So I finally cleared the BCSE ERP certification last month and honestly I'm still a little shocked. Quick background on me: I have a BSCE degree (civil engineering, graduated 2019), which means I came into the SAP world completely sideways. No IT background, no ERP experience — just a job change that threw me into an SAP implementation project and suddenly my manager was like "you should get certified." Cool, thanks for the heads up.
First two attempts I failed SD badly. I kept confusing the pricing procedures and the document flow between quotations and sales orders. What changed on attempt three was drilling with focused practice tests rather than just re-reading the SAP help docs. The BCSE ERP Sales and Distribution (SD) 2 practice material was honestly the closest to what I saw on the real exam — the question style, the scenario-based stuff, all of it. I'd do a set, review every wrong answer, then wait a day and redo just those questions.
Anyone else here come from a non-IT background? Curious whether the BSCE meaning (civil/structural engineering) background actually helped or hurt with process-oriented thinking. I think it helped me with systematic logic but the SAP terminology was brutal to memorize.