EY SAP - EWM IM 3PL Senior Consulting Location OPEN 

United States, Texas, Houston 

84408753

Our SAP Logistics team provides strategic solutions that transform logistics operations, enhancing cost efficiency, quality, and effectiveness. In this role, you will assist clients in integrating their SAP ERP systems with third-party logistics (3PL) warehouse management systems (WMS) and non-SAP legacy or best-of-breed WMS applications.

As a Senior Technology Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions. You will interact with business stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements, ensuring that newly implemented technology solutions meet their needs. Your collaboration with technical teams will be essential in designing and delivering effective system architecture solutions.

Your key responsibilities

In this role, you will spend your time engaging with clients and internal teams to ensure successful project delivery. You will face challenges that require analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, providing you with opportunities to learn and grow in a dynamic environment. This position may require regular travel to meet with clients, allowing you to build relationships and understand their needs better. Key responsibilities include:

• Interacting with business stakeholders to evaluate business models and processes.
• Analyzing newly implemented technology solutions to verify they meet business requirements.
• Collaborating with technical teams to design and deliver system architecture solutions.
• Participate in Explore phase design workshops.
• Perform configuration of SAP Inventory Management, Logistics Execution, ALE and other related SAP modules.
• Design interfaces and integration between SAP and external WMS applications.
• Design custom RICEF solutions and document functional specifications.
• Perform testing of solutions.
• Support development and delivery of training materials.
• Provide on-site hyper-care support to client / 3PL warehouse users.
• Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and possess strong business acumen. Demonstrate ability to assimilate new knowledge.
• Consistently deliver quality client services. Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Establish relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels.

Skills and attributes for success

To excel in this role, you will need a combination of technical and interpersonal skills. Your ability to build relationships and communicate effectively will be crucial.

On your typical engagement, you will work with the key stakeholders to understand their needs and advise on SAP system capabilities. You will initiate the requirement gathering, architect solutions, blueprinting, testing, complete the workflow and documentation, as well as the functional design of the solution. Additionally, you will liaise with stakeholders and technical team to translate requirements into business solutions and complete the configurations and integrations with both SAP and non-SAP systems. The following skills and attributes will have a significant impact:

• Strong analytical and decision-making abilities.
• Proficiency in technology business requirements definition and analysis.
• Experience in system configuration design and technology cost-benefit analysis.
• Ability to manage client relationships and communicate with impact.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor’s degree required.
• Typically, no less than 2 - 4 years of experience working with SAP logistics solutions involving external WMS integration
• Strong technical skills in application functional design.
• Expertise in technology business requirements definition, analysis, and mapping.
• Skills in training design and delivery.
• Ability to build and manage relationships effectively.

• A flexibility and willingness to travel to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 40-60%

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Prior consulting industry experience or deep functional experience
• SAP certification(s).
• Experience with at least one full lifecycle implementation of SAP S/4.
• Experience with at least one full lifecycle integration an external WMS with SAP.
• Experience with EDI messaging, specifically messages 846, 856, 888, 940, 943, 944, 945 and 947, and/or X12 or EDIFACT equivalents.
• Experience with API integration into non-SAP WMS solutions.
• Experience performing hands-on SAP system configuration.
• Experience with configuring SAP logistics execution (delivery-related configuration) and Materials Management (inventory management and physical inventory configuration).
• Experience designing custom RICEF solutions and writing functional specifications.
• Experience writing and executing test scripts.
• Experience writing and delivering training materials for end users.
• Knowledge and understanding of warehouse operations for distribution and manufacturing facility operations.