Senior Consultant

Job Summary:

Key Responsibilities:

1. Business Analysis and Solution Design:

• Review, analyze, and evaluate business processes and requirements.
• Propose business solutions by understanding the existing landscape for incidents and change requests.

2. SAP Configuration and Maintenance:

• Configure and maintain relevant SAP S/4HANA components, including Production Planning, Production Scheduling, and Quality Management.
• Document configurations and processes.

3. End-User Training and Support:

• Support business users in delivering end-user training.
• Provide overall maintenance and support.

4. Data Management:

• Support Extract, Transform, and Cleanse data objects.

5. Operational Tracks Management:

• Create and manage SAP Operational tracks to implement or deploy capabilities as required.
• Conduct gap analysis on existing solutions, end-to-end process design, testing strategy, training, etc.

6. Functional Specifications and Development Coordination:

• Create functional specifications for change requests (interfaces, conversions, enhancements, reports, and forms).
• Guide the development of programs within the development team.

7. Global Coordination:

• Coordinate with the global team on all changes related to SAP PP/QM and interfaces.
• Provide detailed analysis of potential system changes, develop/support agreed solutions, and test system changes.

8. Prime Contact for Operational Deliverables:

• Act as the prime point of contact for all operational deliverables in the PP/QM area.
• Handle escalations related to PP/QM.

9. Cross-functional Collaboration:

• Work closely with other IT team members from Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, customer-facing, Security, Data Migration, Basis, and PIPO, as well as business stakeholders and subject matter experts.

Skills and Expertise:

• Master Data Management: Material Master PP/QM Discrete manufacturing setup with Variant configuration.
• Engineering Change Management.
• Material Forecast, Planned Independent Requirement & Customer Independent Requirement, SOP & LTP, MPS.
• Configuration Simulation.
• MRP, Planned order, and Production Order.
• Serial Number & Batch Management.
• Product Cost Planning.
• Interfaces and AL11 Directory.
• Quality Planning, Inspection, Notification, Control, and Reporting.

Specific Requirements:

• Must be based in Chennai and able to travel to the plant when necessary.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience, with significant exposure to operational ticket handling & should have handled minimum 2-3 Greenfield SAP projects.
• Preferably with SAP HANA background.
• Ability to work in shifts upon request.