Advanced Manufacturing Planning Specialist

Decskill was founded in 2014 as an IT Consulting Company and their main mission is to deliver value through knowledge. We enable companies to meet the challenges of digital world by providing our clients with business models that ensure technological capacity, flexibility, and agility. We are more than 500 consultants with offices in Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid.

We operate in three main areas:
• Talent:
• Boost: Through this service, we provide our clients with software development models to increase capacity and optimize time-to-market, where we create and manage teams that deliver according to their needs at the desired speed.
• Decskill Connect: This is a consulting service for implementing and managing information technology infrastructures.

Our practice results in the creation of value for our customers either by delivering qualified and value-added services or through highly qualified and motivated professionals, as well as technology solutions that allow us to operate and transform the business of our customers.

We are seeking a SAP PP/DS Consultant to join our team remotely.

Responsibilities:
• Analyze and document production planning and detailed scheduling processes across discrete, process, or repetitive manufacturing environments.
• Configure and customize the SAP PP/DS module to support key business activities such as demand management, material planning, capacity planning, and order scheduling.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in production, supply chain, procurement, and IT to gather requirements and design effective planning and scheduling solutions.
• Define and implement planning strategies including heuristic- or optimization-based scheduling, pegging, and order prioritization.
• Conduct system testing (unit, integration, UAT) and develop end-user documentation and training materials to support process standardization and adoption.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to planning runs, order creation, capacity constraints, and integration with MES or third-party systems.
• Participate in SAP projects including greenfield implementations, enhancements, upgrades, and global rollouts with a focus on manufacturing planning.
• Ensure seamless integration of PP/DS with other modules such as MM (Materials Management), SD (Sales and Distribution), and QM (Quality Management).

Requirements:
• Minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience with SAP PP/DS in S/4HANA or APO environments.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and planning concepts, including MRP, capacity planning, finite scheduling, and shop floor control.
• Experience configuring planning strategies, scheduling heuristics, production versions, and alternative resources.
• Familiarity with integration touchpoints between PP/DS and modules like MM, SD, WM/EWM, and MES systems.
• Ability to write functional specifications for custom developments, reports, or planning enhancements.
• Hands-on experience with advanced planning tools such as S/4HANA PP/DS (embedded) or APO PP/DS.
• Knowledge of supply chain planning concepts, ATP checks, and production execution workflows is a plus.
• Fluency in English is required; additional language skills are a plus.

If you're interested in this job, please send your CV in English to Goncalo Delgado with reference Read more