Manager is actively looking for SAP PP-APO Specialist
- 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