SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing Planning Solution Architect

Required: 10+ Year’sMust Have Technical/Functional Skills- 12+ years of SAP Manufacturing and Supply Chain experience with deep expertise in SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing Planning and embedded PP/DS.- Minimum three end-to-end SAP planning implementations, including solution architecture ownership on at least one global SAP S/4HANA transformation.- Expertise in demand management, PIRs, MRP Live, MRP areas, planning strategies, lot sizing, safety stock, lead-time scheduling, and exception management.- Strong experience with embedded PP/DS covering product heuristics, production planning runs, detailed scheduling, finite capacity planning, optimization, pegging, and alert monitoring.- Experience designing planning for Discrete, Process, Repetitive, Make-to-Stock, Make-to-Order, Engineer-to-Order, configurable, batch-managed, and subcontracting scenarios.- Deep knowledge of BOMs, recipes, routings, work centers/resources, production versions, PDS generation, quotas, source determination, calendars, shifts, and setup matrices.- Experience with capacity evaluation, bottleneck management, sequencing, setup optimization, campaign planning, model-mix planning, and alternate resources or sources of supply.- Strong integration experience with Sales and Operations Planning, SAP IBP, aATP, Procurement, EWM, Manufacturing Execution, Quality, Plant Maintenance, Product Costing, and Transportation.- Experience defining planning master-data governance, segmentation, planning horizons, freeze periods, time fences, planning policies, and planner work practices.- Experience with SAP Fiori planning applications, analytics, alerts, background jobs, workflows, interfaces, enhancements, and SAP BTP integration patterns.- Experience with planning-data migration, simulation, reconciliation, performance tuning, SIT, UAT, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.- Strong knowledge of SAP Activate, global template governance, clean-core principles, and complex multi-plant manufacturing networks.

Roles & Responsibilities: Own the end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing Planning architecture for the Helix program and align the solution with enterprise architecture and the global process template.- Lead fit-to-standard workshops with Supply Planning, Production Control, Manufacturing, Procurement, Sales, Logistics, Finance, Engineering, and IT stakeholders.- Define the target planning architecture across SAP S/4HANA MRP Live, embedded PP/DS, SAP IBP, aATP, execution systems, and reporting platforms.- Design demand management, planning strategies, MRP areas, net requirements planning, source determination, lot sizing, safety stock, lead-time scheduling, and exception processes.- Define PP/DS scope and planning procedures for critical products, bottleneck resources, long lead-time materials, and constraint-based planning scenarios.- Design heuristics, production planning runs, finite scheduling, optimization, sequencing, setup reduction, campaign planning, alerts, and interactive planner processes.- Define planning master data for products, BOMs, recipes, routings, resources, production versions, PDS, calendars, shifts, quotas, and sources of supply.- Design planning processes for Discrete, Process, Repetitive, Make-to-Stock, Make-to-Order, Engineer-to-Order, batch-managed, and subcontracting manufacturing.- Own cross-functional integration with IBP, aATP, Procurement, EWM, Manufacturing Execution, Quality, Maintenance, Project Systems, Product Co sting, and Transportation.- Establish planning governance, KPI definitions, planning calendars, freeze windows, escalation paths, exception ownership, and operational support models.- Guide WRICEF, interfaces, forms, workflows, security, Fiori, analytics, background processing, and BTP designs while protecting clean-core objectives.- Lead planning simulations, volume and performance validation, end-to-end testing, defect resolution, data migration, mock cutovers, deployment readiness, and hypercare.- Identify schedule, capacity, material, data, and integration risks early; develop mitigation plans and drive cross-ART decisions.- Mentor functional teams, challenge unnecessary customization, and communicate architecture decisions and business impacts to Helix leadership. Generic Managerial Skills, If any- Strong solution leadership, ownership, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.- Ability to translate complex manufacturing constraints into scalable planning processes and SAP architecture.- Ability to lead cross-functional teams across planning, manufacturing, procurement, logistics, finance, data, integration, and change management.- Experience coordinating onshore and offshore teams in a large global transformation program.- Strong governance, risk management, decision facilitation, conflict resolution, and escalation skills.- Proactive, outcome-oriented approach with the ability to challenge assumptions and drive standard, sustainable solutions.