Senior SAP PP/DS Architect — Planning & Optimization

Ethereum Technologies; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 87,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethereum Technologies is seeking a Senior SAP PP/DS Functional Consultant for a 12-month engagement in Dallas, TX. The role requires deep SAP PP/DS expertise and hands-on configuration across MM and PP modules, with an emphasis on detailed scheduling and optimization.

You will lead solution design, documentation, SIT/UAT, and deployment activities, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful go-live and hypercare support.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of overall SAP experience, including at least 4+ years of dedicated SAP PP/DS implementation and configuration experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in either S/4HANA Embedded PP/DS or SCM-APO PP/DS.
• Deep knowledge of detailed scheduling, finite-capacity planning, scheduling heuristics, and planning strategies.
• Hands-on configuration experience with PDS, resources, work centers, production versions, and relevant manufacturing master data.
• Experience configuring the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board, alert monitoring, pegging strategies, and capacity evaluation.
• Strong understanding of production scheduling, resource utilization, setup times, and manufacturing constraints.
• Proven integration experience with SAP PP, MM, and production execution processes.
• Experience with PP/DS product master data, model/version management, setup groups, and setup matrices.
• Experience with block planning, campaign planning, and advanced production sequencing.
• Strong knowledge of PP/DS optimizer profiles, objective functions, and optimization strategies.
• Experience configuring planning procedures, heuristic profiles, strategy profiles, and alert profiles.
• Experience troubleshooting planning runs, scheduling exceptions, and master data issues.
• Strong functional documentation, testing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• PP/DS Configuration: Configure detailed scheduling heuristics, planning procedures, finite-capacity scheduling, planning strategies, and scheduling parameters.
• Master Data Integration: Configure and validate production master data, including products, PDS (Production Data Structures), resources, work centers, production versions, and related manufacturing data.
• Detailed Scheduling & Optimization: Configure the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board, scheduling profiles, optimizer settings, sequence optimization, and setup-time reduction.
• Pegging & Exception Management: Configure pegging strategies, order prioritization, alert monitoring, scheduling exceptions, and planning constraints.
• Capacity & Production Planning: Analyze capacity bottlenecks, resource utilization, material shortages, production constraints, and scheduling conflicts.
• Manufacturing Integration: Coordinate integration between PP/DS, SAP PP, MM, demand management, production orders, and production execution.
• Advanced Planning Configuration: Configure setup groups, setup matrices, block planning, campaign planning, and advanced sequencing strategies to optimize production schedules.
• Planning Master Data: Maintain PP/DS product master data, product-location settings, model/version management, resource capacities, and production data structures.
• Optimization: Configure and execute PP/DS optimizer runs, including objective functions, optimization profiles, setup-time minimization, and resource utilization.
• Planning Monitoring: Configure alert profiles, planning run monitoring, exception analysis, and production scheduling performance monitoring.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Resolve planning run failures, master data inconsistencies, scheduling performance issues, and integration errors.
• Project Delivery: Lead solution design, functional documentation, SIT/UAT, defect resolution, deployment, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.

Skills

SAP PP/DS

S/4HANA Embedded PP/DS

SCM-APO PP/DS

Detailed scheduling

Master data config

PDS & resources

Optimization profiles

Integration with SAP PP/MM

Documentation

Cross-functional collab

Tools

CIF configuration

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Ethereum Technologies is seeking a Senior SAP PP/DS Functional Consultant for a 12-month engagement in Dallas, TX. The role requires deep SAP PP/DS expertise and hands-on configuration across MM and PP modules, with an emphasis on detailed scheduling and optimization.

You will lead solution design, documentation, SIT/UAT, and deployment activities, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful go-live and hypercare support.