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Welcome Hello and welcome to a bumper Q2 edition of the SAP Report - we delayed the release so that
we could include some detail on our SAP charity fundraiser event held at the end of June at the
Content
Last quarter’s SAP Report had more downloads than ever before and we hope that you find this
Trafalgar St James’ roof top bar overlooking the terrific London skyline. It was a thoroughly latest round up of industry news, jobs, hiring, hot skills and salary benchmarking information
enjoyable event and through the generosity of everyone involved, we managed to raise an
Dashboard View astounding £10k for our three charities: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Centrepoint
equally useful. In addition to the usual quarterly updates, we have in-depth articles on how to
beat the Great SAP S/4HANA Skills Shortage, how to optimise the business change element
and WaterAid. of your SAP transformation programmes, guest blogs on Change and AI plus an somewhat
self-indulgent infographic on bluewave’s first 8 years in business.
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Vincent Dunlop Performace
Industry News Co-Founder / Director Q2 for bluewaveSELECT was a strong three months with both UK contract and perm teams
delivering well to more customers, both new and existing (59% of our customers implementing
S/4HANA in Q2 were net new). bluewave’s DACH business based in Munich also went from
Spotlight on S/4HANA strength to strength, growing its team of highly experienced recruiters from three to five, and
is very close to already surpassing 2022 revenue.

SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity

S/4HANA Skills Shortage

GERMANY

SAP Benchmarking

bluewaveSELECT Timeline
UK
UKISUG

Spotlight on AI

Managing Business
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Change in S/4HANA
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Myths about Change Blanco Tequila, Lime, Ginger Beer Business Fives tournament in
Lime, Blue Curacao
Leadership on SAP Can you handle hot? SteerCo Leeds for the first time and
Ask our bartender Ketel One Citron,
for the spicy version! Cointreau, Lime, qualified for the knock out
Transformation Programmes Cranberry juice stages, this year the team
Old Fashioned
ECC Non-alcoholic went a few steps further and
Bulleit Bourbon Whiskey, cocktails brought the trophy home!
Sugar, Rooftop bitters
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Congratulations on the win
Go Live and well done Business Fives
Ketel One Vodka, Cranberry, Blackberry,
Fair Café liquor, Lime for hosting another well run
Freshly brewed coffee
BAU competition.
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Ketel One Vodka, citrus, Franklin &
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Dashboard View
Key graphics from this quarter’s SAP Report:

Welcome Permanent vs Contract Jobs Q1 S/4HANA projects

Breakdown of SAP S/4 HANA customers Breakdown of SAP S/4 HANA customers 8 years of
Q1 2023 by Industry
by Countries bluewave

Dashboard View 350 Others

500 Other 513 United Kingdom
453 Manufacturing
58%
Contents Page Contract 57 Transportation
58 Construction
and Real Estate
42%

Source: appsruntheworld
Source: appsruntheworld
Industry News 53 France 65 Automotive
Perm 56 United Arab 98 Banking and 214 Professional
Emirates Financial Services Services
64 Ireland

Spotlight on S/4HANA 0 100

67 Singapore
460 United States
115 Utilities
80 India 211 Consumer
134 Oil, Gas Packaged Goods
More Here
59% 41%
92 Australia and Chemicals

SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity 225 Germany 171 Life

Sciences
184 Retail
New Existing

S/4HANA vs ECC More Here More Here More Here More Here
S/4HANA Skills Shortage Q1 2023

SAP Jobs and Hiring Activity Q1 Top 5 in-demand SAP skills

SAP Benchmarking 300
Demand for HxM skills has rocketed since 2021 as
SAP Hiring businesses have to...adapt to more flexible

bluewaveSELECT Timeline 250 SAP Jobs

1st post-pandemic working practices by implementing
streamline cloud-based HRIS. SAP PY and ECP skills
HxM with localisation experience continue to be highly
sought after and were joined in Q2 by demand for SF
Onboarding 2.0 (now stable), with RCM + RMK.

UKISUG 200

% Change
59% of the S/4HANA programmes supported by
bluewave in Q2 were new ... to market and required

Spotlight on AI
2nd leaders to deliver which helped keep leadership as a
discipline in the Top 5 for the 2nd quarter running. If
150 Leadership leadership opportunities are a bellwether for the
state of the industry, we should be in for an extended
busy, project-driven, market.

