Consultant 

Job Description

Responsibilities

1. Legacy Data Assessment and Profiling

• Perform detailed analysis and profiling of legacy procurement and supplier data to understand source structures, relationships, data volumes, completeness, usage patterns, and overall data quality.
• Analyze legacy data volumes by relevant organizational dimensions such as company code, purchasing organization, purchasing group, plant, supplier, material, document type, and other applicable attributes.
• Identify duplicate, incomplete, inconsistent, obsolete, and invalid records and other data quality issues that could affect migration.
• Estimate data cleansing and remediation effort based on profiling results.
• Prepare data assessment reports and communicate findings, risks, and recommendations to Data Migration and STP leadership.

2. Data Relevancy Analysis

• Collaborate with STP Functional Teams, Business Data Owners, and cross-functional process teams to define business-driven data relevancy rules.
• Define criteria for determining Active versus Inactive suppliers, purchasing master data, and open procurement transactions.
• Develop object-specific relevancy rules using criteria such as recent purchasing activity, open transactions, supplier status, organizational assignments, future sourcing requirements, and legal or regulatory requirements.
• Analyze cross-functional dependencies when determining migration relevancy.
• Produce relevancy reports identifying records proposed for migration and exclusion.
• Review relevancy results with Business Data Owners and obtain alignment on the migration population.
• Maintain and refine relevancy rules throughout mock conversion cycles.

3. Data Mapping and Functional Design

• Conduct Data Mapping Workshops with STP Functional Teams, Business Data Owners, Business SMEs, and other stakeholders.
• Analyze legacy source structures and SAP S/4HANA target requirements.
• Develop and maintain Data Migration Functional Design Specifications (FDS).
• Develop and maintain Field Mapping Documents (FMD) defining:
• Source-to-target mappings
• Transformation rules
• Default values and derivations
• Value conversions
• Cross-reference (XREF) requirements
• Organizational mappings
• Data cleansing requirements
• Data validation rules
• Identify dependencies on Material Master, Finance, Inventory, Manufacturing, Quality Management, and other value streams.
• Keep FDS and FMD documentation current throughout the migration lifecycle.

4. Business Data Construction and Enablement

• Identify and support Business Data Construction SMEs for assigned migration objects.
• Onboard and train business users on their data migration responsibilities, including:
• Data construction
• Data cleansing
• XREF file preparation
• Relevancy validation
• Pre-load validation
• Post-load validation and reconciliation
• Assist Business SMEs with constructing data that cannot be directly derived from legacy systems.
• Support development and validation of XREF data used to convert legacy values to SAP S/4HANA values.
• Review constructed data for completeness, consistency, and migration readiness.

5. Migration Build Support

• Work closely with SAP BODS or Syniti Data Migration Developers during migration design and build.
• Explain functional requirements documented in the FDS and FMD.
• Clarify source-to-target mappings, transformation logic, XREF rules, relevancy rules, defaulting and derivation requirements, and validation logic.
• Review ETL implementation to ensure alignment with approved functional requirements.
• Support developers in analyzing source data and resolving functional questions and migration errors.
• Participate in design reviews and migration object readiness reviews.

6. Testing and Data Validation

• Develop Functional Unit Test scenarios and expected results.
• Perform Functional Unit Testing for assigned STP migration objects.
• Work with developers to troubleshoot ETL errors, transformation defects, data load failures, and reconciliation differences.
• Assist Business SMEs with pre-load validation, mock conversion validation, post-load validation, and legacy-to-SAP reconciliation.
• Determine whether defects require remediation in source data, constructed data, XREFs, mapping specifications, or ETL logic.
• Support defect logging, retesting, resolution, and closure.
• Coordinate business review and approval of migration validation results.

7. Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate with other SAP value streams where STP migration objects have cross-functional dependencies.
• Work with RTR/Finance teams on Supplier Business Partner company-code and financial attributes.
• Coordinate with Material Master and PP teams for material-related procurement data.
• Coordinate with QM teams for Quality Info Records and supplier quality dependencies.
• Coordinate with Inventory, Warehouse Management, and other supply-chain teams for open purchasing transactions.
• Identify migration sequencing dependencies and communicate them to Data Migration leadership.

8. Cutover and Hypercare Support

• Support mock conversions, dress rehearsals, and production migration events.
• Participate in cutover planning and readiness reviews.
• Validate that construction, XREF, relevancy, ETL, and validation activities are complete before production migration.
• Coordinate business validation and reconciliation during cutover.
• Track migration-related issues through resolution during cutover and Hypercare.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of hands-on SAP Data Migration Functional Consultant experience supporting Source-to-Pay / Procure-to-Pay data migration.
• 10+ years of SAP consulting experience supporting large global SAP ERP implementations or SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
• Strong functional understanding of SAP procurement and supplier master data processes.
• Demonstrated experience with legacy data profiling, data quality assessment, and data cleansing.
• Experience defining data relevancy rules and migration scope.
• Experience conducting Data Mapping Workshops and preparing FDS and FMD deliverables.
• Experience supporting business data construction, XREF development, and pre-load/post-load validation.
• Experience working with SAP BODS, Syniti, SAP Migration Cockpit, or comparable enterprise migration solutions.
• Experience supporting multiple mock conversion cycles and production cutovers.
• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills

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