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Translate business requirements into workable ERP configuration with a dedicated ERP functional consultant in the Philippines. KamelBPO recruits and employs the consultant; your process owners and implementation lead set priorities and approve business decisions. Recruit around a specific platform, module and project stage rather than expecting one person to cover every ERP product.
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How We Recruit and Support Your ERP Functional Consultant
From your first brief to ongoing support, here is how offshoring with KamelBPO works.
Recruitment is always free for new and existing clients. No recruitment contract or commitment to hire.
Our client service agreements are month-to-month.
Share your job description
Send us the responsibilities, skills and experience you need. Include the tools, working hours and other requirements, including any duties that require someone at your premises.
Receive your quote
We provide a quote based on your requirements, so you can review the staffing cost before recruitment begins.
Talk through the role
On a discovery call, we discuss your business, priorities and expectations to clarify the brief and what a suitable candidate looks like. We also explore your broader business needs and plans to scale, identifying other ways we can support your team.
Review pre-screened candidates
We begin recruiting and send you pre-screened resumes. Choose the applicants you would like to meet, and we refine the search together as your preferences become clearer.
Meet candidates and share feedback
We arrange video interviews so you can meet applicants face-to-face, with your KamelBPO account manager joining the conversation. Be candid about what fits and what does not. Your feedback at any stage helps us focus the search.
Choose your hire and onboard
KamelBPO employs and onboards your chosen candidate with a six-month probationary period. Assess long-term fit against performance standards made clear at the start, with our support through regularization.
Ongoing support for you and your ERP functional consultant
Manage your ERP functional consultant’s day-to-day work as you would an in-office team member. Bring them into your company culture and, if useful, give them an email address on your domain; we also provide a KamelBPO email address.
Alongside the HR, payroll, benefits, workplace infrastructure, security and 24/7 IT support included in your monthly fee, your dedicated account manager can help you establish KPIs, review progress, deliver constructive feedback and address performance concerns through documented improvement plans. Additional support can include coordinating bonuses and incentives, team activities, work arrangements and equipment requests.
Based in Clark, Pampanga, KamelBPO provides 24/7 client support, with as much or as little involvement as you prefer.
Have a role in mind? Tell us what you need.
Request Your QuoteWhat Your ERP Functional Consultant Can Handle
Select responsibilities for the ERP modules and processes in your brief, supported by the candidate’s implementation experience.
- Requirements and process mapping: Document how the business works and compare requirements with the ERP’s supported processes.
- Module configuration: Configure agreed application settings and record the choices for review by process owners.
- Data and integration requirements: Define functional data mappings and expected outcomes with migration and development colleagues.
- Testing and release support: Prepare business scenarios, coordinate user acceptance and investigate functional defects.
- User enablement and support: Produce relevant guidance and support users as approved processes move into day-to-day operation.
ERP Functional Consultant Skills, Tools and Experience
Examples to guide your hire. The skills, tools and qualifications below are not an exhaustive list; requirements depend on your brief.
Technical Skills
The consultant needs both business-process knowledge and practical configuration experience in the modules you use.
- Functional analysis
- Map business requirements to standard product capabilities and document material gaps.
- Understand the financial or operational consequences of configuration choices.
- Configuration and dependencies
- Configure the agreed module and recognise dependencies across related processes.
- Distinguish standard setup from changes requiring developers or solution architects.
- Testing and data readiness
- Translate requirements into realistic business test scenarios.
- Check migration mappings, reconciliations and user acceptance with the responsible owners.
Soft Skills
Much of the work involves making business decisions and implementation trade-offs understandable to different teams.
- Facilitation
- Resolve different accounts of the current process and make decisions explicit.
- Clear documentation
- Explain configuration choices and outstanding questions in language users can act on.
- Coordination
- Keep process owners, technical specialists and testers aligned on dependencies.
Tools and Platforms
Match experience to the systems your team uses. These are alternatives and specialisms; every candidate need not know every tool, and software licences depend on your agreed setup.
- ERP platforms
- SAP S/4HANA: support fit-to-standard analysis and configuration for the modules in the brief.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance or Supply Chain Management: configure agreed financial or operational processes.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: implement and support selected business-management modules for the client environment.
Which Experience Level Fits Your Team?
The skills and tools above apply across levels.
Business, accounting, operations or information-systems experience can be relevant, depending on the module. Product training and certification can support assessment, but review actual configuration, testing and user-support responsibilities in comparable projects.
Defined setup and testing tasks
- Scope of work
- Support a bounded process area under an experienced implementation lead.
- Technical proficiency
- Use documented settings and understand their effect in straightforward scenarios.
- Problem-solving
- Reproduce functional issues and distinguish unclear requirements from configuration errors.
- Quality checks
- Run agreed test cases and keep results and evidence complete.
