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About the role
What they do
SAP PP consultants shape the production planning side of SAP so factories can plan demand, manage supply, and keep shop floor execution aligned with business needs. They work on process design, master data, configuration, testing, and go-live support. Common deliverables include:
- Production planning and execution setup in SAP ERP or S/4HANA
- Bill of materials, routings, work centers, and production versions
- MRP and capacity planning design
- Testing support, defect fixes, and user guidance
Core skills
A strong SAP PP Consultant understands how production, materials management, and sales planning connect. They know how to translate plant processes into clean SAP settings and stable master data. Useful skills include:
- SAP PP configuration and process mapping
- Master data governance for plants, materials, and work centers
- MRP logic, planning strategies, and shortage handling
- Integration with MM, SD, QM, WM, and APO or IBP where relevant
Typical tools
In daily work, SAP PP consultants use SAP GUI and project documentation tools, plus test scripts, cutover plans, and functional specs. In larger programs, they often work with S/4HANA, PP-PI for process industries, and related modules such as MM and QM. They are also expected to communicate clearly with production planners, master data teams, and plant users.
When to bring one in
Companies usually hire freelance SAP PP specialists when they need targeted support for a rollout, template build, plant harmonization, or issue resolution after go-live. This is common in manufacturing, automotive, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and other production-heavy industries in Germany. A freelancer is a good fit when internal teams are tied up, local plant knowledge is needed, or the project needs hands-on support without adding a permanent role.
What good looks like
Strong SAP PP consultants keep the process simple and the data clean. They ask the right questions before changing settings and understand the impact on production orders, stock, and downstream logistics. Look for someone who can:
- Explain trade-offs in plain language
- Work from process, not just configuration notes
- Spot master data issues early
- Support users through testing and cutover
Germany project fit
For projects in Germany, SAP PP consultants often work with mixed teams across central IT, plant operations, and external implementation partners. Remote work is common, but on-site time can matter during workshops, training, and go-live support at factories. German language skills are often useful when the project includes local production teams or plant users, while international rollouts may run mainly in English.
Meet FRATCH SAP PP Consultants
Farid Alam
SAP_S/4 Hana Senior Consultant & Global SAP Process Expert for MDG/EWM/MM/PP-MES and SAP Data & Cutover Manager
Last position:
SAP Data Migration & Data Management Consultant for SAP GEMINI at Montblanc
The consultant's responsibilities/actions are:
- Consulting on the migration of material master & PP Master data
- Prepare Article List template for Cutover Phase
- Implementation of data cleansing measures using individual and bulk changes
- SAP all mandatory fields data extraction regarding Business needed
- SAP migration, Cutover, Testing, BAT, UAT
- Align with the multiple Stakeholders regarding Data from Legacy and SAP System
- Deployed SAP MM best practice (guided configurations, active methodologies and road map for project initiation)
SAP ERP | SAP GEMINI | SAP Fields Coordination | Documentation | SAP IDoc | SAP Integration | SAP End-to-End Process | SAP MM (Material Management) | SAP Functional Consultant | SAP Gap analysis | SAP MDM (Master Data Management) | Data Migration & Management
Siva Krishnamurthy
SAP S/4 HANA Workstream Lead (PP/ QM/ePPDS)
Last position:
SAP S/4 HANA Workstream Lead (PP/ QM/ePPDS) at SIKA AG
- Functional responsibility for the SAP PP stream within an S/4HANA Global Template rollout in PP/QM/ePPDS
- Leading fit-gap workshops with Production, Supply Chain, and Quality Management
- Master data migration in PP & QM (routing, bills of material, work centers, production versions, capacities, inspection plans)
- Work center - shift group integration in capacity planning
- PP- EWM, MES(BDE) & IBP integration
- Responsibility for solution design, customizing, testing, cutover, and go-live in PP
- Replacement of LMPC with ePPDS
Siva Krishnamurthy
SAP S/4 HANA Workstream Lead (PP/ QM/ePPDS)
Last position:
SAP S/4 HANA Workstream Lead (PP/ QM/ePPDS) at SIKA AG
