Senior SAP TM Functional Consultant

We are seeking a Senior SAP TM Functional Consultant for a 6+ month contract position in Wayzata, Minnesota. This role serves as the primary resource for delivering the TCA system upgrade and supporting the SAP S/4HANA 2025 upgrade, with specialized focus on Transportation Management (TM). You will assess system impacts, validate logistics business processes, and ensure uninterrupted daily shipping and logistics operations throughout the upgrade transition.

Responsibilities

• Assess the functional impacts of the SAP S/4HANA 2025 upgrade on TM processes using SAP Release Notes, Simplification Items, and relevant documentation.
• Validate end-to-end business process integrity and enable a smooth migration through hands-on testing, integration, and functional configuration.
• Identify and resolve system defects through structured root cause analysis and continuous testing.
• Collaborate across Application Development, BPMA, TCA, integration, and testing teams to implement changes and coordinate with Change Management on all upgrade impacts.
• Maintain critical logistics operations, ensuring efficient freight planning, carrier selection, and safe shipment processes are not disrupted.
• Support system retrofits, deployment projects, and dual maintenance during steady-state and upgrade periods as needed.

Qualifications

• Required

• At least five years of hands-on SAP TM (Transportation Management) and S/4HANA upgrade experience, ideally within international, mid- to large-scale environments.

• Experience using SAP S/4HANA 2025, Private Cloud, or On-Premise environments.

• Experience with SAP TM, including embedded and decentralized TM.

• Experience with SAP EWM and MM/SD.

• Experience with SAP EDI, IDocs, ESR, and CIF.

• Experience using SAP Solution Manager, Readiness Check, and Focused Build.

• Ability to review and interpret SAP Simplification Items and design and execute impact assessments.

• Experience managing master data and configuration rather than programming.

• Experience coordinating dual maintenance and environment management for upgrades.

• Experience leading the design and execution of integration test scenarios, user acceptance testing, and end-to-end defect management.

• Strong analytical troubleshooting and root cause resolution skills.

• Expertise mapping Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes to TM modules.

• Understanding of freight planning, charge management, tendering, and settlement.

• Ability to serve as a cross-functional liaison between technical integration, business process management, and change management.

• Ability to explain system changes, train users, and foster operational continuity.

• Execution-driven, detail-oriented, and analytical approach to system validation and troubleshooting.

• Preferred

• SAP Certified Application Associate - TM in S/4HANA certification.