SAP EWM Lead Functional Analyst

The SAP EWM Lead is accountable for leading warehouse business process discovery, requirements definition, functional solution design, and deployment of SAP S/4

HANA Extended Warehouse Management (EWM). This role serves as the primary bridge between warehouse operations, supply chain stakeholders, implementation partners, and IT teams.

The successful candidate combines strong warehouse management business knowledge with deep SAP EWM functional expertise to challenge and improve requirements, design practical and scalable solutions, maximize standard EWM capabilities, and drive business adoption and operational readiness. The role provides end-to-end leadership from current-state assessment and future-state design through testing, cutover, go-live, stabilization, and continuous improvement.

• This role does NOT provide current or future sponsorship assistance.
• Please note that we will NOT provide relocation assistance (Candidates are expected to relocate on own 3 weeks from time of offer acceptance).
• Employees are required to report in office 4 days a week / 7834 CF Hawn Freeway | Dallas, Texas 75217 (NO NEGOTIATION).
• This is a direct hire role;
  We are NOT open to employing through contractor or agency.

• Business Process Leadership: Develop a detailed understanding of warehouse operations and lead current-state and future-state process design across receiving, putaway, replenishment, internal movements, picking, packing, staging, shipping, physical inventory, returns, and exception handling.
• Requirements Leadership: Plan and facilitate business workshops, document business requirements and process flows, distinguish business needs from solution preferences, and obtain stakeholder alignment and formal approval.
• Solution Ownership: Translate approved requirements into an integrated SAP EWM functional design that is scalable, supportable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and SAP best practices.
• Fit-to-Standard and Optimization: Promote effective use of standard SAP EWM capabilities, identify process simplification opportunities, and recommend configuration before custom development. Clearly document business value, risks, and support implications for required enhancements.
• Functional Configuration: Provide hands-on configuration leadership for embedded or decentralized EWM, including warehouse structure, master data, inbound and outbound processing, warehouse tasks and orders, storage control, replenishment, cross-docking, wave management, labor-related processes, physical inventory, handling units, packing, staging, and shipping.
• Advanced EWM Capabilities: Assess and lead the appropriate design of Yard Management, Slotting and Rearrangement, Labor Management, Production Supply, Quality Inspection integration, Value-Added Services, RF and mobile execution, automation, and Material Flow System integration where applicable.
• Cross-Functional Integration: Lead functional integration with SAP S/4
  
  HANA processes and adjacent solutions, including inventory management, sales and distribution, transportation, manufacturing, quality, procurement, finance, master data, reporting, and warehouse automation systems.
• Process and Design Documentation: Maintain business process design documents, functional specifications, configuration documentation, process flows, decision logs, traceability, and operating procedures with clear ownership and version control.
• Testing Leadership: Define the functional test strategy and acceptance criteria; lead unit, integration, regression, user acceptance, and operational scenario testing; ensure defects are triaged, prioritized, resolved, and retested.
• Data and Readiness: Partner with business and technical teams to define master and transactional data requirements, validate data quality, support migration and reconciliation, and confirm warehouse readiness for deployment.
• Cutover, Go-Live, and Stabilization: Lead functional cutover planning, mock cutovers, go-live readiness assessments, command-center support, hypercare, issue resolution, and transition to the production support organization.
• Business Adoption: Partner with business process owners and warehouse leaders to define role impacts, training needs, work instructions, super-user capability, adoption measures, and sustainable operating practices.
• Governance and Decision Support: Present solution options, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to business and IT leadership; accelerate decisions…