R10065806 Product Expert Production Planning SAP Americas (Open)

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Product Expert Production Planning SAP Americas

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Job Description Summary: SAP Production Planning Product Experts are specialists in the SAP Production Planning (PP) module. Product Experts provide deep functional and/or technical expertise in their specific domain. They are responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of their module. They are responsible for gathering, clarifying business requirements and defining stories to streamline the execution and provide technical guidance and support to other team members.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

• Act as the subject matter expert to projects specific to SAP Production Planning (PP)

• Elicit requirements using interviews, process reviews, shadowing, document analysis, requirements workshops, site visits, business process descriptions, task & workflow analysis.  

• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, identify, and close gaps, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.

• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and SAP functional requirements and deliver appropriate artefacts on standard templates, including but not limited to Process Flows, Technical Design, Solution Design, User Stories, Use Cases, GUI Screen and Interface designs.

• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.

• Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.

• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability, functionality and performance needs.

• Implement and deploy SAP template solution to achieve defined business goals to design, maintain, deploy solution for Production Planning (PP) and related cross functional components such as Order Management and Finance.

• Owns and manages the design, documentation and implementation of processes and process improvements in conjunction with process owners, Super Users, SAP functional specialists and third-party as part of the SAP CoE. Initiates continuous improvements activities to increase the efficiency of the business information systems and meet global business objectives.

• Collaborate on technical feasibility: Work closely with Product Managers to ensure that product features are technically feasible and sustainable within given timelines.

• Define required functional, performance, security and compatibility tests to ensure all is working after integration of the product to systems

• Orchestrate and plan system demos and tests

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Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science and/or Business Administration or Equivalent

Required Length & Type of Experience:

• 5+ years of experience implementing SAP products, including experience with S/4 HANA 

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in configuring SAP Production Planning (PP) solutions including SAP interfaces with external Planning and MES systems

• 5 years of business and functional requirements analysis experience

• Experience with troubleshooting and debugging complex integrated applications.

• Extensive experience as a team member on medium to large SAP initiatives

• Experience with SAP Warehouse Management (WM) is a plus

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: 

• Experienced SAP Production Planning (PP) subject matter expert who is able to engage with business, extract business requirements and configure SAP solutions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact pr