Onsite Job SAP PP/ MRP consultant at Campbellsville, KY

Context

Campbellsville, KY (CBV) is a plant site for CSS business producing rotary / reciprocating compressors. The site uses native SAP ECC 6.0 for the operations. The site is experiencing parts shortages in recent times.

Expected Deliverables

• Current-state planning flow assessment
• Root-cause analysis of shortages
• Quantification of shortages attributable to:
• Supply lateness
• Planning logic
• Inventory accuracy
• Master data quality
• Tactical short term operating method to minimize material shortages
• Operation recommendations
• Configuration recommendations
• Custom development recommendations
• Effort/cost estimate for remediation options

CORE EXPERTISE REQUIRED

• Deep, hands-on SAP ECC Production Planning (PP).
• ATP and MRP configuration - MRP groups, MRP1 4 views, lead-time scheduling, and MRP group level confirmation settings (OPPR/OPPJ)
• Working fluency with Full vs. Partial Confirmation Logic and its interaction with component availability checks (MDVP), evaluated as a business trade-off, not just a config toggle
• Practical experience with planned order firming behavior - what it freezes, what it doesn't, and how it can silently serve two unrelated purposes at the same site
• Ability to evaluate configuration, process, and custom-development alternatives, including BAPI-based automation where justified
• Ability to audit an existing shortage report and confirm whether its logic reflects the same committed-quantity calculation as the confirmation logic setting

ADJACENT SKILLS THAT MATTER

• MD04/MD11/MD12 exception-message literacy - distinguishing a real signal from a silently wrong one
• Change-management instinct: able to interview planners and separate habitual firming from deliberate, reservation-protecting firming