action Profile
CRMC_MKTPL_ACT_DEF Define Action Profile
CRMC_MKTPL_ACT_WIZ Action for Definition via Wizard
CRMC_MKTPL_FAW_CPG Field Selection Campaign
CRMC_MKTPL_FAW_CPT Field Selection Campaign Element
CRMC_MKTPL_FAW_DLM Field Selection Deal
CRMC_MKTPL_FAW_MPL Field Selection Marketing Plan
CRMC_MKTPL_FAW_MPT Field Select. Marketing Plan Element
CRMC_MKTPL_FAW_TPM Field Selection Trade Promotion
CRMC_MKTPL_FAW_TPT Field Selection Trade Element
CRMC_MKTPL_MAPPING Customizing Field Assignment MS Proj
CRMC_MKTPL_RT_AC Maintaning residency time
CRMC_MKTPL_SETTYPE Marketing Planning: Process Set Type
CRMC_MKTTG_CUSTMSG Configure Customer-Specific Messages
CRMC_MKTTG_DTY CRM Marketing: View Display Type
CRMC_MKTTG_MGR_H CRM Marketing: Report Name
CRMC_MKTTG_OPT_H CRM Marketing: Sample Optimization
CRMC_MKTTG_RUL CRM MKT: Split/Reduce Rules for TGs
CRMC_MKTTG_SA_DP Assign Attribute Type to Display
CRMC_MKTTG_SA_TP CRM Marketing: View Attribute Types
CRMC_MKTTG_TYP_H CRM Marketing: Target Group Type…
CRMC_MKT_PARAMBW Customizing for BW Parameter ID
CRMC_MSGC Customizing CRM message attribute
CRMC_MSGS CRM message attribute maintenance
CRMC_NR_CONF Number Range Maint.: CRM_CONF
CRMC_NR_MPK_MPOINT Number Range Maint.: Counter
CRMC_NR_MPK_READING Number Range Maint.: Counter Reading
CRMC_NR_RA_ACTIVITY Number Range Maintenance: CRM_ACTIVI
CRMC_NR_RA_CONFIRM Number Range Maintenance:CRM_confirm
CRMC_NR_RA_FANF Number Range Maintenance: CRM_SERVIC
CRMC_NR_RA_LEADS Number range maintenance: CRM_LEAD
CRMC_NR_RA_OPPORT Number Range Maintenance: CRM_OPPORT
CRMC_NR_RA_SALES Number Range Maintenance: CRM_SALES
CRMC_NR_RA_SERVICE Number Range Maintenance: CRM_SERVIC
CRMC_NR_RA_SRV_CONF Number range maintenance: CRM_SRV_CF
CRMC_NR_RA_SUR Number range maintenance: CRM_SUR
CRMC_NR_SRV_CONF
CRMC_OBJECTS Subobjects of CRM Document
CRMC_OBJECT_ASSI Assignment Appl. Area – CRM Object
CRMC_OPPORT_H Customizing Maintenance: Opportunity
CRMC_ORGPROF Maintenance of Org. Data Profile
CRMC_PARTNER_AS Maintenance of Access Sequences
CRMC_PARTNER_FCT Maintenance of Partner Functions
CRMC_PARTNER_MAP2CRM Mapping Partner Functions into CRM
CRMC_PARTNER_MAP2R3 Mapping Partner Functions into R/3
CRMC_PARTNER_PDP Maintenance of Partner Procedures
CRMC_PARTNER_PFT Maintenance of Partner Function Typ
CRMC_PFTREL BP PartnerFunctionCat.for Rel. Cat.
CRMC_PLSRV_REL Product Proposal
CRMC_PPR_CTRL Maintain Global PPR Settings
CRMC_PPR_DEFINE_APPL Define Applications using PPRs
CRMC_PPR_DEFINE_OCHK Transaction Types Rel. for PPR Check
CRMC_PPR_DEFINE_PARA Customer Maintenance Rule Parameter
CRMC_PPR_DEFINE_RULE Customer Maintenance Rule Definition
CRMC_PPR_DEFINE_SRTB Define Sort Routines for BPartners
CRMC_PPR_DEFINE_SRTP Define Sort Routines for Products
CRMC_PPR_DEFINE_TYPE Customer Maintenance PPR Types
CRMC_PRCPROC_DET Cust. Maint. Pr. type determination
CRMC_PRCTYPE_DET Cust. Maint. Pric. Proced. Maint.
