SAP GTS Senior Consultant – Business AMS Services | Manufacturing
Position Overview
We are looking for an experienced SAP GTS Senior Consultant to support a manufacturing-focused SAP Business Application Managed Services (AMS) environment.
The role will provide senior functional capability across SAP Global Trade Services (GTS), trade compliance and integration with core SAP business processes, while supporting business requirements, production operations, enhancements and continuous improvement.
The position is intended to provide dedicated SAP GTS capacity within the business application services organisation and will operate across AMS support, enhancement delivery, business requirements and future project development.
Project / Business Context
The manufacturing business is developing dedicated SAP application service capacity to support the ongoing operation and development of its SAP landscape.
SAP GTS is a key business capability supporting areas such as:
- Global trade compliance
- Import / export processes
- Trade documentation
- Restricted-party / sanctioned-party screening
- Legal control
- Customs-related processes
- Product and business-partner compliance
- Integration with SAP SD, MM and other enterprise applications
The SAP GTS Senior Consultant will work between the business, SAP functional teams, technical teams and application service organisation.
Service Delivery Direction
Business Demand
↓
Requirements & Process Assessment
↓
SAP GTS Functional Solution
↓
Enhancement / Change Request
↓
SIT / UAT
↓
Deployment / Go-Live
↓
AMS / Production Support
↓
Continuous Improvement & Business Development
Scope of Work
1. SAP GTS AMS / Production Support
Provide senior-level SAP GTS functional support for the manufacturing business application environment.
Responsibilities include:
- Provide L2/L3 SAP GTS functional support.
- Analyse and resolve production incidents.
- Perform root-cause analysis for recurring business and system issues.
- Investigate SAP GTS process failures and integration issues.
- Monitor and manage application service requests.
- Support business-critical trade compliance processes.
- Coordinate with technical teams for defects requiring development or configuration changes.
- Maintain incident, problem and resolution documentation.
- Support production stability and service continuity.
2. SAP GTS Functional Processes
Provide functional expertise across relevant SAP GTS capabilities, including:
- Compliance Management
- Sanctioned / Restricted Party Screening
- Legal Control
- Embargo / trade restriction processes
- Customs Management, where applicable
- Import / export compliance
- Trade documentation
- Product classification
- Business partner compliance
- Trade-related master data
- Integration with sales, procurement and logistics processes
The consultant should be capable of analysing business scenarios and translating trade compliance requirements into appropriate SAP GTS solutions.
3. SAP SD / MM / Business Process Integration
Support integration between SAP GTS and core manufacturing business processes, including:
- SAP SD / Order-to-Cash
- SAP MM / Procure-to-Pay
- Material master
- Business partner / customer / vendor data
- Sales orders and deliveries
- Purchasing and procurement transactions
- Goods movements
- Billing and logistics processes
- Relevant S/4HANA business processes
Work with SD, MM, Logistics and other functional consultants to identify cross-functional impacts and resolve integration dependencies.
4. Business Requirements & Solutioning
Engage with business stakeholders to understand current and future trade compliance requirements.
Responsibilities include:
- Conduct business requirement discussions.
- Analyse existing processes and identify gaps.
- Translate business requirements into SAP GTS functional solutions.
- Assess business impact of regulatory and process changes.
- Prepare functional solution documentation.
- Define configuration or enhancement requirements.
- Support estimation and prioritisation of enhancement requests.
- Provide recommendations to improve business processes and application performance.
5. Enhancement & Change Request Delivery
The role is expected to contribute beyond BAU support and participate in the SAP GTS enhancement pipeline.
Responsibilities include:
- Assess enhancement / change requests.
- Define functional requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Prepare Functional Specifications where required.
- Coordinate with ABAP / technical teams.
- Review technical solutions from a functional perspective.
- Support development and defect resolution.
- Perform functional validation.
- Coordinate SIT and UAT.
- Support deployment and post-production validation.
- Provide post-go-live stabilisation.
6. AMS Service Management
Work within the broader Business Application Services / AMS operating model.
Responsibilities include:
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Change Management
- Service Request Management
- Enhancement Management
- Knowledge Management
- Root-Cause Analysis
- SLA / service-level awareness
- Production monitoring and operational support
- Continuous service improvement
The consultant should be comfortable working within structured IT service-management processes
7. Testing & Deployment
Support the complete change lifecycle, including:
Requirement → Design → Development → SIT → UAT → Deployment → Hypercare → BAU
Activities include:
- Test scenario preparation
- Functional test execution
- SIT coordination
- UAT support
- Defect analysis
- Regression testing
- Business-user support
- Deployment coordination
- Post-deployment validation
- Production stabilisation
Manufacturing Business Context
Experience in manufacturing, industrial, automotive, electronics, consumer products, chemicals or other global supply-chain environments is advantageous.
