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

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 life cycle .

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 life cycle 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.

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

• SAP PLM ? Discrete Manufacturing Product Development ? SAP EPD ? SAP IPD
• 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.

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

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

This is a hands-on implementation role.

The consultant will be expected to:

• 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…