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Job Title: SAP EDI Specialist
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Remote
Type: Only Independent Contractors
Primary Skills:
EDI
SAP
Secondary Skills:
(Optional based on candidate experience)
Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced SAP EDI Specialist responsible for establishing, monitoring, and maintaining integrations between the client’s internal SAP enterprise applications and external suppliers/customers through a Cloud-based EDI platform managed by a services provider.
The ideal candidate will support global trading partners, troubleshoot integration issues, and independently drive new EDI onboarding initiatives across multiple standards. This role also offers exposure to API-led integrations and AI-driven automation to enable intelligent, real-time data flows.
Responsibilities:
Monitor daily integration processes across EDI protocols, SAP IDoc interfaces, and related ports; ensure timely error identification and resolution.
Collaborate with internal IT/SAP teams, sales admin, customer service, shipping, finance, purchasing, and production planning teams, along with the EDI managed services provider, to analyze and resolve issues.
Provide support across application-to-application (A2A) and business-to-business (B2B) integration technologies.
Manage communication and relationships with trading partner EDI coordinators to ensure seamless data exchange.
Negotiate project scope, timelines, and delivery commitments with internal stakeholders and external partners.
Coordinate and deliver EDI change requests aligned with business needs.
Lead project planning sessions to gather and analyze business/technical requirements.
Ensure adherence to standard IT procedures, documentation, and compliance practices.
Provide guidance to the managed services partner on EDI mapping specifications.
Prepare functional specs, test plans, technical integration documentation, user guides, and control plans.
Prepare and execute integration test plans with accurate simulated test data.
Work closely with the managed services provider to plan and perform testing activities.