After Sales - ERP Associate
Sun King
Sales & Business Development
Malawi
About The Role:
The After Sales – ERP Associate (SAP) maintains the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of all after-sales data within SAP. The role involves performing structured daily, weekly, and monthly system entries covering warranty claims, service orders, field returns, spare parts transactions, and reverse logistics movements.
Beyond transactional data entry, the Associate will design and maintain a performance dashboard for after-sales activity, contribute to reporting cycles, and play a key role in data quality management, spare parts inventory administration, and continuous improvement of SAP utilisation across the after-sales function.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Malawi
- Workplace type
- Onsite
What you would be expected to do:
- Perform structured, timely SAP entries on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis covering all after-sales transactions, including warranty claims, service orders, repair job cards, goods receipts, goods issues, and returns.
- Create and process Service Notifications, Service Orders (CS module), and Repair Orders in SAP, ensuring accurate classification, coding, and status updates throughout the lifecycle.
- Record and process all field return goods movements in SAP including material returns (MIGO), transfer postings, and scrapping transactions — maintaining full traceability from receipt to final disposition.
- Process spare parts issues and receipts in SAP, ensuring all stock movements are captured accurately and on time against the correct cost centres, plant codes, and storage locations.
- Execute month-end and period-close entries for the after-sales function, including GR/IR reconciliation, open order clearance, and stock valuation updates.
- Maintain master data accuracy — including material master, service master, customer master, and equipment records — escalating discrepancies to the system administrator for resolution.
- Design, build, and maintain a comprehensive after-sales performance dashboard drawing data from SAP and supplementary tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI, or SAP Analytics Cloud).
- Ensure dashboards provide visibility into key after-sales KPIs.
- Develop and standardise dashboard templates for use across multiple geographies, ensuring consistency in definitions, data sources, and reporting periods.
- Work closely with After Sales Managers and regional teams to identify new metrics or reporting views required as the business scales.
- Maintain version control and documentation of all dashboard calculations, data sources, and refresh schedules.
- Conduct regular SAP data audits to identify and correct errors, including duplicate entries, incorrect material codes, misclassified service orders, and open transactions that should be closed.
- Monitor and resolve GR/IR mismatches, unconfirmed service orders, and ageing open purchase requisitions or orders related to after-sales activities.
- Enforce data entry standards across the after-sales team by developing SOPs, checklists, and training guides to ensure consistent and accurate system utilisation.
- Proactively identify data quality issues that affect reporting accuracy and work with relevant stakeholders to implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Contribute to SAP system upgrades, configuration changes, and new module rollouts by testing transactions, validating data migration activities, and documenting outcomes.
- Generate and distribute standard after-sales reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis, including warranty ageing reports, open service order summaries, spare parts consumption reports, and return goods status reports.
- Prepare monthly after-sales performance packs for management review, consolidating SAP data with field inputs and commentary on variances against targets.
- Track and report on after-sales cost elements, including warranty costs, repair labour, spare parts expenditure, and write-offs, providing Finance with accurate accrual information.
- Monitor SLA and TAT compliance for service and repair orders, highlighting exceptions and trends to management.
- Manage end-to-end spare parts transaction flows in SAP — from purchase requisition and goods receipt through to issue, transfer, and return — ensuring every movement is accurately recorded.
- Coordinate with warehouse and logistics teams to ensure SAP accurately reflects physical spare parts movements across all storage locations and plants.
- Track reverse logistics flows of defective and field return goods in SAP, maintaining a complete chain of custody from field collection through assessment to final disposition (repair, refurbish, scrap, or supplier return).
- Assist the After Sales team in managing supplier warranty claims by ensuring relevant SAP documentation (serial numbers, material documents, service orders) is available and accurate.
- Identify and escalate slow-moving, excess, or obsolete spare parts inventory in SAP and facilitate periodic review and write-off activities.
- Maintain accurate spare parts inventory records in SAP across all after-sales locations, ensuring stock levels remain aligned with physical counts.
- Coordinate and facilitate periodic spare parts cycle counts and annual stock takes, reconciling SAP quantities against physical counts and posting adjustment entries where required.
- Ensure correct valuation, batch management, and serial number tracking of spare parts within SAP, particularly for high-value or controlled components.
- Produce monthly spare parts inventory reports, including stock ageing, consumption, and dead stock reviews for management evaluation.
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- A Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field from a recognised university.
- An advanced degree is an added advantage.
- 2–4 years of hands-on experience working with SAP in an after-sales, service operations, supply chain, or logistics environment.
- Practical experience with SAP modules, including CS (Customer Service), MM (Materials Management), and/or PM (Plant Maintenance).
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel for data review, reporting, and dashboard development.
- Experience in inventory management and stock control, with knowledge of spare parts and reverse logistics processes.
- The ability to interpret data, identify trends, and generate meaningful recommendations.
- High attention to detail and a disciplined approach to data accuracy and system quality.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to simplify information and adapt communication to different audiences.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate complex situations and identify practical solutions.
- A Resourceful and proactive attitude, with the ability to navigate new situations, apply innovative approaches, and identify practical solutions.
- The motivation driven by the social mission of expanding energy access and creating employment opportunities in rural communities, with strong alignment to Sun King's values.
What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, inclusive work environment.
About Sun King
Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 a day via mobile money or cash.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.
Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.
Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families. Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 42% of Sun King’s workforce.

