A plain-English wiki to the world's most-deployed enterprise software — its modules, roles, skills, and the people who build careers around it. Built for the recruiter who has never opened SAP, written a line of ABAP, or sat in a Finance close meeting.
Before we list job titles, let's demystify the business. SAP isn't one product — it's the operating system that the world's largest companies use to run their business end-to-end: every dollar moved, every order shipped, every employee paid, every part bought, every customer billed.
Imagine a giant company — say, a global manufacturer with 100,000 employees, 50 factories, and operations in 80 countries. Now imagine that every order from a customer, every salary payment, every truckload of raw materials, every invoice, every product moved between warehouses, every hour worked by a factory operator, and every tax filing in every country needs to be recorded somewhere — in one place — and reconciled at the end of every month.
That "one place" is SAP. SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is the software that ties together Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, HR, Procurement, Sales, and Customer Service into one connected system. When a customer places an order in Sales, it automatically reduces inventory in the warehouse, schedules production in the factory, books the revenue in Finance, and triggers a shipment in Logistics — all in the same software. That's why SAP is everywhere.
SAP SE was founded in 1972 in Walldorf, Germany. The name originally stood for Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing. It is Europe's largest software company and the world's largest enterprise application software vendor.
Today, SAP serves over 440,000 customers in 180+ countries, including roughly 87% of the Global 2000. If you've ever bought groceries at a major chain, taken a flight, filled up your car at a gas station, or received a paycheck from a Fortune 500 employer, SAP almost certainly touched that transaction somewhere behind the scenes.
SAP is one of the most consistently in-demand skill sets in enterprise IT hiring — and one of the hardest to source for, because most great SAP people don't call themselves "SAP people." They call themselves "Finance Consultants" or "Supply Chain Architects" or "ABAP Developers."
Worse, "SAP" itself is not a job. There are dozens of distinct SAP specializations, and a candidate who is brilliant at SAP Finance (FI/CO) may be completely useless on a SAP Supply Chain (MM) project. Knowing which module someone has worked on is the single most important piece of intelligence in SAP recruiting.
The classic SAP system that runs in customers' own data centers. ECC stands for "ERP Central Component." Many large companies still run it. Officially in maintenance mode — SAP has set an end-of-life date of 2027 (extended support to 2030) — which has fueled a massive global migration wave.
Launched in 2015. Runs on the in-memory database called HANA. Comes in two flavors: S/4HANA On-Premise (run it yourself) and S/4HANA Cloud (SAP runs it for you, including RISE with SAP). Every active SAP transformation project today targets S/4HANA. If you're hearing "S/4" in a job description, this is what they mean.
A collection of cloud apps SAP acquired or built, each targeting a specific business function: SuccessFactors (HR), Ariba (procurement), Concur (travel & expense), Fieldglass (contingent labor), SAP Customer Experience (CRM). These can be sold standalone or integrated into the broader SAP suite.
When you read an SAP job description, look for three keywords that tell you the world: "ECC" (legacy on-prem), "S/4HANA" (modern flagship), or a specific cloud product name like "SuccessFactors" or "Ariba". These tell you which kind of consultant you're actually looking for — and which job market you're competing in.
SAP today sells dozens of products under four big umbrellas. You don't need to memorize them all — but you should know which umbrella a job description sits under. Here's the map.
The successor to ECC. Runs on SAP HANA (in-memory DB). Contains all the classic modules — Finance, Logistics, HR, Manufacturing — fully redesigned for speed and modern UX (called "Fiori"). Comes in on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud editions.
The previous-generation ERP that is being decommissioned. Still runs in tens of thousands of companies. Most "SAP migration to S/4HANA" projects are migrations FROM ECC. Mastery of ECC is still highly hireable because every migration needs ECC expertise.
Not a product — a packaged commercial offer. Bundles S/4HANA Cloud + the database + infrastructure + technical services from SAP into one subscription. When you see "RISE" in a JD, it usually signals a customer migrating from ECC into SAP-managed cloud.
An entirely separate ERP product aimed at small/mid-size companies. Very different from S/4. If you're recruiting for Business One, you are in a different market — smaller, more entrepreneurial, often integrator-led rather than corporate.
The HR / people-management cloud suite. Modules cover Employee Central, Recruiting, Onboarding, Performance & Goals, Compensation, Learning, Succession. Competes directly with Workday. Among the most actively hired-for SAP skills in the market.
