SAP Manfacturing Consultant

Location: Germany Language Requirement: German-speaking (fluent) Engagement Type: Consultant

ICM America LLC seeks an SAP Manufacturing Consultant (PP / PM / MES) to join our growing, dynamic team which provides SAP Implementation, Data Management and Project Management consulting services to SAP clients within the Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Oil & Gas, Automotive, High-Tech, Plastics & Building Products, and Food & Consumer Packaged Goods industries.  This role is focused on manufacturing operations – production planning, plant maintenance and shop floor / MES integration – with particular emphasis on continuous flow, process and plastic profile extrusion environments.

 

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities would include participation on full life cycle of SAP client engagements – assessment, planning, design, configuration, testing, training, and support services, with a concentration on the plant floor and the manufacturing value chain. 

A.      Strategy & Planning.  Assisting clients with the assessment of current manufacturing and ERP environments, value stream and process mapping from raw material through extrusion, fabrication, packaging and shipment, documenting requirements, and assembling and presenting findings, recommendations, and corresponding remediation / implementation project plans.

B.      Production Planning (PP / PP-PI / REM).  Configure and support demand management, MRP / MRP Live, capacity planning and leveling, work centers and resources, BOMs, routings / master recipes, production versions, and order lifecycle – including campaign planning, line loading, changeover sequencing, backflushing and rate-based planning for repetitive and continuous flow operations.

C.      Plant Maintenance (PM).  Configure functional locations, equipment and tooling hierarchies, task lists, maintenance plans and the notification / work order lifecycle.  Support preventive and condition-based maintenance strategies, spare parts and MM integration, contractor and cost settlement, and downtime / OEE reporting for extrusion lines, dies and ancillary equipment.

D.     MES & Shop Floor Integration.  Support the design and integration of MES and plant systems with SAP S/4HANA – SAP DMC / ME / MII, PCo, plant historians, PLC / SCADA and line-level data collection.  Cover order dispatch and confirmation, machine and labor time capture, scrap and yield reporting, electronic production / batch records, labeling and genealogy traceability.

E.      Continuous Flow & Process Manufacturing.  Apply continuous and process manufacturing practice – co-products and by-products, phase / recipe management, in-line quality inspection (QM) and statistical process control, batch determination and WIP batches, regrind and reclaim material flows, and silo / bulk raw material consumption.

F.       Plastic Profile & Extrusion Expertise.  Bring process depth specific to plastic profile and building products manufacturing – die and tooling management, extrusion line scheduling and changeover minimization, lineal / cut-to-length units of measure and conversions, co-extrusion, capstock and lamination operations, color and compound changeovers, scrap and regrind yield tracking, and finished goods bundling and packaging.

G.     Project Management.  Support project planning and management activities – developing project work plans (Excel, MS Project), developing / presenting project status reports, managing team schedules (estimates, actual, to complete hours), document management and issue tracking.

H.     Facilitation.  Planning and direct client team meetings – interviews, plant walkthroughs, white boarding processes, engaging with executive, operational, plant and technical client personnel and documentation of observations and recommendations (MS Word, PowerPoint, Visio and Excel).

I.        Design, Configuration & Testing.  Supporting the design of new / upgraded SAP applications (S/4HANA) – help with the new solution functional design, document key requirements, facilitate design, integration and application testing sessions including end-to-end shop floor scenarios, and driving training and support activities.

J.        Research.  Conduct research leveraging internet, research institutional reports, and SAP knowledge management tools to identify best practices, issue remediation ideas, process/technology options, and supporting documentation.

K.      Sales.  Support new client sales activities – attend client sales meetings, share relevant SAP and manufacturing experiences/best practices, help identify and qualify client needs sales opportunities, and assisting with presentation preparation and delivery activities.

Job Qualifications:

The ideal candidate is an individual who possesses the following experiences, skills and qualities:  

·       Functional SAP Expertise.  Possess relevant SAP configuration and/or operational experiences / certifications in PP and/or PM, with working knowledge of adjacent areas – PP-PI, REM, MM, QM, EWM/WM and CO product costing.  S/4HANA project experience preferred.

·       MES & Shop Floor Systems.  Hands-on experience integrating SAP with MES / MOM platforms – SAP DMC, ME, MII / PCo, or third party solutions such as Siemens Opcenter, Rockwell, AVEVA / Wonderware or Ignition – using IDoc, BAPI, OData or similar interfaces, plus familiarity with barcode / RFID data collection and plant historians.

·       Manufacturing Operations Acumen.  Practical understanding of continuous flow, process and repetitive manufacturing – line changeovers, OEE, yield and scrap management, lean and Six Sigma principles.  Plastic profile extrusion, compounding or building products experience is a strong plus.

·       Certifications.  Self-starter as demonstrated by obtaining and maintaining professional and technical certifications and a desire to expand related knowledge.

·       Business Acumen.  Brings a strong understanding of business operations – manufacturing and plant operations, supply chain, and finance and accounting.  And one or two industries – Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Oil & Gas, Automotive, High-Tech, Plastics & Building Products, and Food & Consumer Packaged Goods industries.

·       Technical Aptitude.  Ability to learn and master technology tools such as SAP, Jira, MS Office and Project, etc.

·       Work Ethic.  Self-starter, high integrity, positive attitude, willing to put in the time to see a task through to completion.

·       Communication skills.  Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to work comfortably with plant floor personnel as well as executive stakeholders.

·       Travel.  Willingness to travel to client manufacturing sites as required by project needs.

·       Foreign Language.  Ability to communication in other languages a plus, particularly German.

·       Degree.  Bachelor’s degree preferred with a focus in industrial, mechanical, chemical or plastics engineering, supply chain, business, or related field and/or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Logistical Information:

·       Employment options:  Open to either a fulltime employee or contractor work support specific project(s).

·       ICM America Office.  100 West Sixth Street, #103, Media, Pennsylvania. 19063

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ICM America LLC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V

 

 

About ICM America LLC

ICM America delivers SAP consulting solutions that integrate business processes and technology solutions across the value chain to make businesses more flexible, more efficient, and better able to adapt to change – and stay one step ahead of the competition.  ICM America was founding in 1997, with our main offices  in Media, Pennsylvania about five miles from SAP America headquarters.  As a whole, ICM America has a management team with over 60 years of proven experience, implementing over 100 successful projects.  Based on this success, ICM America is proud to be an SAP Service Partner working across the Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Oil & Gas, Automotive, High-Tech, Plastics & Building Products, and Food & Consumer Packaged Goods industries.