SAP Consultant - Transportation Management (TM) & Logistics Execution (LE) Functional

Why Valvoline Global Operations?
 
At Valvoline Global Operations, we’re proud to be The Original Motor Oil, but we’ve never rested on being first. Founded in 1866, we introduced the world’s first branded motor oil, staking our claim as a pioneer in the automotive and industrial solutions industry. Today, as an affiliate of Aramco, one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies, we are driven by innovation and committed to creating sustainable solutions for a better future.

With a global presence, we develop future-ready products and provide best-in-class services for our partners around the world. For us, originality isn’t just about where we began; it’s about where we’re headed and how we’ll lead the way. We are originality in motion.

Our corporate values—Care, Integrity, Passion, Unity, and Excellence—are at the heart of everything we do. These values define how we operate, how we treat one another, and how we engage with our partners, customers, and the communities we serve. At Valvoline Global, we are united in our commitment to:

•    Treating everyone with care.
•    Acting with unwavering integrity.
•    Striving for excellence in all endeavors.
•    Delivering on our commitments with passion.
•    Collaborating as one unified team.

When you join Valvoline Global, you’ll become part of a culture that celebrates creativity, innovation, and excellence. Together, we’re shaping the future of automotive and industrial solutions.

Job Purpose

The SAP Transportation Management / Logistics Execution consultant is responsible for the hands-on functional design, configuration, integration, implementation, enhancement, and Tier 3 support of transportation and logistics capabilities across SAP Transportation Management (TM), SAP Logistics Execution (LE), SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, and connected non-SAP transportation platforms.

This position will primarily focus on solution delivery while also providing Tier 3 functional support for SAP TM and LE. The role requires deep understanding of the relationships among order management, delivery processing, shipment execution, transportation planning, freight settlement, carrier invoicing, and financial integration. This role will partner with Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, Architecture, Integration, Development, and external implementation teams to translate business requirements into scalable, supportable solutions.

How You Make an Impact (Job Accountabilities)

SAP TM/LE configuration and solution delivery (35%)

• Serve as a senior functional subject-matter expert for SAP Transportation Management, SAP Logistics Execution, and related transportation processes.
• Design, configure, enhance, and support SAP TM and SAP LE capabilities for inbound, outbound, and intercompany transportation processes.
• Configure and support SAP TM processes involving transportation requirements created from orders and deliveries, freight units, freight orders, freight bookings, transportation planning and execution, carrier selection, tendering, charge calculation, cost distribution, freight settlement documents, and carrier invoices.
• Configure and support SAP LE processes involving inbound and outbound deliveries, shipping points, routes, shipment documents, shipment cost documents, service-agent selection, shipment cost calculation and settlement, service entry sheets, invoice verification, transfer of transportation costs to accounting, and customer freight billing.
• Configure SAP TM logistics integration for sales documents, purchase documents, stock transport processes, and deliveries.
• Configure relevant SAP TM elements, including freight unit building rules, package building profiles, freight unit types, freight order types, freight booking types, transportation unit types, settlement profiles, charge profiles, cost distribution profiles, planning profiles, selection profiles, incompatibilities, carrier determination, and tendering settings.
• Configure and support Output determination for deliveries, handling units and freight orders (NACE, BRF+, PPF)
• Support applicable transportation scenarios across truckload, less-than-truckload, parcel, ocean, rail, and air modes.
• Evaluate requirements against standard SAP functionality and recommend solutions that minimize unnecessary customization.
• Configure and validate solutions directly rather than functioning only as an advisory or coordination resource.

Project and enhancement execution (25%)

• Lead or execute SAP TM and SAP LE work for implementations, rollouts, enhancements, continuous-improvement initiatives, and system upgrades.
• Lead requirements gathering, current-state analysis, fit-gap or fit-to-standard analysis, future-state design, process modeling, solution design, and functional design sessions.
• Translate business requirements into process designs, SAP configuration, functional specifications, interface specifications, reports, enhancements, workflows, and other development requirements.
• Identify and define required RICEFW objects and collaborate with ABAP, integration, data, reporting, security, and other technical teams to deliver complete solutions.
• Develop test strategies, scenarios, scripts, expected results, and traceability between requirements and testing.
• Perform or coordinate unit, integration, regression, end-to-end, user acceptance, smoke, and upgrade testing, including defect resolution and production-readiness activities.
• Support cutover, deployment, go-live, stabilization, hypercare, and transition-to-support activities.
• Ensure that solutions follow applicable architecture, development, testing, documentation, change-control, release-management, and transport-governance standards.

Level 3 production support and problem resolution (20%)

• Serve as the Level 3 functional escalation point for SAP TM and SAP LE, providing advanced functional expertise for complex, high-priority, or recurring production issues.
• Investigate issues involving deliveries, shipments, shipment cost documents, freight units, freight orders, transportation planning, tendering, charge calculation, freight settlement, service entry sheets, carrier invoices, batch processing, EDI, and system interfaces.
• Perform detailed root-cause analysis across SAP configuration, master data, custom development, integrations, middleware, external transportation systems, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Develop or recommend sustainable corrective solutions and coordinate resolution with Level 1 and Level 2 support resources, SAP functional teams, ABAP developers, integration teams, managed-service providers, software vendors, carriers, and logistics service providers.
• Provide senior functional expertise during critical incidents, including business-impact assessment, workaround identification, solution validation, and clear communication.
• Identify recurring incident patterns, improve troubleshooting documentation, and provide knowledge transfer that enables support resources to resolve similar issues independently.
• Support the transition of new implementations and enhancements into ongoing application support through documentation, knowledge transfer, operational readiness, stabilization, and handoff activities.
• Participate in after-hours Level 3 escalation support and on-call coverage for critical batch processing when required.

Integration and external transportation systems support (10%)

• Design and support integrations among SAP TM, SAP LE, SAP SD, Materials Management, Finance, EWM, non-SAP transportation management systems, logistics service providers, carrier platforms, freight-audit solutions, and transportation-visibility platforms.
• Apply functional knowledge of logistics-related EDI documents such as 856 (Outbound Advance Ship Notice), 858 (Outbound Shipment Information) and 210 (Freight Invoice).
• Understand and evaluate the upstream and downstream effects of TM and LE design decisions across orders, deliveries, shipments, shipment costs, freight units, freight orders, freight settlement documents, service entry sheets, carrier invoices, and financial postings.
• Define process triggers, interface mappings, field transformations, error-handling requirements, reconciliation controls, and monitoring requirements for inbound and outbound transportation interfaces.
• Develop interface definition and mapping documents for non-SAP transportation management systems, third-party logistics providers, carrier platforms, and transportation-visibility solutions.
• Collaborate with integration architects and developers to design and support integrations using APIs, web services, middleware, EDI, IDocs, and event-based integration patterns.
• Analyze interface failures and work with functional, integration, development, middleware, vendor, and external-partner teams to determine whether issues originate in SAP configuration, master data, custom development, mapping, middleware, or an external system.
• Support integrations with BluJay TMS or TM for Shippers when applicable.

Business partnership, documentation, and continuous improvement (10%)

• Review functional designs and proposed solutions from internal and external resources to help ensure they are technically sound, appropriately standardized, and consistent with the overall transportation and logistics solution.
• Work directly with Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, Finance, business process owners, key users, and IT colleagues to understand needs and recommend practical SAP solutions.
• Explain SAP TM, SAP LE, and transportation-integration capabilities and constraints clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce manual work, improve reliability, strengthen controls, and increase the use of standard SAP functionality.
• Perform solution and design reviews for work delivered by internal resources and consulting partners, identifying gaps, unnecessary customization, integration risks, supportability concerns, and opportunities to use standard functionality.
• Prepare and maintain process documentation, configuration documentation, functional specifications, interface documents, test evidence, training materials, and support documentation.
• Deliver knowledge transfer and training to business users, super users, and application support teams.
• Follow organizational requirements for security, compliance, change management, release management, transport governance, and audit support.