CRMC_PROCESS_MA Customizing Maint.:Transaction Types
CRMC_PROD_FIN_COPY Copy Financing Product
CRMC_PROD_FIN_HIER Create Financing Hierarchy
CRMC_PRPS BP Function Proposal Procedure
CRMC_PRP_IL_MAP PPR-Customizing: Maintenance Mapping
CRMC_PRP_OBJECTS PPR-Customizing: Maintenance Mapping
CRMC_PR_COPY_MA Copy Tranasction Types
CRMC_R3_ORG_GENERATE R/3 organizational data generation
CRMC_SALES_ITEM Sales Customizing at Item Level
CRMC_SERVICE_H Customizing Maintenance: Service
CRMC_SERVICE_IPT Maintenance of Internet Trans. Types
CRMC_SLS_ITM_BIL Maint. Item Types & Billing Relev.
CRMC_SRVCATIFC Catalog Integration
CRMC_SUBJPROFILE_H Define Subject Profile
CRMC_SUBOB_CAT Application Areas
CRMC_SUBOB_CAT_I Item – Business Object Types
CRMC_SWITCH_ORGMODEL Convert Org. Model
CRMC_TAX_CUST_UPD Maintain Condition Function in Cond.
CRMC_TAX_GROUP Tax Group Customizing
CRMC_TAX_MAP Tax Group Customizing
CRMC_TAX_SCHEMA Maintain tax procedures
CRMC_TIMEPROF CRM date profile
CRMC_TM_CLPROF0 Call list profile maintenance
CRMC_TM_NSM Namespace manager
CRMC_TM_PSM Persistent storage manager
CRMC_WEBREQ Request Categories for Web Requests
CRMC_WEBREQ_BEGR Authorization Groups for Views
CRMC_WEBREQ_BEGR_DIS Authorization Groups for Views
CRMC_XMLEDITOR Start XML Editor for Spice
CRMD_AR_MAINTAIN Process Product Association Rule
CRMD_BILLING Transfer Invoice Data to R/3
CRMD_BILL_REV Cancel Billing Document
CRMD_BUS2000107 Process Framework Agreements
CRMD_BUS2000108 Maintain Leads
CRMD_BUS2000111 Maintain Opportunities
CRMD_BUS2000112 Maintain Service Contracts
CRMD_BUS2000113 Process Purchase Contracts
CRMD_BUS2000114 Maintain Sales Contracts
CRMD_BUS2000115 Maintain Sales Transactions
CRMD_BUS2000116 Edit Service Processes
CRMD_BUS2000117 Process Service Confirmations
CRMD_BUS2000120 Process Complaints
CRMD_BUS2000121 Maintain Sales Contracts
CRMD_BUS2000126 Maintain Activities
CRMD_BUS2000210 Maintain Product Service Letter
CRMD_BUS2000220 Maintain Partner Design Project
CRMD_BUS2000230 Maintain License Sales Contracts
CRMD_BUS2000231 Edit License Acquisition Contracts
CRMD_BUS2000232 Edit License Usage Confirmation
CRMD_CALL_LIST Generation of Call Lists
CRMD_CC Currency Change
CRMD_CCKPT_VIEWCUST customizing for role default views
CRMD_CD Display of Document Changes
CRMD_CODEX CRM Codex : Evaluation
CRMD_CSDR_PROJ_FAST Fast entry screen for Project
CRMD_DOWNLOAD_OM CRM Mobile Client Download (Online)
CRMD_DOWNLOAD_SB Download Sales Bundling Data to CDB
CRMD_EMAIL Maintain Mail Form
CRMD_EMAIL_LIST Display Marketing Bus. Activity List
CRMD_EMAIL_TEMPL Maintain Mail Template
CRMD_EMAIL_TEMPL1 Maintain Mail Form
CRMD_EVENT_CHECK EH:Callback for Trans.Type/Item Cat.
CRMD_EVENT_TRACE Evaluate Transaction Event Trace
CRMD_IIA_FAQ Maintain Frequently Asked Questions
CRMD_IIA_REPORT Generate Statistics Reports
CRMD_IM_MAIL_DELETE Delete Marketing Bus. Activity List
