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SAP S4 HANA PPDS Consultant
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SAP S4 HANA PPDS Consultant
12-Month contract – Inside IR35 - £600-£650 per day
Fully onsite – based in either Birmingham, Liverpool or Leamington Spa
Manufacturing
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced SAP S4 HANA PPDS (Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling) Consultant to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in SAP PPDS implementation, configuration, and support, with a deep understanding of supply chain planning processes. You will work closely with business stakeholders to design and deliver solutions that optimize production planning and scheduling.
Your Responsibilities:
- Support SAP BAU operations and implement, configure, and optimize SAP S/4HANA PP/DS for advanced planning and detailed scheduling.
- Analyse business requirements and design solutions for production planning, capacity planning, sequencing, and detailed scheduling.
- Integrate PP/DS with relevant SAP modules such as PP, MM, SD, APO migration scenarios, and external MES or production automation systems.
- Configure key PP/DS master data including planning versions, PDS (Production Data Structures), resources, modes, and heuristics.
- Design and configure heuristics, planning strategies, optimization profiles, and pegging strategies to meet customer-specific planning needs.
- Support capacity planning, finite scheduling, order sequencing, and model planning scenarios to improve manufacturing efficiency.
- Enable and manage processes for DS planning board, alert monitor, CIF integration, and custom planning rules.
- Provide end-user training, process documentation, functional specs, and operational SOPs for planning teams.
- Troubleshoot and resolve PP/DS-related issues, perform root cause analysis, and ensure system stability, CIF consistency, and planning performance.
- Support project activities including unit testing, integration testing, UAT, cutover planning, and go-live support for PP/DS processes.
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, production planners, and IT teams to ensure seamless planning and scheduling operations.
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Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in SAP PPDS
- Strong understanding of production planning, MRP, and scheduling
- Experience with CIF, Idocs, queues, and Fiori apps
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:
- Deep expertise in SAP PPDS configuration and design, including master planning and detailed scheduling scenarios
- Proficiency in PPDS heuristics, planning strategies, IPPE, PDS
- Hands‑on experience in PPDS with S/4HANA Embedded PPDS
- Ability to align PPDS solutions with business planning objectives and constraints
- Understanding of core S/4HANA logistics and manufacturing processes
- Proven ability to analyse complex planning issues and design scalable, sustainable PPDS solutions.
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