SAP S/4HANA PP/QM Subject Matter Expert...! Elma, NY 14059 (Hybrid)

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Position: SAP S/4HANA PP/QM Subject Matter Expert

Location: Elma, NY 14059 (Hybrid)

Duration : 12+Months

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We are seeking an experienced SAP S/4HANA PP/QM Subject Matter Expert to lead manufacturing process design for a strategic S/4HANA transformation in the Aerospace & Defense sector. The role requires deep Production Planning and Quality Management process expertise, strong discrete manufacturing knowledge, and the ability to translate complex business requirements into practical, standard-first S/4HANA solutions.

This is a hands-on, client-facing leadership role. The successful candidate will facilitate design workshops, own key process and solution decisions, guide cross-functional integration, support configuration and validation, and drive business readiness through testing, cutover, training, and stabilization.

Key Responsibilities

PP/QM Transformation and Design Leadership

Lead current-state assessment, requirements discovery, fit-to-standard analysis, process harmonization, and future-state design for PP and QM.
Plan and facilitate cross-functional design workshops; document outcomes, process flows, key design decisions, gaps, actions, risks, and dependencies.
Own the PP/QM workstream solution integrity and provide clear recommendations that balance business value, usability, standard SAP capabilities, and transformation objectives.
Partner with business leaders, manufacturing operations, quality, engineering, supply chain, IT, and implementation teams to secure alignment and timely decisions.

Production Planning and Manufacturing Execution

Design end-to-end planning and execution processes, including demand management, MRP, capacity planning, production versions, bills of material, routings/recipes, work centers, production orders, confirmations, staging, goods movements, and settlement integration.
Apply strong discrete manufacturing expertise to engineer-to-order, make-to-order, make-to-stock, repetitive, subcontracting, and project-oriented scenarios as applicable.
Define planning parameters, exception handling, order controls, availability considerations, scheduling, capacity evaluation, and shop-floor execution practices.
Drive integration between SAP PP and MES/shop-floor systems, including production order dispatch, material consumption, operation confirmations, labor and machine data, yield/scrap, genealogy, quality results, status synchronization, and error handling.
Collaborate with integration and technical teams on interface requirements, message design, monitoring, recovery, security, and end-to-end reconciliation.

Quality Management and Compliance

Design quality planning, inspection, and improvement processes across procurement, production, inventory, and customer-facing scenarios.
Define inspection types, inspection plans, master inspection characteristics, sampling procedures, dynamic modification, results recording, usage decisions, defects, notifications, certificates, and quality analytics.
Enable quality controls for incoming inspection, in-process inspection, final inspection, nonconformance, rework, returns, and supplier quality management.
Support material and product traceability through batch/serial controls, inspection records, genealogy, status management, and audit-ready documentation.
Work with business compliance stakeholders to reflect applicable company, customer, regulatory, and contract-specific quality requirements in the approved solution.

Cross-Functional Integration

Drive PP/QM integration with MM, EWM/WM, SD, PS, PM/EAM, FI/CO, Product Costing, engineering, master data, MES, PLM, and reporting solutions.
Validate end-to-end scenarios such as planned demand through production, procurement quality, production staging, inspection stock, nonconformance and rework, finished-goods release, delivery, and manufacturing cost capture.
Identify integration gaps early and coordinate ownership, design decisions, data dependencies, and test coverage across workstreams.

Delivery, Testing, Cutover, and Adoption

Guide configuration and functional design; review solution documentation and functional specifications for reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, and workflows.
Define master data and migration requirements for materials, BOMs, routings, work centers/resources, production versions, inspection plans, quality master data, open orders, batches, and relevant transactional data.
Prepare and execute unit, string, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing; lead defect triage, root-cause analysis, retesting, and closure.
Develop cutover activities, readiness criteria, reconciliation steps, contingency plans, and hypercare priorities for PP/QM and MES integration.
Create process documentation, workshop packs, configuration rationale, training content, and knowledge-transfer materials; coach business users and delivery team members.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of SAP functional consulting experience with deep hands-on expertise in SAP PP and QM; experience level may be calibrated to the organization’s role framework.
Demonstrated leadership on at least two SAP S/4HANA implementation, conversion, or transformation programs across design, build, testing, cutover, and stabilization.
Solid manufacturing process expertise in complex discrete manufacturing, with the ability to connect business operations to SAP process and configuration decisions.
Hands-on knowledge of PP master data, planning, production execution, capacity, order management, confirmations, material movements, and manufacturing integration.
Hands-on knowledge of QM master data and core processes, including inspections, results recording, usage decisions, defects, notifications, certificates, and quality analytics.
Practical experience integrating SAP PP with MES or shop-floor systems and managing functional requirements for bidirectional production execution interfaces.
Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, requirements analysis, decision framing, conflict resolution, written communication, and executive-level presentation skills.
Ability to work effectively across business, functional, technical, data, testing, change, and global delivery teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Aerospace & Defense manufacturing experience, including high-complexity products, configuration control, serial/batch traceability, quality documentation, nonconformance, and supplier quality processes.
Experience with engineer-to-order, project manufacturing, long-cycle production, make-to-order, defence or government program environments, or highly regulated manufacturing.
Working knowledge of SAP Digital Manufacturing, SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence, or comparable MES integration patterns.
Experience with SAP Activate, Signavio or process modelling, fit-to-standard delivery, Clean Core principles, and transformation governance.
Exposure to Advanced Planning and Scheduling, embedded EWM, Product Costing, Project Systems, PLM/engineering integration, Fiori, analytics, and data migration.

Core Competencies

Business process leadership and trusted-advisor presence
End-to-end PP/QM solution ownership
Manufacturing and quality domain depth
MES and cross-functional integration thinking
Decision-oriented workshop facilitation
Clear, concise, and audience-aware communication
Risk, dependency, and issue management
Quality-focused delivery and business adoption

Success Measures

Future-state PP/QM processes are aligned, documented, approved, and executable across business and technology teams.
Key design decisions are timely, traceable, and consistent with transformation standards and standard-first objectives.
MES and cross-functional integrations are complete, testable, monitored, and supported by clear ownership and recovery procedures.
Critical manufacturing and quality scenarios are validated through end-to-end testing with controlled defect closure.
Cutover, training, and hyper care deliverables support stable adoption and effective knowledge transfer.
The SME is recognized as a credible, collaborative advisor who communicates clearly and resolves complex issues pragmatically.