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Certificates: Key Account Manager" certificate
Digital Leadership" certificate -
Additional Certificates: Certificate "Digital sales and distribution management"
Original SAP user certificate
Certified Business Manager" certificate -
Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
SAP-Anwenderzertifizierung UC_SD_S42023
Certified Business Manager:in -
Teaching Times: Full-timeMonday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
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Language of Instruction: German
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Duration: 20 Weeks
Digital distribution and sales management
Digital market strategies, customer journey and AI (approx. 5 days)
Fundamentals and future fields in digital sales
Trends in digital sales: platform economics, social commerce, omnichannel sales
Market analysis and competition: market positioning (USP), SWOT and buyer behavior
Target group analysis and persona development
Customer centricity and customer journey mapping
Digital sales strategies and sales channels
Use of digital tools for market analysis and competition monitoring
Support for research, idea development and strategy work using AI-supported tools
Successful selling and customer relationships (approx. 4 days)
Practical skills for the digital sales process
Structure and phases of the digital sales process
Sales psychology: needs analysis and buying motives
Conducting conversations in digital sales situations
Social selling and digital relationship management
Digital tools for preparing sales meetings and presentations
AI-supported analysis of customer needs and meeting preparation
New customer acquisition and acquisition - existing customer care (approx. 4 days)
Digital strategies for acquiring new customers
Inbound and outbound sales approaches
Lead generation and lead qualification
Sales funnel and pipeline management
AI-supported lead analysis and prioritization of sales opportunities
Key account management and strategic customer development
Sales pitches: structure, presentation and argumentation
Benefit argumentation and value selling
Differentiating features in competition
Conducting negotiations: principles, phases and price negotiations
Closing the sale and follow-up in digital sales
Customer experience (CX) & complaint management
CRM systems: use for customer management and care
Digital systems for sales automation and customer analysis
Sales controlling and law (approx. 4 days)
Success measurement and performance in sales
Sales controlling: objectives, tasks and instruments of sales controlling
Key figures and evaluation of sales data
Digital systems for reporting and forecasting
AI-supported sales forecasts and data analyses
Competition, trademark and commercial agency law
Drafting contracts: general terms and conditions (GTC) and relevant contractual elements
EU product safety regulation: General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR)
Data protection in digital sales (GDPR)
Project work (approx. 3 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
SAP User Sales and Distribution (SD) with additional qualification in Materials Management (MM)
S4H00 SAP S/4HANA overview (approx. 4 days)
Navigation, SAP Fiori, SAP Business Client, SAP Logon
System-wide concepts with organizational units, master data and transactions
Overview of financial accounting and logistics modules, mapping of the respective processes in SAP
Reporting, system structure and migration
SAP service offerings
S4500 Business Processes Sourcing and Procurement (approx. 8 days)
Overview and navigation
Processes and corporate structure in procurement
Procurement process
Procurement master data
Stock material compared to consumables
Request via self-service
Extended transactions in procurement
Automated procurement process
Evaluations and analyses
S4600 Business Processes in Sales (approx. 8 days)
Navigation with Fiori
Company structures
Sales processes at a glance
Master data
Automatic data determination and scheduling
Availability check
Collective processing
Further processes in Sales
Complaints processing
Monitoring and sales analyses
S4605 Sales Processes in Sales (approx. 10 days)
Introduction to
Corporate structures in sales
Order processing
Control of sales documents
Data flow
Special business transactions
Incompleteness
Partner functions in sales
Outline agreements
Material substitution, listing and exclusion
Discount in kind
Sales workshop
S4610 Delivery processes (approx. 4 days)
Idea and function of the delivery document
Basic organizational units for the delivery process
Control of the delivery
Goods issue process based on the outbound delivery
Processes and functions based on the outbound delivery
Case study, certification preparation and SAP user certification sales (approx. 6 days)
Management and corporate planning
Management (approx. 1 day)
Hierarchy levels
Management methods
Planning horizons
Management functions
Management control loop
Management instruments
Objectives, methods and instruments of business plan preparation (approx. 3 days)
Basics of business plan preparation
Analysis and planning tools (SWOT analysis, scenario analysis, portfolio analysis,
creativity techniques)
Use of AI for brainstorming and structuring business models
AI-supported creation and revision of business plan components
Contract law (approx. 1 day)
Declarations of intent
Warranty and guarantee
Types of contract and their disruptions
Law on contractual defects (subsequent performance, withdrawal, purchase price reduction, compensation)
General terms and conditions (AGB)
Commercial and company law (approx. 1 day)
Types of merchants
company forms
Commercial practices
Special features of commercial law
Commercial register and publicity
Introduction to insolvency law
Project planning (approx. 0.5 days)
basics
Resource planning
Planning steps
Errors in project planning
Environment analysis (approx. 0.5 days)
Company analysis
Industry analysis
