SAP MM - Procurement Analyst

Technical Competencies:

• Must have around 5-8 years of hands-on experience in SAP MM module with atleast 2 to 3 end to end implementation projects.
• Must have deep understanding of procurement best practices, very good functional and configuration experience in following areas of SAP MM
• Material Master, Business Partner, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Outline Agreements, Release strategies, Pricing, Intercompany Billing, Special Procurement, output determination for messages, Reports.
• Inventory Management (Goods Movement, Physical Inventory count & Cycle counts, ABC analysis) Valuation and split valuation and Account Determination. Logistics Invoice Verification, Credit Memos, Account Payables, Classification.
• Must have very good understanding on contracts and data migration
• Consultant must be an SME in handling contract data migration
• Must have hands-on experience in data migration activities (ETL) for MM objects, understand the object dependencies
• Understand the data requirements for contracts in target system and accordingly clean, translate, populate data in required templates for data load in target system
• Identify areas of automation and simplification and propose best practices for data migration. Propose changes to automate and simplify the process. Validate the process for expected results and benefits
• Remediate issues for timely closure. Timely reporting of the progress to stakeholders

Functional Competencies:

• Role expects constant liaison with business users and the consultant is expected to have very good Communication skills (written and verbal)
• Very good analytical and problem solving skills; should be able to analyze the issues for root-cause and propose workarounds and permanent fixes
• Should develop details analysis on root-cause analysis, probable technical solutions (workarounds and permanent fixes), change impact analysis, request for change / functional specification documents, detailed test plans, test execution / validation of the solution and release management
• Should own the issue or task and engage relevant stakeholders and take accountability to drive the issue to closure
• Commitment to close issue with agility and in timely manner is very critical
• Good networking skills and should be able to interact effectively with all levels of management.