Rules for Success as an Independent SAP Consultant:

Industry Tips from Gerrit Pruis of B2Bworkforce

Compiled by Jon Reed, JonERP.com

One of the great accomplishments in the SAP field is becoming a successful independent consultant. In terms of hands-on SAP roles, an independent consultant is the pinnacle of achievement because you have achieved a level of skill that allows you to be perceived as a true “value-added” expert on SAP projects.

Being an independent consultant is not easy. You are responsible for your own marketing, billing, and career development. It’s not easy to know what to be trained on when you consider the vast array of products in the SAP suite. In addition, you will be expected to be the “subject matter expert” (SME) for your aspect of the project, and you may find yourself without as much support as the full-time consultants and end user employees working alongside you. 

For this special to ERPGenie.com, we sat down with Gerrit Pruis, the Managing Director of SAP Solutions at B2B Workforce (http://www.B2BWorkforce.com ), and asked him to share his “rules for success” as an SAP independent consultant. With seventeen years of R/2 experience and thirteen years of R/3, Gerrit has compiled his rules from more SAP implementations that most of us will ever see.