CRMD_INDEX_OM Index structure search OM
CRMD_IPM_AVAILABLE Analyze Rights Availability
CRMD_IPM_EVENT Date/Event Management
CRMD_IPM_HIER Maintain Hierarchical Attributes
CRMD_IPM_HIER_VIEW Maintain Hier.Attributes Views
CRMD_IPM_RD_PCUI_GEN IPM: Generate People Centric UI
CRMD_ISA_AUC_ATT Web Auction Attributes Setup
CRMD_ISA_EAUCTION Manage Web Auctions
CRMD_LEAD_FREE_SEL Lead Monitor: Free Selection
CRMD_LEAD_MONITOR Lead Monitor – Organizational View
CRMD_LEAS_ME_ACCRUAL Month-End Accruals
CRMD_MINIPROCESS Process a Transaction from MiniApp
CRMD_MKTDS Data Sources for Segment Builder
CRMD_MKTDS_WIZARD Data Source Wizard
CRMD_MKTLIST External List Management
CRMD_MKTLIST_MAP CRM Marketing : ELM Mapping Tool
CRMD_MKTPL_AL00 CRM: Allocation Application
CRMD_MKTPL_AL02 CRM: Allocation Rules
CRMD_MKTPL_AL03 CRM: Allocation Priorities
CRMD_MKTPL_AL04 CRM: Status of actual quantities
CRMD_MKTSEG Segment Builder
CRMD_MKTSEG_MGR Edit Master Groups/Samples
CRMD_MKT_EXP CRM Marketing: Export Target Group
CRMD_MKT_PROC Create Business Transactions
CRMD_MKT_TOOLS Marketing Tools
CRMD_MKT_TRANS CRM Marketing: Transport to Channels
CRMD_OPPORT_FAST My opportunities – fast change
CRMD_ORDER Transaction Processing
CRMD_ORDER_BP Business Partner Cockpit
CRMD_ORDER_LEAS_WOFF Write-Offs Mass Update Leasing
CRMD_ORDER_OBJLINK CRM Order via BUS Type and Number
CRMD_ORDER_PA Dialog Transaction CRMD_ORDER
CRMD_PROF_BP Business Partner Attributes
CRMD_PROF_CHAR Attribute Maintenance
CRMD_PROF_TEMPL Maintain Attribute Sets
CRMD_ROUTING_PROFILE Maintain Profiles and Attributes
CRMD_SDB_PRMN Maintain Info. Security Profile
CRMD_SDB_PROF Assign Profile to User
CRMD_SERV_CYCLE Define Service Cycles
CRMD_SERV_FORECAST Service Plan Forecasting
CRMD_SERV_SLA Availability and Response Times
CRMD_SRWWW Internet Transaction Service Request
CRMD_TG_IMPORT Import External Target Groups
CRMD_TM_CLDIST Call List Maintenance
CRMD_TM_CLMS Call List Management
CRMD_TRACE_EVAL Evaluation of API Trace
CRMD_TRACE_SET Activate/Deactivate API Trace
CRMD_TRACE_WATCHP Setting/Deletion of Watchpoint
CRMD_TRANSLATE Translate Mail Form
CRMD_TRANS_OM Translate Short Text for Org Units
CRMD_WEBREQ_CUST_OVW Customizing Evaluation: Web Requests
CRMD_WEBREQ_GEN_EXIT Generate start_exit Page
CRMD_WEBREQ_MONITOR Monitor for Web Requests
CRMD_WEBREQ_SIG_SHOW Display Digital Signature
CRMINIT First steps in middleware servers
CRMMDCS MAINT. DECISION TREE
CRMMDTREE The Overall Maintenance
CRMMNODE Transcation of maint. script node
CRMMNODET Transcation of maint. script node
CRMMONITOR Monitoring Middleware System
CRMMOPTION Maint. Tansaction to script option
CRMMSCRCHECK CHECK SCRIPT CONSISTENCY
CRMMTREE SCRPT TREE MAINTENCE
CRMMTREET SCRPT TREE MAINTENCE
CRMM_BPCURR Currency Changeover Business Partner
CRMM_BPD Business Partner Diagnosis
CRMM_BUPA_MAP Business partner data exchange
