Senior Consultant - SAP SCM PP

IBM

IBM

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Apr 22, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Package Specialist for SAP SCM PP, you will design, implement, and maintain the Production Planning (PP) module within SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) to optimize production planning, scheduling, and control processes. This role requires strong collaboration with business stakeholders to gather requirements and develop solutions to meet business needs.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design and Configure PP Processes: Design and configure PP processes, including production planning, scheduling, and control, to ensure seamless integration with other SAP modules and third-party systems.

• Develop and Maintain Customizations: Develop and maintain PP customizations, interfaces, and reports to meet business needs and optimize production planning and scheduling processes.

• Test and Troubleshoot Issues: Test and troubleshoot PP issues, identifying and resolving errors and inconsistencies to ensure data integrity and accuracy.

• Analyze and Optimize Processes: Analyze and optimize production planning and scheduling processes, identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing changes to ensure alignment with other SAP modules.

• Provide Training and Support: Provide training and support to end-users on PP functionality and best practices to ensure effective use of the system.

Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• SAP PP Configuration Expertise: Experience with designing and configuring Production Planning (PP) processes, including production planning, scheduling, and control, within SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM).

• SAP Customization and Development: Experience with developing and maintaining PP customizations, interfaces, and reports to meet business needs and optimize production planning and scheduling processes.

• SAP Integration Knowledge: Experience with ensuring seamless integration of PP with other SAP modules and third-party systems. • Production Planning Best Practices: Experience with production planning best practices to analyze and optimize production planning and scheduling processes.

• SAP Troubleshooting Skills: Experience with testing and troubleshooting PP issues, identifying and resolving errors and inconsistencies to ensure data integrity and accuracy.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• SAP MM Integration Knowledge: Experience with integrating Production Planning (PP) with Materials Management (MM) module within SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) to ensure seamless data flow and accurate inventory management.

• SAP QM and PM Knowledge: Experience with integrating PP with Quality Management (QM) and Plant Maintenance (PM) modules to ensure compliance with quality standards and effective maintenance planning.

• Advanced SAP Reporting: Experience with developing advanced reports in SAP to provide insights into production planning and scheduling processes, enabling data-driven decision-making.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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