SAP EWM / IM Functional Consultant

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a SAP EWM / IM Functional Consultant based in India.

This role offers the opportunity to lead functional design and implementation activities across SAP S/4HANA Extended Warehouse Management and Inventory Management.

You will work closely with warehouse, supply chain, field operations, and inventory stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable SAP solutions.

The position covers the full delivery lifecycle, from requirements gathering and configuration through testing, migration, cutover, and go-live support.

You will design complex warehouse processes and integration touchpoints connecting SAP with third-party platforms and enterprise systems.

Your expertise will help optimize inbound, outbound, inventory, replenishment, picking, packing, and stock management operations.

You will also coordinate across functional, technical, and integration teams within large-scale, multi-workstream programs.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced SAP professional seeking significant ownership across sophisticated S/4HANA EWM and IM transformation initiatives.

Accountabilities

• Engage directly with business stakeholders across warehouse operations, supply chain, field operations, and inventory management to gather, document, validate, and translate requirements into SAP solutions.
• Author Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Design Documents (FDDs), Configuration Design Documents (CDDs), and other functional documentation.
• Conduct fit-gap assessments between current warehouse and inventory processes and SAP S/4HANA standard capabilities.
• Define functional designs for inbound, outbound, internal warehouse, inventory counting, stock transfer, and related processes across IM-managed and EWM-managed warehouses.
• Design integration touchpoints between SAP EWM/IM and third-party systems, including external WMS, transportation management, field mobility, asset management, and work-order platforms.
• Configure SAP S/4HANA Embedded EWM, including warehouse structures, storage types and bins, activity areas, putaway and stock removal strategies, wave management, replenishment, resource and queue management, and RF/mobile transaction frameworks.
• Configure SAP S/4HANA Inventory Management covering plants and storage locations, movement types, goods receipt and issue processing, physical inventory, batch management, stock transfers, and material valuation.
• Configure and support the IM-to-EWM integration layer, including distribution models, RFC connectivity, logical system assignments, and qRFC queue management.
• Define interface requirements, message formats, field mappings, transformation rules, validation logic, error handling, monitoring, and recovery procedures in collaboration with integration and technical teams.
• Own functional interface design across file-based batch integrations, APIs, IDocs, middleware, SAP Integration Suite, and MuleSoft message flows.
• Develop Functional Unit Test (FUT) scripts with detailed scenarios, expected results, and traceability to functional designs.
• Execute and support FUT, System Integration Testing (SIT), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), investigating and resolving functional defects, data issues, and integration failures.
• Validate end-to-end warehouse processes on RF and mobile devices, including putaway, picking, packing, goods issue, physical inventory, and stock transfers.
• Support technical teams in translating functional requirements into specifications for ABAP developments, CDS views, OData services, and other enhancements.
• Define functional requirements for warehouse master data and inventory migration, supporting stock conversion, Migration Cockpit or LSMW activities, and reconciliation procedures.
• Participate in cutover planning, dress rehearsals, final stock loading, reconciliation, MRP activities, and warehouse operational readiness.
• Provide hypercare support following go-live by monitoring interfaces, resolving functional issues, and supporting business users during stabilization.
• Coordinate offshore and onshore functional, technical, and integration teams while tracking risks, dependencies, action items, and delivery blockers.
• Participate in governance activities, design authority reviews, status reporting, issue resolution meetings, and other program forums.

Requirements

• 9+ years of SAP EWM functional experience, including at least one full-cycle S/4HANA implementation or ECC-to-S/4HANA migration.
• Strong hands-on experience configuring SAP S/4HANA Embedded EWM, including warehouse structures, process types, putaway and picking strategies, wave management, RF frameworks, resource management, replenishment, and queue management.
• Solid understanding of SAP S/4HANA Inventory Management, including goods movements, stock types, batch management, physical inventory, stock transfers, and material valuation.
• Proven experience designing and supporting SAP integrations with third-party systems such as WMS, field mobility platforms, work-order management solutions, and transportation systems.
• Familiarity with SAP Integration Suite, MuleSoft, or SAP PI/PO for integration and interface design.
• Strong understanding of interface concepts including APIs, IDocs, middleware flows, message mapping, data transformation, error handling, monitoring, and recovery processes.
• Excellent documentation skills, with the ability to produce clear and structured BRDs, FDDs, CDDs, functional specifications, and FUT scripts.
• Experience working within large-scale programs involving multiple workstreams, offshore and onshore delivery teams, and formal governance structures.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate functional, integration, and data-related issues.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across business, functional, technical, and integration teams.
• Experience in utilities, energy, or other asset-intensive industries is an advantage.
• Knowledge of SAP PM/EAM integration with EWM and work-order-driven material demand is beneficial.
• Experience with ITS Mobile or RF device configuration for warehouse operations is preferred.
• Familiarity with SAP MRP, including MRP Live, special procurement keys, and stock transfer requisitions, is beneficial.
• Experience with batch management and shelf-life handling within EWM is an advantage.
• Awareness of ABAP debugging and development concepts for functional troubleshooting is preferred.

Benefits

• Full-time remote opportunity.
• Opportunity to contribute to large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
• Significant ownership across EWM and IM functional design, configuration, testing, migration, cutover, and go-live activities.
• Exposure to complex integrations between SAP and third-party enterprise systems.
• Collaboration with diverse onshore and offshore functional, technical, and integration teams.
• Opportunity to work across sophisticated warehouse, inventory, supply chain, and operational processes.
• Involvement throughout the complete SAP implementation lifecycle, from requirements through post-go-live stabilization.
• Opportunity to apply expertise across modern SAP EWM, Inventory Management, integration, mobile warehouse operations, and data migration initiatives.
• Potential to work on projects within utilities, energy, and other asset-intensive environments.