CRMM_BUPA_SEND Business Partner: Sending Directly
CRMM_CIC_APDISPLAY Display IC WinClient Profile
CRMM_CSDR_PROD_MAIN Des.Reg. product attributes maintain
CRMM_HR_QUALI_DEF Create CRM relevant HR qualis remote
CRMM_HR_QUALI_GET Create attribute f. HR qualification
CRMM_IC_MCM_CCADM Maintain System Settings
CRMM_IC_MCM_CCLNK Assign Profiles
CRMM_ISA_IUSER Internet User Management
CRMM_ISA_UA Internet Sales – User Administration
CRMM_MARKET_ATTRSET Maintain Marketing Set Type
CRMM_MKT_SAMPLE Samples for Segment Builder
CRMM_PPR Maintain Partner/Product Range
CRMM_PPR_CHNG_STATUS Change Partner/Product Range Status
CRMM_PPR_GUID_INFO Program CRM_PRP_GUID_INFO
CRMM_PPR_GUID_PPR Display all GUIDs for a PPR
CRMM_PPR_LISTFORBUPA Program CRM_PRP_LIST_PPRS_FOR_BUPA
CRMM_PPR_LISTFORPROD Program CRM_PRP_LIST_BUPAS_FOR_PROD
CRMM_PPR_RULES Execute Partner/Product Range Rules
CRMM_PPR_SETTYPES Maintain PPR Set Types
CRMM_PPR_STATUS_TEST Change PPR Status for internal use
CRMM_PPR_TOPN Maintain Top n Products
CRMM_PRPROD Assign Pricing Reference Materials
CRMM_ROUTING start business routing
CRMM_ROUTING_COMPARE Business Routing: Compare Scenario
CRMM_ROUT_AGENT Maintain agents for business routing
CRMM_ROUT_GRP Start routing group of b. routing
CRMM_ROUT_GRP_BP Group Members for Routing Groups
CRMM_ROUT_PROF Maintain profile
CRMM_ROUT_PROF_BP Assign Routing Grp Member to Profile
CRMM_ROUT_PROF_CHAR Maintain Attributes
CRMM_ROUT_PROF_TEMP Maintain Profile Template
CRMM_SEARCH Knowledge Search
CRMM_TERRMAN Territory Management
CRMM_TM_SCRIPT Interactive scripting editor
CRMORDERARC Residence Times Transaction Types
CRMSE62 Activate Exchanged Short Texts
CRMST62 Create Industry Short Texts
CRMS_IC_ACTION_DF IC WebClient Data Flow Maintenance
CRMS_IC_CHECK Check System Settings and Status
CRMS_IC_CROSS_SYS Transaction Launcher Logical Systems
CRMS_IC_SYSTEM_PROPS IC WebClient System Properties
CRMV_CANCPROCEDURE Maintain cancellation procedures
CRMV_CANCRULES Maintain cancellation rules
CRMV_CHECK_EVENTS Check Cust. Tab. for Event Handler
CRMV_CHECK_SSC Check Screen Control Data
CRMV_CODEX CRM Codex: Maint. of Check Tables
CRMV_EVENT Customizing Event Handler
CRMV_GENIL Customizing Object Model Generic IL
CRMV_IPM_EVENTS Define Events
CRMV_IPM_HIER_ATTR Customizing: Hierarchical Attributes
CRMV_IPM_HIER_VIEW Hierarchical Attributes Views
CRMV_PARTY Maintain cancelling party
CRMV_SSC Mntce: Scrn Cntrl Data – CRM Trans.
CRMXIF_C1 Assignment Site ID Interface Type
CRM_AC Check Appointment Rule for Data Exch
CRM_ACE_ADM CRM ACE Administrator Console
CRM_ACE_ADM_OLD Old CRM ACE Activation Tool GUI.
CRM_ACE_DEV CRM ACE Developer Tools
CRM_ACT_CUST_FIELDS Add customer fields to Activity Jrnl
CRM_ACT_IBU_INCL Maintain IBU specific fields
CRM_ACT_JR_TMPT Create/Change Activity Jrnl Template
CRM_ACT_JR_TMPT_TYPE Create/Change Activity JRNL TempType
CRM_ACT_STD_JRNL Create Standard Activity Journal

