SAP Integrated Product Development; IPD) Consultant

SAP Integrated Product Development (IPD) Consultant

Industry: Automotive / Discrete Manufacturing
Contract: Initial 6 months
Rate: $140/hour C2C
Location: USA / Canada
Travel: Some onsite travel to Detroit, Michigan
Working Hours: US business hours

The Opportunity

We are looking for a senior, hands‑on SAP Integrated Product Development (IPD) Consultant for a major SAP transformation within the automotive / discrete manufacturing sector
.

This is an important distinction:
we specifically need IPD experience relevant to discrete manufacturing.

We are not looking for consultants whose product‑development background is primarily within process industries such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food & beverage or consumer products, where the focus has been predominantly on recipes, formulations and specification management.

The required experience needs to relate to complex engineered products and the design‑to‑manufacturing lifecycle
.

What Does IPD Mean in This Environment?

Within discrete manufacturing, SAP Integrated Product Development connects engineering and product‑development processes with the wider SAP landscape.

For this program, think:

Engineering Design → Product Structures → Engineering Collaboration → Product Changes → Product Baseline → EBOM/MBOM → Release to Manufacturing

The client needs someone who understands how engineering and product data progresses through this lifecycle and how IPD connects engineering, manufacturing and other stakeholders around consistent product information.

This is particularly relevant in automotive, where products consist of complex assemblies, components, engineering structures and multiple revisions that need to move accurately from engineering into manufacturing.

Where We Expect the Right Consultant to Come From

The ideal profile may have developed through a career path such as:

SAP PLM → Discrete Manufacturing Product Development → SAP EPD → SAP IPD

or:

SAP PLM / Engineering → S/4

HANA Product Development → EPD/IPD

We do not expect someone to have spent 10 or 15 years specifically working with IPD.

What matters is a deep understanding of SAP product development within discrete manufacturing
, combined with genuine implementation experience across the newer EPD/IPD landscape.

Strong industry backgrounds could include:

• Automotive
• Aerospace & Defense
• Industrial Machinery & Components
• Heavy Equipment
• High-Tech Manufacturing
• Engineered Products
• Other complex discrete manufacturing environments

Core IPD Experience

We are particularly interested in consultants with hands‑on experience across areas such as:

• SAP Integrated Product Development (IPD)
• SAP Enterprise Product Development (EPD)
• SAP PLM within discrete manufacturing
• Engineering product structures
• Engineering BOMs (EBOM)
• Manufacturing BOMs (MBOM)
• EBOM-to-MBOM processes
• Engineering change management
• Product versions, revisions and baselines
• Collaborative product development
• Engineering collaboration
• Release‑to‑manufacturing processes
• Product data management
• CAD / engineering data integration
• 3D product data and visualization
• Supplier and external engineering collaboration
• Digital thread concepts
• S/4
  
  HANA integration
• SAP BTP
• Fiori‑based functionality
• APIs and integration with external engineering systems

What Will You Be Doing?

This is a hands‑on implementation role.

• Run requirements and solution‑design workshops with engineering and business stakeholders.
• Translate discrete manufacturing product‑development requirements into IPD functionality.
• Configure relevant IPD capabilities.
• Support engineering product structures and associated product data.
• Support collaborative engineering and product‑development processes.
• Work with engineering change and product‑change processes.
• Support EBOM/MBOM and design‑to‑manufacturing scenarios where relevant to the…