Senior Business Systems Analyst – Production planning and execution

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.

What You Will Do

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.

Why It Might Be a Fit

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 10+ years of experience implementing and supporting SAP Production Planning, including substantial hands-on experience with SAP PP-PI in a process-manufacturing environment
• At least two full SAP PP or PP-PI implementation life cycle, from requirements and solution design through testing, cutover, go-live, and post-production support
• Hands-on configuration and support experience with process orders, BOMs, master recipes, production versions, PI Sheets, resources/work centers, and production confirmations
• Strong hands-on MRP experience, including planning parameters, planning strategies, exception analysis, scheduling, lot sizing, and resolution of planning issues
• Experience with capacity planning, capacity evaluation, and capacity leveling for production resources
• Experience with SAP Fiori applications supporting production planning, production execution, or manufacturing analytics
• Strong knowledge of SAP integration points with MM, QM, WM, SD, PM, FI/CO, product costing, and batch management
• Experience in food, dairy, beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical, consumer products, or another regulated process industry is preferred
• Production support experience in a multi-site manufacturing environment is preferred