Senior SAP TM Functional Consultant
About the role
This role serves as the primary resource for delivering the TCA system upgrade and supporting the SAP S/4HANA 2025 upgrade, with a specialized focus on Transportation Management (TM). The position is responsible for systematically assessing system impacts, validating logistics business processes, and ensuring uninterrupted daily shipping and logistics operations throughout the upgrade transition.
Responsibilities
- Assess the functional impacts of the SAP S/4HANA 2025 upgrade on TM processes using SAP Release Notes, Simplification Items, and relevant documentation.
- Validate end-to-end business process integrity and enable a smooth migration through hands-on testing, integration, and functional configuration (no coding required).
- Identify and resolve system defects through structured root cause analysis and continuous testing.
- Collaborate closely across Application Development, BPMA, TCA, integration, and testing teams to implement changes and coordinate with Change Management on all upgrade impacts.
- Maintain critical logistics operations, ensuring efficient freight planning, carrier selection, and safe shipment processes are not disrupted.
- Support system retrofits, deployment projects, and dual maintenance during steady-state and upgrade periods as needed.
Requirements
- Minimum five years of hands-on SAP TM (Transportation Management) and S/4HANA upgrade experience, ideally within international, mid- to large-scale environments.
- Prior background using SAP S/4HANA (2025, Private Cloud, On-Premise), SAP TM (embedded/decentralized), SAP EWM, MM/SD, as well as integration protocols such as SAP EDI, IDocs, ESR, CIF, and tools like SAP Solution Manager, Readiness Check, and Focused Build.
- Ability to review and interpret SAP simplification notes, design and execute impact assessments, manage master data and configuration (vs. programming), and coordinate dual-maintenance and environment management for upgrades.
- Experience leading design and execution of integration test scenarios, user acceptance testing, and rigorous end-to-end defect management, leveraging analytical troubleshooting and root cause resolution.
- Expertise mapping Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes to TM modules.
- Understanding of freight planning, charge management, tendering, and settlement.
- Professional communication skills with experience serving as a cross-functional liaison between technical integration, business process management, and change management teams.
- Ability to explain system changes, train users, and foster operational continuity.
- Execution-driven, detail-oriented, and analytical profile capable of diving deeply into system validation and troubleshooting without needing coding experience.
Preferred Skills
- SAP Certified Application Associate – TM in S/4HANA certification (a plus; real-world validation skills take precedence).
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
- 401k Retirement Fund
Pay
$82.00–$85.00 / Hour (USD)
Schedule
- Position Type: Contract
- Contract Duration: 6 months
- Onsite Flexibility: Onsite
About the Client
This client is a global food and agriculture company — the largest privately held enterprise in the United States — operating across more than 70 countries and serving customers in 125. The organization connects the world's agricultural supply with the people and industries that depend on it, managing the movement, processing, and marketing of grains, oilseeds, sugar, and other agricultural commodities, while also producing starches, sweeteners, proteins, and natural ingredients used in food, fuel, and consumer products. Teams here span agronomists, supply chain and logistics specialists, food scientists, commodity traders, risk analysts, and finance professionals, offering broad career paths across a globally interconnected enterprise.
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