Sap Basis Consultant
Midrand, Gauteng
*Developing project plans for various upgrades, installations and migrations *Managing a range of projects including migrating complete customer landscape to cloud based environment, installations, system patching and database upgrades *Supervising personnel with general team administration duties *Installing various SAP products and upgrading systems *Setting up test plans and performing testing and debugging in test environments *Setting up and maintaining change and transport management systems *Providing specialised advice and information, and troubleshooting issues *Liaising with functional SAP experts and business teams to assist with ongoing functional support *Monthly reporting on all systems in the landscape including errors, system performance and database growth *Analysing various data, statistics and processes, and making relevant recommendations on possible improvements *Conducting evaluations on system processes to ensure functionality *Ensuring efficient usage of SAP Basic software, hardware, operating system and databases *Creating and maintaining operational manuals, functional specifications, system and handover documentation *Deploying various functional models *Researching and development (R&D) in technology and software updates and changes *Remaining current with industry forecasts and recent developments in SAP technology *Renewing systems software licences *Ensuring systems and processes adhere to SAP industry best practice specifications, and health and safety regulations - BW upgrade to 7.3 and 7.31- Portal upgrade to 7.31- BW UNICODE conversion- EHP5 upgrade- PI 7.3 installation and config- GRC 10 installations and config- BPC 10 installation and config- Client support for SAP systems, HR, BW, FI, APO, XI, Solution Manger, Portal, BW Accelerator.- System refreshes- OS/DB migrations- DB2 fix packs