Job Title : SAP SD Lead
Job Desciption : SAP SD Functional
Years spent in company : 3
Company : GLC
Industry : IT
Employment Level : Manager
Experience before joining : 16 yrs in Supply Chain
Highest paper qualification/ education background : MBA, and SAP global cert
salary : RM 8.7k

If any of you tell me that I'm UNDERpaid... I will start looking for other job now. I mean... I leave soon I've completed my GST project. And can anybody tell me what is the market salary for ppl with similar experience... when I asked for a pay rise, my boss will always say "bersyukur la, there were many unfortunate ppl yg gaji rendah from you", can't stand it anymore, my takehome pay is devalued with all the consumer price hike.


This post has been edited by nyra: May 18 2014, 08:41 AM

that is what I will do, Tq...

I just don't want to die doing the same job. I was doing Computer Science during my college years.
My first and 2nd year of working I do configuration. My boss loves me so much I guess, when he changed his job scope, he took me with him. I didn't change job to do what I like... I am trained to love what I do.

Supply Chain was fun... you dealt with oversea counterpart most of the time. Work in different time zone depending which country you dealt with. Stay up all night because you having conference call (Webex) with US rep and etc. Too much fun is bad for family relationship, I don't want to give up on my job really, but my children want me to stop having meeting at home.

When you age... you priorities changed and so do I.

But one thing for sure is, I love SAP, it's a complex system and that what makes it interesting. I learn many new thing everyday. Though, I'm a bit too old to sit for the SAP cert, I do it because GLC requires professional cert in order for you to do project in SAP (but they didn't pay for the course, but I took MyProCert).

I knew SAP knowledge is a lucrative business when I saw the consultant PO value in the system.
It's about time for me to move on since I'm not getting any younger

This post has been edited by nyra: May 20 2014, 12:50 PM

In real world, I agree with you. MNC prefers experience ppl. GLC is similar to government, the policy was adopted from the government. They prefers candidate with paper... but that doesn't mean candidate with paper are more intelligent than those without one.

GLC pay is also similar with the government, the pay it lower but the benefit is better compared to MNC. As part of the transformation plan ETP, GLC has to obey to government rules, which is, to hire candidate with proper qualification (certs), that was the GLC hiring strategy.

If I were to compare my SAP skills with those in MNC, I will be far behind. Frankly speaking, GLC does not do much on technical.. so you can't brush your talent there. We manage the project.. the rest of the work is done by 3rd parties(the consultant)... what we normally do is reviewing the projects till it's completed. Certs does not guarantee that you are good in any field, it act a ticket or permit for you to enter certain division.

If people ask if I were a SAP SD expert... I wud say No

Any blueprint or the Project design was done by consultants, this include the gap analysis, SRS, Functional Spec, test script, UAT, TR till go-live. What I do best, is chasing ppl around

Hmm... this is a good pay in deed, very rare. Do you have any professional cert in hand?

Which GLC your are working with haha

Yes... you are overpaid.
In fact MNC won't pay that much now.

Now I'm seriously hunting for new job