Sap Solutions Architect

Day to Day:

This role serves as the primary SAP Production Planning (PP) functional expert for a manufacturing organization moving from heavily manual processes to standardized SAP automation. The analyst will immediately support the company’s high-priority “Complete and On-Time” project—beginning at a pilot plant near Nashville—focused on correcting years of manual workarounds and reestablishing SAP-standard MRP and planning processes.

Approximately 75–80% of initial workload will be project-focused, including evaluating current manual scheduling practices, conducting process discovery on-site at plants, designing SAP-standard PP solutions, and configuring MRP, planning strategies, material group logic, and related PP functionality. The remaining portion of the role includes ongoing SAP PP support, such as configuring planning calendars, handling enhancement requests, managing incidents via ServiceNow, and partnering with business users across procurement, production execution, inventory/warehouse, and fulfillment.

This person will gather requirements, translate business needs into SAP configuration, produce functional specifications for development, support testing (SIT/UAT), drive documentation and SOP updates, and deliver end-user training to help stabilize and standardize planning processes across the enterprise. The role requires strong business engagement—walking the plant floor, meeting with schedulers and planners, facilitating process reviews, and driving adoption of standard SAP practices. Over time, the analyst will participate in broader manufacturing solution architecture efforts and support the company’s long-term move toward S/4HANA.

Must Haves:

Years / Depth / Modules Required:

• 10\+ years SAP PP functional experience
• SAP ECC6 experience (current environment)
• Ability to evaluate current state → design → configure → test → implement SAP PP solutions
• Experience translating business requirements into functional specs for development
• Strong process mapping, problem analysis, and documentation skills
• Experience supporting manufacturing plant personnel directly
• Comfortable working in ServiceNow (or similar ticket system) for incidents \+ enhancements
• Strong written \& verbal communication; ability to train users
• Comfortable being on-site at plants (very business-facing)
• Heavy SAP PP configuration expertise — not just support
• Strong experience with:
• MRP strategies (all common planning strategies)
• MRP settings \& parameters
• Material Groups
• PP Master Data impacts

Pluses:

• SAP Procurement, Production Execution, WM, IM
• 3\+ full lifecycle ECC implementations (from JD)
• S/4HANA exposure or implementation support
• Standardizing or re-architecting SAP solutions (moving from custom → standard)
• Creating SOPs, training management, rollout support
• Working with/leading third‑party SAP support providers
• Integration with non-SAP systems
• Solution prototyping and stability/usability improvements
• • MBA or advanced degree (not required)