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MUST READ Books for SAP Career Growth

Written by Stacey Reitz | Jul 19, 2019 11:00:22 PM
“So many books, so little time.” ―Frank Zappa

There are so many books out there to help you learn about what SAP is, how it works, and how you should use it to successfully digital transformation for your business. We also sprinkled in a few excellent self-improvement in here as well. These selected books help you improve your soft skills, which is vital for working with other SAP professionals.

Here's what we came up with after running around the ERP Integrated Solutions office to survey its talented business analysts, support team members, project managers, and developers about their favorite books.

Our Favorite Books for SAP Career Growth

SAP S/4HANA: An Introduction

By Devraj Bardhan, Axel Baumgartl, Nga-Sze Choi, Mark Dudgeon, Asidhara Lahiri, Bert Meijerink, Andrew Worsley-Tonks

S/4HANA is here to stay as SAP's state-of-the-art ERP system. What better way to get to know it by diving into this introductory guide by S/4HANA subject-matter experts with global design and implementation experience?

 

Implementing SAP ERP Sales & Distribution

By Glynn C Williams

Any sales and distribution consultant should read this book! It's a very good resource for those who are starting out their career as an SAP SD Consultant. For more dedicated SAP books, check out SAP PRESS

 

Organizational Physics | The Science of Growing a Business

By Lex Sisney

In this easy-to-read book, you'll learn how to inspire teams to passionately work together, scale your organizational structure, and efficiently make impactful decisions. Team leads at ERP Integrated Solutions utilize this resource to successfully work with remote resources to produce and support the fully-configurable shipping solution - ShipERP.

 

Transportation Management with SAP

Embedded and Standalone TM

By Bernd Lauterbach, Stefan Sauer, Jens Gottlieb, Christopher Sürie, Ulrich Benz

This book came out this year, so it's up-to-date on the best practices of transportation management. SAP Press does a great job at clearly explaining the role of TM in S/4HANA and what are the changes are as it compares to a standalone TM system.

 

How to Win Friends and Influence People

By Dale Carnegie

This read is what we call "an oldy but goody." If you are looking to improve your interpersonal relationships, communicate with tact, and be a successful leader, then read this book. ERP Integrated Solutions team members are required to learn the author's [Dale Carnegie] powerful techniques to effectively provide value to customers around the world.

 

Warehouse Management with SAP EWM

By Balaji Kannapan, Hari Tripathy, Vinay Krishna

One of our business analysts who happens to serve as our extended warehouse management gurus first discovered "Warehouse Management with SAP EWM" at SAP's annual SAPPHIRE NOW conference. It's a great resource for helping you to increase warehouse productivity and configure your SAP EWM solution for business needs.

At ShipERP, we strive to provide the best software for supply chain execution. Contact us to learn about shipping within SAP from one of our helpful account executives.