SAP PP​/Manufacturing Functional Consultant

• Full-time

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We are seeking a highly experienced SAP PP / Manufacturing Functional Consultant with 10+ years of SAP and manufacturing experience to work onsite with our client in Kinston, USA.

The consultant will act as a key interface between manufacturing business teams and SAP/IT delivery teams
, working directly with production, planning, shop-floor, quality, logistics, and IT stakeholders to understand operational challenges and translate them into effective SAP solutions.

This is a strongly client-facing role requiring a consultant who can independently lead business discussions, facilitate workshops, challenge requirements when appropriate, recommend practical solutions, and drive topics through design, testing, deployment, and stabilization.

Key Responsibilities

SAP PP & Manufacturing Functional Expertise

• Lead functional activities related to SAP Production Planning (PP) and manufacturing processes
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• Analyze current manufacturing processes and define SAP solutions aligned with operational requirements.
• Configure and support key SAP PP capabilities including:
  • Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
  • Master Production Scheduling (MPS)
  • Production Orders
  • Planned Orders
  • Bills of Material (BOM)
  • Routings / Work Centers
  • Capacity Planning
  • Shop Floor Control
  • Production Execution
  • Manufacturing Master Data
• Support end-to-end manufacturing scenarios across planning, production execution, material consumption, confirmations, and finished goods receipt.
• Ensure effective integration between SAP PP and MM, QM, EWM/WM, PM, FI/CO and other manufacturing systems
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The existing internal SAP hiring profile specifically identifies MRP, MPS, Production Orders, Capacity Planning, Shop Floor Control and cross-functional integration as core areas for the PP/QM role.

Client & Business Engagement

• Act as a trusted functional advisor to manufacturing and business stakeholders onsite
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• Build strong working relationships with production managers, planners, shop-floor users, process owners, IT teams, and project leadership.
• Lead business workshops, process walkthroughs, requirement-gathering sessions, fit-gap assessments, and solution design discussions
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• Understand business pain points and translate operational requirements into practical SAP solutions.
• Clearly communicate SAP capabilities, constraints, alternatives, and business impacts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Challenge requirements constructively and recommend solutions based on SAP standard capabilities and manufacturing best practices.
• Drive alignment and decisions between business, functional, technical, and integration teams.

This business-facing emphasis is consistent with the internal manufacturing BA profile, which positions the consultant as the link between shop-floor operations, business stakeholders, and IT teams.

Solution Design & Delivery

• Conduct AS-IS / TO-BE process analysis and identify functional gaps.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications, process designs, configuration requirements, and user stories.
• Work closely with SAP technical/development teams on enhancements, interfaces, reports, forms, and workflows.
• Review proposed solutions with business stakeholders and obtain functional alignment.
• Support SAP implementation, transformation, rollout, enhancement, and stabilization activities.
• Identify functional dependencies, risks, and integration impacts early and drive resolution.

Testing, Deployment & Support

• Lead/support Unit Testing, SIT, regression testing and UAT
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• Coordinate closely with business users during UAT and support defect analysis and resolution.
• Support cutover preparation, data validation, deployment, go-live, and hypercare activities.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause…