SAP/Supply Planning Consultant

Vaco by Highspring; Cincinnati (OH); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco by Highspring is seeking a Sr. Supply Chain Consultant to strengthen supply planning across U.S. manufacturing sites, with SAP S/4HANA expertise and a focus on standardizing planning processes.

The role supports production scheduling, lead times, and inventory, collaborating with plant schedulers and SAP teams to maximize system adoption and reduce manual workarounds.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• Significant experience in supply planning, production planning, or manufacturing operations.
• Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA, particularly supply/production planning.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing planning processes and plant operations.
• Experience troubleshooting SAP planning issues and working with SAP transactions, tables, and master data.
• Ability to translate manufacturing requirements into practical SAP-enabled processes.

Responsibilities

• Define, document, and standardize supply planning and production planning processes across U.S. manufacturing plants.
• Evaluate current planning practices and identify opportunities to improve consistency, efficiency, and system utilization.
• Incorporate manufacturing and production-floor requirements into supply planning processes.
• Develop and implement planning best practices related to production scheduling, material availability, capacity, lead times, and inventory.
• Support production simulation and scenario planning to improve decision-making.
• Establish standardized work processes, planning parameters, and operating procedures.
• Partner with plant schedulers, production teams, supply chain leaders, and SAP teams to align business processes and system capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to reduce reliance on individual schedulers’ institutional knowledge through standardized processes and SAP-enabled planning.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert for SAP S/4HANA supply and production planning.
• Troubleshoot SAP-related planning issues and determine root causes of system or process problems.

Skills

Supply planning

Production planning

SAP S/4HANA

Manufacturing operations

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, Business, or related field

Job description

Vaco is hiring a Sr. Supply Chain Consultant

Location: Remote or Local to Cincinnati, Ohio Preferred

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Supply Planning & SAP S/4 Manufacturing Planning Specialist to strengthen supply-planning capabilities across our U.S. manufacturing plants. The organization is approximately one year post SAP S/4HANA go-live and is focused on increasing system adoption, standardizing planning processes, and improving the connection between production operations and supply planning.

This role will bring a strong manufacturing and production-planning perspective to supply planning while serving as a subject-matter expert for SAP S/4 supply-planning functionality. The ideal candidate will understand both the realities of plant operations and how to leverage SAP to support effective, standardized planning processes.

Key Responsibilities

Supply Planning & Manufacturing Best Practices

• Define, document, and standardize supply planning and production planning processes across U.S. manufacturing plants.
• Evaluate current planning practices and identify opportunities to improve consistency, efficiency, and system utilization.
• Incorporate manufacturing and production-floor requirements into supply-planning processes.
• Develop and implement planning best practices related to production scheduling, material availability, capacity, lead times, and inventory.
• Support production simulation and scenario planning to improve decision-making.
• Establish standardized work processes, planning parameters, and operating procedures.
• Partner with plant schedulers, production teams, supply chain leaders, and SAP teams to align business processes and system capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to reduce reliance on individual schedulers’ institutional knowledge through standardized processes and SAP-enabled planning.

SAP S/4 Supply Planning Expertise

• Serve as a subject-matter expert for SAP S/4HANA supply and production planning.
• Troubleshoot SAP-related planning issues and determine root causes of system or process problems.
• Support users with SAP transactions, tables, planning functionality, and related system processes.
• Assess and improve master data quality and its impact on planning results.
• Analyze planning parameters, lead times, production data, and other inputs that influence SAP planning outcomes.
• Identify gaps between current business processes and SAP S/4 capabilities and recommend improvements.
• Work with IT/SAP support teams to resolve system issues and improve system performance and usability.
• Help plants maximize the capabilities of SAP S/4 rather than relying on manual workarounds or offline planning tools.
• Support testing, process changes, system enhancements, and user adoption initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Significant experience in supply planning, production planning, manufacturing operations, or supply chain management.
• Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA, particularly supply planning and/or production planning.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing planning processes and plant operations.
• Experience troubleshooting SAP planning issues and working with SAP transactions, tables, and master data.
• Demonstrated understanding of production lead times, material requirements, inventory, capacity, and production scheduling.
• Experience defining and standardizing business processes across multiple sites or manufacturing operations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate manufacturing requirements into practical SAP-enabled processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting an organization following an SAP S/4HANA implementation or go-live.
• Experience with production simulation and scenario planning.
• Experience with SAP master data governance and data-quality improvement.
• Experience working directly with plant schedulers and manufacturing leadership.
• Knowledge of SAP PP/MRP and related planning functionality.
• Experience with process improvement, change management, or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Key Success Measures

Success in this role will be demonstrated through:

• Increased utilization of SAP S/4 supply-planning capabilities across U.S. plants.
• Standardized supply and production-planning processes.
• Improved master data quality and planning accuracy.
• Faster and more effective resolution of SAP planning issues.
• Reduced reliance on manual planning workarounds.
• Improved management of production and material lead times.
• Greater consistency in planning practices across manufacturing sites.
• Stronger integration between manufacturing operations, supply planning, and SAP S/4.

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