Solution Architect
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 12, 2026.
Job Summary
SAP S/4HANA DTP Functional Consultant
The SAP S/4HANA Detailed Production Planning (DTP) Functional Consultant is responsible for designing, integrating, configuring, testing, and supporting SAP S/4HANA Production Planning solutions within complex manufacturing environments. The consultant works closely with business stakeholders and customer IT teams to analyze business requirements, facilitate Fit-to-Standard workshops, demonstrate SAP standard functionality, design future-state business processes, develop multi-level process flows using customer-approved tools, create and maintain Business Process Documents (BPDs), configure SAP functionality, develop functional specifications, support testing activities, and assist with cutover, go-live, and hypercare throughout the SAP Activate methodology.
The ideal candidate possesses extensive hands-on experience implementing SAP S/4HANA Production Planning solutions within an Aerospace & Defense (A&D) manufacturing environment. Functional expertise should include Detailed Production Planning (DTP), Project and Network Planning, Make-to-Order (MTO) Planning, Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and MRP Live, Model Unit Parameter Effectivity (MUPE)-based planning, MRP Simulation, Detailed Scheduling, Takt Time Planning, Consumption-Based Planning, Subcontract Manufacturing, Planned and Production Order Management, Material Master configuration (MRP and Work Scheduling views), Material Substitution Functionality, Bills of Material (including Super BOMs), Routings, Work Centers, Production Versions, Capacity Planning, and Assembly Processing.
The consultant should also possess strong cross-functional integration knowledge with SAP IBP and other enterprise planning solutions, along with deep integration across SAP S/4HANA Materials Management (MM), Quality Management (QM), Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Sales & Distribution (SD), Plant Maintenance (PM), and Service Management (SM/MRO). Experience with SAP Fiori, SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Signavio, SAP Activate, and SAP Clean Core principles is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
Preferred Qualifications
- 15+ years of SAP Production Planning (PP/DTP) functional consulting experience.
- Experience leading or supporting at least 3-5 full-cycle SAP S/4HANA implementations.
- Proven experience across the Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Hypercare phases of the SAP Activate methodology.
- Strong workshop facilitation, business process analysis, functional design, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience developing functional specifications and supporting integration, system, user acceptance, and production validation testing.
- Required Aerospace & Defense manufacturing experience, including complex assembly manufacturing, Engineering-to-Order (ETO), Make-to-Order (MTO), serialized manufacturing, configuration management, parameter effectivity, and highly regulated production environments.