SAP Market Pulse: S/4 Core Roles Quadrupled in 30 Days
The most important shift in this month’s SAP hiring trends is blunt: realization work is taking over the market. In 30 days, S/4 Core roles jumped from 51 to 231, and FI/CO roles from 56 to 221. That is not early blueprint staffing, that is programs in the build and realize phase scrambling for hands. […]
The Meeting That Wasn’t on the Calendar
9:42 p.m. The hotel blackout curtains were doing their job a little too well. Maya sat on the corner of the bed, laptop glow the only light in the room, Outlook filling the screen. “Steering Committee – Weekly” had a new subject line now. “Steering Committee – Biweekly (Revised).” Another “Optional” had appeared next to […]
SAP Market Pulse: Realization Is Where the Work Is
The SAP hiring trends this month carry one unmistakable message: we are in the realization phase of the S/4 wave. Out of 1,707 real SAP openings in the last 30 days, nearly two thirds are tied to build and realization, not pre-study or long-tail support. If you are a hands-on S/4 consultant who knows how […]
Messy S4 Migration
The ECC 6.0 to S/4HANA migration was supposed to be straightforward. Three months in, it looked more like a disaster zone than a transformation. Had a conversation with a CIO at a $3B manufacturing firm today. He told me something that stuck with me. Data migration issues everywhere. material masters, open purchase orders, uncleared FI […]
January 2026 – SAP Market Pulse
For candidates: Taken together looking at the available data, if I had to bet where interviews for senior candidates are happening right now, it would be: Finance/controlling‑centric roles in S/4 transformations (CO/FI with S/4 and cloud). Plant‑floor and logistics architects (PP/MES/PEO/EWM/TM/QM) connected to new facilities and complex manufacturing. Cloud‑aligned S/4 roles (public cloud, RISE, hyperscaler partners) […]
In 5 Years You Won’t Type Into SAP. You’ll Talk to It
Christian Klein just told Fortune magezine at Davos interview that keyboards are nearly done in SAP. If you’re hiring SAP talent right now, this changes everything. Klein isn’t talking about some distant future.He’s talking 3–5 years. Voice commands. Natural language queries. AI agents that traverse financials, supply chain, and sales to surface insights and trigger […]
Hot take for SAP leaders in manufacturing 👇
Your S/4HANA program will not fail because you picked the “wrong template.” It will fail because you staffed the plant-floor last. After reviewing 950 S/4 jobs this January across the US market, the loudest hiring signal isn’t for generic SAP consultants. It’s PP / PPDS / MES / QM / EWM / TM roles in […]
10 things you didn’t know about the work of a PeopleSoft Functional consultant
We asked one of our veteran Oracle/PeopleSoft consultants who’s currently finishing a contract with one of the big five firms as a Cash and Treasury Management lead as how he spends his day and below is what he came back with. In simple terms, this is how an ERP functional consultant’s day looks like As […]
When strong ABAPers leave the team
Rich, the CIO of a manufacturing company was on the brink of a nervous breakdown. His team had lost two critical ABAP programmers in the same month, and his team was struggling to complete the S4-HANA migration deliverables on time. He was considering hiring a remote team from Thinking Minds Inc. when he received an […]
The Top Challenges faced in Cloud/SAAS ERP Implementations or Migrations
Anyone who’s ever gone through a cloud ERP implementation or upgrade using SAP, Oracle or other ERPs knows it’s no walk in the park. There are a million and one things that could (and usually do) go wrong. There are plenty of challenges that can trip up even the most experienced ERP team. In this […]