ERP Business Analyst - Distribution & Warehouse

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The ERP Business Analyst serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and ERP delivery teams, specializing in Distribution and Warehouse operations
. This role bridges business needs and ERP system capabilities, translating complex requirements into scalable, value‑driven solutions. The analyst plays a key role in East Penn’s SAP S/4

HANA implementations, enhancements, and ongoing optimization, ensuring alignment with distribution processes, warehouse operations, inventory accuracy, and overall supply chain execution.

Business Analysis & Process Design

• Partner with business leaders, business process owners, and subject matter experts in Distribution and Warehouse to understand operational objectives, challenges, and regulatory/operational constraints.
• Elicit, analyze and document business requirements using interviews, workshops, and process reviews.
• Develop current state and future state, user stories, process maps, functional requirements, and business rules.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, streamline, and optimize warehouse workflows, distribution processes, inventory movements, and material handling using ERP best practices.
• Use data assets to compile information for analysis when approaching business challenges such as inventory accuracy, warehouse throughput, picking efficiency, replenishment, and order fulfillment performance
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ERP & SAP Functional Expertise

• Serve as an ERP functional expert for the Distribution and Warehouse domain with strong working knowledge of SAP S/4
  
  HANA modules such as MM, WM/EWM, IM, TM
  , and related supply chain components.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications for SAP configuration, enhancements, data mapping and integrations.
• Collaborate with SAP configuration, development, integration, OCM and data teams to design end‑to‑end solutions.
• Advise stakeholders on SAP capabilities, limitations, design alternatives, and impacts to upstream, downstream, and cross‑functional processes.

Project Delivery & Implementation Support

• Serve as a functional advisor on designs for East Penn’s initial SAP S4H implementation.
• Support ERP initiatives across the full lifecycle: planning, design, build, test, training and deployment.
• Lead or support system integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT), including test case development, execution, and defect resolution.
• Participate in cutover planning, data validation, and go‑live activities to ensure business readiness.
• Provide functional support during hypercare and transition to steady‑state operations.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Enablement

• Act as a trusted advisor to distribution and warehouse process owners and leadership.
• Communicate requirements, design decisions, and impacts clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Support change management…