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Chennai, India or Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Act as design authority and remain hands-on for SAP PP/DS planning and detailed scheduling configuration.
- Configure planning procedures, heuristics, strategies, scheduling boards, capacity levelling, sequencing, setup optimisation, alerts, pegging, and exception handling.
- Model resources, production data structures, production process models, setup matrices, and campaign requirements.
- Own solution design, quality gates, defect trends, release readiness, and delivery risk across multiple workstreams.
- Lead recovery of stressed or delayed workstreams by diagnosing structural causes, re-planning, and reporting progress to programme leadership.
- Coordinate planning integration, plant operations, inventory, and procurement dependencies.
- Define AI-enabled delivery standards, accelerator governance, SAP Joule usage, grounding controls, and agent acceptance standards.
- Mentor Managers and senior engineers through design reviews, pairing, pattern codification, and capability development.
- Represent the process area in client leadership and programme governance forums and negotiate scope and timelines.
Requirements
- Minimum 15 years of experience in the primary skill is required.
- 15 years of full-time education is required.
- Recognised design authority in SAP PP/DS configuration, including planning procedures, heuristics, strategies, and detailed scheduling boards in APO or embedded SAP S/4HANA.
- Expertise in resource modelling, PDS or PPM generation, setup matrices, campaign planning, finite capacity planning, levelling, and sequence optimisation.
- Comprehensive understanding of master and transactional data quality and proven ability to partner with planners to drive solution adoption.
- Hands-on configuration or design-level build work on the primary skill within the last 24 months.
- Demonstrated technical mentoring, multi-workstream SAP delivery leadership, delivery recovery, and executive stakeholder management.
- Experience defining AI standards, validation controls, delivery accelerators, or productivity practices for an SAP team or delivery tower.
- Working use or equivalent experience with SAP Joule for Consultants, including grounding content curation, confidentiality controls, and agent governance; working proficiency is expected within 90 days if equivalent experience is used.
- Good to have: embedded PP/DS in SAP S/4HANA, APO migration experience, SAP IBP for response and supply, SAP Digital Manufacturing integration, and optimiser profile configuration and tuning.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
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