(Senior) Consultant for Smart Manufacturing SAP PP

A Senior SAP PP Consultant is responsible for overseeing and optimizing the "Plan To Produce" processes within an organization. They configure and maintain the SAP Production Planning (PP) module to align with business requirements, ensuring efficient manufacturing operations. This role involves analyzing business needs, designing and implementing SAP PP solutions, and providing end-user training and support. The consultant collaborates with cross-functional teams, integrates PP with other SAP modules, and resolves complex issues. With strong expertise in production planning, process optimization, and SAP/MHP best practices, the consultant drives continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Conduct workshops and consult, design, and lead innovative SAP PP implementations.
• Act in a consulting role for analysis, design, conception, prototyping, realization, testing, rollout, and support.
• Design concepts to process data and overall architecture to enable digital production planning and execution.
• Define and design integration to other SAP modules (specifically SAP MM, IBP, PP-DS, QM, PM, IM, EWM, ME, DM, MII, PCo).
• Develop engaging proofs-of-concept, demos, and presentations.
• Prepare functional specifications for development work.
• Conduct functional testing to ensure accurate configuration and development.
• Assume partial project management responsibility.
• Prepare process flows /training documents and execute training of our client’s business owners and users.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering or equivalent education
• 4 years of work experience in consulting or in the automotive industry
• Minimum 4 years of SAP PP Experience
• Minimum 3 full SAP lifecycle implementations
• Profound SAP project and Go-Live experience (SAP implementation approach)
• SAP Certifications are preferred.
• Knowledge of production planning and execution processes in discrete and process industries.
• Must possess the necessary leadership, team building, motivation, and delegation skills to efficiently coordinate the efforts of a team toward accomplishing a common goal.
• Additional experience implementing SAP PP-DS, IBP, and/or DM preferred.
• Professional appearance with strong customer focus
• Analytical and structured working attitude
• Percentage of required travel: up to 100%

Physical requirements:

• This job operates in an office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, cameras, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to talk, hear, walk, sit, stand, climb stairs on occasion with prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to effectively work and complete tasks in an open office/noisy environment.
• Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time while traveling in a car or airplane.

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The Operations Excellence (OPEX) service unit is the premier solutions partner for designing and delivering a digitized, high-performing future to our clients' ecosystems. We deliver this value to our customers by optimizing the performance of our client’s operational processes across the entire value chain, from R&D, production, logistics, purchasing, and sales. We achieve this by combining deep industry knowledge, process, and IT expertise in an end-to-end approach, guiding our clients through the digitalization paradigm shift by offering strategic direction, innovative design, implementation, and ongoing support for supply chain processes, applications, and technologies. Our professionals leverage our unique blend of process and IT expertise to improve our customers’ ability to proactively enable scalability, remove performance barriers, enable innovation, modernize core systems, and reinvent their business with digital solutions, primarily SAP. 

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Through our partnership with SAP, our SAP-certified practitioners provide expertise and implementation services leveraging the latest technologies, including S/4HANA On-Premise & Cloud, DM/ME/MII/PCo, EWM, TM, LBN, Ariba, Analytics, and more. Our professionals offer tailor-made strategies for Industry 4.0 transformations, integrating new technologies, process design and optimization, organizational change management, IOT platform strategy and analytics, smart factory design, Lean production strategies, and Agile transformations.

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