What You Bring to the Role (Job Qualifications / Education / Skills / Requirements / Capabilities)

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, business, supply chain, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Ten or more years of SAP functional experience, with substantial hands-on responsibility for SAP transportation and logistics solutions.
• Deep functional and configuration experience with SAP Transportation Management and SAP Logistics Execution, including LE-TRA processes where applicable.
• Demonstrated experience delivering and supporting SAP TM in an SAP S/4HANA environment.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end transportation processes spanning orders and deliveries, transportation demand, freight unit building, planning and optimization, freight order execution, tendering, carrier collaboration, charge calculation, freight settlement, carrier invoicing, invoice verification, financial posting, and reconciliation.
• Strong knowledge of SAP LE transportation and shipping processes, including delivery processing, shipments, shipment cost documents, service entry sheets, freight settlement, and invoice verification.
• Demonstrated experience integrating SAP TM or SAP LE with non-SAP transportation management systems, third-party logistics providers, carrier platforms, freight audit solutions, or transportation visibility platforms.
• Ability to create detailed interface mapping documents, functional specifications, process flows, configuration documentation, and test scripts.
• Experience working with integration technologies and patterns such as APIs, web services, middleware, EDI, and IDocs.
• Strong understanding of SAP TM integration with relevant SAP modules, including SAP SD, MM, EWM, and FI/CO.
• Experience supporting inbound and outbound transportation processes and multiple transportation modes.
• Experience with SAP TM charge management, freight agreements, calculation sheets, rate tables, settlement profiles, cost distribution, and carrier invoice processing.
• Hands on experience with SAP Output Management (NACE, BRF+, PPF) for deliveries, handling units and freight documents, including labels, BOLs and EDI triggering outputs.
• Experience leading or contributing to requirements workshops, solution design, fit-gap analysis, blueprinting, configuration, testing, deployment, stabilization, and post-production support.
• Experience with unit, integration, regression, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing.
• Ability to analyze complex problems across business processes, SAP configuration, custom development, data, and integration layers.
• Can troubleshoot IDocs, user exists and read ABAP without waiting on developer. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical and functional concepts to business and technology stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with distributed internal teams, system integrators, contractors, vendors, carriers, and logistics service providers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with both SAP S/4HANA embedded TM and SAP ECC Logistics Execution environments.
• Experience integrating SAP TM with external transportation management systems
• Experience with BluJay TMS or TM for Shippers is a plus.
• Experience with SAP EWM and SAP TM integration.
• Experience with SAP TM APIs, web services, and SAP Fiori applications supporting transportation processes.
• Experience in manufacturing, distribution, automotive aftermarket, consumer products, chemicals, lubricants, or another complex shipper environment.

Competencies Desired

• Execution orientation: personally performs analysis, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation.
• Strong SAP TM and LE fundamentals and end-to-end transportation and logistics process understanding.
• Functional depth and structured root-cause analysis.
• Sound solution judgment, including the ability to distinguish among configuration, master data, development, training, and process solutions.
• Effective collaboration with ABAP, integration, security, basis, data, reporting, and business teams.
• Testing discipline and attention to upstream, downstream, and regression impacts.
• Ownership, accountability, and clear communication of status, risks, and dependencies.
• Continuous-improvement mindset focused on standardization, reliability, controls, and reduction of recurring incidents.

Working Conditions / Physical Requirements / Travel Requirements

• Remote work environment.
• Ability to remain in a stationary position and use standard computer equipment for extended periods. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Travel requirement: 10-15%, with additional travel as needed for key project milestones.
• Participation in after-hours Level 3 escalation support and on-call coverage for critical batch processing may be required.

Valvoline Global is an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to fostering an environment where every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and skills. We strictly prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind, regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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Are You Ready to Make an Impact?

At Valvoline Global, we’re looking for passionate and talented individuals to join our journey of innovation and excellence. Are you ready to shape the future with us? Apply today.

Requisition ID: 2705