- Business and stakeholder understanding
- Explain the basic business process supported by the module.
- Independence and delivery
- Maintain configuration notes and obtain review before changes.
- Education and relevant experience
- Show relevant product training or supervised module implementation work.
Ownership of a defined module workstream
- Scope of work
- Take a process area from requirements through configuration and user acceptance.
- Technical proficiency
- Apply module knowledge to common variants and related process dependencies.
- Problem-solving
- Investigate exceptions and propose supported configuration options.
- Quality checks
- Check end-to-end scenarios and reconcile migrated or generated records with owners.
- Business and stakeholder understanding
- Explain practical trade-offs to the staff who operate the process.
- Independence and delivery
- Coordinate testing and release dependencies with the project lead.
- Education and relevant experience
- Show delivered module changes and experience supporting users after release.
Complex functional decisions across processes
- Scope of work
- Lead a substantial functional workstream or cross-module design area.
- Technical proficiency
- Evaluate standard capabilities, justified gaps and integration requirements.
- Problem-solving
- Resolve conflicting business requirements with process owners and architects.
- Quality checks
- Plan proportionate testing for significant changes and difficult exceptions.
- Business and stakeholder understanding
- Assess control, reporting and operational consequences of proposed processes.
- Independence and delivery
- Guide colleagues and coordinate decisions without assuming programme-wide authority.
- Education and relevant experience
- Show responsibility for complex implementations and significant configuration decisions.
A functional consultant is not automatically an ERP developer, infrastructure administrator, accountant or implementation programme manager. Specify the product, edition, modules and approval remit. Tax or statutory decisions belong to your qualified advisers. Levels describe the complexity and responsibility of the assignment, not fixed years or universal certification grades.
What to Look for in an ERP Functional Consultant
Use these checks to compare candidates against your actual brief.
- Process-to-configuration example: Ask how a requirement became configuration, and what alternatives were rejected.
- Business scenario: Discuss a realistic exception in the relevant module and how it would be tested.
- Handover evidence: Review a non-confidential explanation of test outcomes, decisions and user guidance.
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Set up the work
- Specify the implementation: Identify the product, version, modules, project stage and accountable process owners.
- Agree decision boundaries: Define configuration authority, technical dependencies and how gaps are approved.
- Test with business users: Review representative scenarios, migration results and defects in a suitable environment.
- Control release and support: Agree cutover responsibilities, acceptance, documentation and ongoing issue handling.
Example ERP Functional Consultant KPIs
Choose measures that reflect the agreed responsibilities. Establish a baseline, review period and quality standard together; these examples are not guaranteed targets.
| Area | What to measure or review |
|---|---|
| Requirement traceability | Check that agreed requirements connect to configuration decisions and test evidence. |
| Functional quality | Review accepted scenarios, unresolved defects and rework attributable to configuration. |
| Decision readiness | Track material gaps and decisions with named owners and recorded dependencies. |
| User handover | Review whether process users can perform agreed tasks with the supplied guidance. |
Questions About Hiring an ERP Functional Consultant
Do not assume that. Select the actual platform and modules, then assess relevant work. This page describes the functional profession; the existing Oracle ERP and NetSuite pages provide more specific hiring entry points.
A consultant can define requirements and coordinate testing, but custom programming requires separately verified development skills. Clarify who owns integrations, extensions and technical deployment.
Include the support backlog, change requests, modules and expected decision authority in the brief. Ongoing functional support can differ substantially from a new implementation workstream.
Your authorised business owners and qualified advisers do. The consultant translates approved requirements into system behaviour and highlights gaps or consequences for review.
Which Role Fits Your Needs?
Choose the main responsibility you need covered; titles and specialist experience can overlap.
Oracle ERP System Analyst
Use the Oracle ERP System Analyst page when Oracle is already the required platform. Confirm the product and modules: the platform-specific title does not establish every specialism.
NetSuite Specialist
Use the NetSuite Specialist page when you specifically need NetSuite experience. Clarify whether the work is functional configuration, administration or development.
Where ERP Functional Consultant Support Fits
Illustrative uses and the background that can help a candidate fit your assignment.
Manufacturing
- Example work: Configure agreed production, procurement or inventory processes within the chosen ERP.
- Useful background: Experience with the actual modules and their operational dependencies.
Wholesale & Distribution
- Example work: Support purchasing, order processing and stock-related ERP workflows.
- Useful background: Understanding of business exceptions and reconciliation across connected processes.
Professional & Business Services
- Example work: Work within an implementation practice or client functional-support team.
- Useful background: Experience documenting decisions and coordinating with business and technical colleagues.
Request Your ERP Functional Consultant Quote
Tell us about the work, experience and tools you need. We will confirm a quote against your requirements.