- Functional responsibility for the SAP PP stream within an S/4HANA Global Template rollout in PP/QM/ePPDS
- Leading fit-gap workshops with Production, Supply Chain, and Quality Management
- Master data migration in PP & QM (routing, bills of material, work centers, production versions, capacities, inspection plans)
- Functional responsibility for the SAP PP stream within an S/4HANA Global Template rollout in PP/QM/ePPDS
- Leading fit-gap workshops with Production, Supply Chain, and Quality Management
- Master data migration in PP & QM (routing, bills of material, work centers, production versions, capacities, inspection plans)
- Work center - shift group integration in capacity planning
- PP- EWM, MES(BDE) & IBP integration
- Responsibility for solution design, customizing, testing, cutover, and go-live in PP
- Replacement of LMPC with ePPDS
- Work center - shift group integration in capacity planning
- PP- EWM, MES(BDE) & IBP integration
- Responsibility for solution design, customizing, testing, cutover, and go-live in PP
- Replacement of LMPC with ePPDS
Harald Kilian
SAP MM, PP Consultant
Last position:
SAP MM, PP Consultant at FRT Metrology Camtek
Creation of Power BI management reports
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Power BI
Harald Kilian
SAP MM, PP Consultant
Last position:
SAP MM, PP Consultant at FRT Metrology Camtek
Creation of Power BI management reports
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Power BI
Creation of Power BI management reports
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Power BI
Bilal Javed
SAP S/4HANA PP Consultant
Last position:
SAP S/4HANA Consultant at perinco GmbH
Initial Situation: Targeted professional development in the SAP S/4HANA environment with a focus on expanding the SAP PP core competency toward SAP MM, supply chain processes and SAP Fiori.
Responsibilities & Approach:
- Deepening of integrated end-to-end processes between SAP PP and SAP MM
- Expansion of knowledge in SAP Fiori, SAP Best Practices and process design
- Further training in the areas of data migration, SAP table structures and solution architecture
- Deepening of SAP S/4HANA ePP/DS and Demand Planning
- Expansion of methodological skills in the area of workshop facilitation and requirements analysis
Results:
- Expansion of SAP PP expertise to include SAP MM and supply chain processes
- In-depth knowledge of SAP Fiori and SAP S/4HANA Best Practices
- Expansion of consulting expertise for end-to-end processes in the manufacturing environment
Bilal Javed
SAP S/4HANA PP Consultant
Last position:
SAP S/4HANA Consultant at perinco GmbH
Initial Situation: Targeted professional development in the SAP S/4HANA environment with a focus on expanding the SAP PP core competency toward SAP MM, supply chain processes and SAP Fiori.
Responsibilities & Approach:
- Deepening of integrated end-to-end processes between SAP PP and SAP MM
Initial Situation: Targeted professional development in the SAP S/4HANA environment with a focus on expanding the SAP PP core competency toward SAP MM, supply chain processes and SAP Fiori.
Responsibilities & Approach:
- Deepening of integrated end-to-end processes between SAP PP and SAP MM
- Expansion of knowledge in SAP Fiori, SAP Best Practices and process design
- Further training in the areas of data migration, SAP table structures and solution architecture
- Deepening of SAP S/4HANA ePP/DS and Demand Planning
- Expansion of methodological skills in the area of workshop facilitation and requirements analysis
Results:
- Expansion of SAP PP expertise to include SAP MM and supply chain processes
- In-depth knowledge of SAP Fiori and SAP S/4HANA Best Practices
- Expansion of consulting expertise for end-to-end processes in the manufacturing environment
- Expansion of knowledge in SAP Fiori, SAP Best Practices and process design
- Further training in the areas of data migration, SAP table structures and solution architecture
- Deepening of SAP S/4HANA ePP/DS and Demand Planning
- Expansion of methodological skills in the area of workshop facilitation and requirements analysis
Results:
- Expansion of SAP PP expertise to include SAP MM and supply chain processes
- In-depth knowledge of SAP Fiori and SAP S/4HANA Best Practices
- Expansion of consulting expertise for end-to-end processes in the manufacturing environment
Joseph Aligbe
SAP Solution Consultant (SAP PP/PPDS/WM/APO/QM/PM/MM)
Last position:
Senior SAP In-House Consultant, Plant-2-Stock at KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
- Engaged business stakeholder to define levels 1, 2 3 & 4 processes.
