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SAP EWM Lead Consultant

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-29 India - Chennai Full-time Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

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Market rate

₹200,000–₹350,000/mo (₹2,400,000–₹4,200,000/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

About the Company

Are you ready to lead enterprise-scale SAP EWM solutions that strengthen our global supply chain and help deliver medicines to patients faster and more reliably This is a hands-on leadership role where your decisions on design, data, and deployment will directly improve how life-changing therapies move from production to patients.

Responsibilities

  • pabilities across the enterprise. Working with multi-functional partners, you will own the EWM agenda end to end-from shaping solution architecture through steady-state optimization-so warehouses run with precision, compliance is built into every move, and cycle times continually shrink. Can you envision yourself setting the standard for EWM design while coaching a team to deliver repeatable, high-quality outcomes Accountabilities:
  • EWM Solution Leadership: Own the vision and roadmap for SAP EWM across sites, translating business goals into scalable, compliant designs that improve throughput and inventory accuracy.
  • End-to-End Delivery Ownership: Lead design, configuration, testing, deployment, and hypercare for EWM in S/4HANA, ensuring measurable value such as reduced picking time, higher order accuracy, and faster goods' receipt.
  • Agile Program Execution: Drive Agile delivery across multiple EWM workstreams, managing backlogs, prioritizing outcomes, and meeting demanding timelines without compromising quality.
  • Integration Leadership: Orchestrate seamless integration with MM, PP, QM, SD, and TM, ensuring data consistency and robust end-to-end process execution from production staging to shipment.
  • Data Migration and Quality: Plan and implement data migration using SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, ensuring master and transactional data integrity, controllership, and audit readiness.
  • Team Leadership and Coaching: Guide a team of EWM consultants, setting standards for design and documentation, reviewing configurations, and growing capability through structured coaching and feedback.
  • Automation and AI Enablement: Identify and implement productivity gains in EWM processes using automation and AI tools, demonstrating tangible improvements in cycle time, manual effort, and right-first-time metrics.
  • Operational Excellence and Shift Coverage: Provide leadership and decision support across shift patterns and flexible schedules to maintain 24x7 continuity and rapid incident resolution.
  • Stake-holder Engagement: Facilitate workshops, capture requirements, and simplify complex trade-offs for business and technology stake-holders to drive alignment and adoption.
  • Compliance and Continuous Improvement: Embed quality and validation needs into designs, and iterate using data and metrics to continually optimize warehouse flows and inventory management. Essential Skills/Experience:
  • More than 12+ years of SAP EWM consulting Experience
  • Expertise in the respective business domain on SAP EWM with S/4 HANA.
  • SAP EWM implementation / roll-out experience from design to completion of deployment
  • Should have led a technical team of more than 5 EWM members. Should guide the team to deliver full EWM solutions through Agile implementation.
  • Hands on experience and knowledge on SAP Extended Warehouse management and its integration with MM, PP, QM, SD and TM.
  • Keeping the track record of delivering SAP configuration design
  • Certification in SAP S/4HANA Extended Warehouse management (EWM) is mandatory
  • Able to identify ways to improve efficiency by changing work methods through new automation solutions. These use AI tools like Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, and others within EWM operations.
  • Required Excellent process knowledge of EWM processes like Inbound, Outbound, Internal warehouse movements, Production staging, physical inventory etc.