Consultant/Senior Consultant-SAP PP

Consultant/Senior Consultant is responsible for serving as an SAP production planning functional specialist on an implementation of SAP PP/QM. A Senior Consultant is also responsible for gathering documentation, implementation, testing of their assigned area functionality and coordinating all applicable areas of functional overlap. A Senior Consultant validates as-is and to-be process flows and system integration from a user perspective, identifies potential work-around to system changes or limitations, identifies level of effort required to successfully implement changes to business processes and user activities A Senior Consultant documents and configures SAP modules to meet business requirements and serves as a user-level advocate to ensure excellent process flow and system designs. A Senior Consultant develops procedures and methods for unit and integration testing prepare string, unit and validation test scripts for all business process areas in scope. A Senior Consultant performs unit, string and validation testing. A Senior Consultant leads planning team in driving significant improvements in forecast accuracy, inventory turnover, and on-time-delivery (OTD) performance to give the company a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Responsibilities

• Understand the values and vision of the organization and align the activities accordingly
• Protect the Intellectual Property
• Adhere to all the policies and procedures
• Work with other line functions to collect or provide relevant data
• Implements new or maintains existing business solution in SAPPP/QM area based on user requirements analysis
• Proposes, programs or configures, documents and tests business solution in SAPPP/QM application according to the functional and technical requirements
• Builds professional relationships with clients, management and team members to ensure delivery of proposed solutions, support for development of business possibilities and for personal development
• Contributes to high productivity and motivation of working team with the use of communication skills and cooperation; reaches and realizes project aims and outputs
• Keeps close communication with ABAP development team
• Should be able to perform configuration in SAP PP/QM areas to meet the business requirement to enhance the business process
• Responsible for deploying SAP PP/QM system to meet business strategy across functional teams and writing the technical documentation for required process
• Communicate and coordinate with business users, managers and respective leads to ensure the integration of processes and modules across organization
• Evaluate and amalgamate research findings to develop valuable insights and strategic recommendations for our client

Essential Skills

Job

• Experience in customer relationship management using highly professional verbal and oral communication skills.

• Must have one end to end implementation in PP/PI(Process Industry).

• Should be organized and focused on delivering research tasks within defined deadlines
• Must be dynamic, flexible and possess perseverance skills
• Must have strong knowledge on MRP, Planning Strategies, Safety Stock & ROP, Demand Management, MTO & MTS, Capacity planning, Special procurement keys, Production versions, Process Instructions, Industry Business Processes, Customer & Vendor returns process through defects recording, Result recording, Defects recording, Sample management, Usage decision and Electronic Batch Recording and QM notification
• Must have good knowledge aboutShop floor relatedconfigurations, Operation execution, Batch Management, Operations out sourcing, QMprocesses, Master data, Batch Management, Notifications, Quality Certificates and Master Data (BOM, Routings, Work center)
• Must have strong experience working as functionalconsultantin development of Custom Reports and its Validations
• Must have knowledge on Plant rollouts (at least on PP, PP-PI, QM configuration setup)
• Must be able to prepare user training documents and deliver user trainings
• Must have knowledge on cross module integration (like PP-CO, PP-WM, PP-QM, PP-MM)
• Exhibit reactiveness and constructiveness at work such as, suggesting innovative and pragmatic solutions
• Utilize secondary research sources and techniques

Personal

• Should have understanding of business objectives and organization structure
• The candidate must have strong work ethics andtrustworthiness
• The candidate should possess attention to detail and also maintain confidentiality and integrity
• Must be highly collaborative and be a team player with commitment to excellence
• Ability to work under pressure to achieve the multiple daily deadlines for client deliverables

Preferred Skills

Job

• The candidate should have an expertise in problem solving
• Should be proficient in Microsoft Office (Advanced)
• Self-motivated, fast learner with the ability to operate independently
• Should have proven track record of impacting results throughout career
• The candidate should be a highly versatile thinker who can assimilate knowledge and has understanding across different industries, products, technologies, disciplines etc.

Personal

• Demonstrate proactive thinking
• Negotiation and persuasion skills are required to work with partners and implement changes
• Should have strong interpersonal relations and mentoring skills
• Have the ability to work under stringent deadlines and demanding client conditions