Pengenalan SAP - Golongan SAP

Aku tergerak hati utk buat posting ni disebabkan ramai gak member2 yg tya pasal SAP. Apa bende SAP ni? Apa keje2 org SAP ni? Klu aku nak buat SAP jugak macam mana? macam2 persoalan yg aku penah hadapi. Ada juga yg mempersoalkan bayaran yg diterima oleh seorang SAP Consultant yg dikatakan agak tinggi berbanding market keje dlm sesetengah bidang2 lain. Kebanyakan yg bertanya adalah mereka yg berlatar belakangkan IT dan Komputer, ada jugak dari Customer Service.

SAP ni secara umumnya ialah satu software yg digunakan syarikat2 korporat untuk menjalankan aktiviti harian perniagaan mereka. Satu benda yg aku nak tekankan kat sini, when we talk about SAP, we talk about business, not IT,Computer,Network,platform,server or what so ever. Klu org yg dari bidang IT atau Computer, if you want to do SAP, you have to put your computer 'minded' away, close all your computer books. Dah tak pakai and tak relevan dah. Dalam SAP, lagi byk bisnes proses yg kita tahu, lagi byk bisnes proses yg kita boleh mapkan dlm SAP, lg bernilai la kita kat pasaran. Nothing to do with program and so on. Just business processes. Kalau still tebal dgn pemikiran komputer,IT,customer service dan sbgnya, to me..you are not ready to do SAP and better you stay at where you are now. Sb klu paksa masuk SAP pun tak ke mana jadinya nnt. SAP tak semudah yg disangka. Aku penah ada junior drpd customer service yg nak convert ke line SAP. 2 tahun buat SAP,ada org guide one by one, bagi documentation lengkap, bagi buat on job support dan sbgnya, tp skill dia still flat... and when the company closed, it's very hard for her to get a new job sampai aku nasihatkan dia, klu ada job opp utk customer service ke service desk ke pe, accept it coz you are very good in that field.

So utk masuk SAP, buat la persediaan minda ke arah business orientation.  Ok berbalik kpd SAP, ia sbnrnya 1 jenis product yg dah sedia ada. Kita(Company) cuma beli/jadi partner then implement product tu based on our business needs. Bukan bermakna kita kena develop system,letak coding bagai.. function sme dah ada, cuma perlukan kemahiran kita utk mapkan every function, data and so on supaya bleh cater each of kita pya business process. Lagi persoalan disini, jadi macam mana product SAP tu boleh wujud?Siapa yg buat? Ada 3 golongan dalam SAP, pertama - SAP provider, kedua-SAP Consultant, ketiga-SAP user. Provider is secara asasnya bkn lah dari Malaysia.Product ni asalnya dari German. Derang lah pioneer tp dah ada branch kat seluruh dunia termasuklah Malaysia. Kat sini kita ada satu organization yg bertindak sebagai provider which is SAP Malaysia. Keje derang ni utk lakukan semakan berkala ke atas function2 SAP standard,support utk sebarang permasalahan yg disebabkan oleh bugs dlm SAP standard,sediakan SAP notes dan mungkin juga test new version. Bagi yg terlibat dgn aktiviti support, dealing with clients and trouble shoot SAP standard functions ni, mereka juga adalah dipanggil sbg SAP Consultant cuma mereka berada dlm golongan provider. Cuma yg terlibat secara tak langsung spt tester, QA dan sbgnya, mereka tidaklah dipanggil SAP Consultant sebaliknya hanyalah executive atau QA biasa shj.SAP ni ada byk version, dari awal hinggalah latest SAP ECC6. Klu tak silap dah nak launch new version ataupun mungkin dah launch tp luar pengetahuan aku; which is SAP ECC7.

