SAP Professional Fundamentals Syllabus

 Course Description

SAP Professional Fundamentals is the first course in the SAP Technology Consultant Professional Certificate program. The course introduces you to the world of consulting and the range of skills that you need to succeed in this competitive field.

You’ll explore SAP professional consulting roles and discover what technical consultants, functional consultants, and other professionals do. You'll investigate the wide range of skills consultants have. These skills include business process analysis, systems and design thinking, and effective soft skills like communication and relationship management. You’ll explore various planning and project management methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, and Cloud. Plus, you’ll start to get a feel for the whole SAP journey, from engaging with the customer to deploying a solution.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Explain what is meant by the SAP ecosystem and the value it brings to customers.

• Describe what different SAP professionals do and how they engage with customers.

• Understand the core and soft consulting skills that are both in highest demand, and frequently not taught in classroom environments.

• Describe a typical SAP engagement and how key professional skills are used at each stage of the SAP Implementation Lifecycle.

• Describe key roles with whom an SAP professional typically collaborates.

Introduction to SAP Professional Fundamentals

By the end of each week, you will be able to:

Week 1: Introduction to the SAP Ecosystem

• Explain what is meant by the SAP ecosystem and the value it brings to customers.

• Discuss the purpose of Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) such as SAP.

• Describe what an SAP Professional does and the type of customer engagements they could be involved in.

• Recall the SAP Learning resources available to support the SAP ecosystem.

Week 2: SAP Professional Skills Part 1

• List the key skills required to operate as an SAP professional in a business environment.

• Describe research skills used by SAP Professionals.

• Discuss the analysis of customers, business processes and data.

• Demonstrate effective communication and presentation skills.

• Create concise, clear, and easy to interpret written documents.

• Differentiate conceptual and strategic skills.

• Demonstrate advanced Microsoft Suite skills.

Week 3: SAP Professional Skills Part 2

• Describe the planning of personal, project and schemas for models.

• Discuss project management, development methodologies, communicating priorities and identifying roadblocks.

• Elaborate on building effective relationships and collaborating with different teams, customers, and IT partners.

• Describe business acumen, political sensitivity, and cultural awareness.

• Explain domain and industrial functional knowledge.

Week 4: Introduction to the SAP Implementation Lifecycle

• Describe a typical SAP engagement and provide an overview of the SAP implementation lifecycle.

• Describe how key professional skills are used in customer engagement, discovery, and analysis.

• Describe how key professional skills are used in design, implementation, and testing.

Week 5: Understanding SAP Professional Roles and Functional Knowledge

• Describe the role of a Technical Consultant.

• Describe the role of a Functional Consultant.

• Describe key SAP professional roles and how they collaborate.

• Describe key functional knowledge to support SAP analysis and implementation work.

• Explain the key elements of SAP Product Strategy and related business processes.

Week 6: Professional Skills for Successful SAP Implementation Hands-on Project

• Select an appropriate SAP case study for review in the hands-on project.

• Assess the selected Case Study of a customer implementing an SAP solution.

• Create a short precis or video identifying possible customer challenges and key professional skills that would help ensure successful implementation.

• Analyze and grade two peer submissions of the Case Study assessment and precis/video.

Projects and Quizzes

Week 1: Introduction to the SAP Ecosystem

Quizzes:

• You will take one practice quiz and one graded quiz about the SAP ecosystem.

Week 2: SAP Professional Skills Part 1

Quizzes:

• You will take one practice quiz and one graded quiz about the first group of skills you’ll need to be successful as an SAP professional.

Week 3: SAP Professional Skills Part 2

Quizzes:

• You will take one practice quiz and one graded quiz about skills relating to SAP planning, project management, and collaboration.

Week 4: Introduction to the SAP Implementation Lifecycle

Quizzes:

• You will take one practice quiz and one graded quiz about SAP implementation lifecycle.

Week 5: Understanding SAP Professional Roles and Functional Knowledge

Quizzes:

• You will take one practice quiz and one graded quiz about the roles of the functional consultant and the technical consultant.

Week 6: SAP Professional Fundamentals Hands-on Project

Quiz: 

• You will take a graded quiz that covers all the material you learned in the SAP Customer Engagement and Discovery course.

Hands-on Project:

• This is where you will apply what you have learned in this course. This will help you assess your understanding and potentially help you to gain a sense of where you would like to direct your own career.

You will choose a customer story about a real-life SAP implementation. Then you’ll prepare to join the project depicted in the customer story as an SAP professional on the initial team. You’ll research the customer’s organization, industry, and technology environment using the customer story materials and other creditable sources. You will present your findings to the customer and explain what you have discovered either by writing a brief summary or via a short video. Finally, you will review submissions from other learners. You will provide and receive feedback, using the provided review rubric.