The Sr. SAP Business Analyst will participate in a cross-functional team environment as part of the DFA Shared Applications Team. This position will be responsible for becoming knowledgeable in design, implementation, enhancement, and day-to-day operation of SAP Production Planning for process manufacturing. The role partners with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, warehouse, finance, and IT teams to deliver reliable production planning and execution capabilities across the organization. This position serves as a functional subject matter expert for SAP PP and PP-PI, with emphasis on process orders, master recipes, bills of material, PI Sheets, material requirements planning, capacity planning, and SAP Fiori applications.
The candidate will interact with key business users to configure and enhance SAP business applications as needed to meet business requirements. This includes supporting our project teams, providing input on system design, integration testing, user training, and post go-live support. The candidate will also provide day-to-day production support, including coordination with team members and external consultants. The candidate will follow approved DFA project management and governance standards.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Own and support end-to-end SAP Production Planning and Production Execution processes in a process-industry environment, including demand management, MRP, planned orders, process orders, staging, confirmations, goods movements, and settlement integration.
- Configure and support SAP PP and PP-PI capabilities based on approved business processes and solution design standards.
- Design, configure, and maintain PP-PI master data and execution objects, including material masters, bills of material (BOMs), master recipes, production versions, resources/work centers, capacities, control recipes, and PI Sheets.
- Partner with manufacturing and operations teams to define process order execution, operator instructions, data collection, phase confirmations, yield and scrap reporting, and exception-handling requirements.
- Lead MRP design and optimization, including planning strategies, lot-sizing procedures, procurement proposals, planning time fences, safety stock, scheduling parameters, exception messages, and MRP troubleshooting.
- Support finite and infinite capacity planning, resource utilization analysis, capacity evaluation, leveling, and alignment of production plans with available labor and equipment capacity.
- Support finite and infinite capacity planning, resource utilization analysis, capacity evaluation, leveling, and alignment of production plans with available labor and equipment capacity.
- Use and support SAP Fiori applications for production planning and execution, including role-based user experience, analytical views, monitoring, approvals, and exception management where applicable.
- Provide production support to end users, analyze incidents and recurring issues, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate resolution with internal teams and onshore/offshore partners.
- Collaborate across SAP functional areas, including MM, QM, WM, SD, PM, FI/CO, product costing, batch management, and shopfloor or manufacturing integration solutions.
- Recommend SAP best practices and process improvements that enhance planning accuracy, production visibility, execution discipline, traceability, and user experience.
- Ability to gather business requirements and transform them into SAP business application processes that can be implemented and supported.
- Coordinate or active participation with Shared Applications team members or business users in the analysis, design, development, documentation, performance testing, and implementation of technical business solutions.
- Ability to define, gather, and load the master data needed to support applications delivered.
- Follow DFA Development, Governance and Project Management standards.
- The requirements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employee, but is not a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Other duties may be assigned as required