Plan to Produce lead

Solution in scope: Plan 2 Produce (Pl2Pr)

City State: Remote

Requirement US Citizen preferred Green Card or H1B visa would work

Seniority: Expert/Principal

Role Description: Plan 2 Produce (Pl2Pr) SAP Solution Expert

Scope of tasks:

Please ensure candidates are properly prescreened against this scope before forwarding resumes to team for consideration

Candidate MUST HAVE

• A&D / discrete manufacturing experience. Note: A&D does not equal Public Sector so we do not care about candidates that have only PS experience.
• experience as a Value Stream Lead involving a US deployment of an SAP S/4HANA global design with localization in US geography.
• specific SAP module configuration and deployment experience:
  Production Planning (PP) Quality Management (QM) PMMO (GPD replacement)...
  • Must be experienced with these modules in a complex OEM Aviation Aerospace & Defense manufacturer (preferred)
    although experience in Automotive or Industrial Products (e.g. Caterpillar John Deere etc.) is also applicable.
  • understand project based manufacturing in a Project Systems (PS) related Sales Order entry process.
  • understanding of Work Centers and BOMs working with Pl2Pr team.
  • experience with the aspects of PP and PEO integration to legacy MES or Dassault Apriso systems.
  • experience and or knowledge of Dassian or Cognitus solutions.
  • Understanding of aatp and integration through to O2C processes.
  • Understanding of government contracting and billing.
  • knowledge of QM in manufacturing and production work inprocess (Quality witness and electronic stamping).
• Familiarity with SAP Roadmap for respective Value Stream and ability to define a target endstate and transitional plan within context of customer project portfolio
  • Maintain a forward looking vision for how customer drives the most value from their existing investment in SAP software
  • Identify relevant blind spots and provide targeted PoV/recommendations to mitigate this includes addressing impact of items on SAPs simplification list

Responsibilities of Role:

• Collaborate in the development and articulation of strong value propositions for transformational initiatives from process SME and S/4HANA perspectives
• Apply strong knowledge of the business processes for developing and testing ERP functions associated with business operations.
• Facilitate Explore workshops (solution architecting requirements gathering) with business managers client staff and endusers to determine business and functional requirements
• Review and/or perform design and configuration of SAP S/4HANA systems to meet client business requirements
• Conduct knowledge transfer and training of endusers including sharing best practices
• Provide leadership to junior systems analysts and client personnel assigned to projects

Other Qualifications:

• A minimum of five (5) years prior professional consulting or equivalent business process industry experience
• At least five (5) years of handson systems configuration experience within a leading ERP module (SAP)
• Successful completion of at least three full life cycle implementations of S/4HANA
• Successful completion of the rollout and localization of a global template
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong ability to facilitate discussions and negotiate mutually beneficial solutions when necessary
• Willingness to travel as needed to client locations