Lead SAP PP Architect

Lead SAP PP Architect

Fulltime

Dallas, TX (remote option)

We have an exciting new job opening for a Lead SAP PP (Production Planning) Architect to join our client fulltime. This is a great opportunity to join a well-established company that is a leader in their industry. This role provides deep technical expertise and technical governance of the company's overall SAP Supply Chain landscape. This role partners closely with the IT Business Relationship Management organization and other IT stakeholders to ensure that we maximize the SAP investment, and the SAP Supply Chain modules integrate efficiently and consistently with the broader ecosystem.

This role is responsible for leading a team of functional SAP Supply Chain experts who partner with the business analyst(s), SAP Development and SAP Analytics teams to design, build, test and implement SAP Supply Chain solutions. This architect supports transformation, delivery and realization of SAP Supply Chain solutions and SAP related 3^rd party Supply Chain applications and executes SAP IT Management processes in Solution Manager.

Responsibilities:

• This person oversees all activities that optimize value, cost and risk of SAP Supply Chain applications.
• Develop and execute the vision, strategy, roadmap and implementation of performance indicators and support metrics and trends for SAP Supply Chain solutions and SAP related 3rd party Supply Chain applications.
• Perform hands on configurations in areas of SAP Production Planning such as, but not limited to MRP, LTP, Planned orders, orders, staging, confirmations, batch management, integrating with MES systems
• Perform hands on configuration in SAP Quality Management such as, but not limited to Inspection lots, results recording, inspection characteristics, source and WIP inspection
• Lead overall SAP Supply Chain functional activities in partnership with Business Relationship Management Supply Chain Team, SAP Development, SAP Analytics teams and the SAP managed, and SAP related 3rd party Supply Chain application service providers.
• Continually assess the impact of emerging SAP technologies against strategic business needs and interpret business value for the leadership team in a consultative capacity.
• Ensure the consistency and maintainability of new and existing SAP Supply Chain applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing technical and quality standards, guidance and reference architectures.
• Perform day-to-day management of the SAP Supply Chain applications and hold all Supply Chain application delivery teams accountable for optimizing the cost, risk and value of SAP Supply Chain applications and SAP related 3rd party Supply Chain applications throughout their life cycle.
• Mentor SAP Supply Chain personnel to develop the required skills and capabilities to meet the needs of the organization, as well as building on existing recruiting capabilities to address new needs and skills gaps.
• Develop productive relationships with business leaders across the organization to influence how SAP Supply Chain applications can enable new sources of value.
• Manage relationships with the managed service provider to ensure they cost-effectively meet the needs of the organization.
• Execute and enhance methodologies (i.e. Agile, Waterfall) and practices for the application life cycle management in line with best practice and practical experience of continuous improvement.
• Ensure that supply chain applications processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, environmental and technical policies and applicable standards and legislation.
• Implement and manage application life cycle management status reporting, metrics and benchmarks for SAP Supply Chain and SAP related 3rd party Supply Chain applications.
• Oversee the SAP Supply Chain applications organization's successful delivery of business outcomes in partnership with business colleagues.
• Oversee support activities in conjunction with infrastructure and operations to ensure SAP Supply Chain applications perform to our standards.
• Seek out continuous improvement opportunities and provide input and recommendations.

Requirements:

• 15+ years of progressive experience in SAP application design, development, quality assurance and implementation processes, including:
• Experience building and/or leading SAP teams at a functional level including the creation of architecture standards, reference architectures and data models.
• Must have hands-on SAP Production Planning configuration experience.
• Minimum of 1 year demonstrated leadership experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients.
• Experience integrating SAP Supply Chain solutions into a broad array of non-legacy technologies and architectures.
• SAP Supply Chain technical and functional architecture, data model along with new and emerging SAP capabilities.
• SAP capabilities in most of the following SAP Supply Chain areas: Plan to Produce, Production Planning, Recipe Management, Specification Management, Plant maintenance, Enterprise asset manager, Quality Management and Supply Chain Master Data processes (PP, QM, EAM, PM, PPDS)
• An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering, finance, business management or a related field.
• MIS, CIS, engineering or business-related degree preferred.
  

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