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We are looking for SAP PP Consultant (Arkieva Experience)

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We are seeking a highly experienced SAP Solution Architect with deep functional expertise in Supply Chain Planning and strong secondary expertise in Manufacturing processes, specifically within SAP PP-PI environments. The architect will serve as both a strategic advisor and hands-on functional leader, driving solution definition, business process alignment, and deployment strategies across two critical initiatives: Arkieva stabilization and optimization and a new plant implementation program.
The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience leading end-to-end supply chain transformation initiatives, integrating planning platforms with SAP, and leveraging emerging AI-driven capabilities to accelerate solution deployment, stabilize operational environments, and improve decision-making. This role requires strong collaboration skills, business process consulting expertise, and Organizational Change Management (OCM) capabilities to influence stakeholders toward adopting standard SAP processes and minimizing customization.
The architect will be fully accountable for requirements gathering, blueprint development, solution design, advisory services, and co-creation with both business and IT stakeholders. The individual must be capable of bridging business strategy with SAP-enabled solutions while providing thought leadership around AI-enabled supply chain planning and manufacturing optimization.

Key Responsibilities

1. Arkieva Stabilization and Strategic Improvement

Assess the current Arkieva landscape and existing deployment challenges.
Lead workshops with business and IT stakeholders to identify stabilization opportunities.
Evaluate alternatives for faster, more efficient Arkieva deployment and adoption.
Drive solution options leveraging AI capabilities to improve planning processes, forecasting, optimization, and decision support.
Define integration strategies between Arkieva and SAP PP-PI.
Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies and AI use cases within supply chain planning.
Recommend roadmap options for reducing operational complexity and improving system effectiveness.

2. New Plant Discovery and Solution Architecture

Lead discovery and requirements-gathering sessions with business stakeholders across the end-to-end supply chain and manufacturing landscape.
Assess business capabilities required to support the new plant operation.
Identify and map required SAP functionalities and modules to support future-state processes.
Translate business requirements into scalable SAP solution designs.
Evaluate existing SAP processes and capabilities for reuse across the new plant implementation.
Drive standardization by influencing stakeholders to adopt existing SAP best practices whenever feasible.
Minimize customization and change effort through process harmonization.
Develop future-state business process architecture and operational models.

3. Solution Design and Blueprint Ownership

Own and deliver all architecture and blueprint deliverables, including:
Business requirements documentation
Functional and solution design documents
Architecture recommendations
Deployment strategies
Process models and fit-gap assessments
Partner with Primient business and IT teams in a co-creation model.
Ensure alignment between business objectives, operational requirements, and SAP capabilities.
Provide architectural governance throughout discovery and design phases.
Establish decision frameworks and solution evaluation criteria.

4. Supply Chain and Manufacturing Leadership

Serve as the functional authority for supply chain planning processes.
Provide expertise across:
Production Planning (PP)
Process Industries (PP-PI)
Supply Chain Planning
Integrated Business Planning concepts
Manufacturing execution and production processes
Inventory and materials planning
Guide cross-functional integration across SAP modules supporting plant operations.

5. Stakeholder Management and Organizational Change

Facilitate executive, business, and IT stakeholder workshops.
Influence business teams toward standardized SAP processes.
Drive consensus across multiple stakeholder groups.
Support organizational change management activities.
Communicate complex solution options in business-friendly language.
Build alignment between current-state operations and future-state process objectives.

Deliverables

The architect will be accountable for:

Discovery assessments
Business requirements documentation
Solution architecture designs
Future-state process definitions
Fit-gap analyses
SAP capability mapping
Arkieva stabilization recommendations
AI-enabled transformation opportunities
Deployment and implementation roadmaps
Executive-level presentations and recommendations
Governance and architecture decision records

Success Criteria

Successful stabilization and optimization roadmap for Arkieva.
Identification and implementation of AI-driven opportunities within supply chain planning and manufacturing.
Delivery of complete architectural blueprints for the new plant initiative.
Maximum reuse of existing SAP processes and capabilities.
Reduced customization footprint and implementation risk.
Strong stakeholder alignment and business adoption.
Readiness to support full-scale implementation activities

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: 91094514
Position Id: 9042828
Posted 12 hours ago

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