ERP or enterprise resource planning is one of the most shot after career in Software industry. Career in Oracle ERP Cloud gives opportunity to work in different functional or technical domain .Salary package here very attractive from initial stage itself. There are lot of ERP vendors like Oracle,SAP,Peoplesoft,Microsoft dynamics and many others .

.Planning to start a career in Oracle ERP? It yes it would be wise decision.

Because Oracle ERP Cloud is one of the best in the market.

let us understand what is ERP.

Enterprise resource planning is a software .Actually a very huge software.

ERP is simply used to manage the day to day business activities. Activities like finance ,SCM,HR can be managed very efficiently.

It is not an easy software like other thousand of software in the market. But This software is suitable for all kind of business empire.

ERP can handle complicated business scenarios. Activities like finance, procurement, supply chain, human resource can be operated in a integrated manner in a ERP System.

Integrated means seamless communication and flow of data between different department of a business. ERP helps in planning budgeting, predicting and reporting

Oracle ERP Cloud

Oracle is one of the best ERP vendor in the world. Lot of MNC and big business House implemented Oracle ERP as their business platform. Started as a ERP software named Oracle EBS or e business suites.

Oracle comes a long way with many success story with business arena.

Now the latest version of Oracle EPR is Oracle ERP Cloud.

Oracle cloud is fusion of lot of other software’s like PeopleSoft, JDE. Oracle fusion is the latest offering with Cloud ERP.

ERP Cloud means the ERP software will not be installed in any local or remote server. It will be located or stored in a cloud server. Organization who wants to use Oracle ERP Cloud can subscribe to the software .They can subscribe to all module or domain of Oracle ERP or specific module as per business requirement.

Modules means business area like finance,HR,Supply chain, project etc. which are available in oracle ERP. In Oracle term they are called offerings. These modules are tightly integrated with each other for seam less data flow and communication.

Take one example: consider a company that builds motor bike by procuring parts and components from different suppliers. Here the business process of the company is complicated.

So firstly the company can plan to use an suitable ERP system to track the end to end supply chain till finance and accounting .ERP system can effectively handle business process like Sourcing, requisition, purchase of these goods.

As ERP can support a uniform and integrated platform, entire data connected to enterprise workflows, business processes, reporting, and analytics.

Who can start career in ERP

Any person with Graduate or post graduate degree can start a career in ERP. You need to learn and get trained in this software.

Oracle ERP is not a straight forward software . you have to practice and learn at least 4 to 6 month to understand various module.

Understanding the functional and technical aspect of the software is must. After learning you have to focus on practice practice and more practice.

Job Opportunity

Three kind of Job profiles are available in Oracle Cloud ERP

Oracle functional implementation consultant

Oracle Technical implementation consultant

Oracle support consultant.

The best choice is to pick a functional area wisely. It should be similar to your educational background. Oracle ERP System provides opportunity for all domain .You can start a promising career in any of your preferred domain.

If you are commerce graduate, chartered accountant or MBA Finance Oracle financial cloud is best choice for you.

MBA in human resource can go for Oracle Cloud HCM module. People who have completed Management degree in Marketing you can go for Oracle Fusion Supply chain Module. If you have a engineering degree you can prefer development, coding etc. to work as a Oracle Cloud Technical consultant

Offerings Oracle ERP Cloud

oracle Cloud has different service model. SAAS,PAAS and IAAS

Service model decides how the offerings will be implemented in a Organization. SaaS means software as a service and this ERP can be implemented as it is without any customization. PaaS means platform as a service and can be implemented with some customization in reporting and other functionality

What is is customization? Customization means personalization.

ERP is not a standalone software .Is a software which integrates multiple functional area of a organization.

Implementing ERP in any kind of business is really a tough and challenging task.

Domain expertise ,knowledge as well as technical and analytical skills is required to successfully deploy a ERP solution. Sometimes the ERP need to customized as per the Business requirement.

Oracle ERP Cloud or Oracle Fusion have provided multiple offering as per market demand They are

Oracle Fusion Financials

Procurement

Manufacturing and Supply chain material management

Order Management

Product Management

Project Execution Management

Project Financial Management

Work force deployment and Workforce Development

and many others

Offerings are different functional area or module .They belongs to various departments of an Organization.

Oracle Consultant need to analyze the existing business flow and process .They need to documents existing business process

Then need to plan for a future business process. These documents will be reference point for a consultant.

You can work as Oracle Cloud Implementation consultant to deploye fresh implementation in any compnay.

You can work as an Oracle Cloud support consultant to support an existing implementation. Usually Support consultant will handle post production support for an organization which is running in Oracle ERP platform.

Find some useful video on oracle ERP modules here.

More information you can find here related to Oracle ERP Cloud.

Salary and earning potential

Frankly speaking ERP is a high paying career. Here salary depends on your knowledge and negotiation skills .Fresher in Oracle ERP consultant can earn 60 K in Indian currency.

With more experience you can draw more pay package. Mostly MNCs and big consulting companies like -Oracle, TCS, Infosys, IBM, Cognizant ,PWC, Delloite are in ERP Consulting .They are implementation partner for various ERP Vendors. You can start your journey as an ERP Consultant in these organizations.

My techno journal is provides Training, certification and learning resources in Oracle ERP. You can check their website for more information. They are providing Oracle Cloud Server for practicing the Oracle Cloud ERP.