SAP PP / QM Senior Consultant:
Key Responsibilities:
Lead PP and QM validation workshops with process owners; close open items and convert feasibility findings into signed-off functional design.Configure discrete production: material master, BOMs, routings, work centers, order types and status, confirmations, backflush and goods-movement design across four plants.Design the QM master-data foundation — inspection types (01/03/04/10), inspection plans, master inspection characteristics, sampling procedures and schemes, catalogs and quality info records.Configure the inspection lifecycle end to end: automatic lot creation, results and defect recording, usage decisions and resulting stock postings; design calculated characteristics using the standard control indicator.Design inbound quality (PO-based inspection lots ahead of goods receipt, supplier certificates via DMS, vendor scorecards), outbound quality (delivery lots, certificates of quality, PGI gating) and quality notifications for complaints and internal issues.Design first-piece and in-process inspection as a shop-floor release gate captured in SAP DM and posted back to S/4HANA inspection lots; own PP–QM–MM–SD and S/4HANA SAP DM integration.Adopt standard QM analytical Fiori apps for inspection analytics; hand composite business KPIs to the analytics workstream. Prepare and execute testing, and author configuration, test and training documentation
Required Qualifications
8+ years SAP consulting with 5+ full-lifecycle implementations and hands-on configuration responsibility in both PP and QM; at least 2 on S/4HANA (1909 or later).Deep QM configuration expertise: inspection planning, MICs, sampling, inspection lot origins, results recording, usage decisions, defect recording, notifications, catalogs and quality info records.Deep PP configuration expertise for discrete manufacturing: BOMs, routings, work centers, order types and status, confirmations, backflush, goods movements and settlement interfaces.QM delivery in a regulated or traceability-intensive discrete environment (automotive, electronics, medical devices, aerospace or similar).Proven PP–QM–MM–SD integration experience, including integrating S/4HANA QM with an MES or shop-floor execution layer.Ability to run fit/gap workshops with business process owners and produce auditable functional specifications, configuration documentation and test scripts.Judgment to distinguish a genuine standard gap from a legacy habit, and the communication skill to defend a standard solution to a business attached to its current process.
Preferred Qualifications
Bilingual English/Japanese (business level); prior delivery in Japan or with Japanese manufacturing clients.SAP Digital Manufacturing, SAP ME or MII experience, particularly QM integration and in-process data collection.Experience extending an existing global S/4HANA template rather than standing up a parallel core.FMEA, audit management, control plans, calibration / test equipment management (QM-IM) or stability studies.SAP BTP clean-core extensibility, CDS-based analytics, and familiarity with J-SOX controls over quality records and electronic sign-off.SAP certification in S/4HANA Manufacturing (Production Planning) and/or Quality Management.