Teringat ada seorang kawan pernah beritahu saya bhw kawan dia bekerja sbg SAP Tester. Berdasarkan pengalaman aku selama 5thn dlm SAP Consulting, tidak pernah ada 1 jawatan yg dinamakan SAP Tester. Dalam dunia SAP Consultation, cuma ada 2 jenis; SAP Technical Consultant atau SAP Functional Consultant. Memang dlm project SAP,ada peringkat User Acceptance Test(UAT) tp test di sini bukanlah bermaksud test system, tapi kita lebih kepada test business processes. Test bg org IT atau Computer kemungkinan berbeza maksud drp SAP. 'Test' mereka ialah utk memastikan system xde defect,error dan sbgnya. Tapi 'test' dlm project SAP bermaksud, test business process tu samada boleh complete the whole process atau tidak, integration part ok ke tidak, ada impact dlm module lain ke tidak, data and config betul ke tidak.Jauh bezanya.. Kemungkinan SAP Tester di sini adalah merujuk kpd mereka yg terlibat dgn SAP provider. Mereka mungkin memerlukan seseorg utk test sesuatu SAP version especially new version sblm released. Ini sbnrnya sama saja dgn tugas seorang QA.Cuma mungkin diberi nama khas 'SAP Tester' disebabkan ia memerlukan pengetahuan khusus iaitu SAP.

SAP Consultant plak, org yg consult,implement and support SAP system utk companies yg melanggan dan menggunakan SAP. Golongan ni lah yg plg byk demand dlm market. Kat universiti,SAP mmg tak diajar dan bukan lah salah satu course ataupun subject kecuali Universiti Teknologi Petronas.Tu pun cuma cover ABAP programming. Dalam SAP ada 2 jenis area secara umumnya iaitu Functional dan Technical. Functional ialah Consultant yg terlibat dgn modul2 menjurus ke arah core bisnes dan berada di barisan depan(foreground) yg akan berurusan secara langsung dgn client seperti MM,PP,SD,QM,PM,PS dan FICO. Technical pula ialah utk Consultant yg terlibat dgn background system dan mainly berurusan dgn functional consultant seperti Basis, ABAP dan EDI. Tak dinafikan SAP pun ada programming tp bukan programming biasa yg boleh didapati secara open source,kursus2 oleh badan2 bebas dan sebagainya. ABAP ialah salah satu modul teknikal dalam SAP dan cara aplikasinya dari segi teknikal agak sama dgn apa yg dilakukan programmer lain iaitu menulis aturcara komputer. Tetapi secara pemahaman dan implementasinya adalah berbeza kerana ia memerlukan pengaturcaranya memahami function2 SAP dan juga bisnes proses. Kalau tak, memang susah utk communicate dgn functional consultant dan memberikan hasil spt yg dispesifikasikan. Disebabkan kesukaran mendapatkan org yg betul2 boleh memahami, mengimplement dan trouble shoot SAP ni lah,maka harga utk seorg SAP Consultant especially functional adalah agak tinggi.Kenapa functional lebih tinggi berbanding teknikal? Sebab functional memerlukan kemahiran dlm pelbagai business process yg selalunya berbeza2 dlm organisasi berbeza. Cabaran adalah lebih tinggi utk functional kerana perlu berdepan dgn pelbagai business process yg diutarakan oleh client disamping perlu berdepan dgn client dari pelbagai level; dari CEO, management atasan sehinggalah end user.Manakala utk teknikal, benda adalah sama dan mereka cuma perlu berurusan dgn functional consultant.

Ketiga ialah SAP user. Golongan ini sebenarnya bknlah org yg terlibat secara langsung dgn SAP. Mereka mempunyai nama jawatan sendiri dlm organisasi tetapi kerja harian memerlukan mereka menggunakan SAP system. Sbg cth, purchasing executive.Tugasnya ialah utk membuat order,memantau delivery dan menganalisa report. Akan tetapi semuanya dilakukan melalui SAP system.Secara tidak langsung mereka digelar sebagai SAP user.

