SAP PP & QM Functional Consultant (Business-Facing – Secondment Role)

Engagement Type:

Location:

Module:

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage with Plant Heads, Production Managers, and key stakeholders to understand current production planning processes.
• Work closely with plant quality heads, QA/QC teams to capture existing quality control and assurance processes.
• Document quality inspection, defect handling, audit management, and compliance-related activities in business terms.
• Translate business inputs into SAP-compatible documentation to guide technical configuration teams.
• Support review of SAP solution design to confirm alignment with plant-level requirements.
• Help facilitate communication between business and SAP teams to reduce functional misunderstandings.
• Collect and document raw business requirements related to demand planning, MRP, production scheduling, and shop floor operations.
• Translate business needs into structured SAP-friendly formats (e.g., functional requirement documents, process flow diagrams).
• Liaise with SAP technical and configuration teams to ensure accurate implementation of business processes.
• Participate in design validation sessions, process walkthroughs, and functional testing reviews.
• Ensure alignment of SAP PP processes with repetitive manufacturing best practices.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 8-10+ years of domain experience in production operations or manufacturing, with solid understanding of SAP PP (even if not hands-on).
• Strong familiarity with

  repetitive manufacturing processes

  and associated planning cycles.
• Experience in documenting business requirements and converting them into SAP functional language.
• Strong communication skills and ability to interface confidently with senior plant and business leadership.
• Basic understanding of SAP S/4HANA PP terminology and workflows.
• Ability to map real-world quality processes (e.g. inspections, NCRs, CAPA) to SAP language and formats.
• Strong interpersonal and documentation skills.
• Awareness of regulatory/compliance standards (e.g. ISO) in manufacturing.
• Act as

  functional interface

  between

  plant/business users

  and

  SAP configuration/technical teams

  .
• Not responsible for actual SAP system configuration or coding but added advantage.
• Must be available for

  on-site presence

  at plant locations to understand ground-level processes.
• Must have experience in manufacturing or related industry to speak the same language as the plant team.

Project:

Engagement Type:

Location:

Module:

Key Responsibilities:

·      Work closely with plant sales teams, dispatch teams, and commercial heads to understand current order-to-cash (O2C) processes.

·      Capture raw business requirements related to customer orders, scheduling agreements, delivery, billing, pricing, and returns.

·      Document these requirements clearly and structure them into SAP-compatible functional formats for the configuration team.

·      Facilitate workshops and discussions between business stakeholders and SAP implementation teams to validate requirements and process flows.

·      Support functional design reviews, user acceptance testing (UAT), and ensure SAP solutions reflect actual business needs.

·      Assist in change management and training coordination by explaining system changes in business terms.

Required Skills

• 6+ years of experience in sales, dispatch, or customer service functions in a manufacturing setting with exposure to SAP SD.
• Strong understanding of

  repetitive manufacturing sales processes

  like scheduling agreements, delivery processing, and invoice generation.
• Functional familiarity with SAP SD module and S/4HANA concepts (not hands-on configuration).
• Proven ability to convert raw inputs from business users into clear, structured documentation for SAP teams.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and documentation skills.
• Ability to interact confidently with senior business stakeholders and plant-level operations teams.

Note:

non-technical

requirement gathering

·      Strong domain experience and ability to speak the language of plant/business users is essential.

·      Temporary/secondment roles tied to the duration of the S/4HANA implementation.