The cloud platform for source-to-pay procurement. Includes Sourcing, Contracts, Buying & Invoicing, Supplier Lifecycle & Performance Management (SLP). The "Ariba Network" connects millions of buyers and suppliers globally.
Cloud expense management. Used by most large companies for employee travel booking, expense reporting, and AP invoice automation. Acquired by SAP in 2014. Smaller community than core ERP but very specialized.
Vendor Management System (VMS) for managing contractors, statement-of-work labor, freelancers, and services procurement. Critical for companies with large contingent workforces. Niche but well-paid specialty.
Includes Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, and Customer Data Cloud (acquired from Gigya). Competes with Salesforce. Built largely from acquisitions (Hybris, CallidusCloud, Gigya, Qualtrics).
Cloud-based supply chain planning: demand forecasting, supply & response planning, S&OP, inventory optimization. The modern replacement for SAP APO (Advanced Planning & Optimization).
SAP's cloud platform-as-a-service. The "plumbing" layer for extending SAP. Includes Integration Suite (CPI/PI), Build (low-code), AI Core, HANA Cloud, and dev tools. If a JD mentions "extending S/4HANA cleanly without modifying the core," BTP is the answer.
The high-performance in-memory column-store database underneath S/4HANA. Also sold standalone. DBAs and developers who write CDS views, calculation views, and SQLScript live in this world.
Fiori is SAP's design system (think: clean, tile-based, web-friendly). SAPUI5 is the underlying JavaScript framework. Front-end developers in SAP build Fiori apps using UI5 (which is similar to Angular/Vue).
The middleware that connects SAP to non-SAP systems. Older customers say "SAP PI" or "PO" (Process Orchestration, on-prem). The cloud version is called "Cloud Integration" or just "Integration Suite" (CPI). Critical specialty for any large SAP landscape.
The classic SAP data warehouse. BW/4HANA is the modern version running on HANA. Used for consolidated reporting across SAP and non-SAP systems. Still a huge installed base; BW developers are reliably employed.
Combines business intelligence, planning, and predictive analytics in one cloud product. Competes with Power BI and Tableau. Tight integration with S/4HANA, BW, and Datasphere makes it the natural choice in SAP-heavy shops.
SAP's newest cloud data product — a "business data fabric" combining warehousing, modeling, and federation. Strategic priority for SAP. Partnerships with Databricks, Google, and Snowflake are growing this area fast.
Acquired by SAP in 2018, spun back out in 2023 (now independent), but still appears in some SAP HR and CX projects. Survey-driven feedback on employees, customers, products, brand. Mention it when you see it — but recruit as a separate market.
Every SAP project is staffed module by module. Knowing what each module does — and which job titles, skills, and certifications belong to it — is the difference between a good SAP recruiter and a great one. We'll cover Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, HR, Procurement, CX, Analytics, and Technical.
SAP FI is the company's official accounting books. Every financial transaction that happens anywhere in the company — a customer payment, a vendor invoice, a salary, a depreciation entry, a tax accrual — eventually ends up posted in FI. This is the data that becomes the company's published financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow) and the data that auditors examine. If FI breaks, the company cannot close its books, cannot pay vendors, and cannot file taxes. It is the most business-critical module SAP sells.
If FI is the books the auditors see, CO is the books the management team uses to actually run the company. CO answers questions like: "How much did it cost to produce this product?" "Which sales region is the most profitable?" "Which department is over budget?" "How should we allocate corporate overhead across business units?" CO and FI are twins — they share the same underlying transactions but slice them in different ways. In S/4HANA they have been merged into a single source of truth (the Universal Journal).
MM handles everything to do with buying stuff and keeping track of it. When a company needs to buy raw materials, office supplies, parts, services, or contract labor — that purchase request, the purchase order, the goods receipt at the loading dock, the inspection, the invoice match, and the inventory update all live in MM. If a factory runs out of a critical part, MM is what gets blamed. If a supplier gets paid twice, MM is what gets blamed. It is the closest neighbor to FI in day-to-day operations.
SD is the order-to-cash side of the business. A customer places an order — by EDI, by salesperson, by web portal — and SD takes it from there: it checks credit, calculates the price (including discounts, rebates, taxes, shipping), allocates inventory, schedules the delivery, prints the invoice, and posts the revenue. If SD breaks, the company stops shipping product and stops billing customers. The CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) gets very interested very fast.
