SAP EWM Functional Analyst

About the role

Ford Customer Service Division, within Ford, is seeking an SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) Functional Consultant to join a team executing roadmap products for NA Warehousing and Outbound Logistics Product Line. The role involves working with customers to understand requirements, translating them into functional specifications, and supporting the deployment of solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to understand requirements and translate into functional specifications, and blueprint for developing solutions.
• Develop test cases, scenarios, plans, and execute all levels of testing, and assist functional and business teams with testing.
• Provide post-deployment hyper-care, support production issue escalations, and provide knowledge transfer to support the organization.
• Ensure production monitoring, triage, and issue/problem resolution.
• Collaborate directly and continuously with the product team and product owners, prioritizing deliverables for business and user value-driven approaches with continuous improvement and innovative mindset.
• Engage in and drive agile practices and behaviors within the product team.
• Demonstrate good skills in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation.
• Explore use cases and adoption of native AI capabilities across the EWM legacy and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
• Proven professional experience of 8+ years in a hands-on functional role in Analyzing, Blue printing, Designing, Configuring (RICEFW), Implementing, Documenting, and Supporting SAP EWM systems, preferably in Automotive industry.
• Experience in 5+ full SAP EWM life cycle implementations, preferably in S4 HANA.
• Hands-on experience in Decentralized and Embedded SAP EWM systems.
• Proficient in EWM Inbound, Outbound, and Internal EWM functional areas, Master Data, and Operational processes – Good Receipt, Unloading, Deconsolidation, Putaway, Quality Inspection, Physical Inventory Counting, Posting Changes, Stock Transfers, Wave Management, Picking, Packing, Replenishment, Loading, Goods Issue, Slotting, Routing, Availability Groups, Warehouse Tasks, Warehouse Orders, WOCR, Storage Control, Handling Units, Exception handling, Transportation/Opportunistic cross-docking, Value Added Services, RF framework, PPF, integration with label forms, Condition Types, Warehouse Structure configuration, etc.
• Knowledge of EWM warehouse integration with ECC/S4 HANA core and corresponding Plant, Storage Location, Logistics Execution setup, Movement Types, Output Types/Determination, etc.
• Familiar with ABAP coding to perform debugging for triaging post-launch issues.
• Working knowledge of EWM integration with other SPM domains like SPP, FI, MD, MM, SD.
• Ability to work individually and together with the Product team.
• Ability to work collaboratively across Product teams to accomplish a shared objective.
• Proven ability to work closely with leadership.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt your communication style to the audience and teach others.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in decentralized EWM in S/4 HANA on RISE.
• Worked on ECC-S4 Migration experience on SAP RISE.
• Knowledge of SAP BTP, especially on Integration Suite (IS – CPI).
• SAP certification on EWM, S/4 HANA, BTP-IS.
• Knowledge of FIORI applications.
• Familiar with Warehouse automation like AGV, ASRS, etc., integrations with EWM.