The consultant should understand how trade compliance interacts with:
Manufacturing → Procurement → Inventory → Logistics → Sales → Export / Import → Trade Compliance
Relevant business considerations may include:
- Global supply chains
- Cross-border material movement
- Export / import controls
- Product classification
- Customer / supplier compliance
- Trade restrictions
- Manufacturing plant operations
- Distribution and logistics
- Regulatory changes
- Business continuity
Stakeholder Responsibilities
The SAP GTS Senior Consultant will interact with:
- Business process owners
- Trade compliance teams
- Finance / controlling teams where relevant
- SAP SD / MM / Logistics consultants
- SAP technical / ABAP teams
- Integration teams
- AMS service managers
- Project managers
- Application owners
- Regional / global stakeholders
- External implementation or technology partners
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills are therefore required.
Required Experience
SAP GTS
- Strong hands-on SAP GTS functional experience.
- Experience in SAP GTS configuration and business process support.
- Strong understanding of trade compliance processes.
- Experience supporting SAP GTS production environments.
- Experience with SAP GTS enhancements and change requests.
- Ability to analyse complex functional and integration issues.
SAP Integration
Experience integrating SAP GTS with:
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP ECC
- SAP SD
- SAP MM
- Logistics / supply-chain processes
- Middleware / integration platforms, where applicable
AMS / Service Delivery
- L2/L3 application support experience.
- Incident and problem management.
- Root-cause analysis.
- Change and enhancement management.
- Production support.
- Business stakeholder engagement.
Project / Enhancement
- Business requirement analysis.
- Functional solution design.
- Functional specification.
- SIT / UAT.
- Deployment and post-go-live support.
- Continuous improvement.
Preferred Qualifications
- SAP GTS certification or relevant SAP GTS training.
- SAP S/4HANA experience.
- Manufacturing / supply-chain industry experience.
- Experience with global SAP templates.
- Experience in multinational / regional environments.
- Exposure to SAP Fiori / modern SAP user experiences.
- Exposure to integration architecture and APIs.
- Experience working within ITIL / structured AMS environments.
- Experience coordinating distributed SAP delivery teams.
Key Competency Model
- CapabilityExpected Focus
- SAP GTS
- Senior functional capability
- Trade Compliance
- Strong
- SAP SD/MM Integration
- Strong
- S/4HANA
- Preferred / relevant
- AMS
- L2/L3 senior support
- Enhancement
- Functional ownership
- Business Requirements
- Strong
- Solution Design
- Strong
- SIT/UAT
- Strong
- Stakeholder Management
- Strong
- Manufacturing
- Preferred
- Continuous Improvement
- Required
- Project Capacity Model
The requirement is intended to establish a dedicated SAP GTS business application capability rather than relying solely on reactive production support.
Core Capacity
SAP GTS Functional Expertise
+
AMS Production Support
+
Business Requirements
+
Enhancement Delivery
+
SAP SD/MM Integration
+
Trade Compliance
+
Continuous Improvement
This provides the business with a senior SAP GTS resource capable of supporting both current operational demand and future application development requirements.
Success Measures / KPI
The role may be measured against:
- Production support stability
- Incident resolution effectiveness
- SLA adherence
- Root-cause resolution
- Enhancement delivery quality
- Change-request turnaround
- SIT/UAT quality
- Deployment success
- Business stakeholder satisfaction
- Reduction of recurring incidents
- Process improvement delivered
- SAP GTS application reliability
- Knowledge documentation and knowledge transfer
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a Senior SAP GTS Consultant who can operate across both functional consulting and application services.
The expected profile is:
SAP GTS → Trade Compliance → SD/MM Integration → AMS → Business Requirements → Enhancement → Testing → Deployment → Continuous Improvement
The role is therefore suitable for an SAP GTS professional who wants to contribute to a broader manufacturing business application services and SAP transformation environment, rather than focusing exclusively on day-to-day ticket resolution.
Engagement Context
Role: SAP GTS Senior Consultant
Function: Business Application / AMS Services
Domain: Manufacturing
Primary Capability: SAP Global Trade Services
Delivery Model: AMS + Enhancement + Business Requirements + Continuous Improvement
Level: Senior Consultant
Location: Penang (Project Open to have EP / RPT Candidate at Penang / Local Malaysia Candidate can be based in Penang or Kuala Lumpur TTDI Office)
Engagement: Full-time basis, subject to approved project structure
Working Arrangement: [On-site / Hybrid]