SAP S4 HANA PPDS Consultant

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in SAP PPDS
• Strong understanding of production planning, MRP, and scheduling
• Experience with CIF, Idocs, queues, and Fiori apps
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Deep expertise in SAP PPDS configuration and design, including master planning and detailed scheduling scenarios
• Proficiency in PPDS heuristics, planning strategies, IPPE, and PDS
• Hands-on experience in PPDS with S/4HANA Embedded PPDS
• Ability to align PPDS solutions with business planning objectives and constraints
• Understanding of core S/4HANA logistics and manufacturing processes
• Proven ability to analyse complex planning issues and design scalable, sustainable PPDS solutions

Responsibilities:

• Support SAP BAU operations and implement, configure, and optimize SAP S/4HANA PP/DS for advanced planning and detailed scheduling
• Analyse business requirements and design solutions for production planning, capacity planning, sequencing, and detailed scheduling
• Integrate PP/DS with relevant SAP modules such as PP, MM, SD, APO migration scenarios, and external MES or production automation systems
• Configure key PP/DS master data including planning versions, PDS, resources, modes, and heuristics
• Design and configure heuristics, planning strategies, optimization profiles, and pegging strategies to meet customer-specific planning needs
• Support capacity planning, finite scheduling, order sequencing, and model planning scenarios to improve manufacturing efficiency
• Enable and manage processes for DS planning board, alert monitor, CIF integration, and custom planning rules
• Provide end-user training, process documentation, functional specs, and operational SOPs for planning teams
• Troubleshoot and resolve PP/DS-related issues, perform root cause analysis, and ensure system stability, CIF consistency, and planning performance
• Support project activities including unit testing, integration testing, UAT, cutover planning, and go-live support for PP/DS processes
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, production planners, and IT teams to ensure seamless planning and scheduling operations

Technologies:

• Embedded
• Support
• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP
• ARM

More:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced SAP S4 HANA PPDS (Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling) Consultant to join our manufacturing team. This is a 12-month contract role, inside IR35, with a day rate of £600-£650. The role is fully onsite and can be based in Birmingham, Liverpool, or Leamington Spa. We are a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy supporting technical recruitment across key industries in the UK and beyond. We work closely with business stakeholders to design and deliver solutions that optimize production planning and scheduling.

last updated 34 week of 2026