SAP TM Consultant

SAP Transportation Management (TM) Consultant
Location: Sydney, Australia
Employment Type: Initial 5-month contract

About the role

The SAP Transportation Management (TM) Consultant will work under the direction of the Project Delivery Manager to deliver project activities within the SAP Transportation Management domain.

This role requires extensive hands-on SAP TM experience, strong functional design capability, and the ability to deliver high-quality outcomes within strict project timeframes in a complex, asset-intensive environment.

Key Responsibilities & Critical Deliverables

Working under the direction of the project, you will be responsible for the following:

1. Business & Solution Design
2. Work closely with SMEs to assess and confirm optimal use of SAP TM functionality for billing.
3. Identify opportunities to streamline and enhance existing billing solutions.

1. Configuration & Functional Design
2. Configure SAP TM and SAP ECC to support agreed billing and transportation processes.
3. Update and maintain Functional Specifications aligned to approved solution designs.
4. Develop functional specifications and implement configuration and enhancements to extend core SAP capabilities, including:

1. Forwarding Agreements
2. Forwarding and Freight Order Management (Rail and Road) – Planning and Execution
3. Charge Calculation using TCCS, rate tables, scales, and calculation bases

1. Systems Integration
2. Design and support integration between SAP TM and SAP/non-SAP systems, including:
1. SAP ECC 6.0 for invoicing
2. Operational systems for Freight/Forwarding Work Order (FWO) creation

1. Testing & Quality Assurance
2. Manage SAP functional design reviews and support technical design activities.
3. Lead and support functional unit testing and end-to-end testing across all use cases.
4. Assist with data conversion activities between SAP and non-SAP systems to enable effective integration and system testing.

1. Collaboration & Delivery Support
2. Collaborate with multiple delivery teams, including the SAP support partner, to ensure successful solution build and delivery.
3. Support SMEs throughout solution development with a view to future lift-and-shift to SAP S/4HANA.

Skills & Qualifications

Experience

• Minimum 5-10 years’ experience as an SAP TM / Logistics Execution consultant in large, complex IT environments.
• Proven experience in asset-intensive industries, such as Rail, Mining, Utilities, or Transportation (highly desirable).
• Extensive hands-on experience with SAP TM and LE modules, including integration with SD and FI.

Technical & Functional Skills

1. Design, testing, and support of functional specifications for WRICEF objects.
2. SAP enhancement and integration technologies including BOBF, BAPI, BADI, Function Modules, EDI, ALE, and APIs.
3. Configuration of SAP TM organisational and planning elements, including:
• Sales areas, equipment, routes, freight units, and transportation units.
4. Business partner configuration and ERP customer master integration.
5. Forwarding agreement types, forwarding and freight order types, settlement grouping, PPF, events, action profiles, and invoice outputs.
6. End-to-end Order-to-Cash scenarios including:

• Credit/debit memos
• Intermodal rail freight
• Planning and execution as a logistics provider / 3PL

1. Configuration across SAP TM, LE-TRA, WM, EM, SD, FI, AIF, and third-party system interfaces.
2. Charge calculation and settlement scenarios including:

• Periodic charges
• Cash sales
• Rate escalation
• Tiered calculation logic
• Index maintenance
• Profit centre determination

1. Master data setup and integration (including CIF) and BRF+ rule configuration and maintenance.
2. Rail industry experience and/or exposure to asset-intensive environments (preferred).