It is very common that SAP clients look for new resources based on what they currently want instead what they need in the future. That is why job offers primarily focuses on hard skills, such as SAP module knowledge and experience. Nowadays also S/4 HANA platform exposure is important. And we cannot blame them for doing this, as that is what they can quantify. Often they have to replace a resource like-for-like or expand a team with a specific skill set.

What seems to be forgotten is the marriage of hard skills with soft skills.

Business Rule Framework pushes the ability of problem solving into the limelight. Understanding this tool allows you to solve any complex decision making problem, even when you have no hand-on experience with the area of SAP functionality affected.

For example, any BRF+ expert can solve problems with Human Resource Management, even when they do not know this module. Often this lack of knowledge increases the chance of deploying solutions that are fit for purpose. That is because BRF+ consultants need to listen and understand the business requirements and provide feedback through prototype simulations. Existing HR knowledge based on past experience could be a barrier. The interaction between the HR module expert and the BRF+ expert can trigger Q&A sessions that would otherwise never happen. This synergy improves the quality of the business requirements and at the same time enhances the module knowledge of BRF+ professional.

With Business Rule Framework you learn how to translate business requirements for complex decision making into working prototypes. This prototype then gets approved by using the powerful BRF+ simulation functionality. The deployment after the prototype approval becomes a relative easy task that any developer with object oriented ABAP experience can solve.

Another BRF+ advantage is the interchangeable functionality between ECC and S/4 HANA platforms. In theory the BRF+ applications built in ECC can be re-used in S/4 HANA, as long as you use the data dictionary binding that is valid in both systems.
When working on a ECC platform some tables and fields will not be available in S/4 HANA. If you avoid using them in ECC then you increase the likelihood that the BRF+ functions will work on both platforms.

When you have BRF+ experience you can use this to your benefit when you work for clients that are not even aware that this exists.

When you start at a new client and you have to solve a complicated puzzle, then persuading management to switch on BRF+ in a sandbox system might be the hardest hurdle to overcome. Often you will realise that it takes weeks (or even months) to get approval to use the tool, as many fear the unknown. Also they will doubt that BRF+ has hardly any disadvantages.

So apart from learning the BRF+ you also need to learn how to sell the tool to managers.