S​/HANA Logistics & Warehousing Business SME

Position: S/4HANA Logistics & Warehousing Business SME

S/4

HANA Logistics & Warehousing Business SME JOB SUMMARY

The S/4

HANALogistics & Warehousing Business SME serves as the primary business lead and subject matter expert for Logistics, Warehousing, and Trade Compliance in support of the company’s global SAP S/4

HANA implementation.

This role represents Global Supply Chain Operations in the design, testing, and deployment of S/4

HANA solutions, ensuring future‑state processes align with global standards, regulatory requirements, and operational needs. The position combines deep functional expertise in transportation, warehousing, and trade compliance with strong project execution, cross‑functional collaboration, and change leadership capabilities.

This leader partners closely with regional fulfillment teams, IT, system integrators, Quality, Procurement, and Finance to enable standardized, scalable, and compliant logistics processes while supporting long‑term operational excellence beyond go‑live.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES S/4

HANA Program Leadership & SME Representation

• Serve as the Global Logistics, Warehousing, and Trade Compliance SME for the SAP S/4
  
  HANA transformation program.
• Represent Global Supply Chain in design sessions related to logistics, warehousing, transportation management, and trade compliance, including dependencies with OTC, MDM, Finance, and Manufacturing.
• Provide expert insight into current‑state processes, system usage, and known pain points to inform future‑state solution design.
• Collaborate with IT and system integrator partners to define, validate, and refine functional and technical designs aligned with global standards.

Logistics, Warehousing & Trade Compliance Enablement

• Support the definition and deployment of standardized global logistics, warehousing, and trade compliance processes aligned to S/4
  
  HANA capabilities.
• Ensure system designs support end‑to‑end transportation management, 3PL integration, warehouse operations, trade compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with regional fulfillment teams to ensure global standards are executable at the regional and site level.
• Support inbound and outbound freight process design, including carrier integration, freight settlement, and performance visibility.

Testing, Cutover & Deployment Support

• Participate in and support all phases of the S/4
  
  HANA project lifecycle, including design validation, testing, data validation, cutover planning, and deployment.
• Lead or support user acceptance testing (UAT) scenarios related to logistics, warehousing, and trade compliance.
• Identify risks, gaps, and dependencies related to logistics processes and elevate issues with clear mitigation plans.
• Deliver regular status updates and milestone reporting to project leadership and supply chain stakeholders.

Change Management & Adoption

• Support change management activities, including training development, communications, and user readiness efforts.
• Act as a liaison between Global Supply Chain operations and the ERP project team to ensure smooth adoption.
• Support post‑go‑live stabilization, process adoption, and continuous improvement across regions and sites, as needed.

Continuous Improvement & Strategic Alignment

• Identify opportunities to improve logistics, warehousing, and trade compliance processes through system enablement and standardization.
• Support analytics and reporting capabilities to increase visibility to service, cost, risk, and compliance.
• Ensure alignment between S/4
  
  HANA logistics capabilities and longer‑term supply chain strategy and technology roadmaps.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience

• 8‑10+ years of experience in global logistics, transportation, warehousing, and/or trade compliance within a complex supply chain environment.
• Hands‑on experience with SAP core functionality and transactions; S/4
  
  HANA exposure preferred.
• Experience supporting ERP implementations, transformations, or major process standardization initiatives.
• Experience with logistics and warehouse technologies such as TMS, WMS/LWM, track & trace, and trade compliance systems.
• Experi…