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Hire SAP Consultants and ABAP Developers

Functional and technical people for the SAP estate.

SAP work divides into two jobs that are rarely done well by the same person. One is configuration — knowing what the business process ought to be and where in the system it is expressed. The other is extension: ABAP, interfaces, Fiori apps and the code that runs when standard behaviour is not enough. A programme that staffs only one of them either builds around the product or configures itself into a corner.

The work we staff is usually the second kind sitting next to the first — taking a process decision that has already been made and implementing it so it survives the next upgrade. That means enhancements written where SAP intended them rather than where they were quickest, custom code that stays out of the standard’s way, and interfaces that are idempotent because a document will eventually be posted twice.

What to look for when hiring

Ask what happens when an inbound IDoc arrives twice. Enterprise interfaces are replayed constantly — by a middleware retry, an operator, or a failed batch being rerun — and the answer separates someone who has supported an interface from someone who has only written one.

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