PP is how SAP runs the factory. Given a sales forecast and a current stock level, PP figures out what to produce, when to produce it, and how much of each raw material to order so production doesn't stop. It manages the Bill of Materials (recipe), the Routing (production steps), the Work Centers (machines and labor), and the Production Orders (the actual factory orders). PP consultants are among the hardest SAP roles to fill because the work requires real manufacturing literacy alongside the software.
These four modules round out the logistics & operations side of SAP. They are typically staffed by specialist consultants and often appear alongside the bigger MM/PP/SD projects. You won't always see standalone hires — but when a company is doing a major transformation, these specialists become urgent and expensive.
The HR / people side of SAP comes in two flavors. The older "SAP HCM" (also called SAP HR) is the on-premise module inside ECC that handles personnel administration, organizational management, time, and payroll. The newer "SAP SuccessFactors" is the cloud HR suite — a completely separate product family that most companies are migrating to. Most modern HR projects today are SuccessFactors projects. Many companies, however, keep SAP Payroll on-premise long after moving everything else to SuccessFactors, because payroll localization is hard.
These three are SAP's cloud products that handle where the company spends money. Ariba covers what the company buys from suppliers. Concur covers what employees spend on travel and expenses. Fieldglass covers the contractors and external labor the company hires by the hour or by the project. Together, SAP markets them as "Intelligent Spend Management." They're sold and implemented as standalone products — each has its own consultant community.
SAP CX is SAP's CRM portfolio — its answer to Salesforce. It's built mostly from acquisitions: Hybris (commerce), CallidusCloud (sales performance), Gigya (customer data & consent), Coresystems (field service). Each component has its own technology stack and consultant community, so "I'm a SAP CX consultant" is too vague — recruiters need to know which product. Implementation talent is rarer here than in core ERP and skews more developer-heavy than functional-consultant-heavy.
This area is where SAP's data goes to be analyzed. Companies use these tools to build dashboards, financial reports, forecasts, and planning models. Skills here look more like classic Business Intelligence / Data Engineering than like core SAP module consulting, and many candidates also have Power BI or Tableau on their resume.
If functional consultants are the "business" side of SAP, the technical roles are the "engineering" side. ABAP developers write code. BASIS administrators keep the system running. Security consultants control who can do what. BTP architects extend SAP into custom apps and integrations. These roles are absolutely essential on every SAP project — and they sit closer to mainstream software engineering than the functional roles do.
Every SAP project is staffed by a mix of three broad role families: functional consultants who configure the modules to fit a business; technical specialists who write code and run the infrastructure; and architects, project managers, and analysts who hold it all together. Here's every role you'll see on an SAP job description, what it actually does, and the skills required.
The bread-and-butter SAP Finance consultant — combines Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO) expertise. Configures the chart of accounts, posting keys, document types, ledgers, cost centers, profit centers, and product costing. Maps the client's accounting policies into SAP. Leads month-end and year-end close design. The senior version of this role essentially co-designs the company's financial system with the CFO's team.
Configures everything to do with the company buying things and managing inventory. Designs purchasing organization structures, vendor master governance, release strategies (approval workflows for POs), pricing procedures for purchasing, movement types, and inventory valuation. Often partners with Ariba consultants on procurement transformation. The integration touchpoints with Finance and Sales are critical — they'll defend why a goods receipt posts where it does to FI.
Designs and configures the order-to-cash process: sales order types, pricing, credit management, availability checks, deliveries, billing, and revenue posting. Pricing is the technical heart of this role — pricing in SAP uses condition technique, access sequences, and condition tables which take years to master. Senior SD consultants own complex commercial logic: rebates, free goods, intercompany sales, third-party drop-ship, and revenue recognition.
Configures the manufacturing engine: BOMs, routings, work centers, MRP, production orders. Specializes by industry — discrete (automotive, electronics), process (chemicals, pharma, F&B), or repetitive (CPG). Often paired with a QM specialist. Senior PP consultants speak fluent factory-floor language and can explain capacity constraints, lot sizing, scrap, and yield as easily as they explain SAP transactions. Increasingly works with IBP (planning) and MES (execution) integration.
Designs and configures Extended Warehouse Management — bin and storage type setup, putaway and picking strategies, wave management, labor management, RF/handheld scanner flows, packing, and yard management. The role exists in two flavors: embedded EWM (inside S/4HANA) and decentralized EWM (separate system). EWM consultants with hands-on RF and conveyor/MFS automation experience are extremely scarce and well-compensated.
