Role: SAP PP-APO Specialist

Duration: 12 months

Location : Houston TX

TARGETED OUTCOMES (NEXT 12 MONTHS)

· Develop trusted partnership with the supply chain, production planning, and manufacturing organization leadership and resources

· Provide support for designated SAP Modules within SLA guidelines (or better)

· Contribute to a successful transition to a new COE via knowledge transfer work sessions

· Participate in scoping and planning sessions for current year entitlement projects

RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide expertise in SAP Production Planning (PP) related to:

• Configuration of all aspects of PP for new roll outs
• Support existing configuration of PP for all manufacturing plants
• In house production: receipts, consumption, transfers, etc.
• Use of Recipes/Bill of Materials
• Integration to MES systems

Provide expertise in PPDS

• Detailed scheduling and process order scheduling
• Scheduling of orders on assets
• Co product/By product
• Drag and drop on extruders

Provide expertise in SAP APO Demand & Supply Planning

• Production batches
• APO planning board
• Asset capacity planning

• Facilitation of thoughtful design discussions to meet business needs using best practices and SAP product capabilities.
• Independently gather business requirements, design technical solution, and configure/implement solutions, either alone or by coordinating with other IT and business resources
• Create detailed design documents and functional specifications in order to facilitate business approval and sign off of the proposed system changes
• Consult with ABAP developers and provide technical specifications to develop RICEF solutions
• Manage unit testing of changes in development and testing environments, including regression testing of functionality that may be impacted by new changes
• Provide ad hoc training and consulting to business users as required
• Provide support for other activities that impact the system, such as configuration changes to support changing business conditions, SAP ECC upgrades, projects, etc.
• Proactively addresses continuous improvement requests and drives them to completion
• Consistently demonstrate initiative to acquire and utilize new technical skills within job function
• Consistently achieve target dates for assigned tasks aiding in on budget delivery of the project
• Maintain system reliability as defined by service level agreements
• Successful delivery of IT enhancements and project demands with anticipated results
• Use Ascend project management practices and tools to provide tracking information
• Utilization of Ascend methodology to ensures development lifecycle and controls processes are followed

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree or above in Computer Science, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, or other related area.
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in SAP with experience in a functional consultant role with at least 3global implementations.
• Demonstrated expertise in SAP PP and SCMwith analysis and design of business applications.
• Additional experience in SAP IBP, MM, and PM are a plus
• Understanding of integration to other SAP modules: SD, MM, FI, PA, IBP
• Knowledge and experience with ABAP programming is a strong plus
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to relate technical ideas and functionality to non-technical users
• Self-motivated work ethic, keen attention to detail and exceptional customer service orientation.
• Strong analytical skills; ability to perform complex system analysis and draw conclusions by relating information from different sources, including root-cause analysis and issue resolution.