SAP PROCUREMENT BUSINESS CONSULTANT

The SAP Procurement Business Consultant is responsible for the analysis, consultancy and configuration of the SAP materials management / inventory management / purchasing area to meet the business needs of company. The consultant supports the design and configuration of SAP procure to pay solutions and is also responsible for deploying a system that meets the business strategy across functional teams and executes testing and writes configuration and/or technical documentation. This individual communicates and coordinates with business management, project executives and team leads to insure appropriate integration of processes and modules across organization. The consultant collaborates with the functional project manager, and division heads of assigned area, in an effort to support the business needs of the company.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Driving the deployment of SAP procure to pay solutions from evaluation through implementation
• Perform configuration for SAP Material Master, Purchasing, Inventory Management, and SRM moduleManage interaction of configuration with existing SAP and legacy state solutions.
• Perform unit testing of changes (configuration, custom development, etc.) in development and staging environments, including regression testing of functionality that may be impacted.
• Coordinate end to end integrated testing of changes (configuration, custom development, etc.) in development and staging environments.
• Provide capabilities reviews, prototypes and implementation of new functionality based on business needs.
• Provide ad hoc training and consulting to business super users as required in run and maintain activities, such as remedial training, issue resolution, etc.
• Work with analysts and business personnel to understand various vendor, material master, procurement and inventory processes and provide the solutions to support these processes.
• Develop detailed functional and technical specifications for changes to SAP systems.
• Consult with technical analysts and developers regarding technical specs to develop customized solutions.
  
  

Required Experience & Background

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/information technology or equivalent
• 4-5 years of experience working with SAP with a major part of that focused on MM and procurement solutions
• Experience with all aspects of SAP Procure to Pay and Materials Management business processes and functionality
• Experience with SAP ECC or greater. SAP S/4 HANA a plus
• Extensive understanding of SAP Activate Methodology and Agile/Scrum principles
• Experience with SAP Best Practices Business Processes and Global templates and configuring these Best Practices
• Able to Lead Explore Phase Business Requirement Documentation, Validation and design workshops
• Experience with large SAP ERP implementations including five full lifecycle implementations
  
  

Knowledge And Skills

• Knowledge of SAP Materials Management (MM), SAP Inventory management (IM), SAP Warehouse management (WM) and Supply Relationship Management (SRM) modules
• Knowledge of ABAP, IDOC, WF, Process Integration (PI) and other EAI tools
• Understanding of the integration of SAP MM/LE/WM with SD, FICO, and PP
• Ability to engage with internationally distributed development teams
• Ability to create and meet timelines cognizant of business needs and constraints
• Highly self-motivated, driven work ethic, keen attention to detail and exceptional customer service orientation
• Good communication skills including ability to communicate technical information in an understandable manner
• Strong analytical skills; ability to perform system analysis and draw conclusions by relating information from different sources, including root-cause analysis and issue resolution.