SAP S/4HANA Production Planning (PP) Lead Consultant

Position: SAP S/4HANA PP Senior Consultant

Experience: 8–12 Years

Module Expertise: SAP Production Planning (PP) – S/4HANA

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Hyderabad

1. Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced SAP S/4HANA Production Planning (PP) Lead Consultant to lead, optimize, and support SAP-enabled manufacturing processes. The candidate will be responsible for driving production planning, material planning, production execution, shop-floor integration, and manufacturing process improvements.

The ideal candidate should have solid functional expertise in SAP PP, hands-on implementation experience, and a good understanding of discrete manufacturing, preferably in the automotive, automobile, or engineering manufacturing industry.

2. Key Responsibilities

A. Production Planning & Execution

- Lead SAP PP implementation, configuration, enhancement, and support activities.
- Design and optimize end-to-end production planning and execution processes.
- Configure and manage production orders, order types, scheduling, release, confirmations, and technical completion.
- Implement and optimize production strategies, including Make-to-Order (MTO) and Make-to-Stock (MTS), wherever applicable.
- Establish effective production planning processes aligned with manufacturing requirements.
- Configure work centers, routings, production versions, and capacity planning.
- Improve production order execution and shop-floor reporting processes.

B. Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

- Configure and optimize MRP processes, including MRP types, lot sizing, procurement types, planning strategies, and planning parameters.
- Implement MRP Live and evaluate its applicability.
- Establish demand management processes using Planned Independent Requirements (PIRs) and sales orders.
- Integrate material availability checks with production planning.
- Optimize material shortage monitoring and exception management.
- Drive effective material staging and component availability for production orders.

C. BOM & Routing Management

- Manage and optimize Material BOMs and Production BOMs.
- Establish BOM governance,



engineering changes, validity management, and revision control.
- Configure and maintain routings, work centers, production versions, and alternative BOMs.
- Work with engineering and PLM teams to establish seamless engineering-to-manufacturing processes.
- Manage component substitution and alternative component requirements.

D. Production Execution & Shop-Floor Integration

- Implement production order component allocation and material consumption processes.
- Configure goods issue, backflush, goods receipt, and production confirmations.
- Establish shop-wise and production-unit-wise production tracking.
- Integrate SAP PP with MES and other shop-floor applications.
- Improve real-time visibility of production progress, material consumption, and production variances.
- Drive reduction in production reporting delays and inventory inaccuracies.

E. Product Costing & Integration

- Work closely with SAP CO teams on product costing, standard costing, WIP, variance analysis, and settlement.
- Ensure integration with MM, SD, QM, PM, CO, FI, and PP/DS where applicable.
- Support production cost optimization and manufacturing performance analysis.

F. Project Leadership & Governance

- Lead functional teams and coordinate with technical teams, business stakeholders, and implementation partners.
- Conduct workshops, business process assessments, and requirement gathering.
- Prepare functional specifications for RICEFW developments.
- Drive solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live stabilization.
- Establish functional documentation, process standards, and SAP governance.
- Manage support escalations, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Mentor junior consultants and build internal SAP PP capabilities.

3.



Mandatory Technical & Functional Skills

- Strong hands-on experience in SAP S/4HANA Production Planning (PP).
- In-depth knowledge of:
- Production Planning and Execution.
- MRP and MRP Live.
- Demand Management.
- Production Orders and Order Scheduling.
- BOM, Routing and Production Versions.
- Work Centers and Capacity Planning.
- Material Staging and Component Availability.
- Goods Issue, Backflush and Goods Receipt.
- Production Confirmations and Variance Analysis.
- Experience in SAP S/4HANA implementation, rollout, upgrade, and support projects.
- Strong integration knowledge across SAP MM, SD, QM, CO and FI.
- Understanding of SAP Fiori applications and standard manufacturing reports.
- Ability to prepare functional specifications and work closely with ABAP developers.

4. Industry Experience

- Experience in automotive, automobile, EV manufacturing, heavy engineering, or discrete manufacturing is highly preferred.
- Exposure to multi-stage manufacturing processes and shop-floor production operations.
- Experience in Make-to-Order manufacturing environments.
- Understanding of engineering change management, production BOMs, and manufacturing master data governance.
- Exposure to MES, PLM, and shop-floor automation integrations is an advantage.

5. Experience & Preferred Qualifications

- Mechanical Engineering degree or equivalent educational qualification preferred.
- 8 - 12 years of overall SAP experience.
- At least 8 years of hands-on SAP PP functional experience.
- Minimum 4 end-to-end SAP implementation experience preferred.
- Experience in leading functional teams and managing implementation partners.
- SAP S/4HANA certification in Production Planning is an added advantage.

6. Key Performance Expectations

- Improve production planning accuracy and material availability.
- Improve BOM and routing accuracy.
- Ensure timely and accurate material consumption postings.
- Improve shop-floor production visibility through SAP.
- Optimize production scheduling and capacity utilization.
- Establish standardized manufacturing processes and SAP PP governance.

📌 SAP S/4HANA Production Planning (PP) Lead Consultant (Hyderabad)
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