Senior sap ewm consultant

Specialization: SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)
Experience: 5–9 years of hands-on SAP EWM experience, including functional solution design, configuration, and delivery
Location: São Paulo, Brazil (Hybrid)
Travel Requirements: Occasional travel
Language Requirements: Advanced or fluent English

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior SAP EWM Consultant to serve as a functional subject matter expert (SME), translating warehouse and logistics business requirements into integrated SAP solutions.

This role encompasses requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, implementation, testing, and ongoing operational support, with a focus on business transformation and continuous improvement.

The consultant will work closely with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to improve inventory accuracy, warehouse productivity, process traceability, and operational stability.

Key Responsibilities

1. Solution Design & Business Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead requirements-gathering workshops and process design sessions with stakeholders across logistics, warehousing, procurement, manufacturing, and IT.

• Map current-state (as-is) and future-state (to-be) processes, identifying functional gaps, operational bottlenecks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.

• Conduct fit-to-standard and gap analyses, prioritizing standard SAP functionality and providing clear business justification for custom enhancements.

• Design end-to-end warehouse solutions that address transaction volumes, traceability, productivity, and inventory controls.

• Document solution decisions, assumptions, constraints, and integration impacts, maintaining traceability between business requirements and the proposed solution.

2. SAP EWM Configuration & Warehouse Processes

• Configure warehouse organizational structures, including warehouse numbers, storage types, storage bins, activity areas, and work centers.

• Implement inbound warehouse processes, including receiving, unloading, verification, goods receipt posting, and putaway.

• Configure outbound processes, including picking, wave management, packing, staging, shipping, and goods issue posting.

• Configure internal warehouse movements, replenishment, stock transfers, physical inventory, and inventory adjustments.

• Maintain warehouse process types, warehouse tasks, warehouse orders, determination strategies, and Warehouse Order Creation Rules (WOCR).

• Configure Handling Unit (HU) management, packing processes, and relevant master data.

• Support radio frequency (RF) execution, mobile data capture, resource management, and execution queues.

• Support batch management, serial number tracking, and shelf-life management based on operational requirements.

• Configure Post Processing Framework (PPF) actions and document outputs when included in the solution scope.

3. Integration & Functional Specifications

• Design and validate integration between SAP EWM and SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA, covering MM, SD, PP, QM, and TM processes as applicable.

• Analyze document flows between enterprise systems and warehouse operations, identifying inconsistencies and process dependencies.

• Develop functional specifications for interfaces, reports, forms, enhancements, and extensions.

• Collaborate with ABAP developers and integration teams to define requirements, validate solutions, and troubleshoot technical issues.

• Support integration with external systems, RF/ITS mobile solutions, data capture devices, and warehouse automation technologies, where applicable.

• Investigate integration queues and interface failures, including RFC, IDoc, and web service scenarios when used within the project landscape.

4. Testing, Deployment & Hypercare

• Prepare and execute unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scenarios.

• Validate end-to-end processes, including operational exceptions, inventory reconciliation, and cross-module dependencies.

• Support master data preparation, initial data loads, and data validation activities.

• Participate in cutover planning and execution, including readiness criteria and pre-go-live checks.

• Provide go-live and hypercare support, prioritizing issues based on operational impact.

• Maintain test evidence, support defect resolution, and obtain business sign-off.

• Prepare configuration documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs), training materials, and end-user guides.

5. Operational Support, Continuous Improvement & Knowledge Transfer

• Analyze incidents and recurring problems, identify root causes, and implement sustainable functional fixes.

• Use the SAP EWM Warehouse Management Monitor and relevant applications to investigate documents, warehouse tasks, inventory, and integration issues.

• Evaluate change requests and estimate effort, risks, dependencies, and business impacts.

• Identify improvements that enhance inventory accuracy, reduce rework, and increase warehouse execution efficiency.

• Provide functional guidance, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to consultants and business users.

• Coordinate functional deliverables with onshore, offshore, and partner teams, proactively escalating blockers and delivery risks.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 5–9 years of hands-on SAP EWM experience , including system configuration and functional solution design.

• Strong expertise in inbound, outbound, internal warehouse movements, and physical inventory processes.

• Practical experience with warehouse organizational structures, master data, warehouse tasks and orders, storage strategies, and picking strategies.

• Functional knowledge of Handling Unit (HU) management, RF processes, replenishment, and operational monitoring.

• Experience supporting SAP EWM implementations, rollouts, enhancements, or application support engagements with broad functional scope.

• Understanding of SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA integration and its impact on end-to-end logistics processes.

• Ability to develop solution documentation, functional specifications, and test scripts.

• Proven ability to independently facilitate workshops, investigate complex functional issues, and present solution alternatives.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, Logistics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA EWM in embedded and/or decentralized deployment scenarios.

• Participation in at least one full-cycle implementation, from requirements gathering through go-live and stabilization.

• Exposure to advanced EWM capabilities, including:

  • Process-Oriented Storage Control (POSC) and Layout-Oriented Storage Control (LOSC)

  • Slotting and rearrangement

  • Labor Management

  • Yard Management

  • Cross-Docking

  • Value-Added Services (VAS)

• Experience with production integration, Quality Management (QM), or Transportation Management (TM) integration.

• Knowledge of Material Flow System (MFS) and warehouse automation integration.

• Experience migrating from SAP Warehouse Management (WM) to SAP EWM.

• Familiarity with SAP Fiori applications and PPF configuration.

• Debugging knowledge to support functional analysis in collaboration with technical teams.

• SAP EWM-related certification.

• English proficiency for workshops, documentation, and collaboration with global teams, as required by the project.

Core Competencies

• End-to-End Business Understanding: Connect warehouse solution design decisions with upstream and downstream business processes.

• Consultative Communication: Clearly explain technical alternatives and align recommendations with business needs.

• Ownership & Autonomy: Independently manage functional deliverables, communicate dependencies, and recommend practical solutions.

• Analytical Problem-Solving: Distinguish symptoms from root causes and resolve complex process inconsistencies.

• Results Orientation: Prioritize operational value, business continuity, and measurable improvements.

• Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing: Work effectively with key users, functional consultants, developers, and project leadership.

• Delivery Discipline: Manage priorities and deadlines while collaborating in Agile delivery environments.

Expected Deliverables & Business Outcomes

• Approved functional solution designs with clear requirements-to-solution traceability.

• Documented configurations validated against representative warehouse scenarios.

• Complete functional specifications aligned with technical delivery teams.

• Executed test scenarios supported by documented evidence, resolved defects, and formal business acceptance.

• Reconciled data and validated integrations before production deployment.

• Cutover and stabilization plans with identified risks and mitigation actions.

• Knowledge transfer and operational documentation sufficient to support business continuity.

• Continuous improvement initiatives tracked against client-agreed KPIs, such as inventory accuracy, processing time, rework, and incident recurrence.