SAP S/4HANA MM/EWM Solution Design Expert

Job Title: SAP S/4HANA Design Expert MM, Procurement and EWM

Experience: 12+ yrs.
Job Location: Bangalore / Chennai / Hyderabad / Pune / Mumbai
Work Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full Time / Permanent
Qualification: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Role Purpose

The SAP S/4HANA Design Expert will act as ARSs internal design authority for Materials Management, Procurement and Extended Warehouse Management within the S/4HANA transformation programme.

The role will guide business stakeholders through S/4HANA process and design decisions, ensure alignment with fit-to-standard and clean-core principles, and independently review and challenge the System Integrators recommendations.

This is a senior, hands-on role requiring strong SAP MM and EWM consulting expertise, good knowledge of manufacturing operations, and the ability to work effectively with business stakeholders across Procurement, Manufacturing, Warehousing and Finance.

Key Responsibilities

Business Engagement and Guidance

• Engage with BPOs, Domain Coordinators, process owners and key users to understand business objectives, operational constraints and improvement opportunities.
• Guide the business through S/4HANA process changes and explain the operational impact in clear, non-technical language.
• Facilitate design discussions and help stakeholders make informed decisions.
• Challenge requests that replicate legacy processes without sufficient business justification.
• Distinguish between mandatory requirements, business preferences and unnecessary customisation.
• Manage difficult discussions constructively and build alignment across stakeholders with different priorities.
• Support the Business Process Expert in resolving cross-domain dependencies and design conflicts.

S/4HANA Design Authority

• Act as ARS’s internal design authority for SAP MM, Procurement, Inventory Management and EWM.
• Review and validate end-to-end designs proposed by the SI.
• Ensure designs follow fit-to-standard, clean-core, process-harmonisation and architectural principles.
• Challenge SI assumptions, estimates, customisation proposals and solution recommendations.
• Evaluate solution options and clearly communicate their benefits, limitations, risks and business impacts.
• Verify that approved requirements are correctly translated into functional designs and configuration.
• Review process flows, functional specifications, configuration documents and WRICEF requirements.
• Assess deviations from the global template and recommend approval, redesign or escalation.
• Ensure traceability between business requirements, design decisions, build and testing.

Functional Scope

The role requires strong hands-on expertise across:

• Procure-to-pay processes
• Direct and indirect procurement
• Purchase requisitions, purchase orders and approvals
• Contracts, scheduling agreements and source determination
• Inventory management and physical inventory
• Goods receipt, goods issue and stock transfers
• Subcontracting, external processing and consignment
• Invoice verification and Finance integration
• Material valuation and automatic account determination
• Material master and organisational structures
• Batch, serial-number and traceability requirements
• Embedded and decentralised EWM scenarios
• Inbound, outbound and internal warehouse processes
• Put-away, picking, packing, staging and replenishment
• Handling-unit, warehouse-task and warehouse-order management
• Production supply and receipt from production
• RF and mobile warehouse operations
• EWM integration with MM, Manufacturing, Quality and Finance
• Assessment of basic and advanced EWM capabilities

Cross-Domain Integration and Delivery Assurance

• Evaluate the impact of MM and EWM decisions on Finance, Manufacturing, Quality and other connected functions.
• Work closely with the Finance, Procurement and Manufacturing Domain Coordinators.
• Identify cross-domain dependencies before designs are approved.
• Participate in fit-to-standard workshops, design reviews and solution playback sessions.
• Review SI deliverables for completeness, quality and compliance with the agreed scope.
• Support prioritisation of process gaps, developments and improvements.
• Review end-to-end test scenarios and support business teams during testing.
• Assist in determining whether defects originate from design, configuration, data or business processes.
• Support cutover, deployment and post-go-live stabilisation when required.
• Ensure key design decisions, risks, assumptions and exceptions are properly documented.

Required Experience and Competencies

• Significant SAP consulting experience, including large-scale transformation programmes.
• Strong hands-on expertise in SAP S/4HANA MM, Procurement, Inventory Management and EWM.
• Experience in at least two full-cycle S/4HANA implementations, preferably within complex manufacturing organisations.
• Strong understanding of integration across Procurement, Warehousing, Manufacturing, Quality and Finance.
• Knowledge of S/4HANA simplifications, Fiori, fit-to-standard delivery and clean-core principles.
• Ability to review configuration, functional specifications, integration designs and enhancement requirements.
• Proven experience reviewing and challenging System Integrator deliverables.
• Understanding of master data, migration, testing, cutover and deployment.
• Experience with selective data transition or Bluefield programmes would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of Ariba and other procurement or warehouse integrations would be beneficial.
• Excellent stakeholder-management, facilitation and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to translate technical topics into clear business language.
• Confidence to constructively challenge both business stakeholders and the SI.
• Pragmatic, independent and solution-oriented approach.
• Need to liaise and collaborate with both Internal MM team and S4 Program. Advisory from Arabelle IT MM Team.