Lead Consultant - SAP EWM

Overview

Lead enterprise-scale SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) solutions across sites, owning the EWM agenda from solution architecture through steady-state optimization. Lead design, data, deployment and team delivery to improve warehouse throughput, inventory accuracy, compliance and cycle times.

What you'll do

• Own the vision and roadmap for SAP EWM across sites, translating business goals into scalable, compliant designs.
• Lead EWM design, configuration, testing, deployment and hypercare in S/4HANA.
• Drive Agile delivery across multiple EWM workstreams, managing backlogs, prioritizing outcomes and meeting demanding timelines.
• Orchestrate integration with MM, PP, QM, SD and TM.
• Plan and implement data migration using SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit.
• Guide a team of EWM consultants, set design and documentation standards, review configurations, and provide coaching and feedback.
• Identify and implement productivity gains using automation and AI tools, including Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT.
• Provide leadership and decision support across shift patterns and flexible schedules to maintain 24x7 continuity and rapid incident resolution.
• Facilitate workshops, capture requirements and simplify complex trade-offs for business and technology stakeholders.
• Embed quality and validation needs into designs and continually optimize warehouse flows and inventory management using data and metrics.

What you'll need

• More than 12+ years of SAP EWM consulting experience.
• Expertise in the respective business domain on SAP EWM with S/4HANA.
• SAP EWM implementation or roll-out experience from design to completion of deployment.
• Experience on Decentralised EWM Implementation is mandatory.
• Experience leading a technical team of more than 5 EWM members.
• Ability to guide the team to deliver full EWM solutions through Agile implementation.
• Hands-on experience and knowledge of SAP Extended Warehouse Management and its integration with MM, PP, QM, SD and TM.
• Track record of delivering SAP configuration design.
• Certification in SAP S/4HANA Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) is mandatory.
• Ability to identify ways to improve efficiency by changing work methods through new automation solutions.
• Excellent process knowledge of EWM processes including Inbound, Outbound, Internal warehouse movements, Production staging and physical inventory.
• Hands-on experience setting up warehouses with POSC, LOSC, WOCR, Wave picking and PPF.
• Experience of Pharmaceutical supply chain business activities and required business outcomes within the relevant capability area.
• Sound knowledge and experience configuring or modifying Post Processing Framework in SAP EWM.
• Experience creating Master Data, including Packaging Specifications, Warehouse Interpersonal Structure and Settings for Handling Units.
• Ability to work across the program team and connect with business stakeholders and IT teams.
• Ability to work independently while driving a team of Senior Consultants.
• Good communication and presentation skills, with ability to notice and address details.
• Engineering Graduate or Postgraduate from a reputed University.

Nice to have

• Experience working with SAP MM, SAP TM and SAP ABAP Debugging.
• Involvement in 2 full life cycle S/4HANA greenfield Implementation of Decentralised EWM.
• Experience in SAP Mobile Technologies Implementations using SAP Console, ITS Mobile, IOS app or RFID for Radio Frequency Framework Solution design.
• Experience working in a hybrid environment with a mix of internal and external resources in multiple geographical locations.
• Knowledge of non-SAP technologies in the relevant line of business, such as WCS, AGV, MES or comparable experience, GQCLIMS.
• Experience in Interface Development using RFC, ALE, I Doc or Web Services.
• Exposure to testing tools: Jira and Solution Manager for handling Organizational change process as a User.
• Data Migration performed via SAP S/4HANA’s Migration Cockpit.
• Awareness about SAP Activate, EML, Agile, JIRA, SAP Solution Manager, BPML and Testing Tools.

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nādu, India.
• In-person working with an expectation of being in the office an average minimum of three days per week.
• Flexible working is supported while balancing the expectation of being in the office.
• Provide coverage across shift patterns and flexible schedules to maintain 24x7 continuity.