Secara kesimpulannya, jika anda berhasrat untuk terlibat dgn SAP, bagi saya anda sebenarnya merujuk kpd SAP Consultant. Yang lain2nya bukanlah secara khusus utk SAP dan kurang pengalaman dari segi skills berbanding yg terlibat dlm Consultation. Ada juga yg bertanya, adakah jika saya mengikuti kursus utk mendapatkan sijil professional SAP maka saya akan boleh menceburi bidang SAP sbg SAP Consultant? Jawapannya TIDAK! Certification itu adalah cuma sbg value added. Yang plg diutamakan oleh interviewer utk menilai seseorg Consultant ialah pengalaman bekerja dlm bidang ini,business process yg diketahui dan juga skill sets yg ada termasuklah project implementation cycle.Jika anda hanya memiliki cert tp zero experience, lupakan saja kerana application sebegini biasanya akan ditolak mentah2 oleh interviewer terutama dlm multinasional and international company. Kalau ingin mencuba nasib juga, saya cadangkan pergilah kepada end user company which is the title may not be a Consultant tp executive or lain2 jawatan yg disediakan dlm organisasi tersebut. Dgn kata lainnya, bukan terlibat dgn SAP secara langsung.

Itulah serba sedikit berkaitan dgn latar belakang org yg bekerja dan terlibat dgn SAP dari segi pengertian SAP itu sendiri.Akan kita bincangkan konsep asas dan pengenalan kepada sistem aplikasi SAP dalam post saya yang berikutnya. Nantikan......

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Salam sme...halluuuu...

Klu anda perasan, sy telah remove beberapa gambar yg terlalu obvious dlm beberapa post2 sblmnya. Bkn apa, utk keselamatan selepas terdapat beberapa insiden yg dialami sdiri oleh keluarga terdekat. Di facebook, sy bleh ketatkan kawalan security melalui function2 yg disediakan tp di blog, agak susah sket sb xde function2 yg mcm tu. So blog ni akan jadi bende yg terlalu umum.

Sebagai langkah keselamatan awal, sy remove beberapa gambar yg dirasakan perlu diremove.Tapi tak mengapa, words pun sudah memadai utk menyampaikan message dan cerita.

Sekian.......

2yrs and a half old girl hit-and-run in China dies..

I made some amendments on the fact of this story which posted earlier. Actually the kid didn't die on 13th of Oct as reported in a Beijing newspaper. The kid died on 20th of Oct.

I don't even know this little girl and i have nothing to do with her but the way she died or the cause of her death was very tragic and really gave an impact in ones' heart..

She's a very sweet little girl..


Yue-Yue with her mother,known as Madam Qu



Sweet little girl

Can't imagine how this little girl was suffering and fighting for her life in 3 days critical coma. Looking at her condition, i think to die is better for her. God knows everything.She's still a little girl, no sins at all.

Pity mother; have to face cruel criticism by people who blame her for bringing shame to China and its people through her "carelessness". China's culture and Chinese behavior are pretty weird. The mother became the main cause and blamed meanwhile to the eye of the world based on the scene captured in CCTV, there are a lot more cruelty, cold-heartedness and ignorance shown by the pedestrian and even the drivers themselves! Careless in seconds can happen to anyone,it's without we realize it and its not that what we wanted to happen.BUT seeing a wandering kid on street, pretend like no one there then hit-and-run, seeing a critical injured kid lying down on a street but ignoring and just passing by the street like nothing there..i think this is MORE to be BLAMED and this attitude and immorality are actually giving shame to China and its people, not the mother.

I wonder how the kid's parents would go through this..
To the kid, i'm sure there's something good waiting for you "there" :-) As i said, she has no sins at all, just a little kid :-)

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As informed by the driver, according to China law, if you hit someone and the person injured or handicapped then you will have to pay for the person's treatment cost for life.If the person die, you just need to pay about RMB10000-RMB20000 fine. That was the reason why the driver drove over the kid's body even he realized that the kid was lying down under the back tyre.He wanted the kid to die so that if he arrested, he will only need to pay the fine.Same for the passersby.If they help, they will have to pay for the treatment cost and will be blamed for the accident. How stupid China government is... No wonder their people are immoral and heartless.. materialism replacing morals.

