SAP Functional Consultant

Location: Fully Remote

Experience: 10 Years

Employment Type: Full-Time/Contract

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced SAP PP (Production Planning) Consultant with strong WM (Warehouse Management) experience to support end-to-end manufacturing, shop-floor planning, material flow, and warehouse execution processes. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in global manufacturing environments and be able to drive blueprinting, configuration, integration, testing, and deployment activities across PP and WM.

Key Responsibilities

SAP PP (Core Production Planning & Execution)

• Configure and support MRP, Demand Management, BOM, Routing, Work Centers, Production Orders, and Capacity Planning.
• Enable detailed shop-floor execution, confirmations, settlements, and reporting.
• Support Make-to-Stock (MTS), Make-to-Order (MTO) and repetitive manufacturing scenarios.
• Analyze and optimize production cycle times, scheduling, and planning run performance.
• Build functional specifications for enhancements, forms, and custom logic (BAPIs, user exits, BADIs).

SAP WM (Warehouse Management)

• Configure WM inbound, outbound, put-away, picking, internal warehouse movements, and transfer orders.
• Integrate WM with PP, MM, QM for seamless material staging and consumption.
• Support production supply area (PSA) setup and kanban-based replenishment.
• Optimize warehouse master data such as storage types, bins, and control parameters.
• Handle interface with barcode systems, RF scanning, and warehouse automation (nice to have).

Cross-Functional & Technical

• Work closely with MM, QM, SD, FI/CO, and ABAP teams for integrated manufacturing and logistics flows.
• Lead workshops, create FDDs, configuration docs, test scripts, SOPs, and training material.
• Support unit testing, SIT, UAT, and go-live preparation.
• Provide hyper-care and steady-state support ensuring smooth production operations.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in SAP PP, with strong exposure to end-to-end production processes.
• Minimum 2 full lifecycle SAP implementations involving PP and WM.
• Strong understanding of MRP, material staging, production order management, and warehouse execution.
• Proven experience in WM-PP integration, especially staging and backflush processes.
• Ability to troubleshoot production stoppages, WM exceptions, and master-data issues.
• Experience writing functional specs and working closely with technical teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Good-to-Have

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA (PP and EWM migration or simplification items).
• Exposure to EWM is a plus.
• Knowledge of MES integration, IoT/automation-driven production processes.
• Understanding of quality inspection, batch management, and serial number handling.

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Supply Chain, or related field.

• SAP PP certification preferred.