SAP S4Hana Retail P2P Senior Consultant

Reporting to

Location

P2P Lead

Offshore

Role Purpose:

We are seeking an experienced Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Senior Consultant with a robust background in the retail industry to support the SAP S/4HANA stores rollout. The consultant will play a critical role in designing, reviewing, and deploying P2P processes across store and distribution center operations, with a focus on retail-specific requirements, functional specification reviews, and integration oversight.

The ideal candidate will have expertise in SAP S/4HANA Materials Management and Invoice Verification, IS-Retail purchasing and replenishment, supplier and vendor management, and the integration of procurement with finance, logistics and store operations.

Role Details – Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Functional Specification Review:

- Collaborate with retail buying, supply chain and store operations stakeholders to gather and document P2P requirements specific to the store rollout.
- Review and validate functional specifications for P2P processes, ensuring alignment with retail industry best practices and SAP standards.
- Provide recommendations for process optimization across purchase requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipt, invoice verification, consignment, rebates and vendor reconciliation.

Integration Oversight:

- Oversee the integration of P2P processes with retail-specific components such as SAP IS-Retail article master, SAP EWM, SAP Ariba and downstream Finance (FI/CO) postings.




- Manage end-to-end data flow between store replenishment, distribution centre inventory management, supplier invoicing and financial reporting.
- Validate test scenarios, integration tests, and UAT results to ensure seamless integration across procurement, logistics and finance streams.

Retail-Specific Procurement Compliance:

- Define and implement purchasing and invoice verification configurations tailored for retail, ensuring compliance with regional VAT requirements and MAF procurement policy.
- Design automated three-way match, tolerance and self-billing processes for high-volume retail transactions.
- Coordinate integration with supplier portals, EDI partners and third-party procurement platforms used across the retail supply base.

Project Management Support:

- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for P2P in retail processes throughout the rollout lifecycle, from design through store go-live and hypercare.
- Identify risks and propose mitigation strategies for rollout-specific challenges, such as high purchase order volumes, supplier onboarding and store readiness.
- Ensure alignment of rollout milestones related to procurement readiness, master data and integration.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

- Act as the primary contact for P2P topics in the retail stream, collaborating with buying and merchandising teams, supply chain, finance, SAP consultants, and external suppliers.
- Conduct workshops and training sessions for store and buying users to drive adoption of P2P functionalities.

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