sap online training

2013-07-22T00:17:00.003-07:00

SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing. Designed and developed by IBM engineers during the 1970s as a standards based software alternative to custom built ERP software, SAP has come a long way. SAP has been in the forefront of ERP software ever since.
SAP develops ERP products to be used by companies to manage their enterprise. This includes managing their day to day operations, logistics, finances, month end, quarter end and yearly activities, reporting, HR etc.

SAP was initially designed to be run on the mainframe and was called that release was called R/2 (Release 2). SAP quickly caught on to the client server model with a later release called R/3 and this was the most popular version of SAP. After R/3, later versions of their core software were launched called Enterprise Central Component (ECC).
SAP is one of the leading ERP in the market and number one in the market with huge margin.

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Sap Crm -Org model

2013-07-21T06:22:00.000-07:00

Organizational Management in CRM offers you a flexible tool for handling your company’s task-related, functional organizational structure as a current organizational model.
You can maintain the company structure including the positions and employees in an application and assign specific data (attributes) to the organizational units.

The organization model will be especially used for organizational data determination within the CRM scenarios for marketing and sales.
Compared to ERP, the use of the organizational model in CRM is more comprehensive, flexible and dynamic. A synchronization of the organizational structure for sales in ERP and CRM is possible via mapping of organizational units. This is a prerequisite for integration of master data and transactional data between ERP and CRM.
The building block CRM Organizational Model describes the setup of a sample organizational structure which is the basis for all SAP Best Practices scenarios.

Function List

The following functions are provided to support this building block:

Organizational model synchronization with ERP
Definition of organizational units
Definition of positions for organizational units
Definition of holders of positions

Transaction code	ppoca_crm
SAP IMG menu	CRM-Masterdata-Org managment-Org model-Create Org model orgmodel

Sap webui

2013-07-19T04:51:00.001-07:00

Let us log into the WEB UI. There are two general ways to open the log in screen of SAP CRM.

Go to the SAP GUI
Give the transaction CRM_UI and press ENTER.
You will be directly taken to the log in screen.
If this does not work means you are using older versions of CRM.

Or
Go to the SAP GUI.
Easy access menu

right click favourite in Easy access menu and secify CRM_UI in insert transaction code ,then click the application u will direct to web ui screen like this

Specify the user name and password and you will enter the business Profile screen

Here you can choose which business profile you are goin to work with either sales ,service,marketing or CIC agent or manager profile...

