About This Role
This role is for an experienced SAP PPDS professional, focusing on production planning, detailed scheduling, and optimization within an S/4HANA environment. The position involves configuring master data, managing heuristics and optimizers, and ensuring seamless integration with other SAP modules and external systems.
Responsibilities
- Analyze new business requirements and enhancements related to SAP PPDS
- Translate functional specifications into system configurations and testing scenarios
- Configure planning procedures, heuristics, optimizer settings, and master data for PPDS
- Provide L2/L3 functional support in S/4HANA PPDS environments
- Maintain and enhance existing PPDS functionalities, ensuring system stability and performance
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in CIF integration, planning runs, and capacity constraints
- Monitor and handle IDoc errors, ensuring smooth communication between systems
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (PP, MM, SD, QM) to resolve integration and planning issues
- Support testing (UAT/SIT), documentation, and user training for PPDS functionalities
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize planning efficiency and system utilization
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience in SAP PPDS on S/4HANA (embedded PPDS) environment
- Good understanding of Production Planning, Detailed Scheduling, and Optimization processes
- Expertise in configuring PPDS master data: resources, PPMs/PDS, transportation lanes, planning versions, and planning books
- Experience with Heuristics configuration, Optimizer setup, and Planning Board usage
- Knowledge of integration with ECC/S/4HANA core modules PP, MM, SD, and QM via CIF (Core Interface)
- Experience in CIF monitoring, queue management, and resolving master data transfer issues
- Proficiency in Product View, Alert Monitor, and Resource Planning Table for capacity and order scheduling
- Strong understanding of Finite Capacity Scheduling, Sequence-dependent setup activities, and Constraint-based planning
- Experience with IDoc monitoring, error handling, and interface troubleshooting between SAP PPDS and external systems (MES, SCM, etc.)
- Minimum 6 years of functional experience in SAP PPDS / PP domain, including configuration, implementation, and support
- At least 1–2 end-to-end S/4HANA PPDS implementation or AMS (support) projects
- Sound understanding of Planning Strategies, MRP Live, and Detailed Scheduling functionalities in S/4HANA
- Experience in order pegging, capacity leveling, and planning optimization
- Integration exposure with IBP, APO, and MES systems