Managing Business 100 SAP PP, PM, QM and MM collectively feature

Change in S/4HANA 69% 31%

highly again in the quarter’s highest in demand SAP

3rd skills. The importance of integrated manufacturing

50
systems has seen a skill demand change from single
S/4HANA ECC Manufacturing module capability to wider MES, MRO, MRP
experience with integration and business process
Myths about Change 20 20 20 20 21 21 21 21 22 22 22 22 23 knowledge.
20 20 20 20 0 20 20 20 0 20 20 20 0
12 Q3 Q4 12 12
Leadership on SAP Q Q2 Q3 Q4 Q Q2 Q Q2 Q3 Q4 Q From last quarter’s 5th to this quarter’s 4th, ABAP
More Here More Here is back! Fueled by S/4HANA ... migration programmes,
Transformation Programmes 4th Fiori, SAP’s mantra of ‘innovate around the edges’
and advances around AI, we feel that the blanket

SAP Gender Diversity ABAP ABAP offshoring of the past 15-20 years is a thing of

Need SAP Resources? How to secure the best SAP contractors the past and that there is a growing realisation
around the benefits of onshore capability.
We asked over 500 UK-based SAP freelancers what was their number 34% Outside IR35 24% Day rate
Solution Architecture demand in Q2 was entirely

5th
one consideration when accepting a new project. Outside IR35 determination driven by S/4HANA programmes and the need for
2.67% ...
determination was a clear winner with 34% of the voters valuing this
above all other considerations. Flexible/remote working was next now
75% 25% 5.75%
Solution
external skills to help leverage its full potential. As well as
S/4HANA itself, there was particular demand around
designing and implementing complex integrations
that it has become more common place post-pandemic with day rate
29% Flexible/remote Architecture between S/4HANA and other SAP (and non-SAP)
13% Project appeal working Female systems, ensuring seamless data flow and interoperability.
coming a lowly third and project appeal only getting 13% of the votes. eg S/4HANA Male
More Here More Here More Here
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Welcome
Welcome bluewaveSELECT Timeline
Intro to The SAP Report Q2 2023 Discover the 8-year history of bluewave
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Dashboard View

Contents Page
Industry News SAP Benchmarking
Industry News
Discover the latest SAP news in Q2 2023 Are you being paid right for your work?
Click here Click here
Spotlight on S/4HANA

SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity

Spotlight on S/4HANA Managing business change
S/4HANA Skills Shortage What’s the latest in S/4HANA?
Click here
in S/4HANA Click here
SAP Benchmarking

bluewaveSELECT Timeline
SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity Myths about Change Leadership on
SAP Transformation Programmes
UKISUG Have SAP Jobs & Hiring increased in Q2 2023?
Click here Click here

Spotlight on AI

Managing Business Spotlight on AI Dashboard view

Change in S/4HANA Who’s not talking about AI? Get a preview of the Q2 Report in one page
Click here Click here
Myths about Change
Leadership on SAP
Transformation Programmes
S/4HANA Skills Shortage UKISUG
Need SAP Resources? What S/4HANA Skills Shortage? UK & Ireland SAP User Group
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Need SAP Resources?

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Industry News
Welcome

Dashboard View

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SAP to focus on AI, expand local team with 200
Industry News new roles
SAP Showcases Series of Global
Spotlight on S/4HANA Read here
Customer Partnerships That are
SAP Updates Mid-Term Financial Ambition 2025 Accelerating Transformation
SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity
and Announces Share Repurchase Program of
S/4HANA Skills Shortage up to €5 Billion Read here
Read here
SAP Benchmarking

bluewaveSELECT Timeline
Tevva Selects
UKISUG RISE With SAP SAP admits HANA Cloud makes for
S/4HANA Cloud multicurrency messes
Spotlight on AI To Help Accelerate Read here
Delivery Of
Managing Business
Change in S/4HANA
Zero-Emission
Trucking In The UK Winners Of The 2023 UKI SAP Customer
Maersk Uses Success Awards Announced
Myths about Change
Leadership on SAP Read here SAP Business
Transformation Programmes Technology Read here
Platform to
Need SAP Resources? Check out our SAP hub for the Accelerate
lastest SAP news, blogs and Strategic
insights Transformation
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Spotlight on S/4HANA
Welcome
S/4HANA Growth
Resource Challenges
As of the second quarter of 2022, SAP reported a total of 20,000 S/4HANA subscribers (graphic 1). This figure
Dashboard View has grown significantly from around 370 in 2015 to 10,000+ just four years later and double that post-pandemic. Despite the rapid and almost linear growth in S/4HANA customers, there is till concern over a perceived
From our own experience, 69% of all SAP vacancies in Q1 were on S/4HANA projects (31% ECC) and out of those lack of S/4HANA skills in the market. We highlighted the UK & Ireland SAP User Group’s survey in the
S/4HANA projects supported, 59% were new customer engagements (graphic 2), suggesting that the number of last SAP Report in which 92% of members said that lack of qualified resource will impact the speed at which
Contents Page S/4HANA customers is still increasing. they will be able to move to S/4HANA. A viewpoint reenforced by another survey quoted by Vienna
Advantage (graphic 3) which states that 41% of respondents highlighted resource constraints as second
only to the high cost of deployment as the main inhibitor to a move to S/4HANA.
Industry News
Quarterly number of SAP S/4HANA subscribers worldwide Graph 1 Graph 2
from 2015 to 2022, by quarter Q1 S/4HANA projects
Spotlight on S/4HANA
What’s the industry doing?
What do you consider to be the biggest inhabitors to adopting SAP S/4HANA?
SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity
High cost of deployment 46%
Subscribers

