Exp. Required: 15+ Year’s
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
- SAP S/4HANA Integrated Supply Chain solution architecture
- Strong cross-functional expertise across SAP PP, PP/DS, MM, EWM, QM, TM, and manufacturing integration
- Experience with SAP Digital Manufacturing and SAP IBP preferred
- End-to-end knowledge of demand and supply planning, production planning, manufacturing, procurement, inventory, warehousing, logistics, transportation, and quality processes
- Fit-to-Standard, global template design, process harmonization, and SAP Activate methodology
- Integration architecture across MES, PLM, Product Compliance, Trade Compliance, CRM/Salesforce, legacy applications, and enterprise data platforms
- Strong design governance, architecture review, testing, cutover, deployment, and production-readiness experience
Roles & Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end ISC solution architecture for the SAP S/4HANA transformation.
- Define future-state supply chain processes and ensure alignment with SAP standard capabilities and enterprise architecture principles.
- Lead Fit-to-Standard workshops and drive process harmonization across business units, plants, and deployment waves.
- Provide architecture leadership across planning, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, warehousing, logistics, transportation, quality, and supplier collaboration.
- Review and approve functional specifications, technical specifications, solution designs, interfaces, enhancements, reports, forms, and workflows.
- Govern cross-functional design dependencies across ISC, finance, product compliance, trade compliance, data, integration, security, Basis, testing, and deployment teams.
- Define and govern integrations with MES, PLM, legacy applications, and enterprise data platforms.
- Assess deviations from the global template, challenge unnecessary customizations, and ensure traceability of design decisions.
- Participate in architecture review boards and ensure compliance with program standards, controls, and non-functional requirements.
- Identify solution risks, design gaps, and delivery dependencies; drive decisions, mitigation actions, and closure.
- Ensure end-to-end business process coverage during SIT, UAT, regression testing, performance testing, and operational readiness.
- Support data migration design, cutover planning, deployment readiness, go-live, stabilization, and hypercare.
- Partner with business process owners, functional leads, technical architects, program leadership, vendors, and deployment teams.
- Produce clear architecture views, decision records, roadmaps, and executive-level status updates.
Generic Managerial Skills, If any
- Executive stakeholder management and clear communication
- Cross-functional leadership in a global, matrixed delivery model
- Architecture governance and evidence-based decision making
- Workshop facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution
- Risk, issue, dependency, and scope management
- Vendor coordination and accountability for deliverable quality
- Ability to translate business outcomes into scalable SAP solutions
- Mentoring of functional and technical leads