Production Planner at Unique Personnel

Job Description    

• SAP PP (Production Planning)
• This should be the primary module requirement.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Creation and management of production orders
• Production scheduling
• Capacity planning
• Work centre management
• Routing management
• BOM (Bill of Materials) understanding
• MRP execution and review
• Production order release
• Production order monitoring
• Exception message analysis

Reporting & Analytics:

SAP Reporting:

Planner should be comfortable with:

• SAP standard reports
• Exporting SAP data into Excel
• Pivot tables
• Planning analysis

Ideally (although these would be advantageous rather than mandatory):

• SAP BW
• SAP Analytics Cloud
• Power BI

Inherent Requirements    
Requirements:

• SAP PP (Production Planning) + MM (Materials Management) experience non-negotiable

SAP Knowledge and Experience:

• Minimum 3 years' experience using SAP Production Planning (PP) in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of Material Requirements Planning (MRP), production order management, capacity planning, and inventory control.
• Working knowledge of SAP Materials Management (MM).
• Ability to analyse planning data and generate reports using SAP and Microsoft Excel.
• Experience within a make-to-order and project manufacturing environment would be advantageous.

Required SAP knowledge ranked as follows:

• SAP PP (Production Planning) - ESSENTIAL
• SAP MM (Materials Management) - ESSENTIAL
• SAP SD (Sales & Distribution) - Beneficial
• SAP WM / EWM - Beneficial
• SAP QM (Quality Management) - Nice to have
• SAP PM (Plant Maintenance) - Nice to have

Highly Recommended Experience:

Because the role includes material planning and inventory management, knowledge should include:

• Purchase requisitions
• Material master data
• Inventory management
• Goods receipts
• Stock transfers
• Vendor delivery monitoring

Common Transactions:

• MM03 – Display Material Master
• ME51N – Purchase Requisition
• ME53N – Display PR
• MMBE – Stock Overview
• MB52 – Warehouse Stock
• ME2M – Purchase Orders by Material

SAP Transactions commonly used:

• MD04 – Stock/Requirements List
• MD05 – MRP List
• MD06 / MD07 – MRP Controller Worklists
• CO01 – Create Production Order
• CO02 – Change Production Order
• CO03 – Display Production Order
• CM01 / CM21 – Capacity Planning
• MF50 – Planning Table
• BOM (Bill of Materials) understanding

Beneficial Experience:

• SAP WM / EWM (Warehouse Management)
• (Not mandatory but useful)

Understanding:

• Warehouse stock locations
• Goods movements
• Inventory accuracy
• Picking and staging