SAP SD Data Migration Consultant

The successful candidate will be responsible for planning and executing SAP Sales & Distribution data migration activities, ensuring legacy customer, pricing, and transactional data is accurately mapped, cleansed, migrated, validated, and reconciled for successful deployment.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Migration Planning

Define the SAP SD data migration scope, migration objects, selection criteria, dependencies, and cut-off rules.

Develop the migration strategy and determine the appropriate data load approach.

Define migration criteria for relevant data populations, such as active customers and open transactional data.

Identify dependencies between migration objects and establish the appropriate load sequence, including customer and material data, pricing, sales orders, deliveries, and billing data.

Data Mapping & Design

Develop detailed field-level mappings and transformation rules from legacy systems to SAP S/4HANA.

Define mappings for organizational structures, including sales organization, distribution channel, and division.

Define mapping requirements for customer account groups, partner functions, pricing procedures, payment terms, Incoterms, and other relevant SD data.

Create and maintain migration templates, mapping documents, and functional specifications.

Data Cleansing & Validation

Partner with business data owners to cleanse, deduplicate, enrich, and validate customer and pricing data.

Define data validation and reconciliation rules to ensure completeness and accuracy.

Perform pre-load and post-load data quality checks.

Support reconciliation of open order values, customer-related data, and relevant financial information.

Build, Testing & Cutover

Configure or validate relevant SAP SD settings, including number ranges, account groups, field status, pricing procedures, partner determination, and output determination.

Collaborate with technical teams on migration objects, data conversion, and load programs.

Execute and support mock loads, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and dress rehearsals.

Investigate and resolve migration and data-load errors.

Contribute to detailed cutover planning and execute production migration activities.

Reconcile migrated data and coordinate business validation and sign-off.

Provide hypercare support following go-live.

Governance & Reporting

Maintain mapping documents, migration specifications, issue logs, reconciliation reports, and other required project documentation.

Track and communicate migration status, risks, issues, and dependencies.

Work closely with project management, data migration, functional, technical, and business teams to ensure successful delivery.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant work experience.

Minimum 8 years of SAP experience, with strong functional expertise in SAP Sales & Distribution (SD).

Strong understanding of SAP SD business processes, data structures, configuration, and cross-functional dependencies.

Proven experience in SAP data migration, preferably within SAP S/4HANA implementation, transformation, or deployment programs.

Hands-on experience with SAP migration tools and techniques such as SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit/LTMC, LSMW, BAPI, or IDoc.

Ability to develop detailed mapping documents and define transformation, validation, and reconciliation rules.

Experience with customer/business partner, pricing, sales order, delivery, and billing data.

Strong understanding of SAP SD integration with other SAP modules and associated business processes.

Good understanding of SAP Solution Manager (SolMan) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) methodologies.

Strong analytical and conceptual skills with the ability to translate complex requirements into clear solutions.

Strong stakeholder management, documentation, communication, and business partnering skills.

Ability to work effectively in an Agile and multinational environment while managing multiple workstreams.

Excellent written and spoken English.

Willingness to travel depending on project requirements.