Technical Specialist
India
Job Description
Technical Specialist
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Job Summary
The SAP PP and Planning Consultant will provide L1/L2 functional support for production planning, material requirements planning, detailed scheduling, BOM and associated manufacturing-planning processes.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor, analyze and resolve incidents involving:
- Production planning
- Material requirements planning
- PP/DS planning and scheduling
- Production and planned orders
- Bills of material
- Planning master data
- Capacity and material-availability checks
- Planning runs and planning exceptions
- Investigate failed planning jobs, incorrect requirements generation, scheduling issues and order-processing failures.
- Analyze master-data dependencies affecting production and material planning.
- Support approved job reruns, planning recoveries and operational corrections.
- Investigate issues involving product, material and BOM data received from connected systems.
- Collaborate with MM, EWM, Integration and ABAP teams to resolve cross-functional issues.
- Conduct root-cause analysis for recurring planning and manufacturing-support incidents.
- Perform configuration analysis and approved small configuration corrections.
- Reproduce complex issues in development or QA environments.
- Coordinate functional testing, regression testing and business validation.
- Support production launches, hypercare and critical manufacturing-planning cycles.
- Prepare structured L3 handovers for issues involving major code changes, product design or solution redesign.
- Maintain planning runbooks, support procedures, known-error records and knowledge articles.
Skill Requirements
Required Skills and Experience
- Strong hands-on experience in SAP PP.
- Practical experience in MRP, production orders, BOM and production master data.
- Exposure to SAP PP/DS or comparable detailed planning and scheduling capabilities.
- Understanding of integration with MM, EWM, MES and product-data systems.
- Experience with background-job analysis, SAP configuration, RCA and production support.
- Experience working within ITIL-aligned incident, problem and change-management processes.
- Strong communication and business-impact assessment skills.
Other Requirements
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