SAP Functional Lead:(PP-PI, QM, SCM)

Job Title: SAP Functional Lead:(PP-PI, QM, SCM)

Location: Libertyville, IL 60048 (Onsite)

Job Type: Contract

Client Birla Soft

Rate : Depends upon Experience

Role purpose

Leads the Plan-to-Fulfil assessment stream covering process manufacturing, quality management and supply planning. Responsible for translating legacy batch and formula-based manufacturing processes into an S/4HANA PP-PI fit-gap view.

Key responsibilities

• Lead discovery and fit-to-standard workshops for demand planning, MRP, process orders, batch management, quality planning and inspection processes.
• Assess legacy formulas, recipes and bills of material against S/4HANA master recipes, multi-level BOMs, work centres and production versions.
• Evaluate batch genealogy, traceability, shelf-life, potency and co-product / by-product handling requirements.
• Assess quality planning, incoming, in-process and final inspection, Certificate of Analysis and vendor / customer quality processes.
• Identify regulatory and EH&S driven design considerations relevant to specialty chemical manufacturing.
• Assess integration with the demand planning / forecasting platform and downstream fulfilment processes.
• Document gaps, dependencies, RICEF candidates and Phase 2 effort considerations for the workstream.

Required SAP and domain expertise

• SAP S/4HANA PP-PI with strong process manufacturing background (batch and formula-based production).
• Master recipes, process orders, phases, confirmations, capacity planning, yields, losses and costing integration.
• SAP QM across quality planning, inspection lots, usage decisions, CoA and non-conformance management.
• Supply and demand planning, MRP, ATP and integration with MM, WM/EWM, SD and FI/CO.
• Batch management, traceability and regulatory compliance in a process industry environment.

Experience and qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of SAP manufacturing and planning experience with multiple full lifecycle implementations.
• Demonstrated PP-PI leadership in chemicals, agro-chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food or similar process industries.
• Experience assessing or migrating from a non-SAP process manufacturing ERP is strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain or operations; relevant SAP certification desirable.

Phase 1 deliverables owned

• PP-PI, QM and SCM as-is process inventory and fit-gap classification.
• Recipe, batch and substance data assessment inputs.
• Chemical industry gap register and Phase 2 design recommendations.