Resources constraints 41%

S/4HANA Skills Shortage Not a priority of our leadership/business case not compelling enough 37%
Lack of skills/knowledge 32%

SAP Benchmarking High licence cost 32%

High risk of business disruption 31%
Unclear migration path 29%

Source: statista
bluewaveSELECT Timeline Unclear product map 28%

59% 41% Our existing infrastructure is not yet ready for refresh
Lack of install base 13%
24%

UKISUG New Existing

Other 11%

Spotlight on AI Breakdown of SAP S/4HANA customers Breakdown of SAP S/4HANA customers

Breakdown of SAP S/4 HANA customers Breakdown of SAP S/4 HANA customers bluewaveSELECT End User Industry Split by No. of Employees by Revenue
by Industry
by Countries
Managing Business 10 Other
11 Aerospace & Defence 60
60
350 Others 53.8%
Change in S/4HANA 500 Other 513 United Kingdom 453 Manufacturing 8 Automotive
50

40
43.7% 50

40

Source: appsruntheworld
31.5% 34.1%

Source: appsruntheworld
57 Transportation 30

Myths about Change

30
58 Construction 20 Retail 22.9%
20
and Real Estate 6 Energy 20

Leadership on SAP 65 Automotive 10 11%

Source: appsruntheworld

53 France 1.9% 10

98 Banking and 214 Professional 1.1%

Source: appsruntheworld
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Transformation Programmes 56 United Arab Services 7 Food Manufacturing

Financial Services 10000+ 1000-10000 100-1000 0-100 0
Emirates 1000 M+ 100-1000 M 0-10 M
10-100 M
64 Ireland

85
115 Utilities 7 Pharma
67 Singapore
10 Financial Services
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211 Consumer
of the 100 largest companies
80 India 460 United States
134 Oil, Gas Packaged Goods
and Chemicals
in the world are SAP S/4HANA
92 Australia
171 Life 14 Manufacturing 7 Higher Education
225 Germany 184 Retail
Sciences
customers
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SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity All Sources: bluewaveSELECT
Q1’s SAP jobs and hiring metrics were once again dominated by S/4HANA which recorded more than double the number of
vacancies than ECC (69% compared to 31%). The positioning of remote and hybrid working for the vast majority of new SAP
roles (89%) was another reoccurring trend as organisations respond well to SAP professionals seeking greater flexibility in
Welcome their working life. This also scored highly for contractors in a bluewave poll exploring the main drivers in accepting new Permanent vs Contract Jobs End user vs Consultancy
assignments. Elsewhere, gender diversity was up 5% on the previous quarter, HxM and Leadership are the top two in-demand Q1 2023 Q1 2023
skills and the project-driven nature of SAP assignments meant that an encouraging 77% of contract roles via bluewave were
Dashboard View Outside IR35.

Contents Page SAP Jobs and Hiring Activity 58% 76%

300 Contract End User
SAP Hiring
Industry News 42% 24%

% Change
250 SAP Jobs Perm Consultancy
Spotlight on S/4HANA
200 0 100 0 100

SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity

215
150
S/4HANA Skills Shortage SAP Gender Diversity
100
SAP Benchmarking 2.67%
50 75% 25% 5.75%

20 20 20 20 21 21 21 21 22 22 22 22 23
bluewaveSELECT Timeline 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 SAP Jobs Female
Q Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Male

UKISUG
Contract: Inside IR35 vs Outside IR35 S/4HANA vs ECC Flexible Working is it here to stay?
Q1 2023 Hybrid, remote and onsite work requirements compared
Spotlight on AI
23% 77%
Inside IR35 Outside IR35
Managing Business
Change in S/4HANA 60% 29% 11%
Hybrid Remote On Site
Myths about Change S/4HANA VS ECC
Historic Data
Leadership on SAP
Transformation Programmes SAP Jobs by Seniority
% of total SAP vacancies

Need SAP Resources?

