Job title: Senior SAP Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Architect
Top Skills:
SAP Material Requirements Planning (MRP), SAP MRP Exception
Management, SAP Material Master Data, SAP Production Planning, SAP
Materials Management, MRP Live on HANA
Detailed Job description:
Role Overview:
We are seeking a highly experienced SAP MRP Solution Architect to analyze
and resolve complex MRP exception issues in our global SAP environment.
The ideal candidate will have 20+ years of SAP experience with deep
expertise in Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Materials Management
(MM), and integration with Production Planning (PP) and Supply Chain
processes. This role is critical to stabilizing our planning and raw material
procurement processes and ensuring material availability for production.
Key Responsibilities:
• Analyze as-is MRP process and propose best practices, governance for
streamlining and optimizing MRP.
• Lead root cause analysis of MRP exception messages and planning failures
across plants and materials.
• Design and implement optimized MRP strategies, lot-sizing, and planning
parameters to reduce exceptions and improve planning accuracy.
• Review and propose remediations to master data issues (Material Master,
BOM, Procurement Types).
• Propose Engineering Change Order (ECO) best practice recommendations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (PP, MM, Demand and Supply
planning) to ensure end-to-end supply chain integration.
• Develop MRP exception dashboards and KPIs for proactive monitoring.
• Provide knowledge transfer and training to internal teams.
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Required Skills & Experience:
• 20+ years of SAP experience, with strong focus on MRP and MM.
• Proven track record in resolving large-scale MRP issues in complex
manufacturing environments.
• Expertise in planning strategies, procurement types, special procurement
keys, and stock determination.
• Strong understanding of integration with PP, MM, and advanced planning
tools like O9.
• Hands-on experience with MRP Live in S/4HANA (preferred).
• Ability to analyze performance issues and optimize MRP runs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• SAP Certification in MM or PP.
• Experience in Fortune 500 or large-scale manufacturing environments.
• Familiarity with Fiori apps for MRP and planning