SAP/Supply Planning Consultant

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role (maybe from Position Overview), Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe Required Qualifications), Qualifications (maybe Preferred Qualifications), Skills (maybe not explicit), Benefits (none), Pay (none), Schedule (none). We must only include sections when posting has real specific content. The posting includes Position Overview (Overview), Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities), Required Qualifications, Preferred Qualifications. No explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we include About the role (maybe from Position Overview), Responsibilities, Requirements (Required Qualifications), Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications). Possibly also Skills? Not explicit; we can skip. We must not repeat job title as heading. Use

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  for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: EEO, privacy notices, etc. Also remove "By submitting to this position..." etc. Also remove "Pay Transparency Notice". Also remove "Equal Opportunity Notice", "Representation Notice", "Privacy Notice". Also remove "Vaco is hiring a Sr. Supply Chain Consultant Location: Remote or Local to Cincinnati, Ohio Preferred" maybe that's a line; we need to keep location? The location is part of posting; we can include in About the role paragraph maybe. The instruction: do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

  or drop it. Location is minor metadata; we can include in a short

  after heading? But we have About the role section; we can include location within that paragraph. We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to extract content: Position Overview paragraph: "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." We can put that as

  under About the role. Responsibilities: list bullet points under Key Responsibilities. We need to preserve each bullet. Let's list them: - 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. - 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. That's many bullet points. Required Qualifications list: - 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 list: - 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: maybe we could include as a section? Not in the allowed headings list (About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Success Measures not listed; we could possibly incorporate into Responsibilities or Requirements? But instruction: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Since Success Measures is not one of the allowed headings, we should not create a section for it. We could embed that content elsewhere? But we must preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot drop it. However we could incorporate it into Responsibilities or Requirements as prose? The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep that info somewhere. Since we cannot create a new heading not in list, we could add it as a

  under Responsibilities or Requirements? But that might be misrepresenting. However we could add a section "Key Success Measures" but it's not in allowed headings list; the instruction says use

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  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't explicitly forbid other headings, but likely they want only those. Safer to stick to those. However we must preserve all substantive information; we could incorporate Success Measures into Responsibilities as additional bullet points? But they are not responsibilities; they are outcomes. Could we put them under Requirements? Not ideal. Perhaps we can add a

  after Responsibilities that says "Success in this role will be demonstrated through:" and then list the measures as a

  . That would be preserving info without a new heading. That seems acceptable. Similarly, we have "By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions." That's boilerplate? It's a legal statement; maybe we should remove as boilerplate? It's not EEO but it's about talent pool. Might be considered boilerplate; but it's substantive? It's a condition. The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. This line is legal-ish but not exactly EEO; it's about talent pool. Might be considered legal boilerplate. Safer to remove. Also remove all the EEO, Privacy, Representation, Pay Transparency notices. Thus final HTML:

  About the role

  Location: Remote or Local to Cincinnati, Ohio. 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.

  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.
  • 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.

  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.

  Requirements

  • 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.

  Qualifications

  • Experience supporting an organization following an SAP S/4HANA