Position : SAP S/4HANA PP/DS Hands-on Technical Consultant
Location : East Brunswick, New Jersey (Hybrid)
Role Overview
We are looking for a hands-on SAP S/4HANA PP/DS Technical Consultant with strong configuration, build, troubleshooting, and implementation experience in Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling.
This role requires someone who can work directly in the SAP system, configure PP/DS functionality, support integration with core PP, SD, and AVC, analyze planning issues, resolve defects, support testing cycles, and help stabilize the solution through go-live.
The ideal candidate should be comfortable working with business users, functional leads, technical teams, and offshore/onshore stakeholders, but the primary expectation is hands-on execution rather than high-level advisory.
Key Responsibilities
- Configure and support SAP S/4HANA embedded PP/DS functionality in a greenfield implementation environment.
- Perform hands-on configuration for:
- Production planning
- Detailed scheduling
- Finite capacity planning
- Planning heuristics
- Scheduling board setup
- Resource and capacity modeling
- Production constraints
- Setup times and changeovers
- Work on integration between PP/DS and core SAP PP, including MRP, planned orders, production orders, BOMs, routings, work centers, and resource/capacity master data.
- Support integration of PP/DS with sales demand from SD and configurable product inputs from SAP AVC.
- Translate business planning requirements into SAP configuration and executable planning logic.
- Analyze current Infor planning processes and support the mapping of those processes into SAP S/4HANA PP/DS.
- Build and validate planning scenarios for make-to-order, configure-to-order, and make-to-stock environments.
- Troubleshoot PP/DS planning issues, scheduling failures, capacity mismatches, order sequencing issues, master data gaps, and integration defects.
- Support master data validation related to materials, BOMs, routings, work centers, resources, production versions, calendars, and planning-relevant parameters.
- Work with business users and functional teams during workshops, requirement clarification sessions, defect reviews, and solution walkthroughs.
- Prepare and execute test scenarios for SIT, UAT, regression testing, integration testing, and mock cutover cycles.
- Support defect triage, root-cause analysis, issue resolution, and retesting.
- Work closely with technical teams for interfaces, reports, enhancements, data migration, and integration-related dependencies.
- Support data migration validation for planning and manufacturing master data.
- Assist with go-live readiness activities, cutover planning, hypercare, and post-go-live stabilization.
- Document configuration decisions, test results, issue resolutions, and operational handover notes.
Required Skills and Experience
- 8+ years of SAP experience with strong hands-on experience in SAP PP and PP/DS.
- Practical implementation experience with SAP S/4HANA embedded PP/DS.
- Strong configuration experience in:
- PP/DS planning board
- Detailed scheduling
- Finite capacity planning
- Heuristics
- Production planning integration
- Resource and capacity setup
- Order scheduling and sequencing
- Strong understanding of SAP PP processes, including MRP, production orders, planned orders, BOMs, routings, work centers, production versions, and shop-floor execution flows.
- Experience supporting manufacturing planning in discrete manufacturing environments.
- Ability to troubleshoot planning, scheduling, and capacity issues directly in SAP.
- Experience working with complex manufacturing environments involving product variability, configuration, constraints, and frequent planning changes.
- Hands-on experience supporting SIT, UAT, cutover, go-live, and hypercare phases.
- Ability to work with business users to understand planning issues and convert them into SAP configuration or process changes.
- Strong defect resolution, testing, and documentation skills.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with configure-to-order or make-to-order manufacturing environments.
- Exposure to SAP AVC integration with PP/DS or PP.
- Experience with Infor to SAP S/4HANA migration programs.
- Experience in consumer goods, industrial manufacturing, or other discrete manufacturing environments.
- Understanding of how configurable products impact planning, scheduling, capacity, and production execution.
- Experience working in global delivery models with onsite/offshore teams.
- Ability to support both project implementation and post-go-live production stabilization.
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