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Position: SAP IM Functional Expert / SAP MM-IM Consultant
Location: Bay Area, CA
Duration: Long Term Contract
Job Description:
Experience: 8–12+ years
SAP: ECC
Job Summary
Senior SAP Inventory Management (IM) functional expert with strong experience in SAP MM-IM processes and a deep understanding of the associated FI/CO financial postings. The consultant will be responsible for analyzing inventory processes, configuring/validating SAP IM transactions, troubleshooting inventory-related accounting postings, and working closely with MM, FI/CO and business teams.
Key Responsibilities
• Provide functional expertise across SAP Inventory Management (IM) and related MM processes.
• Analyze and support inventory transactions including:
o Goods Receipt (GR)
o Goods Issue (GI)
o Stock Transfer / Transfer Posting
o Inventory Adjustments
o Movement Types
o Physical Inventory
o Returns
o Subcontracting and consignment inventory, as applicable.
• Understand and validate the FI accounting documents generated from inventory movements.
• Analyze the relationship between material movements, valuation, and financial postings.
• Troubleshoot issues involving:
o Inventory / stock accounts
o GR/IR
o Consumption accounts
o Price differences
o Inventory valuation
o COGS
o Vendor/customer-related postings
o Tax postings, where applicable.
• Work with FI/CO teams to reconcile MM inventory balances with FI General Ledger balances.
• Support investigation of discrepancies between material documents, accounting documents and GL postings.
• Analyze financial impact of inventory transactions during business process changes and SAP implementations/upgrades.
• Work with business stakeholders to understand current-state processes and recommend improvements.
• Prepare functional specifications, process flows, configuration documentation and test scenarios.
• Support SIT/UAT, defect resolution and deployment/Hypercare activities.
Required Skills
SAP IM / MM
• Strong hands-on experience with SAP MM-IM / Inventory Management.
• Deep knowledge of SAP movement types and inventory processes.
• Experience with material valuation and inventory accounting.
• Strong understanding of stock types and inventory statuses.
• Experience with physical inventory processes.
FI/CO Integration
• Strong understanding of MM–FI integration.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting accounting documents generated from MM transactions.
• Understanding of standard vs. moving average price and their impact on financial postings.
• Ability to trace a transaction from business process → material document → accounting document → GL account.