Three related but distinct specialties. QM configures inspection plans, sampling procedures, certificates of analysis, and quality notifications — essential in regulated industries (pharma, food, aerospace, medical devices). PM/EAM covers asset maintenance: equipment master, technical objects, preventive maintenance schedules, work orders, and increasingly mobile field service apps. PS handles project accounting — WBS structures, network activities, milestone billing — used heavily in engineering and capital projects.
Configures the on-premise HR module: personnel administration, org management, time management, and payroll. The premium specialty is country-specific payroll — every country has different tax, social security, garnishments, and reporting rules baked into SAP. A US payroll consultant and a German payroll consultant are not interchangeable. Time management involves designing schemas and PCRs (Personnel Calculation Rules), which is closer to coding than configuration.
Implements one or more SuccessFactors cloud modules. Consultants almost always specialize: an EC consultant rarely also configures Compensation. Work is highly templated (SAP's Activate methodology + SuccessFactors workbooks), but careful attention is needed for business rules, MDF (Metadata Framework) objects, integration center, and role-based permissions. Senior consultants own integrations to SAP ERP, third-party benefits, payroll vendors, and identity providers.
Implements the Ariba source-to-pay suite. Like SuccessFactors, consultants specialize by sub-module — Sourcing & Contracts vs Buying & Invoicing vs SLP. Work includes catalog setup, approval workflows, supplier onboarding to the Ariba Network, integration with ERP (MM) for PO replication and invoice posting, and contract template authoring. Strong consultants speak fluent procurement strategy alongside Ariba configuration.
Niche cloud-product specialists. Concur implementers configure travel booking policies, expense audit rules, receipt OCR (ExpenseIt), corporate card feeds, mileage rules, and AP integration. Fieldglass consultants configure work orders, time entry, rate cards, supplier management, MSP workflows, and SOW management for contractor/contingent labor programs. Both are highly specialized — most consultants only do one.
Splits sharply by product. Commerce Cloud (Hybris) developers are Java/Spring engineers building B2B and B2C storefronts — closer to software engineering than to SAP consulting. Sales/Service Cloud consultants resemble Salesforce admins: workflow rules, account hierarchies, opportunity stages, case routing. Customer Data Cloud (Gigya) work focuses on consent management, identity, and progressive profiling. Each product has a distinct hiring pool.
Designs and builds analytical layers on top of SAP and non-SAP data. Classic BW consultants build extractors, transformations, ADSOs/InfoCubes, and BEx/AfO queries. SAC consultants build dashboards, financial planning models, and predictive scenarios. Datasphere work focuses on data modeling, federation across HANA Cloud, BW, and external sources. Many candidates pair these skills with Power BI, Tableau, Python, or Snowflake.
Writes custom code in SAP's proprietary language, ABAP. Builds reports, conversions, interfaces, enhancements, forms, workflows (the classic "RICEFW" deliverables). Modern ABAP developers also write CDS views, ABAP RAP services, and Fiori/UI5 front-ends. The strongest profiles increasingly blend ABAP with JavaScript/TypeScript (for UI5), Node.js/Java (for CAP on BTP), and OData services.
The infrastructure backbone of every SAP shop. Installs, patches, upgrades, monitors, and tunes SAP systems. Manages transports between Dev → QA → Prod, applies SAP Notes, performs system copies and refreshes, troubleshoots performance, manages backups. Modern BASIS roles are hybrid: classic SAP admin + Linux + a hyperscaler (AWS / Azure / GCP) + HANA DBA + sometimes Kubernetes for BTP. RISE deployments shift some of this to SAP itself, but customer-side BASIS continues.
Designs and maintains the role/authorization model that controls who can do what in SAP. Critical for SOX, audit, and access governance. GRC specialists go further — they implement SAP GRC Access Control (ARM, EAM, BRM, ARA) for automated access requests, emergency access (firefighter), business role design, and SoD risk analysis. Identity federation with Azure AD, Okta, or Ping is increasingly part of the scope.
Builds the integrations that connect SAP to everything else: other SAP systems, banks, suppliers, customers, third-party apps. Modern integration work happens on SAP Integration Suite (CPI) in the cloud — building iFlows, mappings, OAuth/SAML setups, and managing the Cloud Connector. Legacy on-prem work uses SAP PI / PO. Strong integration consultants are also fluent in IDoc, BAPI, RFC, REST, SOAP, OData, EDI, and increasingly event-driven patterns (SAP Event Mesh).
