Business: INDEC Department / Function: Apps
Job Title: Senior consultant / Managing consultant Grade: M13
Reporting to: Delivery Manager Location: MUMBAI
Span of Control: Experience Required: 10 - 12 years of experience.
Job Purpose/Summary
The role is responsible for service delivery related to the Production Planning module.
Hands‑on experience in cross collaboration with integration & third‑party ancillary teams, especially MES applications.
Exposure to IDOC, interfaces, and building complex solutions in sales & distribution.
- Minimum 10 - 12 years of IT industry experience.
- Minimum 10-12 years of SAP PP experience.
- Relevant SAP certification would be an added advantage.
- At least 2 full life‑cycle implementations/roll‑outs experience.
- Project‑oriented with experience in project methodology.
- Experience in SAP PP business processes (Discrete Manufacturing / Repetitive Manufacturing).
- Well versed with demand planning, production order, confirmation, backflushing, REM confirmation, product cost collector, material subcontracting, operation subcontracting processes including configuration.
- Experience with LSMW/BDC data upload tools.
- Added advantage to work with overseas clients (Europe, US). Must have worked on IDOC/EDI process and on interfaces with different systems/applications exchanging data between SAP and third‑party systems.
- Exposure to ticketing tools such as ServiceNow.
- Basic ABAP debugging skills would be an added advantage.
Key Performance Indicators
- Service availability and incident reduction.
- MTTR improvement and ticket ageing reduction.
- Reduction in repeat incidents and recurring problems.
- Quality of governance, reporting, and risk management.
- Automation, efficiency, and cost optimization benefits.
Required Experience
- Experience implementing User Exit, BADIs, or enhancements to further customize out‑of‑the‑box solutions in SAP PP.
- Experience in SAP PP functionalities such as order processing, scheduling/confirmation, standard reporting, etc.
- Experience writing functional specifications and test scripts, and experience on custom reports.
- Performed detailed configuration of SAP PP module, including development of specialized reports.
- Experience on LSMW and related manual activities for master data maintenance.
- Good understanding of cross modules (FI/CO/MM/SD/WM).
- Able to research SAP issues through OSS, evaluate, apply and test OSS notes.
- Good understanding of SAP PP tables and reporting.
- Can work independently and manage tasks individually.
- Take ownership. Exposure to monitoring/observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, CloudWatch, or equivalent.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, IT, or related discipline.
- PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or SAFe certification would be an advantage.