69% 31% 42%
47% 24%
25% 18%
22% 11%
S/4HANA ECC Consultant Principal / SME Leadership Analyst
Principal / SME Leadership Analyst
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SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity
All Sources: bluewaveSELECT

Q1 Top 5 in-demand SAP skills

Welcome Jobs Heatmap: Europe 15% - 20% SAP Jobs: UK 15% - 20%
Demand for HxM skills has rocketed since 2021 as Q1 2023 Q1 2023
businesses have to...adapt to more flexible 10% - 15% 10% - 15%
Dashboard View 1st post-pandemic working practices by implementing
streamline cloud-based HRIS. SAP PY and ECP skills
5% - 10% 5% - 10%
HxM with localisation experience continue to be highly
sought after and were joined in Q2 by demand for SF
1% - 5% 1% - 5%
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59% of the S/4HANA programmes supported by 0% - 1% 0% - 1%

bluewave in Q2 were new ... to market and required
Industry News 2nd leaders to deliver which helped keep leadership as a
discipline in the Top 5 for the 2nd quarter running. If
Leadership leadership opportunities are a bellwether for the
state of the industry, we should be in for an extended
Spotlight on S/4HANA busy, project-driven, market.

SAP PP, PM, QM and MM collectively feature

highly again in the quarter’s highest in demand SAP
SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity 3rd skills. The importance of integrated manufacturing
systems has seen a skill demand change from single
Manufacturing module capability to wider MES, MRO, MRP
experience with integration and business process
S/4HANA Skills Shortage knowledge.

From last quarter’s 5th to this quarter’s 4th, ABAP

SAP Benchmarking is back! Fueled by S/4HANA ... migration programmes,

4th Fiori, SAP’s mantra of ‘innovate around the edges’

and advances around AI, we feel that the blanket
ABAP ABAP offshoring of the past 15-20 years is a thing of

bluewaveSELECT Timeline the past and that there is a growing realisation

around the benefits of onshore capability.

Solution Architecture demand in Q2 was entirely

UKISUG 5th driven by S/4HANA programmes
... and the need for
external skills to help leverage its full potential. As well as
Solution S/4HANA itself, there was particular demand around
designing and implementing complex integrations
Spotlight on AI Architecture between S/4HANA and other SAP (and non-SAP)
systems, ensuring seamless data flow and interoperability.

Managing Business
Change in S/4HANA HxM 16%

WOW!
Leadership 13%
How to secure the best SAP contractors
Myths about Change 24% Day rate
Manufacturing 12%
Leadership on SAP We asked over 500 UK-based SAP freelancers what was 34% Outside IR35 ABAP 9%
determination
their number one consideration when accepting a new
Transformation Programmes project. Outside IR35 determination was a clear winner bluewave is the SAP
Sol Arch 8%
Finance 6%
with 34% of the voters valuing this above all other industry’s highest rated Most popular SAP jobs
considerations. Flexible/remote working was next recruitment business
Data Migration 5% After the Top 5 skills, there was a healthy a split
Need SAP Resources? now that it has become more common place post-pandemic
across functional, technical, head office (finance
29% Flexible/remote WMS & Logistics 4% & procurement) and manufacturing and logistics
with day rate coming a lowly third and project appeal only working roles. Niche roles again played their part, with
Ariba 3% VIM, Treasury, VC and SAC contributing strongly
getting 13% of the votes. 13% Project appeal
eg S/4HANA click here
for testimonials
UAT 2%
to ‘Other’ jobs.

Other 22%
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What SAP S/4HANA Skills Shortage?
Welcome

92%
Dashboard View With the impending ECC maintenance deadline looming on the horizon, the crucial switch to S/4HANA is no longer an option; it’s a
necessity.
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of SAP users
I can’t remember anything that has caused as much commotion, confusion, and uncertainty for SAP users as the insistence by
Jonathan Hurren SAP that all customers migrate to S/4HANA by 2027, it’s a ticking time bomb for those businesses who have not yet made the
Co-Founder | Director
Industry News transition.

Spotlight on S/4HANA
SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity
S/4HANA Skills Shortage
If businesses fail to make the transition promptly, competition for S/4HANA skills will become increasingly acute the closer we get to the 2027 deadline. are concerned about a lack of
Even now, with four years to go, experienced SAP professionals with S/4HANA experience have the choice of multiple job offers, and the best contractors S/4HANA skills available to
have the luxury to pick between several clients. (And once you have implemented S/4HANA, how do you retain your team with external demand for skills implement the new solution
so high?) and there’s a compelling
demand for training and
It’s been eight years since the launch of S/4HANA and one thing remains the same - significant skills shortages are preventing businesses worldwide from
transitioning to S/4HANA and reaping the business benefits that come with it. education to ease the
pressure.

