SAP Retail SME (with SAP MM or SAP SD)

Experience : 10 - 12 years

About the role :

Act as the retail process authority for the programme - own retail master data, retail integration and the end-to-end retail MM and SD flows, and guide the wider team on design and solutioning decisions.

Project experience required :

- Must have worked on at least two SAP implementation or migration projects, end to end.

- Must have worked on retail projects, with a core skill in either SAP MM or SAP SD.

- Exposure to implementation, migration or conversion, and rollout projects is preferred, along with the operational view that comes from supporting a live retail landscape.

- Should have owned design and solutioning decisions, not only configuration to a given design.

Business process and functional knowledge :

- Retail master data - article master in all its types (single, generic and variant, structured, display, set, prepack), merchandise category hierarchy, and the characteristics and class structure behind it.

- Site and organisational master data - stores and distribution centres, site groups, site profiles, and the organisational structure behind a retail landscape.

- Assortment management - assortment types, listing conditions, layout modules, and assortment to site assignment.

- Retail pricing - sales price calculation, pricing worksheets, price lists, margin control, and price activation to stores and POS.

- Promotion and markdown management - promotion planning, promotion pricing, markdown planning and their downstream impact on POS and finance.

- Allocation and merchandise distribution - allocation tables, push and pull flows, cross-docking and flow-through.

- Replenishment - store and DC replenishment, requirement calculation, and the interaction with purchasing and inventory.

- Store operations integration - outbound article, price and promotion data to POS, and inbound sales, inventory and cash data back into SAP.

- Physical inventory and shrink management across stores and DCs.

- Retail Integration - the end-to-end data and process flow across the retail landscape and the third-party systems around it.

- Retail MM and SD flows covering configuration, design and solutioning.

- Knowledge of SAP data retention and archiving, and of what drives a retention decision in a high-volume environment.

Technical knowledge :

- Master data load and mass maintenance - migration tooling, mass change, and the practical limits of each when dealing with large article and site volumes.

- Interfaces used for master data distribution and for POS inbound and outbound, and the ability to troubleshoot them.

- Working knowledge of the key retail tables and how article, site, assortment and listing data is stored and linked.

- Able to write functional specifications and review technical designs for retail-specific enhancements.

- Able to assess a design for scalability - data volume, batch windows, and the impact of store or article growth on the solution.