SAP MM / BPO Functional Analyst - AMS
Remote World
- Canada
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Analyze and resolve functional incidents in SAP MM, related to:
- Purchasing and procurement (PR/PO)
- Material and vendor master data
- Inventory management
- Goods receipts, valuation, and logistics movements
- Handle functional requests and minor enhancements aligned with P2P business processes.
- Monitor and validate data flows between SAP MM and external systems using IDocs/EDI, RFC, OData/APIs (SAP PO/CPI middleware desirable), ensuring data consistency and quality.
- Manage tickets according to priority, impact, and SLAs, maintaining clear communication with business users, BPOs, and technical teams.
- Act as the functional reference for the Procure‑to‑Pay process, ensuring SAP MM configuration and operations are aligned with business‑defined processes.
- Review and validate SAP MM functional configurations, including:
- Calculation schemas
- Account determination
- Movement types
- Account assignment categories and purchasing documents
- Validate P2P process flow integrity, including FI/CO integration (account postings, taxes, financial postings).
- Analyze functional impacts of changes or incidents from an end‑to‑end process perspective, identifying root causes and operational risks.
- Document findings, deviations, process decisions, and applied solutions, ensuring traceability and operational control.
- Collaborate with ABAP teams to implement functional adjustments (user‑exits, BADIs, reports, interfaces, forms).
- Coordinate with integration teams (PO/CPI), Basis/infrastructure, and other SAP modules (FI/CO, LE, WM/EWM, PP) when P2P process dependencies exist.
- Facilitate communication between business and IT, translating operational needs into clear functional requirements.
- Provide end‑to‑end follow‑up until actions are fully resolved and closed.
- Maintain up‑to‑date functional and process documentation, including:
- SAP MM configurations
- Operating procedures
- KEDs/KBAs
- the company support evidence
- Prepare information and supporting materials for audits, change controls, and IT reviews, ensuring compliance with internal standards.
- Participate in SIT/UAT for corrective and evolutionary changes in SAP MM.
- Design and execute functional test cases from a business process perspective.
- Validate functional deliverables and coordinate deployments, cutover activities, and post‑release stabilization (hypercare).
- Support regression testing to ensure stability of the P2P process.
- Identify opportunities to optimize the Procure‑to‑Pay process and SAP MM configuration.
- Propose improvements aimed at:
- Reducing recurring incidents
- Increasing operational efficiency
- Improving process traceability and control
- Meeting and enhancing SLA compliance
- Contribute to the evolution of the the company service from a process‑ and business‑oriented perspective.
- SAP MM (ECC & S/4HANA):
- Purchasing and procurement processes (PR/PO)
- Material and vendor master data management
- Inventory management, goods movements, and valuation
- Understanding of ECC classic data model and S/4HANA simplified data model (MATDOC) is desirable
- Account determination and internal logistics processes
- BPO-level understanding of the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process, with the ability to manage and support:
- End-to-end process flows
- Business controls and compliance requirements
- Cross-functional dependencies
- Operational and financial risks
- MM-FI/CO integration (ECC & S/4HANA):
- Account postings
- Tax determination
- Logistics-to-finance postings and reconciliation
- Interface and operational monitoring (ECC & S/4HANA):
- IDoc/EDI processing and monitoring (WE02 / WE05)
- Background job monitoring (SM37)
- Application and system logs (SLG1, ST22, SM13, SM21)
- Monitoring and troubleshooting integrations using SAP PO/CPI or other middleware platforms, including message flows, mappings, and adapters.
- Basic ABAP debugging skills to support functional root cause analysis in ECC and S/4HANA environments.
- Basic SQL and data analysis skills to support functional diagnostics, reconciliations, and incident investigation.
- General understanding of S/4HANA architecture and performance considerations (desirable).
- ITIL-based practices applied to the company services, including:
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Change Management
- Ticketing and collaboration tools commonly used in the company environments:
- ServiceNow
- SAP Solution Manager
- Jira / Confluence
- Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori applications (desirable).
- Experience with LATAM localizations and tax scenarios (desirable).
- Strong functional analysis with a clear business process focus.
- Ability to act as a bridge between business and IT, typical of a BPO-oriented role.
- Clear and effective communication with business users, stakeholders, and technical teams.
- Accurate documentation skills and disciplined follow-up on operational procedures.
- Strong organization, prioritization, and a service- and results-oriented mindset, aligned with the company delivery models.
- Bachelor's degree or Engineering in Systems, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Previous experience providing SAP functional support within an the company model.
- 3+ years of experience, with a strong focus on SAP MM and Procure-to-Pay processes in ECC and/or S/4HANA environments.
- Solid understanding of operational and logistics processes from a business (BPO) perspective.
- Basic English required; intermediate level desirable for documentation review and user interaction.