SAP S4 PP/MM Functional Consultant / Mundelein, IL

The challenging responsibilities of the position include:

• Understand Medline business processes in Manufacturing, Supply chain and related areas.
• Support, architect, design and help with requirements elicitation in MM & PP modules within SAP S/4 and ECC systems.
• Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.
• Research and design implementation strategies for new or alternate technologies that will further business goals and provide competitive advantages.
• Stay abreast of current technology trends both in the industry as a whole and with the applications deployed in the landscape.
• Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure technical decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Create architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information) in a way that is directly actionable, clear and unambiguous.
• Work closely with the product owners and project/product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Coach, mentor, and collaborates with technical subject matter experts, application team members, and EA peers to implement architectures that enable and drive new business capabilities and operating models.
• Author & communicate business process design (BPD), business systems design (BSD) and system test plans.
• Completing the functional specifications for any interfaces, forms and extensions required in the S4 HANA PP/MFG work stream.
• Conducting unit testing, functional and system integration testing, both functional and security, and triaging system deficiencies when they occur.
• Handling the interfaces between ECC and S4 HANA SAP systems, any 3rd party system integrations, root cause and fix errors.
• Knowledge of handling Output types, IDOCs, batch jobs is a plus.
• Triaging issues and defects and track and report on resolution and perform root cause analysis.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Manufacturing area are required.
• At least 15 years total SAP systems experience
• At least 3 implementations on SAP S4 system leading MFG workstream
• Strong functional and business knowledge in different SAP MM & PP modules.
• Basic knowledge of EDI functions and usages.
• Experienced with SAP MM & PP master data is required.
• Past experience in SAP Fiori is preferred.
• Experienced with labelling software such as OpenText, Document Presentment a plus.
• Strong communication skills - both written and verbal.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation
• Skilled at influencing, guiding and facilitating stakeholders and peers with decision making.
• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of those technologies to evolving business and operating models
• Ability to organize & balance multiple projects/priorities.
• Must be self-motivated with capability to work independently.