SAP IM (Inventory Management) Functional with FI Integration

Role: SAP IM Functional Expert / SAP MM-IM Consultant
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:
• Goods Receipt (GR)
• Goods Issue (GI)
• Stock Transfer / Transfer Posting
• Inventory Adjustments
• Movement Types
• Physical Inventory
• Returns
• 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:
• Inventory/stock accounts
• GR/IR
• Consumption accounts
• Price differences
• Inventory valuation
• COGS
• Vendor/customer-related postings
• 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 pricing and their impact on financial postings.
• Ability to trace a transaction from business process material document accounting document GL account.