Designs and builds extensions, integrations, AI services, and side-by-side applications on SAP Business Technology Platform. The "clean core" philosophy means new functionality is built on BTP rather than modifying S/4HANA — so BTP skills are increasingly mandatory on any modern S/4HANA project. Strong BTP people combine SAP fluency with general cloud / DevOps skills.
The senior figure who designs the overall SAP solution — what modules to deploy, how they fit together, where customizations live, how integrations work, what runs in BTP vs S/4HANA, what cloud products complement the core. Translates business strategy into a coherent SAP roadmap. On large programs, multiple architects work together (one for Finance, one for Logistics, one for HR, one for Technical/BTP).
Runs the SAP project itself: scope, schedule, budget, resourcing, risks, and the actual delivery of go-live. Senior SAP PMs run multi-year programs with dozens of consultants across multiple geographies. SAP-specific PM experience matters because SAP projects have unique rhythms — blueprinting, realization, testing cycles, cutover weekends — and ill-fitting general PMs often fail in this environment.
Three specialty roles every SAP project needs. Data Migration Specialists extract from legacy systems, cleanse, transform, and load (ETL) into SAP — using LSMW, LTMC, Migration Cockpit, BODS, or third-party tools like Syniti/SNP. Test Leads design integration and UAT test cycles, often using SAP CBTA, Tricentis Tosca, or Worksoft. OCM / Trainers handle organizational change management, training material, and end-user enablement.
SAP has industry-specific solutions (sometimes called "Industry Cloud" or "IS-" modules) for nearly every vertical. The modules a candidate has worked on are heavily influenced by which industries they've served. Knowing this helps recruiters match candidates to client industries.
Heavy users of PP, QM, PM, MM, SD, EWM, IBP. Industry add-ons: SAP for Automotive, sequencing & JIT, vehicle management. Look for Tier-1/OEM experience.
QM, PP-PI, WM/EWM, batch management, serial numbers, FDA validation. Industry solution: SAP for Life Sciences. Compliance background (GMP, 21 CFR Part 11) is gold.
SD trade promotion, CRM-TPM, SAP Direct Distribution, REM in PP, AFS. Heavy on rebate management and customer-led pricing.
SAP for Retail (IS-Retail), Article Master, Assortments, Allocation, SAP CAR (Customer Activity Repository), POS integration. Newer cloud: SAP S/4HANA for Retail for Fashion.
SAP IS-U: meter reading, billing, device management, customer service. CR&B (Customer Relationship & Billing). One of SAP's most distinct industry stacks — utility consultants are their own community.
IS-Oil: tolerance management, hydrocarbon management, exchanges, joint venture accounting (JVA). Niche but very high-paying due to scarcity.
SAP for Public Sector, PSCD (Public Sector Collection & Disbursement), Funds Management, Grants Management. Distinct from commercial FI — fund accounting and appropriation rules dominate.
SAP for Banking, Loans Management, Deposits, FS-CD, FS-PM. SAP for Insurance: FS-PM (policy), FS-CM (claims), FS-CD (collections & disbursements). Heavy actuarial & regulatory.
PS, PM, QM, project-driven costing, configuration management. Industry add-ons for A&D. Tight integration with PLM (often Siemens/Teamcenter or PTC Windchill).
PS, RE-FX (Real Estate), CO-PA project-based, equipment-heavy PM. Custom billing milestones. EPC contractors live in this space.
PP-PI, QM, EHS (Environmental Health & Safety), Dangerous Goods Management, Recipe Management. Process industry expertise required.
SAP for Healthcare, patient management, materials & pharmacy management. Less common than hospital-specific systems (Epic, Cerner) but used for finance, HR, supply chain back-office.
SAP SLcM (Student Lifecycle Management), Campus Management, Grants Management. Common at large universities for back-office.
SAP for Telecommunications, BRIM (Billing & Revenue Innovation Management), Convergent Charging, SOM. Heavy on subscription billing, mediation, and high-volume invoicing.
SD heavy with pricing, rebates, complex shipping; MM for inventory; EWM. Often integrates with TMS (Transportation Management) — sometimes SAP TM, sometimes Manhattan/Oracle/BluJay.
SAP Professional Services Automation, PS, project billing, time-bound resource planning. Now part of SAP S/4HANA for service-centric companies. Concur and Fieldglass usually accompany.