SAP Benchmarking
bluewaveSELECT Timeline
UKISUG
Spotlight on AI
Managing Business
Change in S/4HANA
Empowering the
SAP S/4HANA Adoption: Next-Generation Technology
But even with ample notice, businesses are aware that switching to a new SAP system is not a simple
SAP has made it clear that the time for a migration is now. And with two-thirds (69 per cent) of task. It requires comprehensive planning, proper preparation, and the right resources to ensure their
ECC clients yet to make the switch, businesses worldwide need to ramp up their plans to move business processes are aligned with the latest industry-standard technologies.
away from ECC and begin their S/4HANA journey. With access to real-time data analysis, the transition enables organisations to manage their business
“There will definitely be no maintenance extension for SAP ECC beyond 2027”, Juergen Mueller, processes more efficiently and cost-effectively. However, whilst recent findings indicate that S/4HANA
CTO and Executive Board Member at SAP SE announced at the #DSAGT 23. He recommends has become a predominant player in the SAP industry, this is only possible if organisations have
that “all companies make the switch to S/4HANA in good time” sufficient S/4HANA skilled resources and training to make the transition as smooth as possible.
SAP S/4 Skill Set

69%
with the 2027 deadline fast
Myths about Change Effective Solutions for Bridging the Gap approaching
Leadership on SAP
Transformation Programmes 1. Upskill and Retrain Current IT/SAP Team
It’s time for your employees to move from an ECC to an S/4HANA mindset - but how can you achieve this?
Need SAP Resources? Consider engaging with independent advisory S/4HANA experts on a contract basis to upskill, advise and guide your current IT/SAP team through the SAP
lifecycle from start to finish. With specialist support and knowledge transfer, you’ll be able to bridge the skills gap and begin your transition to S/4HANA.
of SAP users are yet to
Upskilling your existing team with S/4HANA capability will get you there quicker, your team already know how the business works and adding S/4HANA
knowledge will create a valuable asset for your transformation journey, motivate and help with retention.
move to S/4HANA
Part 2 here Source: The Register
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Welcome
2. Attract New Talent 3. Apprenticeships
Let’s face it, implementing S/4HANA is a complex process. Setting up the right foundation in-house is essential Apprenticeship-style programmes bridge the gap between
Dashboard View to ensure that your transformation is successful. But even with an internal team of experts, you’ll need some formal education and real-world experience, providing a
external help and oversight to get everything running smoothly. When companies use independent contractors platform for employees to get the necessary training and
and include third-party professionals in their SAP migration to S/4HANA, effective knowledge transfer from hands-on experience they need with little or no financial
Contents Page SAP experts becomes embedded as a robust future business strategy. It also pays to have that extra helping risk. If you have a long term plan to building internal
hand when it comes to recruiting the right SAP talent. That’s why you should trust the expertise of SAP self-sufficiency, apprenticeships will provide access to
recruitment specialists to get the best candidates for your business amongst the huge competition for
Industry News S/4HANA skills.
talented people who may have yet to have had access to
traditional educational pathways, apprenticeship
programmes have the power to expand opportunities with
Spotlight on S/4HANA a diverse range of employees.
4. Women in SAP
SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity It is widely accepted that diversity adds real value to the workplace, however whilst the industry evolves at a
rapid pace, it still remains a male-dominated space. A report by the Centre for Economics and Business
Research found that only 16% of UK IT professionals are women. bluewaveSELECT’s recruitment activity
S/4HANA Skills Shortage suggests that SAP is slightly ahead of the rest of the IT sector with women making up 25% of our SAP hires 5. Neurodiversity
throughout 2022. Neurodiversity refers to a variety of neurological conditions such as autism, dyslexia and ADHD which can
bring distinctive talents to any workplace. Employers increasingly recognise the value of having neurodiverse
SAP Benchmarking Whilst we are proud to be ahead of the industry average, there is still work to be done. As improved diversity teams, as people who are neurodiverse often have unique abilities such as problem-solving skills, creative
will benefit all SAP teams, bluewaveSELECT is proud to support the UKISUG in its ‘Women in SAP’ thinking and the ability to hyper-focus on certain tasks. Bringing neurodivergent SAP specialists in to the team
programme, as well as advising SAP users directly on diversity and inclusion best practices. Click here to could not only help businesses turn the tide on their current skills shortages but also bring different and
bluewaveSELECT Timeline receive a free presentation on how to promote gender diversity within your SAP team. valuable ways of thinking that could give companies a competitive advantage. The SAP Autism Inclusion
Pledge initiative is dedicated to creating thriving workplaces with staff on the autism spectrum. This
UKISUG commitment is specifically designed to “help candidates on the spectrum break through preconceptions and
stereotypes”, creating more inclusive and supportive structures for neurodivergent employees.
6. Strong Retention Strategy
Spotlight on AI
The post-pandemic era has changed the way we all work. A McKinsey report noted that employers
are facing an exodus of workers who are exhausted, overwhelmed and questioning what work 7. Attract the Best SAP Talent with bluewaveSELECT
Managing Business means. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the best way to retain team members is rarely just to Are you looking to attract, secure and engage experienced S/4HANA professionals? Look no further than
pay them more. Other factors such as career development as well as an organisation’s position bluewaveSELECT. We understand that transitioning to S/4HANA is a daunting task. From placing over 5,000
Change in S/4HANA on issues such as diversity, inclusion, purpose and sustainability also play an important role. Below SAP professionals worldwide to maintaining a 100% retention rate, we’re well-equipped to make the process
are a considerations on employee retention in the SAP world. as pain-free as possible - facilitating your business’ future growth and competitive advantage.
Myths about Change
Leadership on SAP We are specialists strategically focused on S/4HANA since 2015, making us uniquely
a. Flexible Working b. Investment in S/4HANA skills c. Career development positioned to help you with any challenge that comes your way. With fully compliant and
Transformation Programmes
With 54% of candidates seeking remote and training The vast majority of SAP people I know are
cost-effective solutions for sourcing, screening and hiring SAP S/4HANA experts, alongside
hybrid working models, and 89% of our Q1 No one will be happy to be passed over in passionate and highly motivated to do a ad-hoc advisory services, companies can make the impactful transition with confidence.
SAP vacancies offering these conditions, good job. Giving them opportunities for
Need SAP Resources? employers must ensure that they are
favour of a new hire to work on an S/HANA
migration. As mentioned earlier, upskilling personal and professional growth is
sensitive to this new way of working without with S/4HANA training and being given the essential to keeping teams together and Our team of S/4HANA experts at bluewaveSELECT have worked diligently to ensure that
sacrificing productivity or team identity and opportunity to be involved with the driving a culture of engagement. Put time our talent pool of consultants is as deep and diverse as possible. With a wide range of skills
culture. Other aspects of flexible working programme is a sure-fire way to keep your aside to focus on development, growth and and experience across all areas of SAP technology, we are confident that our customers
such as flexi-time, part-time or reduced hours team engaged. the future.
around school times can open up new looking to migrate to S/4HANA will find the right consultant to meet their needs.
avenues of candidate attraction.
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Job Role Salary Range Job Role Salary Range

