SAP for Retail Certification

So I have just started preparing myself for the SAP for Retail certification exam. I decided not to enroll in an academy but to prepare myself for the exam. For SD/MM consultants I don’t think the academy is necessary.

So what’s my plan? Get the books, buy access to a SAP Retail system and start studying and testing the concepts in the system!.

The SAP for Retail academy is made of 6 modules which correspond to following 6 books:

SAPIRT - Overview of Functions in SAP for Retail: is a prerequisite for all further SAP for Retail courses (621 pages, 45% weighting).

IRT310 - Master Data in SAP for Retail: covers the specific master data in SAP for Retail. This course is a prerequisite for all other detailed courses for SAP for Retail (405 pages, 18% weighting).

IRT320 - Prices, Promotions and Markdowns: explains how prices and promotions can be maintained and configured in SAP for Retail (543 pages, 19% weighting).

IRT330 - Planning, Purchasing and Warehouse Distribution: covers merchandise procurement and the settings of the related parameters (641 pages, 16% weighting).

IRT360 - Store Connection: covers the processes involved in supplying stores with data, and processing the data sent from a store to a central SAP retailing system (261 pages, 2% weighting).

IRT370 - SAP Retail Store: explains the configuration options and functions of SAP Retail Store (197 pages, 2% weighting).

The weighting % is a rough calculation based on information from this SAP site.

Course SAPIRT replaced course IRT100. There are 2 other courses related to SAP for Retail that are not part of the academy/certification exam:

IRT340 – Supply Chain Execution
IRT350 – Merchandise and Assortment Planning

Now I’m studying the first book, "SAPIRT - Overview of Functions in SAP for Retail", it’s a huge one, 621 pages, but a big part are exercises that can be tested on an IDES system. My next post will be about it.