SAP S/4HANA CPE / Commodity Pricing Functional Consultant

Position Description:
Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, developing, testing and maintaining software applications and products to meet customer needs. They are involved in the entire software development lifecycle including designing software architecture, writing code, testing for quality and deploying the software to meet customer requirements. Full-stack software engineering roles, who can develop all components of software including user interface and server side also fall within this job function.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Engage with customers to deeply understand their use-cases, pain points, and requirements, showcasing empathy and advocating for user-centric software solutions
2. Solve complex problems by designing, developing, and delivering using various tools, languages, frameworks, methodologies (like agile) and technologies
3. Assess the requirements of the software application or service and determine the most suitable technology stack, integration method, deployment strategy, etc.
4. Create high-level software architecture designs that outline the overall structure, components, and interfaces of the application
5. Collaborate with cross functional teams like product owners, designers, architects etc.
6. Define and implement software test strategy, guidelines, policies and processes in line with organization vision, industry regulations and market best practices.
7. Work on continuously improving performance and optimizing the application and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
8. Familiar with programming practices, such as test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
9. Support security practices to safeguard user data including encryption and anonymization.
10. Create user-friendly and interactive interfaces
11. Develop and maintain back-end applications like APIs and microservices using server-side languages
12. Evaluate and incorporate emerging technologies and capabilities to deliver their solutions, and are monitoring and participating in solutions for new stack layers, often involving industry collaboration
Skills Required:
SAP S4 HANA
Experience Required:
Engineer 3 Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang. 6+ years in IT; 4+ years in development
Additional Information :
• Design, configure, and maintain SAP CPE formulas, terms, rules, and pricing procedures to support complex commodity purchasing.
• Configure Derivative Contract Specifications (DCS), Market Identifier Codes (MIC), and quotation names for commodity price evaluation.
• Configure and manage market data feeds and exchange rate integrations to automate the upload of commodity market price quotations.
• Configure MM pricing procedures (schemas), condition types, and access sequences, ensuring seamless integration with CPE.
• Maintain and optimize master data structures, including Material Master, Business Partner/Vendor Master, and Source Lists.
• Partner with procurement, supply chain, etc units to gather requirements, analyze business processes, and translate them into scalable SAP solutions.
• Conduct Fit-Gap analyses and propose standard SAP best practices over custom developments where possible.
• Author detailed Functional Specifications for custom developments (RICEFW objects), including reports, interfaces, enhancements, and forms.
• Collaborate closely with ABAP developers and integration teams to deliver custom logic when standard SAP functionality does not meet business requirements.
• Define test strategies, prepare test scenarios, and execute Unit Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Create comprehensive user training documentation and conduct knowledge transfer sessions for business key users.
• Work on hypercare and production support, troubleshooting complex pricing and procurement issues, system bugs, and performance bottlenecks.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical SAP concepts to non-technical business stakeholders.
• Experience working in Agile project delivery environments.

Work arrangement
Hybrid