SAP MM Solution Architect - IT

Role : SAP MM Techno-functional Solution Architect

Experience : 12+ years

Main Responsibilities

Business Application Consultant (MM-WM)

SME Face-off for external and internal stakeholders:

- Be the point of expertise related to the area under consideration for both the customer as well as the internal team (delivery, RIT).

- This would involve inputs into building business system related roadmaps, strategies on what solution to position, provision of expertise related to architecture and processes, etc.

Delivery Support:

- Provide Solution Architecture guidance for identified projects

- Oversee and provide quality assurance on this topic by mentoring, monitoring and training delivery teams

Solution Support:

- Architect suitable solutions for opportunities in the related domain

- Contribute to proposal build, orals, etc. across the opportunity cycle

- Guide solution teams in putting together estimations

Competency Build:

- Provide strategic direction to the competency build for the area in terms of areas of focus and related roadmaps

- Contribute to building expertise by mentoring, guiding and training as appropriate

- Participate in external forums such as SCN, SAP Tech Ed, etc. as part of the competency agenda

Competencies Required:

- Engineering Qualifications with a Post Graduate qualification as a plus

- Understanding of related Industry Processes and Business

- Expertise in related SAP Solution areas; knowledge and experience of related Non-SAP solutions or best-of-breed/niche solutions will be an advantage

- Customer Facing Project Management experience

Experience Profile:

Must Have:

- Eight to Ten Years experience in SAP implementations, on MM/WM

- Purchasing Management/ Warehouse Management experience in the related Industry / function

- A minimum of 2 End to End Implementations(MM/WM) of which at least one is as a Project Manager for the related Industry / function

- Strong process knowledge of Procure to Pay flow, Logistics Execution and integration points with other Process / Domain.

- Experience with Global Delivery methodologies

Expertise required on MM/WM are:

- MM processes like Purchasing, Inventory Management, Logistics Invoice Verification, Physical Inventory, Material Valuation, Material Requirements Planning (MRP),External Services Management

- WM processes like configuring storage types, movement type and search strategies. RFID system and interface with SAP. SU and HU management.

- IDOC and Interfaces

- Debugging skills and should be able to interpret ABAP code.

- Integration of SAP MM with WM, SD, FI, PP, QM.

- Requirements gathering

- Writing functional specifications

- Documenting and defining business processes

- Working with developers to unit test/validate functionality

- Conduct system/integration testing

- Coordinating user acceptance testing