SAP PP Consultant

Role: SAP PP/ MRP Consultant

Location: Campbellsville, KY (Onsite)

Client: Birlasoft

Rate: $80/Hr to $90/Hr

Job Type : Contract

Expected Deliverables

·                  Current-state planning flow assessment

·                  Root-cause analysis of shortages

Quantification of shortages attributable to:

·                  Supply lateness

·                  Planning logic

·                  Inventory accuracy

·                  Master data quality

·                  Tactical short term operating method to minimize material shortages

·                  Operation recommendations

·                  Configuration recommendations

·                  Custom development recommendations

·                  Effort/cost estimate for remediation options

CORE EXPERTISE REQUIRED

·                  Deep, hands-on SAP ECC Production Planning (PP). ATP and MRP configuration — MRP groups, MRP1–4 views, lead-time scheduling, and MRP group–level confirmation settings (OPPR/OPPJ)

·                  Working fluency with Full vs. Partial Confirmation Logic and its interaction with component availability checks (MDVP), evaluated as a business trade-off, not just a config toggle

·                  Practical experience with planned order firming behavior — what it freezes, what it doesn’t, and how it can silently serve two unrelated purposes at the same site

·                  Ability to evaluate configuration, process, and custom-development alternatives, including BAPI-based automation where justified.

·                  Ability to audit an existing shortage report and confirm whether its logic reflects the same committed-quantity calculation as the confirmation logic setting

ADJACENT SKILLS THAT MATTER

·                  MD04/MD11/MD12 exception-message literacy — distinguishing a real signal from a silently wrong one

·                  Change-management instinct: able to interview planners and separate habitual firming from deliberate, reservation-protecting firming

SENIORITY LEVEL

·                  Senior SAP PP functional consultant or architect — not a generalist SAP administrator. Ideally someone who has designed or corrected constraint-aware scheduling logic before, with prior exposure to a factory that outgrew standard ECC MRP and had to choose between custom BAPI automation.