Benefits For BPX Consultants

Five compelling reasons to register as a SID Member and develop your professional skills:

1. Keep SAP Knowledge fresh & up to date

SID provides continuous Business Process skills development and helps you keep your SAP skills current:

• Access to ECC6.0 with SAP Best Practice configuration in Finance, Logistics, Manufacturing and optional scenarios.
• Maintain and improve knowledge whenever and wherever convenient.
• Refresh existing skills whilst between contracts,
• Remind yourself of configuration detail prior to interview.

2. Follow up on training: Learn new functional skills

Practice what you learn on courses and maximise your Investment in SAP Training:

• Select Course: Investigate areas of process and configuration before looking for training in new functional areas.  Make sure it is what you want to do.
• Pre-course: Familiarise yourself with basics in the functional area.
• Post-course: Reinforce and practice skills learned during SAP training.
• Take those training manuals and SAP Press books you have in your cupboards and go through the exercises on your own system.

3. Build config portfolio for reference and practice

The best way to remember how to do something is to practice, practice and practice:

• SID is always available; anytime, anyplace, anywhere.  There is no usage limit within the membership – if you want you can use it all day every day.
• It is professionally hosted and secure; so anything you build remains intact for you to refer back to.
• This gives you confidence to invest time in building a personal configuration portfolio.
• You can save time whilst on contract by referring to your own config and SAP Best Practices in your own system.

4. Demonstrate skills to interviewers & solutions to clients

Demonstrate your ability and that of SAP on a secure and stable SAP sandbox:

• Show off your SAP skills to prospective employers – prove your ability and edge.
• Demonstrate to your SAP customers new processes that they could adopt – prove that they need you for another development or to implement a pre-configured solution.

5. Upskill for better contracts and better rates, increase your utilisation

SID offers the consultant a tool to assist you to migrate to contracts you want to win;

• Broaden your knowledge beyond what you are exposed to in your current post.
• Deepen your understanding to confidently aim for more senior contracts.
• Extend your contracts by showing customers stuff that would benefit them; that you know how to implement.