Strategic Manufacturing Planning Specialist
• *Job Title:** SAP PP/DS Consultant
Decskill is a forward-thinking organization that enables companies to meet the challenges of the digital world. Our mission is to deliver value through knowledge and provide our clients with business models that ensure technological capacity, flexibility, and agility.
We operate in three main areas:
• Talent: We provide our clients with an extension to their IT teams, enabling them to stay competitive in today's fast-paced market.
• Boost: Through software development models, we increase capacity and optimize Time-to-Market, creating and managing teams that deliver according to our clients' needs at the desired speed.
• Decskill Connect: We provide consulting services, implementing, and managing information technology infrastructures that support our clients' business growth.
Our practice results in the creation of value for our customers by delivering qualified and value-added services, highly qualified and motivated professionals, and technology solutions that allow us to operate and transform the business of our customers.
• *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 (in S/4HANA or APO) 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
Decskill is a forward-thinking organization that enables companies to meet the challenges of the digital world. Our mission is to deliver value through knowledge and provide our clients with business models that ensure technological capacity, flexibility, and agility.
We operate in three main areas:
• Talent: We provide our clients with an extension to their IT teams, enabling them to stay competitive in today's fast-paced market.
• Boost: Through software development models, we increase capacity and optimize Time-to-Market, creating and managing teams that deliver according to our clients' needs at the desired speed.
• Decskill Connect: We provide consulting services, implementing, and managing information technology infrastructures that support our clients' business growth.
Our practice results in the creation of value for our customers by delivering qualified and value-added services, highly qualified and motivated professionals, and technology solutions that allow us to operate and transform the business of our customers.
• *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 (in S/4HANA or APO) 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