Location:
Chicago, IL — hybrid, three days onsite per week
Employment Type:
W-2 contract-to-hire, with anticipated conversion after approximately six months
Travel:
Occasional travel may be required
Lactalis is seeking a Functional Analyst to support and improve order-to-cash and supply chain processes across its SAP ECC and S/4HANA platforms. You’ll partner with Sales, Customer Service, Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, and IT teams to translate business needs into effective SAP solutions.
This role combines hands-on SAP SD configuration with solution design, process improvement, integration, and ongoing system support.
What You’ll Do
- Lead business requirements discussions, document current processes, and recommend improvements across the order-to-cash lifecycle.
- Design, configure, test, and support SAP SD processes, including pricing, sales orders, deliveries, shipping, and billing.
- Configure pricing controls, including condition tables, condition types, access sequences, and pricing procedures.
- Support master data, including business partners, information records, and pricing condition records.
- Work with revenue account determination, account keys, general ledger assignments, and revenue recognition for item categories.
- Support delivery, transportation, and shipment scheduling through WMS, EWM, and third-party interfaces.
- Configure shipping and loading points, route determination, and intra-company and intercompany stock transfer processes.
- Support billing plans, billing dates, document types, and billing determination.
- Create functional specifications for custom reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, and workflows.
- Contribute to full-cycle S/4HANA implementations using global templates with local adaptations.
- Evaluate enhancement requests, troubleshoot system issues, and coordinate solutions with business partners and technical teams.
What You’ll Bring
- Three or more years of strong functional experience in SAP SD, order-to-cash, and supply chain execution.
- Hands-on application and configuration experience with both SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA.
- Experience with at least two full-cycle S/4HANA implementations, whether greenfield or brownfield.
- Strong knowledge of SAP SD pricing, master data, billing, shipping, and stock transfer processes.
- Knowledge of SAP output types and IDoc types supporting sales orders, order confirmations, shipments, invoices, and purchase orders.
- Understanding of integrations with finance, procurement, logistics, transportation planning, and third-party applications.
- Process knowledge of tax determination, jurisdiction codes, and tax classifications in SAP and/or Vistex.
- Exposure to credit and risk management, including credit limits and credit groups in SAP and/or FSCM.
- Ability to gather requirements, develop clear functional specifications, configure and test solutions, and resolve system issues.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to business users.
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, information management, supply chain, logistics, or a related field.
Preferred Experience
- Food industry experience.
- Experience supporting global SAP implementations and working across business functions.
Work Environment
This role follows a hybrid schedule in Chicago and involves regular collaboration with business and IT teams. Occasional travel and additional hours may be required based on project needs.