Manish Patel is a senior SAP professional with close to 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Over the last 15 years, he has worked on a variety of SAP projects in a number of different industries. After graduating from Bombay University, Manish worked at an Indian software company on various financials projects in Asia Pacific. During his tenure at this company, he gained experience as a finance lead responsible for implementing the company’s indigenously developed ERP system.

After forming his solid foundation at this company in the various areas of software development and project management, he started his career as an SAP consultant. In addition to working on a variety of SAP projects in number of different industries, he has also conducted several successful SAP trainings at various training locations of SAP America. This breadth of assignments honed his abilities to successfully perform different roles in an SAP project ranging from system configuration to project management.

He is also the author of a best selling book SAP Account Determination published by SAP Press, targeted at the technical and consulting SAP community. The book explores vital design elements that carry out automatic determination of GL accounts from business transactions in various SAP components.

Manish enjoys working through the challenges and complexities that are inherent in implementation of such an enterprise wide system. He understands that experiences and after-effects of such implementations can range from justifiably thrilling to maddeningly frustrating. Hence, he thrives in contributing to ease transition of SAP users into the new, integrated world of SAP. This book is an attempt to ease such transition.

Manish enjoys living in sunny California, USA. He can be reached on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/kreativemanish.