Principal Engineer, Digital Innovation

As an S/4HANA Production Planning (PP) Principal, you will be part of our IT digital S&OP team of experts. Your responsibility spans around creating detailed blueprints and business requirement documents helping to develop and implement these requirements into S/4HANA and other systems as well as providing business functional support around SAP PP module.  

You should have a good functional knowledge in standard SAP Production modules (PP,PI) along with integration into other SAP Supply Chain modules (MM / SD and IBP). Your ability to understand business requirements & design, dealing with production issues related to planning processes, such as capacity planning, material planning, execution of production orders, bill of material and goods movement are fundamental for success.

A deep knowledge in the sub-areas of Production planning completes your experience in order to run projects in the S&OP area end to end. As a strategic interface between IT and the Supply Chain organization you will ensures that IT solutions and services align with business goals, drive value and support operational excellence across planning functions. 

• Solution Enablement & Support

  • Implement and support PP processes around planning systems
  • Ensure solutions meet business requirements and drive operational efficiency.
  • Monitor performance and adoption of planning tools and technologies.
  • Manage planning-related IT initiatives from ideation through delivery.

• Innovation & Continuous Improvement

  • Identify opportunities for process optimization and digital innovation in production planning.

• Strategic Partnership & Alignment

  • Serve as primary IT point of contact for S&OP and Production Planning stakeholders.
  • Understand business strategies, challenges, and opportunities to shape IT demand and roadmap.
  • Aligning technology initiatives with business goals, driving digital transformation, and ensuring the successful delivery of IT solutions that support Sales & Operations Planning and Production Planning processes.

• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

  • Build strong relationships with business leaders and cross-functional teams.
  • Facilitate clear communication between IT and business units.
  • Act as a trusted advisor and change agent within the planning domain.

• Minimum 5 plus years of experience in SAP PP module.
• Proven experience in integrating SAP Supply chain modules and any MES.
• Strong knowledge of SAP PP and its core functionalities (see below)
• Awareness of the MM/SD Cycle business processes (see below)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think analytically.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Able to work under pressure without supervision, flexible and a good team player
• SAP certification in S4 Manufacturing/ PP is preferred

1. Master Planning PP-MP, Demand Management ( PP-MP-DEM) ,Long Term planning ( PP-MP-DEM), Capacity Planning ( PP - CRP), Material Requirements Planning ( PP-MRP), Repetitive Manufacturing ( PP-REM)

2. Production lot planning/individual project planning, Assembly to order ( LO-ASM), Production Planning for Process Industries ( PP-PI)

3. Cross Functional modules (MM/SD) working knowledge especially distribution/ replenishment planning components such as Purchase Info records, Stock transport orders, Capable to promise , ATP checks etc.

4. The candidate should be very familiar with the Manufacturing processes. He/ She should be comfortable with master data components of SAP PP such as BOM ( PP-BD-BOM), Production version, Work Center, Routings, Production Planning Cycle etc.

5. The candidate should have worked on integrated systems and should be comfortable with monitoring interfaces and applications. The candidate must be familiar with working on customized Objects.

6. The candidate should have experience working in Project, Application Support Services in an end-user facing position, and he/she should be familiar with Incident Management and Problem Management along with an understanding of Business priority and criticality.

7. Bonus Skills: A basic understanding of SAP IBP demand & supply planning , ABAP code read with debugging would be given preference.