SAP Production Planning & Execution Manager - Industrial

Accenture•Denver, CO

5d•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a senior SAP Production Planning and Execution leader with deep experience designing and delivering SAP S/4HANA manufacturing solutions for Industrials clients. You will understand complex make-to-stock, make-to-order, engineer-to-order, discrete, repetitive, and subcontracting production environments, and translate operational needs into scalable SAP PP, production execution, and integrated manufacturing processes. The role involves leading the assessment of Industrials manufacturing, production planning, shop-floor execution, materials, capacity, and order management processes to define future-state SAP S/4HANA Production Planning and Execution solutions. You will design end-to-end SAP PP and manufacturing execution processes covering demand handoff, MRP/MRP Live, planned orders, production orders, process orders, repetitive manufacturing, confirmations, goods movements, backflushing, and settlement integration. A key part of the role is owning solution design across manufacturing master data including materials, BOMs, routings, work centers, production versions, production resources/tools, control keys, order types, availability checks, and scheduling parameters. You will lead SAP Production Planning and Execution implementation projects from fit-to-standard workshops and design through configuration, build, integration testing, deployment, cutover, hypercare, and stabilization. Facilitating cross-functional design workshops and driving key design decisions with clear recommendations, standard SAP leading practices, and process alignment across planning, procurement, inventory, quality, warehousing, plant maintenance, and finance is crucial. You will configure and guide SAP PP capabilities including MRP, capacity planning, production order management, shop-floor control, batch/serial traceability, subcontracting, rework, scrap, co-products/by-products, and production execution reporting. Designing integrations between SAP PP and adjacent SAP modules including MM, SD, QM, EWM/WM, PM, CO-PC, product costing, inventory management, and advanced planning or scheduling solutions is also a core responsibility. You will support Industrials clients with complex manufacturing scenarios such as high-volume assembly, engineered products, configurable products, long lead-time components, multi-level BOMs, variant configuration, and multi-plant production networks. Providing ongoing support, troubleshooting, and issue resolution for SAP PP and production execution processes, ensuring process stability, data integrity, user adoption, and operational performance is expected. Collaboration with project teams, delivery leads, client stakeholders, and Accenture capability leaders to create differentiated SAP Production Planning and Industrials manufacturing offerings, templates, and delivery assets is also part of the role. Travel may be required for this role, varying from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of hands-on SAP Production Planning and Execution experience, including SAP PP configuration, production order execution, MRP, shop-floor control, and manufacturing integration in SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA.
Experience delivering at least 1 full-lifecycle SAP PP or S/4HANA manufacturing implementation in a functional lead, solution lead, architect, or delivery leadership role.
Minimum of 2 years of experience integrating SAP PP with MM, SD, QM, EWM/WM, PM, CO-PC, product costing, inventory management, and reporting/analytics processes.
Minimum of 2 years of experience and in-depth knowledge of SAP manufacturing master data and execution data, including materials, BOMs, routings, work centers, production versions, planned orders, production/process orders, confirmations, goods issues, goods receipts, and production variances.
Strong understanding of Industrials manufacturing processes including discrete manufacturing, engineer-to-order, make-to-order, make-to-stock, repetitive manufacturing, subcontracting, and complex assembly operations.
Prior experience in an Advisory/Consulting role.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an, Associate’s Degree with 6 years of work experience).

Nice To Haves

Experience with SAP S/4HANA Production Planning innovations such as Fiori-based planning and execution, MRP Live, embedded analytics, flexible workflows, and manufacturing-related simplifications.
Experience with advanced planning and scheduling capabilities such as PP/DS, capacity leveling, finite scheduling, detailed scheduling boards, and constraint-based planning.
Experience with SAP Quality Management and its integration with production planning and execution, including inspection lots, results recording, usage decision, quality notifications, and in-process inspection.
Experience with SAP EWM/WM integration for manufacturing staging, component consumption, goods issue, goods receipt, production supply areas, and warehouse-to-production execution flows.
Experience with SAP Digital Manufacturing, MES integration, shop-floor connectivity, production dashboards, manufacturing KPIs, OEE, and operational performance reporting.

Responsibilities

Lead assessment of Industrials manufacturing, production planning, shop-floor execution, materials, capacity, and order management processes to define future-state SAP S/4HANA Production Planning and Execution solutions.
Design end-to-end SAP PP and manufacturing execution processes covering demand handoff, MRP/MRP Live, planned orders, production orders, process orders, repetitive manufacturing, confirmations, goods movements, backflushing, and settlement integration.
Own solution design across manufacturing master data including materials, BOMs, routings, work centers, production versions, production resources/tools, control keys, order types, availability checks, and scheduling parameters.
Lead SAP Production Planning and Execution implementation projects from fit-to-standard workshops and design through configuration, build, integration testing, deployment, cutover, hypercare, and stabilization.
Facilitate cross-functional design workshops and drive key design decisions with clear recommendations, standard SAP leading practices, and process alignment across planning, procurement, inventory, quality, warehousing, plant maintenance, and finance.
Configure and guide SAP PP capabilities including MRP, capacity planning, production order management, shop-floor control, batch/serial traceability, subcontracting, rework, scrap, co-products/by-products, and production execution reporting.
Design integrations between SAP PP and adjacent SAP modules including MM, SD, QM, EWM/WM, PM, CO-PC, product costing, inventory management, and advanced planning or scheduling solutions.
Support Industrials clients with complex manufacturing scenarios such as high-volume assembly, engineered products, configurable products, long lead-time components, multi-level BOMs, variant configuration, and multi-plant production networks.
Provide ongoing support, troubleshooting, and issue resolution for SAP PP and production execution processes, ensuring process stability, data integrity, user adoption, and operational performance.
Collaborate with project teams, delivery leads, client stakeholders, and Accenture capability leaders to create differentiated SAP Production Planning and Industrials manufacturing offerings, templates, and delivery assets.