Shocking video - human misbehavior; serious ignorance in China

Last nite, 17th of Oct 2011, i was having my dinner with family at home while watching news on TV3. It started with a shocking video about a chinese kid hit twice by a van and lorry in Guangzhou, China but ignored by pedestrian! She left there for about 10 mins without any help. I was so shock but no words came out from my lips.I just didn't know what to say. I was speechless and my heart was crying.I looked at my 2 years old daughter, i kiss and hug her. That kid is just about my daughter's age. I can't imagine how the kid's mother would go through the situation..

I have no strength to upload the video here. Anyway, i put the link in case you want to watch it. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CrCoRu4EWo&feature=related

I don't know it is about human misbehaviour, carelessness, cold-heartedness, morality or whatever you could say but what i know, this is very very very very unacceptable not only for people who watch it but for any mankind history. I can't believe something like this is still happening in such a modern civilization. I remember my trip to Hangzhou last year, what i can say is i'm not surprise if things like that happen in such region. You go there first and you'll know why i'm saying this. Their morality and attitude is very very poor. I'm sorry if my words could hurt my China friends or readers but i'm talking the fact based on self experience and what your people did(in the video) was very heartless and totally out of morality.

Some watchers may put the blame on the kid's parents but to me; NO. Handling a kid is not like handling a bike or car or even a machine. They're growing up and like to try everything, they have mind to think and they're always curious to know this and that.They're physically active and would walk to anywhere they think they should. We are now parents and simply blame other parents not to take care of their kids bla bla bla.. but do us ourselves always obeyed whatever our parents said during our childhood days?? I got 2 rattan bars on my leg but i still wander around with friends on bike.Do you think people would blame me if anything happen to me at that time? NO because i was just a little kid. Do you want to blame my parents not to take a good care of me?? DON'T because they did what they suppose to. So what i'm trying to say here is; it is a normal child behavior to wander around, exploring this and that because that's the way they learn things. No parents on earth would just ignore or neglect their kids.They're always trying to give the best to their kids but we have to understand the confrontation between kids behaviours against parents guidance.

To me, if there is still piece of morality and human kindness in people civilization, things like this wouldn't happen. Even if the parents of the kid were a bit careless in seconds to make sure their kid was still with them at that time, i think she wouldn't be hit if the 1st van's driver still have those values. Or if it was fated that she hit by the van on that day, she wouldn't be hit by the second van or left suffering alone there until 10mins if passers-by still have their morality and human values.

I'm writting this not to harm anyone. This is a good lesson for us to be more alert and sensitive to our surroundings, dare to give help to those who needs help, careful and responsible to our kids everywhere we go and in any situation we are. I could only pray for the best for that kid. If to live is better for her, Ya Allah please saves her, but if to die is better for her, then please take her. She's still a clean kid without any sins at all..

Balqis Potty Train

Yesterday was the first day i tried to potty train Balqis. I don't put on her diapers and tell her "If you want to pee you let me know ok??" but she pee first then only she shout out! It was about 4 to 5 times she pee everywhere in the house. Whoosss~ what a very good girl Balqis :-)

I think it's a protest and she's trying to force me to put on her diaper. "Ok, we'll keep on practicing this for the whole week" i told her.

Then a friend of mine said, maybe she's not ready. But how do i know she's ready or not?? She asked me to watch her pee occurrence. If she dry for few hours means she can hold it. Another sign is when she doesn't like to wear her wet diaper. There are some more signs, maybe i can google later.

If she's not ready then don't force. I think she's right. Cannot force much. When i saw her pull her both knees close to one another, i straight away took her to the bathroom. I asked her to pee but nothing came out. When i put on her pants back, suddenly 'rain' came down...huhuhuhu..

I asked my maid to do the same thing for today and see if it is better than yesterday then i'll just continue. If not, i think i have to stop first and make sure she's really ready for this. Or maybe i can try to find another way.

