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I've been at SAP for 5 years and have truly enjoyed my time here. The work is challenging and fast-paced. I've grown and developed my skillset while tackling truly unique problems. I worked with an excellent team whom I've become friends with outside of work. The company culture is great with a fantastic flex work policy, leading you to feel like, in a lot ways, SAP cares. 

But for all the good things at SAP, it is by far not a perfect company. Career progression is slow, if happens at all - in my 5 years, I've only been promoted once and many quit to pursue actual advances in their career elsewhere. This results in a terrible retention of talent. In that sense, SAP is a great place to gain experience, but not to build a career. 

Management lacks vision, purpose, and experience; with my direct manager being passive, ineffective, and detached. She doesn't understand what I do, is slow to recognize good work, and has no idea how to help me or my team advance. I don't understand how she remains in her position and I often feel 'stuck' working under her. 

The pay is good but not great, and your salary increases are bad. I've heard leadership, both direct and from the board, say the reward of SAP comes from its company culture and the variety of work available. But that just means you end up making choices and stressing out about things that are way above your pay grade. 

I don't think I'll last much longer here, so I'll be exploring options outside of the company soon. But in general, I would recommend SAP as a great place to gain experience and develop new skills, but not a place to plan a long-term career. 

SAP is a great company to work for, but it has its share of problems.   There is a constant stream of company sponsored training courses available to ALL employees, even if the courses are specifically focused to one department. Compensation is top notch and a healthy life-work balance is always encouraged.

Unfortunately the company is very large and suffers from a lot of bureaucracy and red tape. It likes to think it is as agile as any software start up, but it is very set it in its ways and ultra conservative. At the end of the day ANY position in the company is at the mercy of a DELETE key on some executives Excel spreadsheet. There is no loyalty among employees because they all sense this. The employees are just there for a pay check as long as they can. It's unfortunate because there is a lot of talent that SAP has acquired by gobbling up smaller software companies. Only to be squandered by letting the need to have a good quarter dictate what departments / workers are let go without a second thought.

Pros:
- World-class technology.
- Great opportunities for advancement for self-motivated employees.
- Work with experts on complex software development.
- Great infrastructure and tools to get the work done.
- Room for "out-of-the-box thinking" and entrepreneurial spirit.
- Great support for diversity and equality.
- Great benefits (health, life, RRSP-matching plans).
- Workplace culture is designed to be open and honest.
- Subsidized lunch program, free beverages.

Cons:
- Much of the decision-making is done in Walldorf, Germany (HQ). North America sometimes treated like an orphan/afterthought.
- Products can be very complex and not user-friendly.
- Many layers and some silos make decision-making onerous and overly bureaucratic. Sometimes the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
- German unionized employees often seem to be disgruntled and obstreperous, causing a drag on innovation and nimbleness.
- Politics and turf wars sometimes do come into play.
- 90,000 employees sometimes means you don't know where to look to find answers to business problems (needle in a haystack).

I usually started at 8:30am and would check my e-mails, clean up the kitchens, bathroom and meeting rooms. I would then do a walk-through of both floors of SAP and make sure everything was okay (emergency exits, first-aid stations, lights etc). I would then proceed to check the mail and distribute the mail to the employees. The hardest part of the job was getting familiar with the SAP network and Microsoft Office Outlook. I am now very familiar with Microsoft and am very grateful for the experience at SAP because it taught me a lot about facilities and reception. I learned organization, customer service skills, computer/fax/printer skills and also learning to communicate properly with outside vendors. The most enjoyable part of working at SAP were the other employees and management.

The Vancouver office has an exceptional culture of quality leadership and collaborative people, with a huge focus on interns, young talent, and working with employees to help them align their careers to their passions.  Every part of the company is represented in the Vancouver site, which compliments learning about and networking with any development direction that might be of interest.

Consulting with SAP is very demanding.  The travel requirements are immense and can really drag a person down.  By being always assigned to projects, you may find you are the forgotten revenue source.  That is, you will never interact with your bosses, or the firm's executives.  You will bill lots of money for them, somewhere, and you will only ever hear from them when you make a mistake.
  Thus, recognition for all your sacrifice is very poor. 
   The salary is good, and you will learn a great deal, but you will likely feel very isolated as a consultant.

ERP (SAP) SD & MM Modlues
•Stock receiving from National Warehouse through Containers.
•Stock Shipment to Local Trade and 6 NWT’s through 17 Feet Mazda’s.
•Maintain Inventory, Daily IRA(Inventory Record Accuracy).
•Expired Stock Tracking and stock movement to expiry location before 1 month the date of expiry.
•Maintaining QA Standards (Stock Quality, Housekeeping, Temperature Controling) Batch Tracking etc.
•Training and coaching the labour specially the loaders.
•Handling more then 250 Products of P&G, 100 Products of Gillette.

It is a typical day at work that I believe to learn such as 1. Sourcing Raw Metarials, 2. Manufacturing, 3. Delivery to the customer.  According to SCM management what I have to know such as 1. Raw Metarials, 2. In bound Logistics, 3. Goods in Storage, 4. Manufacturing, 5. Out bound warehouse, 6. Outbound Logistics, and 7. deliver to the Customer. Moreover, each an every stage of the SCM are very hard to emplimentation, but risk management is the hardest part of the SCM in SAP and I enjoy each and every part or procedure of the SAP. 

Concur has a unique culture where everyone is motivated to do their best. You want to work hard becuase everyone else is working hard. Sure, every job has its challenges, however, when you know your peers really want to be here and want to do their best, its infectous and refreshing. The company is nimble enough to let you stretch yoru boundaries on what and where you can contribute, beyond your job title.

In a typical day I open with greeting everyone at the office and talk about the day start sharing our opinions and actions which are planned for the day. Throughout the day I had to complete various tasks such as preparing the matrix attend the meetings and prepare MOM feedback to the manager answering calls drafting documents and emails. Meanwhile if there is adhoc tasks that also need to be completed without any changes to the days schedule.

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