Here i have selected sales business role which can be worked for sales contract,sales agreement,sales quotation,sales order creation for the sales operations can be done here ....

Sap certification

2013-07-19T01:59:00.000-07:00

SAP Certification has helped many individuals to achieve their career goals. Many consultants have achieved decent breakthrough in SAP arena or updated their current skill set. SAP Certification is not the ultimate the thing in your career. There is definitely something beyond this. By saying this, I would like to point out some of the myths regarding the SAP Certification. I am in no way disputing the value of SAP Certification and it has its own merits, as I have done 6 different certifications from SAP. These are purely my personal opinion and I would like to invite if there are any contradicting views. There might have been many websites discussed regarding this topic. Any overlapping with my thoughts is just coincidental.

1. SAP is Certification will give definite job guarantee

Many people are with the intention; passing SAP Certification will give them a definite job. SAP Certification has helped many people, particularly in the past, to achieve their goals in their career and cherished their dreams. That does not mean that SAP Certification will give guaranteed job for everybody who has passed. Having said this, people going for SAP Certification, it is recommended to have the domain knowledge in particular functional area. In the initial booming days of SAP, many people are able to achieve the jobs based on SAP Certification, but those days are gone now. The number of certified consultants got increased day by day in the market and the companies are more matured to look for practical experience rather than just a certification. If the people think that just passing SAP certification will give a guaranteed job, then they may have to rethink.

2. SAP Certification will give you definite & good ROI

There is no standard yardstick that every SAP Certification will give you a good Return on Investment (ROI). SAP Certification might have helped many when they are intending to jump into SAP Consulting Career or a job in SAP market. Nowadays, the skills are getting redundant very quickly; hence, each certification may not give you good amount of ROI. There are many people invested huge amounts into SAP Certification by taking bank loans, but miserably failed to get any returns out of it. Please do not be under the impression, if you go to SAP Training for 5 weeks and pass the Certification you may recoup the investment within a year or so. It may definitely not happen in all the cases. You should be prepared to see the other side of the coin.

3. In order to get a SAP Job - SAP Certification is a must

There are many people in the market who are non certified, earning good amount of money than the Certified Consultants. Therefore, Certification is not a must for you to fetch a job in the market. However, if there are two people shortlisted with the similar skills and experience, probably, in such situations, the Certification will give you an edge. Otherwise, the customers are looking for the people who can effectively deliver the goods without certification. It is not my intention to tell that the certified people are incompetent. You will find number of knowledgeable people in Certified Community. You will also find many people who believe they are extraordinary in their own area of SAP, but failed when it comes to passing SAP Certification. Then they start blaming the SAP Certification itself or the people who have passed the SAP Certification (LOL).

4. With SAP Certification - you will be successful in interview

SAP Certification courses are structured in systematic way, hence, it gives you very good fundamental knowledge regarding the concepts. They would be really helpful in order to pass your SAP Certification, if you go through the curricula in a religious manner. However, this will not give you any guarantee that you are going to be successful in an interview. Reason could be the interviews might have been conducted on different parameters to see your overall skills, but not just your Certification. Certification may keep you in better position to explain the fundamental knowledge gained during the course of Certification, but it may not meet all the expectations of an interview. Even with certification under your belt, you do not even know what type of questions the interviewer is asking for.

5. With SAP Certification - you will deliver the customer commitments

SAP Certification is a good starting point in your journey of career. It would give you good knowledge about the functionality of the system. Particularly, if you are fresher in SAP area, it would take some years to understand complete end to end business processes. By the time, you might have completed few projects. But even you will feel that you are missing the overall view of such complexity in the system. Probably, SAP Certification will give you knowledge in a particular area. Whereas, SAP is tightly integrated system between different modules, so you may not be able to visualise the total picture. With number of projects under your belt over a period of time, you will gain such high level knowledge. If your current role expects to go beyond your certification to deliver the commitments from other modules, you may feel the pain. But, definitely, you need to take this an opportunity to learn new things.

