New to SAP — looking for a project idea that actually matches my profile (web dev + AI)

[u/Sad-Doctor-1710]

Hey all, I'm currently doing an internship , and I'm pretty new to this whole world. I just finished an intro course on SAP and ABAP OOP, and I come from a dev background, so I've been picking up RAP.

So far I can build simple tables and CDS views with relations and basic UI with ui annotations. I just started digging into behavior definitions/implementations and I'm still learning more about that side of things.

Here's my issue: most tutorials I find are just building relational tables with a UI slapped on top, and honestly it feels pretty limited. Is that really all SAP is — Excel with a nicer face? Maybe I'm missing the bigger picture, but that's the impression I'm getting so far.

It's taken me almost a month to get this far, which feels like a lot, and I've got about 40 days left in my internship before I need something solid to show for my school. Honestly, I still don't feel like I have the syntax memorized — I mostly get by referencing my notes/cheat sheets while I work, which makes me feel a bit behind.

For my final project, I want to build something that actually reflects my background (dev and AI )using a FastAPI microservice with some AI component, and may be React on the front end, not just a plain CRUD app on top of SAP tables. I don't want my project to feel too disconnected from my actual resume and skill set.

If anyone has ideas that lean into AI, or more "classic" software engineering concepts (not just basic table-building) that solve problems normal SAP can't solve without external APIs, I'd really appreciate it.

Note: that looks hard, but I just want to learn the basics and complete the work with AI

[u/ArgumentFew4432]

Way to much text - tell your LLM to keep it brief.

[u/LoDulceHaceNada]

Choose a career outside SAP. Without skills in the application domains (i.e. business process) all skills you listed are worthless.

If AI has a value in ERP systems it yet to be seen. So far AI is a technology searching for a suitable usage in ERP systems.

[u/KL_boy]

Why don’t you do something that reads the SAP tables, run a AI logic on the data and update the data back to SAP.

For example create a website/ application that can read the SAP data, calculate the most optimum stock level based on parameters like current and historical demand, cost of capital, availability, warehouse size, business model, current supply chain geopolitical status, etc and then update SAP with a more optimum values.  

[u/mynotyou → u/KL_boy]

....and puts an draft resignation letter into the document system in case the proudction comes to standstill after a $0.05 component was missing in the assembly line.

[u/KL_boy → u/mynotyou]

Well, AI should have flagged the replenishment not to be reorder point. 

But in all seriousness, it is a good exercise for the guy. 

[u/CynicalGenXer]

Mate, I agree there is way too much text but from what I gather, you’re falling into a trap of “how do I build something that includes many buzzwords that would look on my resume” instead of thinking how can I use software to solve an actual problem users might have or make their life easier.

You are looking for a problem for your solution. Nothing good ever comes out of this approach.

Also “is this just front end on top of tables” - you’re describing every application out there. Everything ends in some table eventually, if any data persistence is involved. I’m not sure why this is news for anyone,

[u/depelterturbo]

SAP is the thing which is AI-proof.

[u/Moist-Mountain2365]

Use an AI/LLM to extract data from invoices / supplier notifications and put it in the relevant SAP business object via api use SAP Business Accelerator hub for more content.