SAP PP Consultant

Key Skills: 

Core Competencies for PP.

5 to 7 year+ of SAP experience as consultant with exposure to multiple projects like  Global template design / build / validation, roll-out and support.

Business experience or very good awareness on his/her area.

Domain experience in Manufacturing is an added advantage

Very good knowledge of SAP functional (processes, available functionalities, …) and technical background (customizing, environment, transport orders, …), different stages of projects (run, deployments, testing, …) as well as project management skills (planning follow-up, team work, multiple teams interaction, …)

Sound Knowledge in the area of SAP – PP(Production Planning)  with hands-on experience on the following areas.

·         Discrete Manufacturing

o    Order creation, release & confirmation

o    Integration with Planning

o    Good knowledge on Printing of documents

·         REM

·         Collective Orders

·         Major Strategies Used

·         Knowledge on Information system of Orders

·         Production Kanban

·         Handled Different types of Subcontracting

·         Capacity Planning

·         SOP

·         Master Production scheduling

·         Demand Management

·         Material Requirement planning

o    MRP Basics

o    MRP Results

·         Purchase order Flow & Stock Transfer flow

·         Handled Different types of Subcontracting

·         EDI /IDOC integration usage with PO-SO flow

·         Long Term Planning

·         Exposure to any interface working is preferable

·         Exposure to MM  integration topics is added advantage

·         Time Tracking integration with Orders

·         Exposure to QM, PM  integration topics is added advantage

·         Exposure to MES system is added advantage

·         Archiving knowledge of Order is added advantage

To have exposure on the regression testing

Exposure to ABAP Skills(Basic debugging skills)

Capacity to challenge partners as well as capacity to show added value in relationship with them

Functional competencies

High level of expertise on SAP PP modules

Excellent communication skills both verbal and written with the ability to tailor communication to the intended audience (excellent English is a must)

Team player and networking (colleagues as well as external partners)

Capacity to challenge requirement as well as capacity to show added value in relationship with Business

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Highest level of expertise on bridge on his/her area. On demand support to Global Business Process and Operational Divisions Teams as well as partners in charge of administration of data centres (database administration, upgrades, performance, …)

Accountable for Solution issues escalated to the Global Support team. Ensure that tickets are properly responded to, fixed, tested and follows-up those until they are properly closed according to process defined. Support provided is functional (analysis, feed-back, recommendation …).

Analyze content of releases on his/her area and recommend best organization as far as testing is concerned.

Liaise with regional / local support teams and testing factory to ensure that release validation process is done properly

Analyze, challenge, validate recommendations and actions of on his/her area

Liaise with Global Data Excellence and Business Process Leaders organization regarding problem solving and enhancement

Contribute, review and validate Core bugs & enhancements specification. Contribute to testing and validation

SAP and functional knowledge on Supply Chain and Manufacturing ProcessesCustomer centric and capacity to deliver high level of service