SAP Manufacturing Consultant (upto $120)

Key Responsibilities: Identify requirements: Read client documents and pinpoint every manufacturing requirement, covering production planning, MRP, production orders, shop floor confirmations, quality inspections, quality notifications, and plant maintenance (notifications, work orders, preventive maintenance and spare parts).Separate requirements from look-alikes: Leave out pain points, open questions, assumptions, decisions and items marked out of scope. Extract verbatim evidence: Copy every snippet that states or supports the requirement exactly as written, with its page number. No paraphrasing or trimming. Snippets are checked automatically against the source. Consolidate: Where one requirement is mentioned in several places, record it once, with all its supporting snippets. Keep exact values, such as lot sizes, tolerances and lead times, as written. Capture document IDs: Record the document's own requirement ID where it has one. Apply guidelines consistently: Follow the annotation guidelines, flag ambiguous cases and help refine the criteria. Deliver in batches: Work through the document set in agreed batches.

Example Assignment: For a BRD covering a plant's production and quality processes, you would: Read the document and mark each statement that expresses a business need, such as an MRP rule or an inspection requirement at goods receipt. Merge repeated mentions, such as a batch traceability rule described in several sections, into one requirement. Write a short statement of the requirement and record the document's own ID.Copy every supporting snippet verbatim and record its page number. Flag any unclear wording for the project team instead of guessing.

Ideal Qualifications: At least 3 years as an SAP functional consultant in PP, QM or PM (strong experience in at least one); S/4HANA implementation experience preferred. Working knowledge of at least one of: production planning and MRP, quality management, or plant maintenance (work orders, maintenance plans).Experience running or attending requirements workshops and writing or reviewing functional specifications and BRDs. Fluent written English. Careful and detail-oriented: verbatim copying, accurate page references and one entry per requirement.

Nice to have: PP-PI (process industries), batch management, MES, SAP Digital Manufacturing, SAP Asset Manager or Work Clearance Management experience; annotation or QA experience.