SAP FTS Functional Consultant

SAP FTS Functional Lead Consultant - Berkshire/Oxford - 6 month rolling contract on a two year programme

The SAP FTS Functional Consultant is a SAP Roadmap Programme delivery role with responsibility for the delivery of the Forecast to Stock (FTS) business process requirements of the SAP solution. The role will ensure a consistent design and build for all Divisions and countries to ensure the Reach objective of improving our ability to understand and manage risk globally is achieved.

Position:
•Work closely with the FTS BPO and SMEs to define the future state business process requirements, and how these can be delivered using standard SAP functionality. Determine any gaps between requirements and SAP functionalities and define workable solutions to bridge those gaps.
•Provide awareness and knowledge transfer to programme team members on standard SAP functionality that is new to the Press. Assess legacy SAP solutions (especially customizations) and how these might be achieved using standard SAP.
•Lead the design workshops and solution blueprint with support from the business process work streams and SAP application consultants. Identify and resolve design and solution conflicts.
•Lead the implementation activities of the FTS functional solutions including functional specification, configuration and unit testing. Resolve defects arising from integration test activities and/or post go-live support.

Skills and Experience: 5 years FTS experience

•Multiple (>10) years of consulting experience across varied customers and industries, including global SAP rollout and/or consolidation programmes.
•SAP functional experience (design and implementation) in the FTS business process areas - including production and inventory management, MRP, material replenishment, advanced planning (APO) and warehouse management.
•SAP functional knowledge of data objects including products, product hierarchies, plants, storage locations, batches, etc.
•Business process design experience with FTS focus.
•Experience in the design of supporting SAP solution requirements including interfaces, outputs, SAP ECC reporting, BW reporting, security and data migration objects.
•Proven experience in SAP implementation based on similar programmes - i.e. template design and build programmes with multiple deployment waves.

Start date is early September, interview early August.
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