Job Title: SAP MDG Material Master consultant
Location: Seattle, WA / Dallas, TX / St. Louise, MO
Employment Type: Full Time
Experience: 10+ years
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
- Strong hands-on experience in SAP MDG-M.
- Minimum 2 end-to-end MDG implementations (incl. MDG-M).
- Strong understanding of Material Master structures.
- Experience with S/4HANA and ECC MM processes.
- Experience with BRF+, FPM/UI modeling, and MDG enhancements.
Roles & Responsibilities
Role Summary
The SAP MDG Material Master Consultant is responsible for designing, configuring, enhancing, and supporting SAP MDG-M (Material Master) processes across global enterprises. The role ensures data governance, master data quality, workflow enforcement, compliance with business rules, and seamless integration across SAP S/4HANA and other enterprise systems.
Key Responsibilities
1. Functional Design & Configuration
- Design, configure, and support SAP MDG Material Master (MDG-M) data models, governance processes, derivation rules, validations, and workflows.
- Implement Material Master objects such as basic data, classification, UoM, MRP, purchasing, sales, plant data, storage, EWM-relevant fields, QM, and finance views.
- Develop and maintain data validation rules, approval processes, and change request workflows.
2. Data Governance & Quality Management
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and compliance for Material Master across global operations.
- Analyze and resolve data-related issues, MDG workflow errors, and data replication failures.
- Enforce governance policies for material lifecycle management and harmonization.
3. Business Analysis & Requirement Workshops
- Gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into MDG-M functional design documents.
- Conduct governance workshops with stakeholders across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics.
- Support detailed design and sign-offs for material governance processes.
4. Integration & Technical Collaboration
- Integrate MDG-M with S/4HANA, ECC, EWM, QM, PP, PLM, and non-SAP systems.
- Coordinate with technical teams for BRF+, UI modeling, data model enhancements, and DRF replication.
- Support interface design using IDOCs, SOA services, and other integration technologies.
5. Testing, Deployment & Support
- Prepare test scripts, perform unit and SIT testing, and support UAT cycles.
- Support cutover, migration validation, and hyper care.
- Create training materials and conduct workshops.
- SAP MDG certification preferred.
- Knowledge of IDOC/ALE/DRF/CPI integrations.
Generic Managerial Skills, If any
- Strong leadership and facilitation skills.
- Excellent communication with shop-floor & executive-level stakeholders.
- Problem-solving mindset and ability to work in fast-paced environments.
- Ability to mentor junior consultants and guide technical/functional teams