As a Lead Supply Chain Consultant / MRP Domain BA, you will lead the business and operating model side of an SAP S/4HANA Material Requirements Planning implementation, helping align people, process, and tools across demand, inventory, procurement, and supply chain planning.
What You’ll Do and How You’ll Succeed
Phase 1: Diagnose & Align (People & Process)
- Review current materials management policies and strategy to assess whether clear planning guidelines exist and where they need to be tightened or updated.
- Analyse operational data on inventory, supply replenishment, and material consumption patterns, with attention to treatment chemicals, network materials, spare materials, and project requirements.
- Assess planning processes, how consistently they are followed, and how key decision-makers are involved in governance and supply chain planning.
- Facilitate discovery discussions and leadership workshops to align stakeholders on the business case, planning pain points, and future-state direction.
Phase 2: Gap Analysis & Operating Model Design (Process & Tools)
- Use data-backed findings to identify performance gaps, process leaks, and operational opportunities.
- Design the future-state operating model for materials planning, procurement interaction, stock transfer processes, and supply chain planning governance.
- Support the segmentation of materials by criticality and help align planning parameters based on operational requirements.
- Translate business requirements into clear functional inputs that can be validated against SAP S/4HANA capabilities.
Phase 3: Optimization & Enablement (Tools & Implementation)
- Support advanced data modelling for optimal purchasing strategies, inventory planning, and cash flow optimisation.
- Contribute to MRP optimisation by defining core planning parameters such as ROP/ROQ, Min-Max, STO frameworks, and planning time fences.
- Support a controlled pilot before full rollout by helping validate process readiness, planning governance, and business adoption.
- Help define reports for decision-making and performance monitoring, including inventory KPI performance scoring and supply chain agility indicators.
We’d Love to Hear From You If…
Experience
- You have a strong consulting background in supply chain planning, materials management, MRP, or operating model review.
- You have experience working across materials planning, demand planning, procurement flow, inventory policy, supply replenishment, or supply chain planning.
- Water utility, infrastructure-heavy, or asset-heavy operations experience is preferred.
- You have experience running complex leadership workshops and aligning senior stakeholders around a business case.
Technical Expertise
- You understand MRP concepts, materials segmentation, planning parameters, stock transfer processes, and master data validation.
- You are familiar with SAP-enabled planning environments and can work with SAP functional specialists to validate process recommendations.
- You understand how demand streams, BOM, forecasted inventory, and supply chain planning connect in an operating model.
Ways of Working
- You are business-first, structured, and able to translate operational realities into practical planning recommendations.
- You can challenge gaps constructively while helping stakeholders align on what needs to change.
- You communicate clearly with business, functional, and technical teams.