LinkedIn covers maybe 60% of the SAP market. The rest hides in product-specific communities, certification directories, partner networks, and platforms most generalist recruiters don't know exist. Here's the field guide — plus 60+ Boolean strings you can copy-paste.
SAP candidates congregate in product-specific communities — and most of these communities have indexed user profiles, certification directories, conference attendee lists, and Q&A reputations that you can use to find and vet candidates.
SAP people are intensely loyal to specific user groups (ASUG, DSAG, UKISUG, regional SUGs) — far more than software engineers are to generic platforms. The session-speaker lists from past ASUG annual conferences, SAP TechEd, and Sapphire are arguably the single best free database of subject-matter experts available anywhere. Building a habit of mining these speaker lists once a quarter is a competitive advantage.
You don't need to become an SAP consultant — but watching a few of these channels in the background will dramatically sharpen your screening conversations. Subscriber counts shown are approximate at time of writing and the figures shift over time. All references are for educational purposes; trademarks belong to their respective owners.
SAP's own channel. Product launches, customer stories, executive interviews. Best for high-level orientation and the "what is SAP today?" question.
SAP's free learning channel. Curated playlists by topic and certification path. Recruiters can identify which certifications matter for which role.
Long-running SAP training site with a YouTube preview channel. Excellent "what does this module actually do" explainers across FI, MM, SD, PP.
Plain-English overviews of SAP modules. Good "first 30 minutes" channel for someone who has never seen an SAP screen before.
India-based channels are the strongest free SAP FICO content on the internet. Search "SAP FICO end-to-end training" for full multi-hour playlists.
Universal Journal, Group Reporting, Margin Analysis — the modern S/4HANA Finance concepts explained from a practitioner's angle.
Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) is one of the deepest topics in CO. Search this directly — recruiter goal: be able to recognize when someone is bluffing about CO-PA experience.
"SAP MM full course" returns dozens of multi-hour playlists. Watch the first 15 minutes of three different ones to triangulate.
This is the heart of SD complexity. If you can follow a 20-minute pricing video, you can spot weak SD candidates instantly.
EWM is the niche to know in 2026. Even an hour of intro content makes recruiter conversations 5x more confident.
Start with a 10-minute "what is MRP" video, then a 30-minute "PP cycle in SAP" walkthrough. Two videos buy you fluency.
Search "SuccessFactors Employee Central tutorial" — many practitioner-led channels cover EC, RBP, MDF, business rules, and release management.
Payroll Calculation Rules (PCRs) are notoriously opaque. Watching one tutorial helps you understand why country payroll specialists command premium rates.
Helps you understand why a great HCM consultant may NOT be a great EC consultant, and vice-versa.
Official channel for product walkthroughs and customer enablement. Good for understanding the modules a "source-to-pay" candidate might claim.
Travel, expense, and invoice product demos. Niche but rare — useful before screening Concur consultants.
Hybris developers come from a Java/Spring background. Tutorials help you understand the architecture you're hiring for.
Several ABAP-focused channels covering classical ABAP, OO ABAP, CDS Views, RAP, and BTP development.
SAP's official dev channel. CAP tutorials, BTP demos, Fiori building, integration with hyperscalers. Essential for understanding modern SAP development.
Search "SAP BASIS full course". Best for understanding what BASIS people actually do day-to-day — transports, patches, system copies, HANA.
iFlow building, Groovy scripts, OAuth, Cloud Connector setup. Strong content here because integration is one of SAP's hottest skills.
BTP is opaque even to long-tenured SAP people. A solid hour of intro content goes a long way for any modern S/4HANA conversation.
Helps distinguish "I built Fiori apps" candidates from "I configured Fiori launchpad" candidates — a critical skill-gap that many recruiters miss.
Walkthroughs of SAC and Datasphere. Quarterly release recaps. Good baseline for understanding the analytics products in active sales motion.
Datasphere is the strategic data product. Few experts exist — finding someone with real Datasphere project experience is a premium win.
ADSOs, CompositeProviders, queries — still huge installed base, still hires heavily.
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You don't need to evaluate technical depth — that's the hiring manager's job. Your screening goal is to make sure the candidate worked on the right module, in the right kind of project, recently enough to be useful. Below are screening questions per module — with example strong, average, and weak responses, plus green and red flags you can spot on a 30-minute phone screen.
Each question lists three possible candidate response patterns: Strong (this person is real), Average (knows the module surface but no depth) and Weak (probably bluffing or working from a Udemy course). Use these as recognition patterns — you don't need to memorize the technical details.
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