compared to prior quarter
Welcome
Leadership Lower Higher Functional Lower Higher
Dashboard View Solution Architect £80k 0% £120k 0%
Transformation £130k 0% £180k 0% Some skill areas feature a wide range of salary and
OtC day rate due to a number of factors: End-User vs
Contents Page Programme £90k 0% £140k 0%
• Manager £70k 0% £90k 0% Consultancy, whether or not the position has an S/4
• Lead £60k 0% £90k 0% HANA or a niche skill element, scope of programme,
Project £70k 0% £95k 5.6%
Industry News • Consultant £50k 0% £70k 0% responsibility of the individual, regionality and industry
PMO £55k
weighting.
22.2% £70k 7.7%
RtR
Spotlight on S/4HANA BAU/Head of £85k 21.4% £125k 4.2%
• Manager £90k 12.5% £100k 11.1%
• Lead £70k £90k

Share
0% 0%
• Consultant £60k 20% £70k 0%
SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity Technical
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Architect £90k 0% £140k 0% • Manager £80k 0% £100k 11.1%
S/4HANA Skills Shortage • Lead £70k 0% £90k 0%
Basis £65k 18.2% £80k 0% • Consultant £60k 0% £70k 0%
SAP Benchmarking Manufacturing
Security £60k 20% £80k 0%
• Manager £80k 0% £90k
Click here
SAP Salary
0%
Benchmarking - 11
bluewaveSELECT Timeline ABAP £65k 8.3% £80k 0% • Lead £80k 0% £95k 0%
• Consultant £60k 0% £75k 0%
Integration £70k 16.7% £90k 0%
UKISUG Warehousing/Logistics
• Manager £60k £80k
Looking to
0% 0%
• Manager £75k 0% £95k 0%
• Lead £60k 0% £80k 0%
Spotlight on AI
build exceptional
• Lead £65k 0% £80k 0% • Consultant £50k 0% £65k 0%
• Consultant £50k 0% £70k 0%

SAP talent?
SF
Managing Business Business • Manager £90k 0% £120k 0%
• Lead £75k 0% £100k 0%
Change in S/4HANA
Process • Consultant £65k 18.2% £80k 6.7% Click here
• GPO £80k 0% £120k 0%

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COVID hits the UK, decision to double up bluewave USA launched to offer local SAP
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consecutive record year of growth.
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Myths about Change bringing great SAP people together. Our
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UKISUG is the independent UK & Ireland SAP User Group. Our purpose is to
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with one voice. We’re a not-for-profit organisation, run by our members, for our
members. Our diverse membership base ranges from small to medium-sized
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industry, both public and private sector.

