SAP Functional Analyst (Transportation Management)

Job Title: SAP Functional Analyst

• Transportation Management (TM)

Location: Corporate Satellite Office

• Lawrenceville, Georgia or West Des Moines, Iowa or

Meridian, Idaho or St. Louis (Chesterfield), Missouri

Starting Salary: $90,000 - $125,000 (depending on experience)

Employment Type: Full-Time, Salary

Work Environment: Hybrid (3 days in-office, 2 days remote), Monday through Friday 8am to 5pm*

(*Flexibility to adjust scheduled work hours can be approved with manager)

Summary of Company Benefits:

• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• Health Savings Account (HSA)

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• 401(k) with 3% Employer Match

• Group Term Life Insurance and AD&D

• Employer Paid Long-Term & Short-Term Disability

• Voluntary Supplemental Hospital and Accident Plans

• Employee Assistance Program

• 8 Company Paid Holidays & 1 Floating Holiday

• Progressive Paid Time Off (PTO) Accruals

• Annual Salary Incentive Bonus

About Woodgrain:

Woodgrain is one of the top millwork operations in the world with locations throughout the United States and Chile. With 68 years of quality craftsmanship and service, Woodgrain is a top producer of mouldings, doors, and windows, as well as a premier distributor of specialty building products. Woodgrain Inc. is headquartered in Fruitland, Idaho with six divisions and over 45 manufacturing and warehouse facilities in the United States and South America. Since 1954, Woodgrain is proud to be family owned and operated.

Job Summary:

The SAP Functional Analyst is responsible for the design, configuration, and analysis of Woodgrain systems. This position will work to interpret business requirements into practical solutions based on a strong knowledge of their functional area combined with SAP best practices. The Functional Analyst will participate in implementation projects, system enhancements, and center of excellence (COE) operations to support advance to meet business requirements and operations.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Analyze and validate requirements and requests from our partners in the business for completeness, consistency, and feasibility subject to Best Practices in SAP and advise alternatives as appropriate.

• Analyze current business and system processes and provide solutions to optimize productivity, efficiency, and data integrity across multiple connected systems.

• Manage the design, development and testing of custom programmatic solutions in SAP and other tools that may be used (e.g., a report writer, BW/BI solutions).

• Maintain system configuration as defined by scope within SAP/ERP and other business applications.

• Perform functional configuration of the SAP Transportation Management environment, while understanding and coordinating with both upstream (sales, production, materials, and warehouse) and downstream (finance) processes.

• Develop process documentation, functional specifications, and test scripts.

• Write technical specifications for developers for solutions requiring program development.

• Help with development of training materials.

• Monitor existing processes to ensure system accuracy and integrity.

• Assist in Design of interface mapping and conversion programs to/from external systems.

• Provide day to day system/process support to users in coordination with corporate support team.

• Work directly with project stakeholders throughout the entire lifecycle of multiple projects to define, implement efficient functional and technical solutions that address the requirements.

• Collaborate with outsourced resources to achieve project goals.

• Ensure solutions and project deliverables are thoroughly tested and meet documented requirements prior to release in the production system.

• Partner with peers across the IT organization to solve complex business problems.

• Research and Learn relevant technologies, including their current updates, independently.

• Stay informed of industry trends within the specific technology area of focus.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical areas such as Computer Science, Information Technology, or Business.

• Equivalent training and experience can be considered in lieu of a degree

• At least 5 years of SAP related experience in Transportation Management (other ERP experience will be considered). Must have supported at least 1 large-scale ERP implementation.

• Understanding of middleware applications and Configurations (e.g. XI, CIF, RFC Connections, CPI, IDOC)

• Previous experience and knowledge of Transportation, to include Freight Planning (e.g., road, rail, ocean, air), Load Building, Freight Units/Order Building, Freight Forwarding, Carrier Determination, Freight Agreements, Tendering, and General Transportation Management.

• Ability to quickly learn business processes with respect to SAP ECC, S/4 HANA SAP industry specific processes, methodologies, functions, and technologies relevant to the role.

Additional Skills:

• Strong analytical skills to interpret complex, cross-functional requirements and challenges.

• Ability to work efficiently with team members from different geographical locations and expertise backgrounds.

• Analyzing of operational problems and developing appropriate solutions.

• Strong interpersonal, listening, written, and verbal communication skills.

• Commitment to a strong work ethic and coordinating within a rapidly changing environment and handling unexpected situations.

• Possess creative problem solving skills and be able to perform root cause analysis and apply the KISS principle (keep it simple).

• Ability to effectively communicate in English, both verbally and in writing. Additional languages preferred.

• Strong basic understanding of the following technical job details:

• Multiple Mode Stage TM moves (Rail, Road, Sea))

• Zone and Lane development

• Default Routes

• BOBF Business Object Framework Knowledge

• PPF Post Processing Framework

• Freight unit building Rule Configuration

• ATP

• Planning Profiles

• Selection Profiles

• Freight Settlement

• Charge Management (Freight Agreements)

• Forwarding orders

• Integration with Outside Tracking and POD services.

• S4 Embedded TM

• Resource set-up Calendar/Vehicle

• International shipments

• Tendering

• Incompatibility Definitions and settings

• Profile Layouts and Set-ups

• POWL Report Creation

• BRF+

• Understanding of TM Related BAPI Functions

• Debugging of ABAP code

• Understanding of Standard TM IDOC Flow

Physical Demands:

The physical demands and work environment are representative of a typical office environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds.

Travel: This position does require travel to other Woodgrain locations, expected travel time is <15%.
Applications will be accepted until the position has been filled.