SAP IBP/PPDS Planning Consultant

Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated SAP IBP/PPDS Planning Consultant to enhance its Connected Logistics capabilities in North America. This exciting role involves advising on innovative production planning processes, implementing SAP solutions, and fostering client relationships. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, a collaborative spirit, and a commitment to delivering high-quality services. Join a dynamic team that values accountability and innovation, and contribute to transformative projects that drive operational excellence across various industries. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in consulting or automotive industry.
• Experience with SAP PPDS and IBP implementations.

Responsibilities

• Advise on innovative production planning processes in SAP.
• Lead business development opportunities and cultivate client relationships.

Skills

SAP PPDS

SAP IBP

Analytical Skills

Teamwork

Project Management

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business Administration

Degree in Engineering

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

TheSAP Digital Enterpriseservice unit is the premier solutions partner for designing and delivering a digitized, high-performing future to our clients' ecosystems. We deliver this value to our customers by optimizing the performance of our client’s operational processes across the entire value chain, from R&D, production, logistics, purchasing, and sales. We achieve this by combining deep industry knowledge, process, and IT expertise in an end-to-end approach, guiding our clients through the digitalization paradigm shift by offering strategic direction, innovative design, implementation, and ongoing support for supply chain processes, applications, and technologies. Our professionals leverage our unique blend of process and IT expertise to improve our customers’ ability to proactively enable scalability, remove performance barriers, enable innovation, modernize core systems, and reinvent their business with digital solutions, primarily SAP.

We drive maximum business value for our clients across the entire value chain from R&D through to Manufacturing and Supply Chain, with a focused portfolio of solutions:

• SAP ECC and S/4HANA Transformation
• Connected Logistics
• Smart Manufacturing
• Data and Technology

Through our partnership with SAP, our SAP-certified practitioners provide expertise and implementation services leveraging the latest technologies, including S/4HANA On-Premise & Cloud, DM/ME/MII/PCo, EWM, TM, LBN, Ariba, Analytics, and more. Our professionals offer tailor-made strategies for Industry 4.0 transformations, integrating new technologies, process design and optimization, organizational change management, IOT platform strategy and analytics, smart factory design, Lean production strategies, and Agile transformations.

The Role

The SAP IBP/PPDS Planning Consultant is expected to perform high-quality project work for our customers, continue to build the Connected Logistics capability in North America, and foster its continued growth within our SAP Digital Enterprise service unit. This role requires a focused and analytical mindset and will require working towards set objectives with a level of autonomy, living a culture of accountability, and taking a hands-on approach to execution. Our customers and the value we offer is central to everything we do. With this in mind, this person will be required to ensure the quality of our services for our existing client base, cultivate relationships with new customers as well as support new business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Being committed to advising and designing innovative and holistic production planning processes with a focus on transportation in SAP PPDS / SAP IBP
• Your strengths also include adjustments to the system landscape using customizing
• Together with your team, you are the first contact person for users and key users in the SAP PPDS environment and SAP IBP environment
• Responsible for the planning and implementation of training courses and workshops
• Participate in exciting production projects from cost calculation to implementation
• Develop innovative concepts and implement sophisticated consulting solutions in the field of Supply Chain Management
• Deploy process, quality, and cost-optimized logistics concepts
• Create long term relationships with clients
• Identify and lead business development opportunities
• Achieve a strong reputation as a business advisor

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering or equivalent education.

Experience:

• 4+ years of work experience in consulting or in the automotive industry
• Minimum 4 years of SAP PPDS (Production Planning Detailed Scheduling) Experience (Process & Customizing) or SAP IBP (Integrated Business Planning)
• Minimum 3 full SAP PPDS or SAP IBP lifecycle implementations
• Profound SAP PPDS or SAP IBP project and Go-Live experience (SAP implementation approach)
• SAP Certifications are a plus
• Fluency in English (multi-lingual preferred)
• Analytical and structured work attitude
• Fluency in English (multi-lingual preferred)
• Analytical and structured working attitude
• Strong teamwork capability

Percentage of required travel: up to 100%

Physical requirements:

• This job operates in an office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, cameras, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to talk, hear, walk, sit, stand, climb stairs on occasion with prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to effectively work and complete tasks in an open office/noisy environment.
• Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time while traveling in a car or airplane.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with MHP Americas, Inc. (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), or any other non-immigrant status).