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Head of Community Development
Welcome to Connect 2023!
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UKISUG Connect is the largest annual gathering of SAP professionals
Why join UKISUG? from across the UK & Ireland. With over 1,000 SAP customers, experts,
SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity partners and professionals in attendance, in November the ICC,
Build your network Birmingham becomes the heart and soul of the SAP Community.
Connecting with other SAP experts & users outside your
S/4HANA Skills Shortage immediate network can be time-consuming. Having recently won the Best UK Conference at the Conference &
Event Awards 2023, UKISUG want to see you there!
SAP Benchmarking That is where our 4,000+ strong membership and 200+ events a Do your customers want to drive a trusting
year make it easy to network and collaborate with the whole SAP
community and hear their first-hand experiences. relationship with SAP?
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Share knowledge questions: “How can we continue to build trust between SAP
Without the right know-how, making the most of your SAP and customers?”.
UKISUG investment can be a challenge.
Working alongside SAP, UKISUG facilitated workshops defining
Spotlight on AI But, with UKISUG’s endless list of user-generated resources, as trust, involving numerous customer organisations and SAP So, if you want to attend an award-winning event, spread across 3
well as the opportunity to connect with others in your area of themselves. days, filled with knowledge-rich breakout sessions, inspirational
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Managing Business no matter what industry you work in. Outcomes from the workshops resulted in three areas of focus; here to find out more.
Change in S/4HANA relationships & governance, how we engage, and communication.

Develop your skills As a result, UKISUG have curated the Customer Charter, a guide
Myths about Change Ensure you’re not left behind by the ‘SAP skills gap’. that shares the outcomes and advice on how customers can
positively affect their relationship with SAP and the six key
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Catch up on the latest trends, hear from the experts and pick up
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Welcome
November 30, 2022 saw something unexpected happen to the world of technology. Every Monday at 4:00 p.m. CET I launch a new video of the
OpenAI launched their new version of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) series Powering SAP developments with AI, directly on my
Dashboard View algorithm and offered it to the public in form of an AI-powered chatbot - Chat-GPT 3.5.
It soon after became the fastest-growing consumer application in history - reaching
LinkedIn profile. The series covers everything from the
100 million users in January 2023. What was different in this “revolution” is that there basics of AI, through tips on how to use it to make SAP
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was a lot of hype around it being able to write good quality code and maybe, at some developments more efficient, all the way to ready to copy
time in the future, even replace software developers. Some developers have been & paste prompt templates. If you want to see the previous
Industry News worrying ever since. Others decided to take it on and use it to their advantage because, episodes, follow the hashtag #AI4SAPDEV
as somebody once said “AI won’t replace developers but developers using
Spotlight on S/4HANA Mateusz Skrzyniarz AI will replace developers”.
Managing Director

SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity

S/4HANA Skills Shortage 5 tips on Powering SAP developments with AI

1 Write code snippets - Chat-GPT is able to generate ABAP code snippets from a text description. Database selects, CDS views, annotations,
SAP Benchmarking class methods, regular expressions, etc. It is however a lot better if you know what to expect because it sometimes provides answers that are
completely out of the blue, especially if you don’t feed it with enough context.

bluewaveSELECT Timeline 2 Build scaffolding - Generation of code for classes, interfaces, methods, reports, unit test classes, function modules, etc. is now made a lot easier
Learn more about AVOTECHS
with AI. Simply giving it a class name, along with the methods and the parameters they should accept results in ABAP code which can be copied
and pasted into ADT. AvoTechs - SAP S/4HANA Consulting, Training and
UKISUG Development services See how AvoTechs can help to
3 Troubleshoot code - Copying and pasting code into the chat window, along with a description of the issue you are facing will help you analyse the prepare your development teams and processes for S/4HANA.
code and suggest a way to resolve your problem. In case it doesn’t find it straight away, it’ll give you the steps you should follow to do root-cause
Spotlight on AI analysis.

4 Teach and improve - Chat-GPT learns from the input you feed it with. So, if there is a specific guideline in your company, let it know about it and SAP and Microsoft Collaborate
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it’ll incorporate it into the answers that it provides. Please remember about data privacy though!
Change in S/4HANA announced the next step in its long-standing partnership with Microsoft,
using the latest in enterprise-ready generative AI innovation to help
solve customers’ most fundamental business challenges.
5 Learn new technologies - AI is of great help when trying to learn a new topic. It can help you create a learning plan, teach you new concepts and Read here
tools and even provide exercises that you can do and get feedback on. It teaches you in a way that works best for you.
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Intelligent Enterprise
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ultimate convenience or simply a curse?

