SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) user with additional qualification in Materials Management (MM) and sales strategies

The course teaches successful sales and service strategies, sales processes, sales, pricing, invoicing and delivery processes with practical exercises. You will also learn how artificial intelligence (AI) is used in your professional environment.
  • Certificates: Certificate "Digital sales and distribution management"
    Original SAP user certificate
  • Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
    SAP-Anwenderzertifizierung UC_SD_S42023
  • Teaching Times: Full-time
    Monday 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.)
  • Language of Instruction: German
  • Duration: 12 Weeks

Digital distribution and sales management

Digital market strategies & AI (approx. 5 days)

Fundamentals and future fields in digital sales

Market analysis & competition: market positioning (USP), SWOT and buyer behavior

Target groups & persona

Customer centricity: customer orientation as a basis and customer journey map

Sales strategies & channels: Digital sales channels, e-business factors, digital products


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

Lead & sales funnel management: digital lead generation and qualification


Successful selling & customer relationships (approx. 5 days)

Practical skills for the digital sales process

Understanding and planning relationships

Sales psychology: customer needs and requirements analysis and buying motives


New customer acquisition and acquisition - existing customer care: digital strategies and key account management (approx. 3 days)

Sales talks: structure and special features, presentation and argumentation

Benefit argumentation

Enthusiasm characteristics

Conducting negotiations: principles, phases and price negotiations

Closing the sale & follow-up: techniques for closing and follow-up

Customer experience (CX) & complaint management: direct customer contact and dealing with feedback

CRM systems: use for customer management and care


Sales controlling & law (approx. 4 days)

Digital and analog performance measurement and legal protection in sales

Sales controlling: objectives, tasks and instruments of sales controlling

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)


Project work (approx. 3 days)

To consolidate the content learned

Presentation of the project results

Sales and Distribution (SD) user with additional qualification in Materials Management (MM) with SAP S/4HANA

S4H00 SAP S/4HANA Overview (approx. 4 days)

Overview of SAP S/4HANA

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


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


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


Project work/case study, certification preparation and SAP user certification for sales (approx. 6 days)



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 analyze markets, develop personas and design customer-oriented strategies along the customer journey. You will also have in-depth knowledge of sales psychology, conversation management and customer loyalty. With the use of CRM systems and sales controlling, you will be able to keep track of your successes. After the course, you will be able to apply digital sales strategies effectively and implement them with legal certainty.

You will also be able to handle sales-related processes in SAP and round off your professional profile with SAP user certification.

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.

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).

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We will gladly advise you free of charge. 0800 3456-500 Mon. - Fri. from 8 am to 5 pm free of charge from all German networks.