Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Turnberry Solutions is a consulting company whose SAP practice delivers solutions for manufacturing and supply-chain operations. The SAP PPDS Functional Consultant will lead the design, configuration, implementation, integration, testing, and optimization of SAP PP/DS within S/4HANA while collaborating with business and technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead functional design, configuration, and implementation of SAP PP/DS within S/4HANA
- Partner with manufacturing, production planning, supply chain, and business stakeholders to understand planning and scheduling requirements
- Configure and optimize PP/DS functionality including production planning, detailed scheduling, heuristics, finite capacity planning, resource scheduling, and optimization
- Support MRP, planned orders, production orders, master data, work centers/resources, PDS, and planning strategies
- Design and configure advanced scheduling scenarios including forward/backward scheduling, capacity constraints, alternate resources, sequencing, and backlog management
- Analyze existing production-planning processes and recommend improvements using SAP PP/DS capabilities
- Ensure integration between PP/DS and other SAP modules, particularly SAP PP, MM, SD, EWM, QM, and IBP, as applicable
- Support integration between SAP and manufacturing/MES or other external supply-chain systems
- Participate in or lead workshops, requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, solution design, and process documentation
- Develop functional specifications and work closely with ABAP, integration, and technical teams on enhancements and interfaces
- Develop test scenarios and support SIT, UAT, regression testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare
- Troubleshoot complex production planning and scheduling issues and perform root-cause analysis
- Provide knowledge transfer, documentation, and training to business users and internal SAP teams
- Collaborate effectively with distributed business and technical teams throughout the project lifecycle
Skills
- 7+ years of SAP functional consulting experience, preferably focused on manufacturing and supply-chain planning
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with SAP PP/DS and/or APO PP/DS
- Deep understanding of production planning, manufacturing processes, capacity planning, and detailed scheduling
- Hands-on configuration experience within SAP PP/DS and MRP
- Strong understanding of PP/DS master data, planning procedures, heuristics, resources, PDS, scheduling, and optimization
- Experience integrating PP/DS with SAP PP and other S/4HANA modules
- Experience participating in at least three full-cycle SAP implementations, rollout, migration, or major transformation
- Strong requirements-gathering, process-mapping, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation skills
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work directly with business stakeholders and explain complex SAP functionality
- Strong experience with SAP S/4HANA, embedded PP/DS highly preferred
- Familiarity with IBP functionality is desired
Benefits
- 100% Remote, EST
- A comprehensive healthcare package (medical, dental, vision)
- Disability and group term life insurance
- Health and flexible spending accounts
- A utilization bonus
- 401(k) with match
- Flexible time off for salaried employees (subject to eligibility requirements)
- Parental leave for salaried employees (subject to eligibility requirements)
- Flexible work arrangements (subject to eligibility requirements)
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