SAP Transportation Management Consultant

Job Title: SAP Functional Analyst 3 (Transportation Management)

Location(s): St. Louis, MO | Lawrenceville, GA | Meridian, ID

Starting Salary: $85,000 - $130,000 (depending on experience)

Employment Type: Full-Time, Salary

Work Environment: Hybrid (4 days in-office, 1 days remote)

About Woodgrain:

Woodgrain is one of the top millwork operations in the world, with locations throughout the United States and Chile. With 70 years of quality manufacturing craftsmanship and service, Woodgrain is a top producer of mouldings, doors, and windows, as well as a premier distributor of specialty building products. Woodgrain Inc. is headquartered in Fruitland, Idaho with six divisions and over 45 manufacturing and warehouse facilities in the United States and South America. Since 1954, Woodgrain is proud to be family owned and operated.

Job Summary:

The IT SAP Functional Analyst (TM) is responsible for designing, building, and delivering the configuration of Transportation Management modules, technical solutioning for integrating software applications and SAP implementations, and working closely with the Data Integration team to develop interfaces and automate solutions. This role will also contribute to the implementation and maintenance of systems that support Woodgrain’s SAP Transportation Management functions in accordance with the Project Management Life Cycle and will be heavily involved in blueprinting, partnering with the business users and subject matter experts to analyze, define, and implement lean business processes and system solutions that will be utilized across the Woodgrain organization during SAP implementations for mergers, acquisitions and upgrades, as well as the integration of non-SAP solutions with SAP.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Configure Transportation Management Modules
• Be the subject matter expert for SAP Transportation Management (TM) with an emphasis on Freight Planning (e.g., road, rail, ocean, air), Load Building, Freight Units/Order Building, Freight Forwarding, Carrier Determination, Freight Agreements, Tendering, and General Transportation Management.
• Lead or participate in blueprinting sessions to define scope, gather business requirements, create concepts and designs that meet business needs, and document detailed specifications for the development of custom programs, testing, and implementing the automated solutions.
• Document requirements for conversions, upgrades, interfaces, business logic, reports, forms, and workflow and develop technical solutions as defined and documented during blueprinting.
• Manage and perform functional, unit, regression, and integration testing for go-lives and software updates.
• Deliver multiple projects (sometimes concurrently) by effectively communicating and collaborating with cross-functional teams including IT Applications, Infrastructure, SAP Basis, Security, Data Integration, Architecture, Business Resource Managers, the Business, and Management.
• Provide customer service to end users by logging, routing, and resolving incoming requests for TM-related process or system issues and bugs.
• Develop, document and revise standard operating procedures, user documentation, business process workflows and training guides

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical areas such as Computer Science, Information Technology, or Business. Equivalent training and experience can be considered in lieu of a degree.
• At least 5 years of previous experience working on SAP with the Transportation Management environment. (i.e., Freight Planning (e.g., road, rail, ocean, air), Load Building, Freight Units/Order Building, Freight Forwarding, Carrier Determination, Freight Agreements, Tendering, and General Transportation Management)
• Must have assisted in 1 large-scale ERP implementation.
• Strong understanding of an experience with TM terminology and methodology. (i.e., Multiple Mode Stage, Zone and Lane Development, Default Routes, BOBF, PPF, ATP, Tendering, etc.)
• Knowledge of SAP Transportation Management (TM) configuration and integration points with the other SAP modules (i.e., FI/CO, MM, SD, and WM).
• Experience with configuration in SAP ECC 6.0 and/or S/4 HANA

Additional Skills:

• Excellent analytical skills to interpret complex, cross-functional requirements and challenges
• Ability to develop process maps, project plans, cutover and conversion plans, technical specifications, user guides and other documentation
• Ability to work efficiently with team members from different geographical locations and expertise backgrounds.
• Strong interpersonal, listening, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Commitment to a strong work ethic and coordinating within a rapidly changing environment and handling unexpected solutions.
• Ability to effectively communicate in English, both verbally and in writing. Additional languages preferred.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands and work environment for this role align with those of a standard office setting. While performing job duties, the employee may occasionally need to stand, walk, sit, use hands for handling objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, as well as talk and hear. This role may occasionally require lifting or moving up to 25 pounds.

Travel:

This position may require travel to other Woodgrain locations, expected travel time is 15%.