SAP Reviews in Singapore, Singapore Area

Pros

Great Brand - Market leader
Great group of smart people committed to making the company successful
Minimal negative politics
Good developer/user of technology
Good pay and benefits
Respect for employees as people

Cons

Over-processing and bureaucracy
Conservatism
Head office centric

Advice to Senior Management

Need more speed and the next generation of products to get us back onto the cutting edge of our industry. We're leading the industry in sales and installations but we are getting a lot of competition from the smaller guys who have sexier and more contemporary products.

Pros

Great brand name, produces a very high quality product, industry leader, pay and bens top 2 quartiles against similar companies, great for the CV.

Cons

Very Germanic culture - spreadsheets and death by powerpoint are the language, little entrusted to employees, cannot use your initiative, almost no career path or ongoing learning/development programmes, almost no feedback on job performance, good or bad. Top management is mostly recruited in from outside at high salaries with few internal promotions, little diversity - few if any women, minorities in positions of management, no transparency in communication and late communication when the rumour mill has been running until management figures out how to do PR messages, people are a commodity and not valued, HR very weak and does not work for employees at all. Toxic and highly political environment, especially in marketing department.

Advice to Senior Management

Work to be clear and transparent, get some diversity happening, grow and develop your staff and do less bureaucracy and set clearer, more meaningful goals.

Pros

A diversified workplace where people work and play hard.
A few sections within SAP are protected enclaves which provides job security and proper work-life balance.

Cons

Changes at the management level recently have caused an overhaul and the politics have trickled down to the "masses"
Also, try navigating your way through the myraid of people who are working on the same thing as you and then fight for your share of the pie.
There are basically too many people to go round, too little work to do.
And career hungry junior level employees need to be extremely patient, allowing yourself to age and grow old within the company before getting anywhere as the majority of the senior employees will more or less starve you of any opportunity to proceed further.

Advice to Senior Management

Look a bit at the world outside and give your employees some perspective. I get a bit lost sometimes within your SAP world.

Pros

As the blue-chip of the blue-chip software vendors one should endeavor to go through SAP's doors at least once in your career. Does good things for your CV.

Cons

Germany culture is not for everyone. Definitely the anti-thesis of American style culture companies.
The breadth of the solution is so huge unless you have prior experience working on any of their products newbies get overwhelmed very quickly. It may take more than a year to be acquainted sufficiently to perform the role of a sales consultant to customer. That's the reason why a lot of people scrape by in SAP and don't earn the respect of the SAP folks internally. There's a lot of newbies and old folks in the company but the middle is bare!

Advice to Senior Management

None at the moment.

Pros

#1 in ERP market and strong infrastructure

Cons

Beauraucracy, politics, size is limiting speed of execution and market opportunity

Advice to Senior Management

Re-focus on customer value and align organizations around this critical metric