Supply Chain Consultant (Inventory & Warehouse Management)
Accenture New Zealand
Remote
As an SAP Supply Chain Consultant, you will play a key role in reviewing, refining and enhancing existing SAP Inventory Management (IM) and Warehouse Management (WM/EWM) configurations within a live environment. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to ensure minimal disruption while driving improvements across supply chain processes, inventory control, and system integrations.
Responsibilities
Functional Consulting
- Review and optimize existing SAP IM/WM/EWM configuration in a brownfield environment
- Understand business requirements and translate them into SAP functional specifications
- Perform fit-gap analysis and recommend best-practice supply chain solutions
- Goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfers
- Inventory control and physical inventory
- Warehouse structures, bin management, picking, packing and staging
- Support master data definition and governance including material master, storage locations, and warehouse structures
- Prepare functional specification documents for RICEFW objects
- Work with cross-functional teams (MM, SD, PP, EWM/TM, and Finance) on integration touchpoints
- Participate in workshops, walkthroughs, and solution presentations
Integration & Process Improvement
- Support integration activities including API mapping, testing and functional alignment across supply chain and external systems (e.g. procurement, logistics providers, 3PLs)
- Analyse end-to-end supply chain processes and identify opportunities for optimisation and automation
- Ensure alignment between warehouse operations, inventory processes, and upstream/downstream systems
Testing Responsibilities
- Create and execute detailed test scenarios, test scripts, and test cases
- System Integration Testing (SIT)
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Regression testing
- Log defects, track resolution, and validate fixes
- Work closely with business users to validate supply chain processes and expected outcomes
- Ensure all testing deliverables meet quality and audit standards
General
- Deliver documentation across gap analysis, process design, and configuration
- Collaborate with stakeholders across supply chain, operations, and technical teams
- Support ongoing system improvements, enhancements, and transformation initiatives
Requirements
- 7+ years SAP Supply Chain functional experience with a focus on Inventory Management (IM) and Warehouse Management (WM)
- Proven experience in brownfield environments and live system configuration
- Strong knowledge of inventory processes including goods receipt, goods issue, stock transfers, and physical inventory
- Experience with warehouse processes such as bin management, picking, packing, and stock movements
- Experience supporting integrations from a functional perspective (e.g. APIs, EDI, middleware)
- Hands-on experience with SIT, UAT, and regression testing cycles
- Strong documentation and stakeholder engagement skills