Bajet Kerajaan Malaysia 2012

7 Disember 2011 yg lepas, PM Malaysia dah mengumumkan bajet kerajaan untuk tahun 2012. Bagi aku yg bekerja di sektor swasta, bende2 bajet ke pe yg berkaitain dgn govt ni xde la nak ambil pusing sgt. Tu depa punya hal la. Hal kita dgn majikan kita je. Namun setelah melihat corak strategi bajet tu, terdetik plak di hati kecil aku utk mengetahui lbh lanjut dan mengulas sedikit sebanyak berdasarkan pandangan aku yg tak berapa penting ni...cewahhh..hehehe

Ramai yg mengeluh di FB, bajet 2012 lebih kepada penjawat awam atau lbh spesifik, guru. Bila aku tengok balik, hmm..patut la depa tak puas hati. Aku baca pun aku tau mmg lebih kepada sesetgh golongan jer. Aku tak tau apa atau kat mana logikalnya yg mendorong golongan ini dilebihkan dari yg lain. Yg swasta tak yah cakap arr, mmg depa reti kaut duit from kitorg jerk.Pastu bawak masuk sbg agihan dalam bajet derang. Bukan bagi, ambik! Cukai penjawat awam RM50-RM100 jerk.Klu lbh pun sket jerk. Tapi kitorg, perhhh bedal pakai percentage! Makin byk kitorg carik duit makin byk derang kutip. Tapi tak pe lah, take into consideration; firm employees were earning 50%-70% more than govt employees. Some more we got a lot of other benefits, bonus, increment, claims as well as employer's contribution.

Kenaikan gaji siling guru dinaikkan sebanyak 37.7% utk siswazah and 39% utk bukan siswazah.Means before this, just about RM6325 utk siswazah, RM3860 utk bukan siswazah. Now is RM8710 utk siswazah, RM5370 utk bukan siswazah.  Dari segi kenaikan gred plak, dulu kena tunggu 20thn baru leh merasa gaji byk tu. Skang kenaikan gred is every 8 years.Means lepas 8thn, leh naik ke DG 44, then after 16 yrs leh naik ke DG 48. Yang disebutkan ni mmg aku rasa patut la. Sikit sgt klu gaji siling RM6325. Apa lagi klu bukan siswazah, RM3860. Harga barang makin mahal. Ada tanggungan lagi. Memang kesian la klu byk tu je.Tu pun dekat 20 tahun baru dpt byk tu. So gaji siling naik sket ni ok la. Pastu kenaikan gred every 8 yrs wpun bg aku, better la than before wpun still lama gak. Aku keje 5 tahun dah mcm gaji siling siswazah yg baru dinaikkan tu, derang plak terpaksa bertungkus-lumus 16-20 thn baru dpt byk tu. Aku xleh bayang.

Yearly increment utk penjawat awam plak dinaikkan antara 10%-13% atau RM80-RM320 ikut gred. Yang ni pun aku rasa mmg patut la. Wpun bg aku still tak berbaloi tp at least byk la sket drp sblm ni. Betul tak penjawat awam? Aku tak tau bape yearly increment derang sblm ni. Tapi of course la lagi sket banding yg baru ni kot. Bagi sektor swasta mcm aku ni klu stakat 2 3 ratus mmg tak berbaloi la, tolak2 tax sme, lebih kurang je jadinya dgn before naik. Tu sb besenya swasta pya increment dlm jumlah percentage lbh tinggi berbanding govt wpun bergantung pada performance. Tax yg kerajaan kenakan utk sektor swasta lbh tinggi berbanding govt yg just around RM50-RM100 je every month.

Yang peruntukkan utk guru sambung blajar tu pun aku rasa mmg patut pun. Budak2 nowadays makin bijak, jadi cikgu pun klu still dgn gaya lama, aku rasa...susah sket la. Parents pun makin choosy skang ni.Of course la, if i would want to send my kids to school, i would send them to school with high reputation which have so many of high quality teachers.

