Become Odoo ERP Consultant

Being an Odoo ERP Consultant is rewarding both financially and career wise. Most of Organizations have an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) implementation in place. These companies need regular Application & Production Support, Maintenance, Upgrades, Migrations, Minor or Major enhancements to the systems and much more. There are still numerous growing organizations which are going for a full end-to-end ERP implementation to support their business growth.

This clearly indicates that a career in ERP Consulting is only going to get bigger and better.

Since you are here to read about becoming an ERP (functional & Technical) Consultant, you would certainly want to know the basics of ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning. So let us touch upon the very basic fundamentals of what an ERP system is all about

ERP systems are a set of integrated business applications or modules which are mapped to common business functions like finance, payroll, sales & distribution, etc. in real time with a common database.

The basic utility of an ERP system is to track & maintain transactional records, generate business critical reports and maintain overall visibility & transparency across the organization. You can find a complete blog to understand the basics of ERP so we will not go deeper into explaining it here.

It is now widely used across industries - production, manufacturing, logistics, airline, shipping, retail, medical, education, media, tourism, hospitality, transportation and banking services.

No wonder the opportunities for professionals trained in ERP is witnessing rapid growth and most often it doesn’t require complex technical or computer knowledge to be certified as an ERP professional . This is because ERP implementation is more of understanding a business process rather than software –hardware implementation and managing databases.

Here are three broad areas to build a career in ERP Firstly let us understand the role of an ERP consultant. An ERP consultant is instrumental in ERP Planning, Selection and Implementation of ERP System and helps to align the business processes to the ERP modules. ERP Consultants are required right from design phase to the post-implementation and support phase.

Functional consultants are a key link in the ERP chain- they are drawn from various specialties such as Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Finance, Accounting, Material management and Inventory.

Functional consultants focus on defining business processes, gathering requirements, and configuring ERP systems like Odoo. They ensure the software aligns with business needs. Technical consultants, on the other hand, handle the programming and technical aspects.

An ERP system consists of three key layers:

These layers work together to provide an integrated and efficient ERP solution, with each consultant focusing on different aspects of the system's development and implementation.

So far we found two watertight compartments in ERP- technical and functional consultants. But there is a third category of professionals who are called techno-functional consultants in ERP who perform both technical and functional roles in an organization.

Technical consultants working on various modules such as HRM, Sales, CRM, FRM, SCM, PRM, etc., gradually understand the business processes involved and this helps them map the scenarios apart from doing the programming part which they are already skilled at.

With changing technologies including different types of ERP implementation processes, consultants in those specific skills both in techno-functional areas are in huge demand, according to analysts.