Location analysis
Competition analysis
Use of AI to support market and competition analyses
Marketing (approx. 3 days)
Market analysis and market segmentation
Basics of market research
Instruments of the marketing mix
Advertising and supporting instruments
Use of AI to develop marketing ideas and address target groups
AI-supported creation of marketing content
Financial planning (approx. 1 day)
Overview of
Instruments
Planning investment calculation (approx. 2 days)
Basics
Investment calculation methods
Limits and problems of capital budgeting methods
Key figures
Financial planning (approx. 1 day)
Basics
Equity and debt financing
External and internal financing
Key figures
Controlling (approx. 1 day)
Tasks and objectives of controlling
Areas of controlling
Controlling instruments
Project work, certification preparation and certification examination (approx. 5 days)
Digital Leadership
Challenges of the digital transformation (approx. 2 days)
Digital leadership - big picture
Differentiation between leadership - digital leadership - digital business leadership
VUCA environment/BANI environment
Consequences of digitalization for the market and competition
Customer expectations in the digital age
Challenges in leadership (approx. 4 days)
Leadership - basics
Motivating employees and getting to know employee participation models
Employee expectations in the digital age
The role of the manager in digital change
Emotional intelligence as a key competence
Determining your own level of digital maturity
Agile leadership in digitalized environments
New Work/Agile Leadership (approx. 2 days)
Work 4.0 - the foundations of a new world of work
The new requirements for self-organization and self-management
Team collaboration in digital times
Forming, leading and developing teams
Virtual leadership
Networking and knowledge management with digital systems
Digital change in the company (approx. 2 days)
Selection and introduction of suitable digital processes, methods and tools
Change and transformation, ambidextrous organization (ambidexterity)
Dealing with employee skepticism during change processes
Determining the digital maturity level of an organization
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process/application of key technologies (approx. 2 days)
Presentation of specific AI technologies in the professional environment
Possible applications and practical exercises (prompts)
Effects of generative AI on work
Getting to know and understand blockchain, smart contracts, Internet of Things (IOT), AR/VR
Big data: collecting, analyzing and evaluating data
Business models, goals, strategies, key performance indicators and KPIs (approx. 3 days)
Analyze, plan and design value creation processes and business models
Define key performance indicators for process control
Successfully defining and measuring key performance indicators (KPIs)
Introducing objectives and key results (OKRs) as a new, more agile target system
Project work (approx. 5 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Changes are possible, the course content is updated regularly.
After completing the course, you will be able to plan and implement digital sales processes in a targeted manner. You will develop data-based sales strategies along the customer journey and use modern digital sales instruments and AI-supported tools in a targeted manner. You will also master sales psychology, conversation management and customer loyalty. You will use CRM systems, sales automation and controlling to analyze and optimize your sales results.
You will also be able to handle sales-related processes in SAP and round off your professional profile with SAP user certification.
You will also know how different business plans for projects and companies are created from an economic perspective and apply the most important economic planning and marketing tools. You use artificial intelligence specifically to support analysis and planning processes and critically evaluate their results. You also have knowledge of contract law and are familiar with the content of commercial and company law as well as the basics of financial planning.
You will also be able to contribute effectively as a specialist and manager in a modern, digitally networked working environment. You can contribute to the development of key strategies to implement processes in a meaningful way.
This course is suitable for anyone who wants to gain a professional foothold in sales and distribution. The course is also suitable for lateral entrants, e.g. from technical professions.
This course qualifies you for a career in sales or distribution and therefore for positions in all companies with a sales department.
In addition, you will acquire the globally standardized and recognized SAP certificate. It is considered one of the most important manufacturer certifications in the commercial sector. With your newly acquired knowledge and skills, you will improve your career opportunities across all sectors.
Furthermore, with your newly acquired knowledge of digitalization processes, you have an additional qualification that is in demand at companies of all sizes.
Training partner of SAP® Germany
In cooperation with the SAP training partner alfatraining Bildungszentrum GmbH, we will qualify you for a job in industry and business.
You are directly connected to the SAP® Germany servers and learn on the original SAP® training system (IDES) in the latest version. This gives you the necessary practical experience during the course.
All SAP user courses also conclude with the original SAP certification. Our SAP instructors are qualified SAP consultants who will provide you with intensive support and prepare you optimally for the certification exam.
Didactic concept
Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).
You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.
Virtual classroom alfaview®
Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face teaching via video technology.
The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).