SAP Functional Lead - Supply Chain Planning; IBP

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The SAP Supply Chain Planning Lead is a hands‑on role that will provide SAP Functional design leadership and direction as a part of the newly formed SAP Centre of Excellence (COE) within the Information Technology organisation. This position will help lead the functional/solution architecture and design of a newly implemented SAP S4/Hana system in the area of Supply Chain Planning. The person in this position is required to work with the business Supply Chain, planning and operational teams, the AMS (Application Managed Services) team, and other SAP functional leads in the SAP COE to ensure that the functional design and configuration in the areas of Planning, VMS, Material Management, Variant Configuration, Sales and Distribution, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay and Plant maintenance align with SAP best practices and documentation compliance and can support the operational requirements of the business.

This SAP Functional Lead will be supporting (from an IBP Supply Chain Planning perspective) a new SAP S/4

HANA implementation within the automotive industry within a high‑volume supply chain operation. The person in this position will proactively work with the AMS partner, business and technical teams to resolve and reduce identified defects and changes required. The SAP Functional Lead should be able to make changes to or guide the efforts to customise existing programmes or add new programmes to existing platforms.

The SAP Functional Lead would also help in the organisational change management around the use of SAP software.

• Facilitate, gather and analyse business requirements and translate into SAP application requirements for the business. This should include analysis of current needs, anticipate future needs and provide solutions that integrate well with the various business operations that are a part of the SAP ecosystem.
• Design and implement SAP solutions, with others on the SAP project team, to address these business requirements. These should be integrated solutions to resolve highly complex technical and business needs.
• Provide SAP support including analysis, development, testing, tracking, and problem resolution.
• Research production problems and/or enhancement issues and make appropriate changes to the system. Initiate action and evaluate issues to develop alternative solutions. Apply expert knowledge and experience to resolve problems.
• Key member of the SAP team responsible for the functional design of WRICEFs for the sales and distribution functional area.
• Support the development team to define and document solution architecture as part of a new initiative or enhancement.
• Recognised leader within the team, expert in SAP IBP Supply Chain and Planning domain in place at the company, including warranty knowledge.
• Good understanding of SAP IBP (Integrated Business and Planning) & S4 HANA integration and have experience working on IBP, CI‑DS, and S4 integration…