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By 2025, without sustainable
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more energy than the human
workforce, significantly offsetting
carbon-zero gains.
Based on an exploration across industries, the
research findings reveal that 81% of tech leaders
share deep concerns around the risk of bias in AI
and a growing desire for increased government
regulation.
SAP AI initiatives expand on several fronts
at Sapphire 2023
Like most tech vendors, SAP is scrambling to stay on top of the generative AI wave
that has swept the world since ChatGPT's dramatic debut last November.
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Change in S/4HANA
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bespoking’, and more on transforming business Change Management involves planning, implementing, and guiding individuals&teams through the process of Organisational
processes.
Change. Unfortunately, in the race to implement technological advancements like S/4HANA, the impact of the human element
Industry News on the programmes success is often underestimated. This oversight can lead to user resistance, confusion, and reduced
This article highlights the significance
Fiona Johnson of Change Management in S/4HANA adoption rates, ultimately jeopardising the success of the Transformation.
SAP Recruitment Specialist transformations.
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SAP Jobs & Hiring Activity

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The success of any technology implementation
depends on the extent to which the business
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Change Managers play a pivotal role in driving
user adoption by designing and implementing
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effective change, communication and training
strategies to ensure a smooth user journey
UKISUG from legacy systems to S/4HANA that promote
acceptance and engagement.
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Organisational Alignment
S/4HANA transformations impact multiple business
functions, departments, and stakeholders. Your Change
Manager will bridge the gap between technical teams,
programme leadership, business sponsors and end-users.
They will help to align organisational goals, vision, and
objectives within the transformation programme, ensuring
that all stakeholders understand the benefits of the new
system and how to optimise it. This alignment increases
cross-function visibility, encourages collaboration, and drives
overall organisational cohesion.
Mitigating Resistance
Change often breeds resistance, especially when employees
perceive it as a threat to roles, routines, or job security. This
is where your Change Manager comes in and will identify
potential resistance points, develop communication plans,
engage stakeholders at various levels to address concerns
and manage resistance effectively. By involving employees
and emphasising the benefits of S/4HANA early in the
business transformation, Change Managers transform
resistance into acceptance and enthusiasm.
Communication and Training
As S/4HANA favours process alteration in
place of under-the-hood bespoke work,
training users on new processes is
instrumental to project success. To have
maximum impact, your Change Manager
will work with training teams to plan user
training in advance of the testing phases of
the programme so this way users
seconded to UAT will know what they are
looking for.

Managing Business Continuous Improvement Stakeholder Investment Conclusion

Change in S/4HANA Change is an iterative process, and Change
Managers understand that sustaining the
momentum of transformation is crucial to the
Myths about Change success of your S/4HANA programme. They
monitor user feedback to identify areas for
Leadership on SAP improvement and work with cross-functional
Transformation Programmes teams to refine processes to optimise system
usage. By promoting continuous improvement,
your Change Manager will ensure the business
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benefits of S/4HANA are maximised and remain
aligned with evolving organisational needs.
A good Change Manager will be an ally of the business and bring
influential stakeholders and programme sponsors on the S/4HANA
journey. Stakeholders new to S/4HANA may have an idea of what
the programme entails, but your Change Manager will unlock the
full positive impact of the transformation and, in parallel, highlight
possible challenges to business adoption so that they can be
tackled in advance. Once correctly aligned, cohesive stakeholder
investment will drive the ‘follow the leader’ effect, enabling change
to flow top-down through your organisation’s hierarchy – possibly
the most important single element in successful change
programmes.
In the context of S/4HANA transformations, Change Managers are indispensable for successful
business adoption. By addressing the human side of change, they mitigate resistance, drive user
adoption, align organisational objectives, facilitate effective communication, and foster continuous
improvement.
As organisations navigate the complexities of digital transformations, acknowledging the significance
of change management and incorporating dedicated Change Managers into the transformation
roadmap is crucial for achieving optimal outcomes and reaping the full benefits of S/4HANA.
Want to know more? bluewaveSELECT have developed a pool of Change, Communications, and
Training experts that have facilitated multiple successful S/4HANA programmes. To see how we can
help the change aspect of your S/4HANA programme please contact Fiona Johnson
tel: + (44) 01423 559 559 fiona@bluewaveselect.com
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Either way, this short blog is intended to get both groups on the same page
busting three common misconceptions I've experienced on SAP transformation
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SAP S/4HANA Change
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This may be the traditional approach, but have you ever wondered why so many SAP transformation programmes Read more
have such predictable outcomes (If you know, you know)? Early and frequent engagement with actual users is key
to successful adoption upon deployment, so don't wait until the 11th hour to do it. Invest in change leadership from
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Have you ever told someone about a process change only to hear it taken out of context in the next team meeting? Read more
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important that you understand the daily challenges of every individual impacted. Then it becomes a sales pitch on How Change Is Changing
how you can solve that person's burning problem with some process and system knowledge in your back pocket. and What to Do About It
Organisational Design
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Top Change Management Change Management
Tips for ERP
Myth 3) Change can be delivered quickly on an IT budget only Implementation Success
Have you got the capacity to support people impacted by change at every step of the journey? SAP transformation Read more Hands-on change
programmes are time and energy-intensive, so dedicated resource is always recommended over doing it at the side
£400
of your desk. Combined with a niche skillset multiplied by the number of business functions impacted by change, Stories from the Field: The
you can quickly see why your plan and budget needs to go over and above the time and cost of enabling the People Side of SAP
technology itself (usually at least 2x). Projects
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