6. SAP Certification will give you "high-paying" jobs

There is a misconception that as soon as you are certified by SAP, you will get “high paying” job immediately. There are number of certified consultants failed to make an entry into SAP area. In my opinion, they are mainly unsuccessful because they have viewed SAP as a 25 days course. It only helped them to put that SAP Certification in their in CV in bold and italic. Except very few lucky people, many number of certified consultants are really struggled a lot to make an entry into SAP consulting world, including me not an exception to this. If somebody is thinking that SAP Certification will give you an immediate “high paying” SAP job, probably, you are under the misconception.

7. SAP Certification is an ultimate thing in your career

Many people think that doing SAP Certification is ultimate thing in life. When you are on a learning spree, SAP Certification is just a negligible part in your total career. If you have enough financial resource and attitude, you would see yourself with a new SAP Certification every month. At the end of the story, SAP Certification is just a multiple choice question test. If your fundamentals are clear, I do not see any reason in not clearing the SAP Certification. The SAP Certification you have done may become redundant in next couple of years. I have done my first certification in SAP FICO 4.6C in 2003, but if you now a days, no customer is using this system. Unfortunately, some people stop learning new things and pretend themselves as if they are the masters in everything. But, as a professional, you should keep your learning habits on for your entire career. Do not just look for SAP Certification, try to think beyond that.

8. SAP Certification may give you good jobs in your area

I have read this point somewhere in an article. The first thing as an SAP Consultant you should visualise yourself as a “travel freak”. Certification may not always give you the job in your nearby area. If you are in offshore location, probably, you may get job in your preferred location, as every major offshore city is flooded with SAP consulting companies. No client will be intending to pay you money unless you go to onsite and deliver the expectations. There may be a small exception to this for the people who are supporting SAP systems through remote support. But, as an SAP consultant, you should always pack your bags, away from home, eat food whatever you get and sleep wherever you can. If you think your SAP Certification will get you a good 9 to 5 job in your area, it may not be true always.

9. With SAP Certification you may start doing Contract Jobs

Contracting concept you mostly see in Western countries. This concept is getting familiar in Offshore / Eastern countries too. Contracting jobs are lucrative at the same time they are strenuous when compared to permanent jobs. By saying this, I am in no way demeaning the importance of the Permanent Jobs. Many people think that just by completing SAP Certification, they can land up in Contract jobs. But, the things always will not work in that way. The expectations in Contract Jobs are much higher; therefore, you need to check your calibre to handle the roles. No Certification will help in delivering the results within the deadly time lines.

10. Learn SAP only for Certification and Job

Many people think that learn SAP for Certification and get a job. If you are thinking to learn SAP just for Certification and job only, then I would suggest you may better skip to learn SAP. Learn SAP with passion and this passion should drive your career. I would believe everybody should maintain the passion throughout their careers. It is easy in theory but very difficult in practice. At certain age in your career, it may not be possible to maintain the same amount of passion in your career, due to socio, economic and physical reasons. But, by that time, you would have become a master in your own areas within SAP. Learn SAP with passion, if you are only looking SAP for Certification and Job, probably, SAP is not the right path for you.

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Sap Crm Functional 7.0

2013-07-17T12:50:00.001-07:00

Sap Customer Relation Management is a a comprehensive solution for managing your customer relationship.
It supports all customer-focused business areas,from marketing to sales and service and also customer interaction channels,such as interaction centers, mobile clients, the internet....

Sap Crm is a part of business suite .

Sap Crm Provides leading front office functions and end to end industry specific processes via marketing,sales,service and various other channels....

Sap Crm landscape: Landscape is a client strategy which is used to define what are the systems to be used,how to monitor, how to track them .
Adaptor: It is a Browser which is a software program converts data of different format in to its original format in system.

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Sap Crm 7.0 overview