Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Need SAP PPDS & iPPE Functional Consultant in Allen Park, MI 48101 (Hybrid)

Hi,  
Pleasure mailing you. Please go through the below requirement and let me know if you are comfortable with the position.
Please send me your updated resume along with the best hourly rate, work authorization status, and availability.
An early response is really appreciated.

Job Title: SAP PPDS & iPPE Functional Consultant
Location: Allen Park, MI 48101 (Hybrid)
Duration: 12+ Months

Candidate must be ready to travel anywhere within US client locations 1–2 times every 3 months for 2–7 days. The company will cover the travel and accommodation expenses.

Mandatory skills:
  • 8 to 10 years SAP PPDS and iPPE experience.
  • Worked with Auto Industry Process preferred
  • Analyze business requirements related to production planning and manufacturing

Business Process Integration:
  • Work closely with Production Planning, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and plant stakeholders to understand current-state processes and future business requirements.
  • Review SAP S/4HANA business process designs and ensure alignment with operational requirements.
  • Bridge communication between business stakeholders and the SAP functional/system integration teams.

SAP PP/DS & PP Solution Support:
  • Provide functional expertise across SAP PP/DS and PP processes, including MRP, production planning, production execution, capacity planning, discrete/repetitive manufacturing, and production master data.
  • Support PP/DS processes related to detailed scheduling, resource and component availability, heuristics, planning runs and planning-board-based scheduling. SAP describes PP/DS as supporting procurement proposals, detailed resource scheduling, production planning runs, interactive planning, and optimization.
  • Support configuration validation and identify functional gaps or required enhancements.

Requirements & Design:
  • Conduct business workshops to gather, analyze, validate, and document requirements.
  • Translate manufacturing requirements into functional requirements and work with SAP functional and technical teams on solution realization.
  • Prepare/review functional specifications for enhancements, interfaces, reports, conversions, and forms where required.

Production Master Data:
  • Support definition and validation of production master data including materials, BOMs, routings, work centers/resources, production versions and relevant PP/DS planning data.
  • Coordinate with business and data teams to ensure planning master data is complete and ready for testing and deployment.
  • Cross-Functional Integration
  • Validate end-to-end integration of PP/DS and PP with Procurement/MM, Sales, Finance, Inventory, Quality, EWM/Warehouse processes and other supply-chain solutions as applicable.
  • Identify integration gaps and coordinate resolution across functional teams. Cross-functional PP integration is also explicitly called out in the existing internal role definition.

Testing & Defect Management:
  • Develop/review business scenarios and test cases covering end-to-end production planning and execution.
  • Participate in functional, integration, and user acceptance testing.
  • Analyze defects, coordinate with implementation teams, validate fixes, and support business sign-off.
  • Data Migration & Validation
  • Support the production of master-data mapping, cleansing, migration, and validation.
  • Validate migrated data and associated business processes during mock conversions and cutover cycles.

Business Readiness & Training:
  • Develop business process documentation, job aids and training materials.
  • Conduct SAP S/4HANA PP/DS and PP process familiarization and training for business users.
  • Support business users through testing, deployment, and post-go-live adoption. This aligns directly with the Business Integrator scope found in your internal material, including product awareness, UAT, training, data migration, and change-management support.

Cutover, Go-Live & Hypercare:
  • Support cutover planning and business readiness activities for PP/DS and PP.
  • Assist with production validation, planning runs, and critical business-process checks during deployment.
  • Provide post-go-live/hyper care support and coordinate resolution of business-critical issues.

Stakeholder & Change Management:
  • Coordinate with business SMEs, plant users, SAP functional consultants, technical teams, and the System Integrator.
  • Communicate status, risks, dependencies, and business decisions to relevant stakeholders.
  • Support organizational change-management activities and capture lessons learned during implementation.

Required Skills:
  • Strong hands-on experience in SAP S/4HANA Production Planning (PP) and PP/DS Good understanding of MRP, production orders, capacity planning, BOM, routing, work centers/resources and production versions
  • Experience with Detailed Scheduling, heuristics, planning strategies and production planning runs Understanding of PP/DS and PP integration
  • Strong cross-functional understanding of manufacturing and supply-chain processes
  • Experience in SAP S/4HANA end-to-end implementation Experience conducting workshops, preparing functional specifications, testing, UAT, training and deployment support Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder-management capabilities Manufacturing/Automotive industry knowledge is highly desirable

Regards,

Tekskills Inc
J Shanmukh Reddy
US IT Recruiter

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