- Engaged stakeholders to model the As-IS & To-Be business processes in Seeds Processing, Quality Management onto SAP Signavio.
- Identified and highlighted integration points between plant-to-Stock processes and other process areas such as finance and controlling.
- Documented business requirements as user Stories in Jira and categorized each user story as either Gap or Fit.
- Configured and demonstrated Variant Configuration in SAP PP to process owners and stakeholders as proposed solution to satisfy business requirements.
- Proposed workarounds or enhancements to meet requirements that are categorized as gaps.
- Planned the Sprints for Plan-to-Stock, assign and monitor the progress being made in completing user Stories for the active Sprint.
- Created the following PP Variant Configuration master data: Class of Class type 300, Configurable material of material type KMAT, Material variants of material type FERT & assigned the KMAT material to each FERT Material Variant, Super BOM & linked the Super BOM of the configurable material to FERT material variants, Routing and Production version for KMAT material.
- Reviewed list of custom reports currently in use in ECC and identified S4Hana standard analytical reports that satisfies these custom reporting requirements.
Joseph Aligbe
SAP Solution Consultant (SAP PP/PPDS/WM/APO/QM/PM/MM)
Last position:
Senior SAP In-House Consultant, Plant-2-Stock at KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
- Engaged business stakeholder to define levels 1, 2 3 & 4 processes.
- Engaged stakeholders to model the As-IS & To-Be business processes in Seeds Processing, Quality Management onto SAP Signavio.
- Identified and highlighted integration points between plant-to-Stock processes and other process areas such as finance and controlling.
- Engaged business stakeholder to define levels 1, 2 3 & 4 processes.
- Engaged stakeholders to model the As-IS & To-Be business processes in Seeds Processing, Quality Management onto SAP Signavio.
- Identified and highlighted integration points between plant-to-Stock processes and other process areas such as finance and controlling.
- Documented business requirements as user Stories in Jira and categorized each user story as either Gap or Fit.
- Configured and demonstrated Variant Configuration in SAP PP to process owners and stakeholders as proposed solution to satisfy business requirements.
- Proposed workarounds or enhancements to meet requirements that are categorized as gaps.
- Planned the Sprints for Plan-to-Stock, assign and monitor the progress being made in completing user Stories for the active Sprint.
- Created the following PP Variant Configuration master data: Class of Class type 300, Configurable material of material type KMAT, Material variants of material type FERT & assigned the KMAT material to each FERT Material Variant, Super BOM & linked the Super BOM of the configurable material to FERT material variants, Routing and Production version for KMAT material.
- Reviewed list of custom reports currently in use in ECC and identified S4Hana standard analytical reports that satisfies these custom reporting requirements.
- Documented business requirements as user Stories in Jira and categorized each user story as either Gap or Fit.
- Configured and demonstrated Variant Configuration in SAP PP to process owners and stakeholders as proposed solution to satisfy business requirements.
- Proposed workarounds or enhancements to meet requirements that are categorized as gaps.
- Planned the Sprints for Plan-to-Stock, assign and monitor the progress being made in completing user Stories for the active Sprint.
