SAP EWM Business Process Consultant

Location: Remote Japan

Working Hours: Monday Friday, Japan Standard Time (JST)

Start Date: ASAP ideally October

Contract Duration: 10 months, with a strong possibility of extension

Languages: Japanese & English

Industry: Pharmaceutical / Life Sciences

Key Responsibilities

• Provide functional and business-process support for SAP EWM across global warehouse and supply-chain operations.
• Act as a key point of contact between business users, IT teams, and SAP support teams.
• Analyse and resolve SAP EWM incidents, process issues, and user queries.
• Support the investigation of root causes and identify sustainable process or system improvements.
• Translate business requirements into practical SAP EWM solutions and functional specifications.
• Support enhancements, change requests, testing, releases, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide expert guidance on warehouse processes including:
• Inbound receiving and putaway
• Outbound delivery, picking, packing, and shipping
• Internal warehouse movements and replenishment
• Inventory management and stock accuracy
• Physical inventory processes
• RF/mobile warehouse transactions
• Warehouse monitoring and exception handling
• Warehouse task and warehouse order processing
• Support integration and business processes across SAP EWM, MM, PP, and QM.
• Work closely with warehouse, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and business operations teams to understand process requirements and operational challenges.
• Deliver end-user training, process guidance, and user consultation.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, work instructions, and training materials where required.
• Support testing activities, including test preparation, execution, defect analysis, and business-user acceptance testing.
• Identify opportunities for process optimisation, standardisation, and automation.
• Contribute to operational governance and ensure SAP-supported processes align with business and regulatory requirements.
• Support global teams across US, EU, and APAC sites while working primarily within Japan business hours.
• Ensure appropriate consideration of GxP, compliance, validation, and regulated-process requirements within the pharmaceutical/life-sciences environment.
  
  

Required Experience & Skills

• 7+ years of overall SAP experience, with at least 5+ years of hands-on SAP EWM experience.
• Strong functional knowledge of SAP EWM warehouse processes.
• Proven experience across:
• Inbound and outbound processing
• Putaway and picking
• Internal warehouse movements
• Replenishment
• Inventory management
• Physical inventory
• RF/mobile processes
• Warehouse monitoring
• Exception handling
• Warehouse task/order management
• Strong understanding of SAP EWM integration with MM, PP, and QM.
• Experience supporting production and/or manufacturing-related warehouse processes is highly desirable.
• Experience troubleshooting EWM process and integration issues.
• Ability to translate business requirements into SAP functional solutions.
• Experience supporting incidents, defects, enhancements, and change requests.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end warehouse and supply-chain business processes.
  
  

Business Process & Stakeholder Management

• Strong business-process orientation with the ability to understand operational requirements beyond SAP configuration.
• Proven experience working directly with warehouse and supply-chain users.
• Ability to act as a trusted advisor and bridge between business stakeholders and IT.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Comfortable working with geographically distributed/global teams.
• Ability to explain complex SAP processes clearly to non-technical business users.
• Experience delivering end-user training and supporting user adoption.
• Strong documentation and process-mapping skills