ERP Consulting Career Perspectives: Career Paths and The Current Job Market for Emerging Professionals

Abstract

It has been challenging for many individuals to discover their career path especially for budding professionals. It’s often difficult to narrow down to a subject and the risk involved is equally high. A career path is a cluster of jobs that uses similar skills and with due education and experience helps one to move up the ladder in their career. It often involves related training and certification in its field to reach the top level. A trial that any organization face is the integration or co-ordination of various activities between its different core functional areas.

It becomes close to impossible to achieve such activities effectively. To accomplish such activities, organizations need to employ the modern information systems across their organization [1]. One such system is the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that integrates all or most of the core processes that a company needs to run such as its finance, manufacturing, HR, supply chain, services, warehousing, procurement, accounting, marketing etc., [2]. The anticipated sales growth of the ERP market up to 7.2% by 2020 yielding an assessed sales value of about $41.60 billion [https://www.educba.com/three-broad-erp- career-options/] clearly explains the upcoming possible opportunities for the need of trained ERP professionals who often is someone usually has a good understanding of the business process. The good news is, a typical ERP professional can changeover their career across different organizational functions as mentioned earlier and have the luxury to choose their specialization by business sectors even though the soft skills and qualities required varies significantly