- Created the following PP Variant Configuration master data: Class of Class type 300, Configurable material of material type KMAT, Material variants of material type FERT & assigned the KMAT material to each FERT Material Variant, Super BOM & linked the Super BOM of the configurable material to FERT material variants, Routing and Production version for KMAT material.
- Reviewed list of custom reports currently in use in ECC and identified S4Hana standard analytical reports that satisfies these custom reporting requirements.
Prem Chander Arumugam
Product owner for SAP PP, QM, APO, MM, MES and ABAP
Last position:
Product owner for SAP PP, QM, APO, MM, MES and ABAP at Husqvarna Group (at HCLTech)
Development and Implementation
- Conceptualization and implementation of the various requirements.
- Experience and ability to collaborate with other delivery teams
- Lead a team of 15 people taking care of matters including monitoring operations, delegating tasks and managing budgets.
- Act as product owner and represent the product vision, strategy and priorities in the area of production operations.
- Work closely with the members of the area including developers, analysts and QA to ensure the successful delivery of logistics features and improvements.
- Lead the process design and lead the build team for the SAP implementation (EU countries) and post-merger integration in SAP PP, QM, MM, APO and SD modules.
- Implemented and optimized MRP Live (MD01N) for multiple plants, improving planning runtime
- Worked with business users to transition from classic MRP to MRP Live
- Implemented SAP QM module, including quality planning and inspection lot processing, resulting in a 20% improvement in product quality compliance.
- Developed and tested custom reports using SAP Query and ABAP for MES data analytics, improving visibility into yield rates and resource utilization.
- Translate production requirements into clear and actionable user stories, acceptance criteria and technical specifications.
- Skilled in discrete, and process/manufacturing (PP-PI) environments; deep understanding of master data, production & process orders, recipe management, batch management, capacity & scheduling, shop floor control, and integration with QM, MM, EWM, MES.
- Worked in Variant configuration (VC)
- Supported international rollouts and transformation projects for SAP PP, QM, PPDS, aATP, EWM, and Variant Configuration within a global strategy.
- Tested functionalities for various business scenarios include interface systems
- Involved in SIT and UAT and cutover activities
Technology: Project Management, SAP PP, QM, MM, APO, ABAP OO, HANA Modelling, FIORI, SAP UI5, AMDP, SAP SD, SAP FICO and S4 HANA Emedded analytics
Prem Chander Arumugam
Product owner for SAP PP, QM, APO, MM, MES and ABAP
Last position:
Product owner for SAP PP, QM, APO, MM, MES and ABAP at Husqvarna Group (at HCLTech)
Development and Implementation
- Conceptualization and implementation of the various requirements.
- Experience and ability to collaborate with other delivery teams
- Lead a team of 15 people taking care of matters including monitoring operations, delegating tasks and managing budgets.
Development and Implementation
- Conceptualization and implementation of the various requirements.
- Experience and ability to collaborate with other delivery teams
- Lead a team of 15 people taking care of matters including monitoring operations, delegating tasks and managing budgets.
- Act as product owner and represent the product vision, strategy and priorities in the area of production operations.
- Work closely with the members of the area including developers, analysts and QA to ensure the successful delivery of logistics features and improvements.
- Lead the process design and lead the build team for the SAP implementation (EU countries) and post-merger integration in SAP PP, QM, MM, APO and SD modules.
- Implemented and optimized MRP Live (MD01N) for multiple plants, improving planning runtime
- Worked with business users to transition from classic MRP to MRP Live
- Implemented SAP QM module, including quality planning and inspection lot processing, resulting in a 20% improvement in product quality compliance.
- Developed and tested custom reports using SAP Query and ABAP for MES data analytics, improving visibility into yield rates and resource utilization.
- Translate production requirements into clear and actionable user stories, acceptance criteria and technical specifications.
- Skilled in discrete, and process/manufacturing (PP-PI) environments; deep understanding of master data, production & process orders, recipe management, batch management, capacity & scheduling, shop floor control, and integration with QM, MM, EWM, MES.
