Role & Responsibilities of an MM Functional Consultant during Implementation Project:
- Understand the business requirements, preparing AS-IS, and TO-BE document and sign-off with users for Business blue print document.
- Setting up organization structure of material management and relevant configuration like Purchase organization, valuation area plants, storage location, and warehouse structure etc.
- Finalization of material groups, purchasing groups, payment terms, Inco terms, Pricing Procedure.
- Define and set up of Indian taxation structure.
- Finalization of various numbers ranges for material master, vendor master and all purchasing and inventory documents.
- Configuration of release procedure for purchasing document like Purchase requisition and purchase order
- Preparation of testing document and internal testing
- Preparation of master data templates for various object like material master, vendor master, excise master, Info-records, source list, purchase order.
- Integration testing with other module PP, SD and FI/CO.
- Preparing the cut over strategy for MM object.
- Preparing the user manual and imparting training to business process owners.
- Go-live preparation and post go live support.
Role & Responsibilities of an MM Functional Consultant during Support Project
- Interaction with client through net meetings, calls & emails.
- Handling Tickets & Tasks and responsible for closing the same within defined SLAs (Service Level Agreements.)
- Responsible for troubleshooting the issues in the system and providing support
- Executing the needed changes in configuration
- Executing the analysis and resolution of production support calls
- Raising Change Requests (CRs) and writing functional specifications for them
- Preparing test data for testing CRs (Change Requests)
- Testing CRs (Change Requests) and preparing test results
- Carrying out regression testing
- There will be some interaction with other modules consultants
In addition to the above, a functional consultant may also be assigned some more responsibilities based on his past experience. Area of responsibilities may also differ from client to client. Designation of consultant also play a very vital role in designing his role and responsibilities.