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Overview
Role: SAP S4 HANA PPDS Consultant
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Birmingham/Liverpool, Leamington Spa
Ready to apply your expertise in SAP S/4HANA PPDS.
We have an exciting opportunity for you – SAP S/4HANA PPDS Consultant!
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* Access extensive learning and career development opportunities.
* Lead and contribute to technically complex SAP initiatives.
* Collaborate closely with customers and key stakeholders to deliver tangible business outcomes.
The Role
As an SAP S/4HANA PPDS Consultant, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and supporting advanced production planning and detailed scheduling solutions within SAP S/4HANA.
You will work closely with business stakeholders, production planners, and IT teams to optimise manufacturing planning, improve scheduling accuracy, and enhance supply chain performance. This role requires deep functional expertise in Embedded PP/DS, strong analytical skills, and the ability to translate complex business planning requirements into scalable SAP solutions.
Key Responsibilities
* Act as a subject matter expert for SAP S/4HANA Embedded PP/DS across implementation and BAU support.
* Design, implement, configure, and optimise PP/DS solutions for advanced planning and detailed scheduling.
* Analyse business requirements and translate them into effective production planning, capacity planning, sequencing, and scheduling solutions.
* Configure core PP/DS master data including planning versions, PDS (Production Data Structures), resources, modes, and heuristics.
* Design and configure heuristics, planning strategies, optimisation profiles, and pegging strategies aligned to customerʼs planning needs.
* Support finite capacity planning, order sequencing, alert‑based planning, and scenario modelling to improve manufacturing efficiency.
* Enable and manage PP/DS processes including the DS Planning Board, Alert Monitor, CIF integration, and custom planning rules.
* Integrate PP/DS with core S/4HANA modules including PP, MM, and SD, APO migration scenarios, and external MES or production automation systems.
* Troubleshoot and resolve PP/DS‑related issues, perform root cause analysis, and ensure system stability, CIF consistency, and planning performance.
* Support project delivery activities including unit testing, integration testing, UAT, cutover planning, and go‑live support.
* Produce functional specifications, process documentation, and operational SOPs.
* Provide end‑user training and knowledge transfer to planning and operations teams.
* Collaborate with business stakeholders, planners, architects, and technical teams to ensure seamless end‑to‑end planning operations.
Your Profile
Essential skills / knowledge / experience
* Hands‑on experience with SAP S/4HANA PP/DS (Embedded PP/DS).
* Strong understanding of production planning, MRP, and detailed scheduling processes.
* Experience with CIF integration, IDocs, queues, and SAP Fiori applications.
* Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.
* Experience supporting both project delivery and BAU environments.
* Deep expertise in PP/DS configuration and solution design for master planning and detailed scheduling.
* Hands‑on experience with PP/DS heuristics, planning strategies, IPPE, and PDS.
* Ability to align PP/DS solutions with real‑world business planning constraints and objectives.
* Strong understanding of core S/4HANA logistics and manufacturing processes.
* Proven capability in analysing complex planning challenges and delivering scalable, sustainable PP/DS solutions.
* Experience working on S/4HANA migration or APO to Embedded PP/DS transition programmes.
TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.
We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.
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We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.
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