- Worked in Variant configuration (VC)
- Supported international rollouts and transformation projects for SAP PP, QM, PPDS, aATP, EWM, and Variant Configuration within a global strategy.
- Tested functionalities for various business scenarios include interface systems
- Involved in SIT and UAT and cutover activities
Technology: Project Management, SAP PP, QM, MM, APO, ABAP OO, HANA Modelling, FIORI, SAP UI5, AMDP, SAP SD, SAP FICO and S4 HANA Emedded analytics
- Act as product owner and represent the product vision, strategy and priorities in the area of production operations.
- Work closely with the members of the area including developers, analysts and QA to ensure the successful delivery of logistics features and improvements.
- Lead the process design and lead the build team for the SAP implementation (EU countries) and post-merger integration in SAP PP, QM, MM, APO and SD modules.
- Implemented and optimized MRP Live (MD01N) for multiple plants, improving planning runtime
- Worked with business users to transition from classic MRP to MRP Live
- Implemented SAP QM module, including quality planning and inspection lot processing, resulting in a 20% improvement in product quality compliance.
- Developed and tested custom reports using SAP Query and ABAP for MES data analytics, improving visibility into yield rates and resource utilization.
- Translate production requirements into clear and actionable user stories, acceptance criteria and technical specifications.
- Skilled in discrete, and process/manufacturing (PP-PI) environments; deep understanding of master data, production & process orders, recipe management, batch management, capacity & scheduling, shop floor control, and integration with QM, MM, EWM, MES.
- Worked in Variant configuration (VC)
- Supported international rollouts and transformation projects for SAP PP, QM, PPDS, aATP, EWM, and Variant Configuration within a global strategy.
- Tested functionalities for various business scenarios include interface systems
- Involved in SIT and UAT and cutover activities
Technology: Project Management, SAP PP, QM, MM, APO, ABAP OO, HANA Modelling, FIORI, SAP UI5, AMDP, SAP SD, SAP FICO and S4 HANA Emedded analytics
Serge Driendl-Struß
SAP S/4HANA Key Account Support, Training & Prototyping
Last position:
Solution Architect Manufacturing (PS, PP, PEO, PLM, PM/EAM) at EFW – Elbe Flugzeugwerke / Airbus
- Focus on aircraft conversion, MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) & production processes.
- Development of a PEO prototype (architecture, customizing) with a focus on Change Record and Manufacturing.
Serge Driendl-Struß
SAP S/4HANA Key Account Support, Training & Prototyping
Last position:
Solution Architect Manufacturing (PS, PP, PEO, PLM, PM/EAM) at EFW – Elbe Flugzeugwerke / Airbus
- Focus on aircraft conversion, MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) & production processes.
- Development of a PEO prototype (architecture, customizing) with a focus on Change Record and Manufacturing.
- Focus on aircraft conversion, MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) & production processes.
- Development of a PEO prototype (architecture, customizing) with a focus on Change Record and Manufacturing.
