SAP Functional Architect – Sales & Distribution

Job Summary :

Provide hands on functional support for Global Implementation of Business Solutions in ECC AFS SAP system. Responsibilities will span end to end business support activities.

This position reports into the GIT Business Solutions Sr Director and works very closely with others in the development and functional team members of the Global IT department and also the business team members.

Position Roles and Responsibilities :

• Support Global Business Solution implementations by effective management of global business requirements that are complete and add business value.
• Support Global Business Solution implementations by effective management of global end to end business processes including process re-engineering and process flow analysis.
• Integrate with all business partners and manage relationships.
• Manage end to end activities of integrated global business solution implementations.
• Effective management of assigned business solution projects including integrating plans with plans of other business partners.
• Effectively communicate with all levels of business partners
• Meet all general GIT policies and operational procedure expectations.
• Perform fit-gap analysis of the business requirements and system capabilities.
• Design functional solutions that promote globalization, standardization, integration, simplicity, and reasonable maintenance
• Create functional solution design specifications document.
• Troubleshoot and debug solutions (process, application, configuration and / or development) to identify root causes and solve issues.
• Apply knowledge of business processes and technology to solve complex business solution needs.
• Ensure that the solution changes are transported / implemented into production environments without unintended impact on business units.
• Investigate complex SAP notes, understand potential system impact, and work with development team in implementing complex SAP notes.
• Ensure that all existing global business transactions are not impacted by new solutions and new solutions are integrated with existing solutions.
• Maintain clear and organized documentation of all work and assist with the user training and support where necessary.
• Plan, Manage and Lead the testing efforts and drive business partners to complete testing and approve solution.
• Address, respond and resolve all service requests in most efficient and timely manner.
• Engage with business users and stakeholders to gauge business requirements and provide inputs from IT perspective.
• Monitor and maintain system activities with focus on interfaces, batch jobs, short dumps, connectivity to internal and external systems.
• Guide and respond to business users of system use, business processes, testing and other system related inquiries.
• Self-manage enhancements that cannot be completed in few weeks as mini projects. Plan milestone and deadline and provide progress update to various stakeholders and escalate in advance if timelines cannot be met with.
• Execution of allotted responsibilities in special projects and adhere to various deadlines of the projects.
• Collaborate and communicate with functional and development teams to provide efficient and workable solution.

Area of Responsibilities :

• ECC AFS SAP Configuration
• End to End Demand Chain processes and solutions including Order to Cash process including but not limited to order entry, allocation, credit management, Pricing, Product Availability, Delivery Management, Billing, Payment card processing, Tax Determination, Ecommerce integration.
• End to End Demand Chain processes and solutions.
• Develop business solutions with expertise in Sales order processing, Delivery processing, Shipment Processing, Available to promise (ATP), material reservation, Value Added Services.
• Troubleshooting and ABAP debugging of SAP programs in order to solve application or configuration issues.
• Other business solution areas as assigned.

Qualifications

Education :

Minimum bachelor’s degree in one of the following disciplines : Engineering, Computer Science, OR other comparable academic programs

Preferred MBA or equivalent.

Experience :

• Participated in at least 3 end to end SAP implementation.
• S4 Hana implementation experience would be preferred.
• At least 7 years of process re-engineering, process design, solution design experience in global SAP SD systems.
• At least 7 years of SAP system configuration experience in the above areas of responsibilities.
• Good experience in designing custom solutions to enhance standard functionality and build interfaces with external systems.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong organizational / planning skills with the ability to prioritize and work effectively in a fast-paced environment, proficiency in multi-tasking
• Strong verbal, communication and project management skills
• Attention to detail.
• Must be a self-starter ability to work independently.
• Goal oriented, hard worker
• High collaborative, team player
• Customer focused.

Required Competencies :

• Please refer to MGI standard competencies document
30+ days ago