Materials SAP Analyst

Stefanini Group•Naperville, IL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Stefanini Group is hiring a Materials SAP Analyst in Naperville, IL. This role involves supporting the materials management and site production scheduling process in collaboration with the Supply Chain Management team, utilizing SAP for these duties. The analyst will be responsible for converting supply planning orders to production planning and detailed scheduling orders, holding weekly scheduling meetings, closing process orders, and maintaining process orders in APO for EWM effectiveness. The position requires managing master compliance to schedule, ensuring alignment between long-term plans and current process orders, and working with internal and external stakeholders to ensure consistent material supply. Proactive reporting of production or vendor/shipping/carrier issues and enlisting relevant teams to mitigate business impact or accommodate schedule changes are also key responsibilities. The role includes executing MRP systems, defining and maintaining boundaries and parameters, managing materials call-offs, setting up supply chains for new products, ensuring vendor conformance to schedule, building SAP planning system capabilities for key users, participating in Plant DMS for operational excellence, supporting IBP preparation, and adhering to manufacturing compliance and governance standards. Adopting Integrated Lean 6 Sigma (IL6S) ways of working and standard work processes, and working on Supply Network capabilities to drive value and loss elimination are also expected.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree
Strong knowledge on SAP (required)
Excellent communication (verbal & written), coaching, and leadership skills in a team-based environment.
Demonstrated abilities in Analytics, problem solving and team building

Nice To Haves

Manufacturing experience in the food industry (preferred)
Project management experience/ knowledge (preferred)

Responsibilities

Convert weekly supply planning orders to production planning and detailed scheduling orders as production plans roll into the finite window
Hold weekly scheduling meetings with product supply to determine necessary changes to the plant's production schedule
Close process orders for each week's production and adjust daily as necessary
Maintain Process orders in APO to facilitate EWM effectiveness
Manage master compliance to schedule by ensuring short-, medium- and long-term plans are equivalent to process orders in the current week
Work effectively with internal Cross functional teams & external stakeholders to ensure consistent and reliable supply of materials for production use in accordance to our standards, procedures and protocols.
Proactively and timely report any production or Vendor/shipping/carrier issues, and enlist supplier, transporter, planning teams to pre-empt any business impact and/or accommodate changes production and/or delivery schedules as appropriate.
Execute MRPs-Material requirement planning systems, Defining & maintaining boundaries and parameters, Materials call offs processes; RM/PM – raw & packing materials and finish product supply chain set up for new products in collaboration with BD; Vendor conformance to schedule, Build self and other Key User's capability on SAP planning systems; Plant DMS participation and alignment for Operational excellence, Support IBP preparation & dashboard completion, Adhering to Manufacturing compliance and governance standards.
Adopt IL6S-Integrated Lean 6 sigma ways of working and standard work processes.
Work on Supply Network capabilities to drive value and loss elimination