Aleksander Bjelovic
Freelance Principal Solution Architect – Production Digitization with SAP and AI
Last position:
SAP S/4HANA Solution Architect Logistics at Teckentrup GmbH & Co.KG
Main project lead and consultant for the ePPDS rollout
- Role: Lead consultant for the ePPDS rollout, main project lead for the ePPDS rollout
- Project content: 4) Carried out the pre-project for selecting the detailed planning tool 5) Project planning and team staffing for the ePPDS rollout 6) Solution architect for the digital process landscape around digital production
Technologies: Consulting, project management, customizing
Aleksander Bjelovic
Freelance Principal Solution Architect – Production Digitization with SAP and AI
Last position:
SAP S/4HANA Solution Architect Logistics at Teckentrup GmbH & Co.KG
Main project lead and consultant for the ePPDS rollout
- Role: Lead consultant for the ePPDS rollout, main project lead for the ePPDS rollout
Main project lead and consultant for the ePPDS rollout
- Role: Lead consultant for the ePPDS rollout, main project lead for the ePPDS rollout
- Project content: 4) Carried out the pre-project for selecting the detailed planning tool 5) Project planning and team staffing for the ePPDS rollout 6) Solution architect for the digital process landscape around digital production
Technologies: Consulting, project management, customizing
- Project content: 4) Carried out the pre-project for selecting the detailed planning tool 5) Project planning and team staffing for the ePPDS rollout 6) Solution architect for the digital process landscape around digital production
Technologies: Consulting, project management, customizing
Benjamin Nitsche
Solution Engineer
Last position:
Solution Engineer at Braun & Coesfeld Consulting GmbH
- Support for a FEPA implementation project as Solution Engineer
- Process definition and progress documentation
- Documentation of processes
- Interface design and development testing
- Migration coordination
- Cross-process definition for MTO/MTS
- Design of MES integration (MES Hydra X)
- Design, system testing and interface design
- Coordination of consultants
- Change management
Benjamin Nitsche
Solution Engineer
Last position:
Solution Engineer at Braun & Coesfeld Consulting GmbH
- Support for a FEPA implementation project as Solution Engineer
- Process definition and progress documentation
- Documentation of processes
- Interface design and development testing
- Migration coordination
- Support for a FEPA implementation project as Solution Engineer
- Process definition and progress documentation
- Documentation of processes
- Interface design and development testing
- Migration coordination
- Cross-process definition for MTO/MTS
- Design of MES integration (MES Hydra X)
- Design, system testing and interface design
- Coordination of consultants
- Change management
- Cross-process definition for MTO/MTS
- Design of MES integration (MES Hydra X)
- Design, system testing and interface design
- Coordination of consultants
- Change management
Kamuran Duman
SAP SCM Consultant Second Level MM and PP & SAP Coaching and Training
Last position:
SAP SCM Consultant Second Level MM and PP & SAP Coaching and Training at Currenta GmbH & Co. OHG
- Functional consulting in SAP SCM
- Consulting on master data for vendors, materials, etc.
- Message, pricing, and credit memo procedures in purchasing
- IDoc interfaces for inbound and outbound processing
- Debugging, reporting, SAP queries
- Error analysis and resolution
- Process optimizations in MM, SD, and PM
- Consulting/support in creating and planning orders in PM
- Analysis of existing purchasing/procurement processes regarding integration and migration to the existing SAP MM system
- Development of a migration concept based on the prior analysis for subsequent migration to SAP MM
- SAP PP – MRP demand planning
Kamuran Duman
SAP SCM Consultant Second Level MM and PP & SAP Coaching and Training
Last position:
SAP SCM Consultant Second Level MM and PP & SAP Coaching and Training at Currenta GmbH & Co. OHG
- Functional consulting in SAP SCM
- Consulting on master data for vendors, materials, etc.
- Message, pricing, and credit memo procedures in purchasing
- IDoc interfaces for inbound and outbound processing
- Debugging, reporting, SAP queries
- Error analysis and resolution
- Process optimizations in MM, SD, and PM
- Functional consulting in SAP SCM
- Consulting on master data for vendors, materials, etc.
