A client in Munich asked us last month for someone to lead their S/4HANA transition. The spec started as a straightforward Basis and functional consultant role. By the second conversation, they had rewritten it entirely. They needed someone who understood data architecture well enough to prepare their systems for AI agents, someone who could assess whether their master data would be trustworthy enough for automated decision-making.
The ECC support deadline has forced companies to confront a question they had been deferring: do we want a system that AI can act on, or do we want a replica of what we had before? We have taken five SAP searches in the past two months where the original specification was rewritten after the first round of interviews because the client realised they needed data governance fluency alongside functional expertise.
The technical migration work remains substantial, and there is strong demand for consultants who can handle cutover, testing, and configuration. The roles attracting the strongest interest combine SAP functional knowledge with data governance and integration fluency. Companies want people who can look at their master data and say whether an AI agent will be able to trust it. Candidates who have spent the past few years working on data migration or hybrid cloud projects are finding themselves in higher demand than colleagues with deeper but narrower SAP expertise.
For candidates who built their careers on ECC administration, this shift requires honest self-assessment. The functional knowledge opens doors, and data quality, API architecture, and cross-system integration experience determines which doors lead somewhere. Our advice to anyone preparing for their next move: find a project that touches data governance before the end of this year. The migration deadlines are concentrating demand into a narrow window, and the specification rewrites are happening faster than most candidates expect.
Angeregt durch Berichte von ERP heute.