Role Overview

Planning today is manual and spreadsheet-based, siloed across individual planners, and dependent on collating data from roughly nine systems before a plan can be produced for a single line. The target is a single, constraint-aware, plant-wide plan in SAP S/4HANA PP-DS respecting machine, unit, tool, tool hardness, mold, active cavity count, labor, dryer availability, shift, downtime and changeover constraints with an estimated 90% reduction in planner time from constraint input to plan output and genuine what-if capability for the first time. The assessment found most requirements met by standard; the residual scope is one bounded theme: planner-maintained flexible machine mold tool cavity master data.

Job Details

Job Title: SAP S/4HANA PP-DS Senior Consultant

Location: Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Noida, Hyderabad

Role Type: Permanent

Work Mode: Hybrid

Experience: 8+ Years

Shift: 2 PM-11 PM

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the PP-DS validation workshop; confirm the 30 planning requirements, close open design items and produce signed-off functional design.
- Own the scheduling-engine decision heuristics versus the PP/DS Optimizer and its consequences for changeover minimization, due-date adherence and age-based net requirements; run a proof of concept where needed.
- Configure PP-DS master data (PDS, resources and capacity, setup groups and matrices, product master PP-DS views) and production-planning heuristics for a 36 month rolling horizon.
- Configure finite scheduling against the full constraint set, plus order fixing and selective re-optimization so planners freeze committed shop-floor orders and re-plan only the remainder intraday.
- Configure the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board, product view and alert monitor, and design the planner's daily and bi-weekly operating rhythm.
- Design demand intake and forecast consumption including the cross-entity model where forecast originates with a parent entity while orders are placed by a subsidiary; design age-aware net requirements.
- Bound and specify the flexible machine/mold/tool/cavity extension attributes, volumes, planner maintenance UI,



generation program and carry-through to the planned order and traveler; recommend the on-time/delayed/shorted reporting mechanism.
- Batch management traceability experience is required at a working-design level. You will not own batch configuration that sits with the PP/QM and IM/WM consultants but you must design planning behavior that depends on batch and shelf-life data and hands clean, traceable context to execution.
- Batch and shelf-life-driven net requirements: configuring stock ageing so aged stock (over one year) remains available to netting while obsolete stock (over three years) is excluded, and confirming the selected engine's behavior.
- Planning-level traceability of supply source making visible on the planned order whether a sub-assembly is produced in-house or externally procured, using multiple PDS with priority or batch-based source traceability.
- Carrying resolved machine, tool, hardness, mold and cavity detail from the planned order to the production order and shop-floor traveler, so the batch created in execution inherits planning context.
- Understanding how planning decisions constrain downstream batch behavior lot sizing, one-lot-per-machine-per-day rules, lot number-up and cavity-level splitting so execution can create batches cleanly.
- Working with the Manufacturing Execution, Quality and Inventory workstreams on a single shared lot/batch numbering and traceability model rather than a planning-only view of it.

Required Qualifications
- 8+ years SAP supply chain planning consulting with 3+ full-lifecycle implementations and hands-on PP-DS configuration responsibility; at least 2 on S/4HANA embedded PP-DS (1909 or later). APO PP/DS with a proven S/4HANA transition will be considered.
- Deep PP-DS master-data expertise: PDS, resources and capacity, setup groups and setup matrices, product master PP-DS views,



and the CIF/embedded integration model.
- Demonstrable hands-on experience with both PP-DS heuristics and the PP/DS Optimizer, and the judgment to recommend one over the other with reasons.
- Finite-scheduling design in a constraint-rich discrete environment multiple simultaneous resource, tool and changeover constraints including sequence-dependent setup via setup matrices.
- Detailed Scheduling Planning Board, alert monitor and interactive planning, including training planners to work in them.
- Solid PP-DS S/4HANA integration knowledge across planned orders, production orders, confirmations and goods movements; demand and forecast consumption design including multi-entity scenarios.
- Ability to replace an entrenched spreadsheet planning process, including the change management to bring long-tenured planners with you.

Preferred Qualifications
- Bilingual English/Japanese (business level); prior delivery in Japan or with Japanese manufacturing clients.
- Injection molding, stamping or similar tool/mold-constrained manufacturing, including cavity-level planning granularity.
- Advanced ATP, backorder processing or pegging-based delivery-performance reporting.
- Modelling production resources and tools (PRT) and equipment as planning constraints; familiarity with SAP IBP.
- SAP BTP clean-core extensibility for planner-facing master-data maintenance applications.
- SAP certification in S/4HANA Production Planning and Manufacturing or SCM APO PP/DS.

Language Requirement

Fluent professional English is required for design documentation, deliverables and steering-committee communication. Business-level Japanese is a solid advantage many process owners, shop-floor personnel and legacy-system custodians work primarily in Japanese, and much current-state documentation exists only in Japanese but it is not a condition of appointment. Interpretation support, bilingual design documentation and pairing with bilingual business analysts are provided, and strong candidates will be considered regardless of Japanese-language ability.

Location - Pune,Noida,Chennai,Hyderabad,Bengaluru

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