- Message, pricing, and credit memo procedures in purchasing
- IDoc interfaces for inbound and outbound processing
- Debugging, reporting, SAP queries
- Error analysis and resolution
- Process optimizations in MM, SD, and PM
- Consulting/support in creating and planning orders in PM
- Analysis of existing purchasing/procurement processes regarding integration and migration to the existing SAP MM system
- Development of a migration concept based on the prior analysis for subsequent migration to SAP MM
- SAP PP – MRP demand planning
- Consulting/support in creating and planning orders in PM
- Analysis of existing purchasing/procurement processes regarding integration and migration to the existing SAP MM system
- Development of a migration concept based on the prior analysis for subsequent migration to SAP MM
- SAP PP – MRP demand planning
Pierre Fokom
SAP PP & MES Consultant
Last position:
SAP PP & MES Consultant at Rohde und Schwarz
- Integration of SAP in MES Opcenter
- Design specification for SAP connection
- Interface development between SAP ERP and Teamcenter
- Integration of Teamcenter solution BOM administration
- Technologies: SAP PP/PI, MES Opcenter, Mulsoft, PLSQL, Java, REST API, SQL
Pierre Fokom
SAP PP & MES Consultant
Last position:
SAP PP & MES Consultant at Rohde und Schwarz
- Integration of SAP in MES Opcenter
- Design specification for SAP connection
- Interface development between SAP ERP and Teamcenter
- Integration of Teamcenter solution BOM administration
- Integration of SAP in MES Opcenter
- Design specification for SAP connection
- Interface development between SAP ERP and Teamcenter
- Integration of Teamcenter solution BOM administration
- Technologies: SAP PP/PI, MES Opcenter, Mulsoft, PLSQL, Java, REST API, SQL
- Technologies: SAP PP/PI, MES Opcenter, Mulsoft, PLSQL, Java, REST API, SQL
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SAP PP Consultants statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
20 years
Position duration
1.7 years
Positions per freelancer
17
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Production
Top industries
Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Production, Quality Assurance
Bachelor's degree or higher
80%
Master's degree or higher
60%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
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Frequently Asked Questions
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An SAP PP Consultant designs and supports production planning processes in SAP. That usually means mapping the business process, setting up planning logic, cleaning master data, and helping with testing and go-live. In manufacturing projects, they also make sure production orders, capacity, and material availability work together in practice.
Look for a mix of SAP configuration skill and real production process understanding. A good consultant knows MRP, master data, routings, BOMs, work centers, and how PP connects to MM, SD, and QM. Communication matters just as much, because the best results come from clear workshops with planners and plant users.
An SAP PP Consultant usually owns the SAP design and configuration side, while a key user represents the plant or planning team and validates the process from the business side. A business analyst may document requirements across several functions without doing the SAP build itself. In many projects these roles work closely, but the consultant is the one who turns process needs into working SAP settings.
A freelancer makes sense when the need is tied to a rollout, upgrade, plant takeover, issue fix, or short-term gap in the team. SAP PP consultants are often brought in for focused delivery, where speed and hands-on experience matter more than long-term staffing. If the workload is temporary or highly specialized, a freelancer is usually the better fit.
Much of the analysis, configuration, and testing can be done remotely. On-site work helps during plant workshops, cutover, training, and go-live support, especially when the project touches shop floor teams. In Germany, many companies use a hybrid setup so the consultant can stay close to the factory when needed.
Production-heavy companies in Germany often need SAP PP support in automotive, industrial manufacturing, consumer goods, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. These projects usually involve complex planning rules, strict master data, and close coordination between central IT and local plants. The consultant should understand both SAP and the realities of factory operations.
Ask for project examples that show real production planning work, not just system knowledge. A strong SAP PP Consultant can explain how they handled master data, planning issues, testing, and user adoption without vague language. Good signs are clear thinking, structured documentation, and practical answers about how they solved problems in live plants.
Some do, but not all. SAP PP consultants who work with process manufacturing should know PP-PI, batch-relevant master data, and the specific way process orders differ from discrete production orders. If your project includes process industries, make sure the consultant has direct PP-PI experience, not just general PP knowledge.
The average hourly rate for SAP PP Consultants in Germany is 105 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 842 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as SAP PP Consultants in Germany, 80% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 60% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers working as SAP PP Consultants in Germany have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as SAP PP Consultants in Germany are German (100%), English (100%), and French (18%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as SAP PP Consultants in Germany are Manufacturing (91%), Information Technology (82%), and Automotive (45%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as SAP PP Consultants in Germany are Information Technology (100%), Operations (100%), and Production (100%).
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