SAP Production Planning (PP) Consultant

Hiring: SAP PP Lead Consultant

Location: Shelbyville, Tennessee, USA

Employment Type: C2C

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced SAP PP Lead Consultant to lead the Production Planning workstream for an enterprise ERP migration from IFS to SAP ECC across automotive manufacturing plants.

The consultant will own SAP PP design, configuration, integration, testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare activities while working closely with plant teams and business stakeholders.

Required Experience & Skills

• 10+ years of SAP Production Planning (PP) experience

• Minimum 4 full-cycle SAP implementations

• At least 2 implementations as SAP PP Lead or Module Owner

• Strong SAP ECC PP configuration experience

• Discrete Manufacturing and Repetitive Manufacturing

• Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Shop Floor Control

• Production Orders, Scheduling, Confirmations, and Backflush

• BOMs, Routings, Work Centers, and Production Versions

• Kanban configuration and Line-Side Replenishment

• Strong integration knowledge with SAP MM, SD, WM, QM, and CO

• JIT customer demand and scheduling agreements

• EDI integration – DELFOR / DELJIT

• MES, Label Systems, and Shop Floor Integration

• Experience with SAP template rollouts or global implementations

• Ability to lead workshops, manage stakeholders, and own deliverables

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the SAP PP workstream from blueprint through hypercare

• Own PP process design, configuration, and documentation

• Conduct workshops with production planners and plant managers

• Map legacy IFS processes to the corporate SAP ECC template

• Configure plant parameters, MRP, production orders, and Kanban

• Lead end-to-end finished-goods production process design

• Support functional specifications, ABAP development, and integrations

• Lead unit, integration, and UAT testing

• Support master data migration, cutover, go-live, and hypercare

• Train business users and shop-floor teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Automotive Tier-1 manufacturing experience

• Experience with Japanese or US OEM supply chains

• IFS or other non-SAP ERP migration experience

• SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing exposure

• APICS CPIM or SAP PP certification

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Production Engineering, or equivalent

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