skill set requirements for SAP E-Sourcing and CLM

[Former Member]

Dear All,

We are about to implement SAP-E-Sourcing 5.1 and CLM 2.0 (on Netweaver Platform). What are the skill sets required to support and do enhancement and customization to this solution?.

Thanks in advance.

regds

velu

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Velayutham,

If you're going to create custom queries and reports, you will need someone with SQL development experience.

Also, you can modify screens (where configuration options aren't available) through JavaScript programs.

That's about it from the development side because E-Sourcing provides a lot of flexibility with configuration options.

Best Regards, Scott

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Thanks to Kamalakar and Scot

What are the requirements for Technical consultants?. They should have Java skills or Java script skills? or a mix of HTML ,Java and Javascript?.

Regds

velu

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Hi Velu -

E-Sourcing technical consultants will require SQL skills if you are developing custom reports. The E-Sourcing query and reporting tools utilize "annotated" SQL statements the result in a SQL query being executed against the relational database. It is also useful for the report developer to have skills specific to the DBMS being used (for example, Oracle skills) - often times, using DBMS specific SQL constructs can provide improved reporting.

E-Sourcing has a feature called "scripting" that allows custom business logic to be included in the application and executed at various "call-out" points. The scripting feature provided by E-Sourcing uses a technology called BeanShell (see www.beanshell.org for more details on this technology). Beanshell development really requires strong programming skills using Java, although some components of BeanShell may be more like JavaScript. Regardless, I recommend Java expertise for writing E-Sourcing scripts. Knowledge of HTML is not required.

The E-Sourcing workflow capabilities also utilize BeanShell, so if you plan to implement any workflows, you will also require such technical skills.

Many other features of E-Sourcing such as user interface customization can be done with less technical individuals. Programming is not required.

Hope this is helpful.

Regards,

Rob

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HI, Rob

Thanks very much for the detailed information.

Regards

velu

[Former Member]

Resource should have good E-Sourcing implementation knowledge (Frictionless implementation) with SAP knowledge.

Any previous Contract Lifecycle knowledge would help to customize.