SAP PP Senior Architect

Your Role

• Own the global DTS process architecture and ensure all new or enhanced solutions align with it. Maintain solution blueprint and ensure consistency across regions/Plants.
• Evaluate, design and approve solutions for Aptiv business requirements in SAP DTS.
• Work closely with business leaders in PP & QM, Logistics and Finance to translate business needs into scalable SAP solutions leveraging leading best practice.
• Coordination with Partners
  • Provide guidance, clarify requirements and facilitate business decisions.
  • Review partner deliverables quality, completeness and alignment with clean core principles
  • Prioritize enhancement requests and vendors focus on business-critical work

• Work with existing applications in the DTS area including SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA, to deliver continuous improvement and projects in the Demand to Supply process, DSC for PP/DS, 3rd Party Integrations
• Will involve applying knowledge of the automotive industry to tailor solutions effectively, ensuring they meet industry standards and requirements.
• Define DTS transformation roadmap – S/4HANA migration, rollout expansion and other solution deployment recommendations.
• Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and partners, you'll lead by example, fostering effective communication and teamwork to drive successful business transformations.

Your Background

• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in analyzing requirements and designing solutions and roadmaps in SAP DTS process covering SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA.
• Strong background in the automotive, high tech or related industries is preferred
• Experience in Rollouts, Mergers and Acquisitions, Divestiture and Implementation
• Experience in designing solutions in Automotive specific DTS processes like Repetitive manufacturing, Quality Management, Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling, Variant Configuration, Serial Numbers, Backflush, Scrap Management etc
• Ability to define business rules for Data migration objects
• Strong experience in S/4HANA DTS processes like Production Planning, Capacity Planning, Advance Variant Configuration, DSC for PPDS and IBP.
• Experience in MES integration with SAP ERP
• Understanding of simplification items and migration from ECC to S/4HANA
• Experience working in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Ability to coordinate with other vendors in different phases of the project.
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Comfortable with questioning established ways of working to bring process and automation improvements and getting agreement to change

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