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Job:- SAP PP [Production Planning] Solution Specialist [Aerospace & Defense]
Location REMOTE (possibly transitioning to hybrid model; potential workshops/events onsite)
Start Immediate
Job Summary: The Plan to Produce, Production & Planning Consultant will be responsible for determining integrated system design for Production Planning and Execution.
MUST HAVES:
- A deep understanding of Industry Best Practices and experience in Discrete Manufacturing and Planning processes and Supply Chain Management across A&D Industry
- A minimum of eight (8) years prior professional consulting or equivalent business process industry experience
- At least eight (8) years of hands-on systems configuration experience within your given SAP component
- Successful completion of at least three full life cycle implementations of S/4HANA v2019 or later
- Successful completion of the rollout and localization of a global template
- Cross-functional expertise in at least one other Pl2Pr area (QM, PEO, EHS, PPDS, eSPP)
Please provide a MS Word resume AND have candidate quantify the following number of years AS WELL AS list end clients, certifications, and references
QUALIFICATION
Discrete Manufacturing number of years
Aerospace & Defense number of years
SAP number of years
S/4HANA number of years
Value Stream Lead [US deployment of an SAP S/4HANA global design with localization] for {list end client(s)}
SAP PP number of years
SAP PP Demand Planning (DP) number of years
SAP PP Master Production Scheduling (MPS) number of years
SAP PP Material Requirements Planning (MRP) number of years
SAP PP Production Orders number of years
SAP PP Capacity Planning number of years
SAP PP Shop Floor Control number of years
SAP PP Integration with other SAP modules number of years
SAP PP Various Manufacturing Approaches number of years
SAP PP Cost Management number of years
Best Practices Discrete Manufacturing and Planning processes [A&D] number of projects
Best Practices Supply Chain Management [A&D] number of projects
Rollout/Localization of a global template number of projects
SAP PP Integration [PPDS, MM, SD, QM, WM, PEO, EHS, eSPP, etc.]
S/4 PP Solution Specialist [A&D] for {list end client(s)}
Other SAP PP [A&D] roles include {list end client(s)}
Certification [list certification(s)]
References [list names/titles/company emails/company numbers/LinkedIn profiles]
Job Requirements: In addition to expert level understanding of Planning and Production process and their configuration in S/4HANA, the following areas are important for the Pl2Pr - Production & Planning solution expert -
Planning
- Aircraft program demand planning and forecasting, including option/model and variant planning.
- Long-term demand planning aligned with aircraft delivery schedules.
- MRP and predictive MRP for planning & production in a multi-level, multi operation environment.
- Engineering changes to Products, Engineering Change Workbench.
- Parameter Effectivity and its effect on Production.
- Planning with Grouping/Pegging/Distribution.
- Experience with integration with other PLM and MES systems (specifically Teamcenter and Solumina).
- Experience in Project Systems and MTO/ ATO scenarios.
- Planning and Production using Complex Assembly processing.
- MRP for procurement of long lead-time components. Ability to manage planning scenarios with Network and forecast consumption.
- Master Production Scheduling and S/4 Capacity Planning.
Production
- Configure Production processes for ETO / ATO, MTO, MTS production along with Project & Network based Manufacturing.
- Understanding of impact of Integration with Downstream MES system and configuring changes required to enable MES.
- Product Costing.
- Capacity Planning and Evaluation.
- Availability Check for Parts.
- Subcontracting from production orders.
- Ability to handle production scenarios in A&D environment.
- Production processes in support of MRO/Spares.
- Scrap, remanent, co-production handling.
General
- A solid foundation in SAP functional areas related to production and supply chain (e.g., PP, MM, SD, QM, WM) to ensure seamless integration and optimization across the supply chain.
- Should have expertise in Master data, it s governance and analytics & reporting for supply chain visibility.
- Experience with full lifecycle SAP Pl2Pr implementations, including SAP best practices, Activate methodology blueprinting, design, configuration, testing, and go-live support.
- Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA and its integration with relevant modules (especially PP/DS) is important.
- Understand technical integration requirements and document functional specifications.
- Collaborate SAP partners and integration consultants on business requirements.