Regarding bonus half months salary that will be paid out by end of december utk penjawat awam tu, aku tak de bende nak pertikaikan.Takde kaitan dgn aku pun.Malah aku menyokong :) Parents aku keje govt, setahu aku dulu2 mana ada bonus half month salary. Bape percent je bonus derang. Aku dibesarkan dlm family yg keje govt dan aku dah rasa mcm mana hidup dlm keluarga yg bergantung pada gaji kerajaan. Mmg kena bajet betul2 sb takut tak cukup. Adik beradik 5 org. Kesian ayah dan mak aku dl. Aku anak sulung. Bila ayah aku bagi 50sen belanja sekolah ms sekolah rendah dl, aku x bising wpun jeles jugak tgk kawan aku bawak seringgit. Aku ada 4 lg adik yg parents aku kena sara. Jadi apa yg aku dpt, aku terima je tanpa byk songeh. Byk jugak aku berangan nak beli itu ini,tp 99% tak kan dapat la. Ye lah, dapat bonus pun bape ratus je, byk lagi bende nak buat dgn duit tu. So skang bila kerajaan umumkan nak bg half months bonus, aku sokong. Lagi pun bkn slalu nak dpt tu.

Kalau keje swasta, depends pada company. Ada setgh company pakai percentage, ada setengah pakai contractual bonus. Tapi klu percentage pun, gaji pokok derang bg tinggi, so klu 15% pun dah dpt byk.Klu company aku plak, performance bonus mmg every 3months. Klu achieve target 80% chargeability, dpt la 10% utk 3bln keje tu. Then klu capai lg utk next 3months, dapat lg 10%.Then at the end of the year, ada 1 month contractual bonus, plus performace bonus. Means bulan 12 every year konfem dapat 2bln gaji + performance bonus. Leh la nak wat blanje mak ayah aku, adik2 sme pegi melancong skali skala. Lgpun, duit aku bukannya pakai sgt, yg len2 sme husband aku punya tanggungan la hahahaha! leh dak?hehehe.. ye le, gaji dia 2 kali ganda aku, bonus plak 4 bln klu PPA 3, 6 bulan klu PPA 2. 10 bulan klu PPA 1. Jauh kan beza, so dia tanggung sme. hehehe...

Bantuan tambahan utk pesara kerajaan tu pun aku bersetuju :) Mak aku dah bersara, so dapat la duit belanja lebih sket every month.Bukan aku tak bagi 'elaun' sbg anak, aku bagi every month cuma klu ada lebih mesti dia lagi suka. Dia suka aku pun suka la :)

Yang pasal nak naikkan elaun ahli parlimen tu aku tak berapa setuju sket. Aku malas nak komen panjang yg ni, tp aku tak setuju(macam la derang kisah dgn suara aku ni kan??hmm..) Lagi satu, ritma kelebihan yang nyata kepada golongan guru ni dikhuatiri ada udang disebalik batu. Kelebihan lain pada penjawat awam pun sama, dikhuatiri hanya utk memancing undi. Takde penekanan and perhatian khusus utk sektor swasta sb mmg sudah sedia maklum, kerajaan tidak mempunyai apa2 hak ke atas pekerja di sektor ini. Pekerja adalah hak mutlak majikan asalkan beberapa sisip undang2 seperti tax dan caruman dipatuhi. In other words, tiada istilah pancing undi utk kami :) hehehehe... Cuma tu yg depa ambik kesempatan cabut tax byk2 from kami. Cess! Bonus 10 bulan, patut dpt RM300K tp disebabkan cukai haprak tu, yg masuk bersih cuma dlm 150K!! Cuba bygkan kes yg mcm ni.Berapa byk kerajaan kaut untung atas seorang drpd kami. Kalau dia agihkan pada yg sepatutnya, xpe lah. Bimbangnya takut ntah ke poket sape plak duit tu melayang kang..

Well..dengan kelebihan2 yg dah diberi ni, diharap penjawat awam akan lebih efisyen le wat keje. Slalu gak aku dgr rungutan, susah nak berurusan dgn jabatan kerajaan ni. Mcm2 hal, dah la slow, tak efisyen, bagi dokumen, dokumen ilang.. klu call, dekat 10 kali dail tu baru angkat, suara plak mcm tak cukup makan.. mcm2.Aku tak kata org je, mmg aku pun dah banyak kali terkena service yg mcm ni klu berurusan dgn govt agencies..

Jangan marah ye penjawat awam, sesetengah teguran tu bertujuan membina. Kita saling tegur menegur, ada faedahnya. Selamat maju jaya!