Senior Consultant, SAP IBP, Supply Chain Planning

As an SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Functional Consultant, your role will involve:

• Delivery of SAP enabled transformation programmes – specialising in SAP IBP solutions for supply chain planning processes

• Develop and manage implementation plans that maximise the potential of SAP technology whilst minimising implementation risk

• Designing end-to-end solutions and ensure deliverables are consistent with design principles, standards and methodologies

• Lead client workshops covering a range of topics including; process design, industry best practices and bring SME knowledge in SAP IBP across supply chain planning processes

• Support pre-sales conversations with the clients and helping to shape a vision of their supply chain planning transformation journey roadmap

• Build client relationships with senior stakeholders

• Lead or participate in practice development activities which support sales activities and internal capability development Facilitate high-level and detailed design workshops for your functional area; collecting business requirements and mapping out business processes

• Strong functional expertise in SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) solutions including demand planning, sales and operations planning, supply planning, inventory optimization and control tower capabilities.

• Prior expertise in configuring SAP IBP integrating with S/4 HANA environment.

• Strong knowledge of the supply chain planning process, and associated SAP execution modules such as SAP Materials Management, Production Planning and Sales & Distribution.

• Knowledge of integrations between the SAP IBP and S/4 HANA via CPI layer, along with the mapping understanding Ability to design and build system solution for planning functions on SAP IBP based on functional & business requirements including supply and demand process flows, hands-on configuration of planning area, master data attributes, copy operators and key figures.

• Experience of having managing SAP IBP workstreams on transformation programmes with teams based in different working locations.

• Experience of delivering SAP IBP solutions as part of a transformation programme.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a deep understanding of supply chain planning processes and data.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a deep understanding of supply chain planning processes and data analytics.

• Excellent stakeholder management.

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) working with client stakeholders to development teams.

Desirables

• SAP certification in Integrated Business Planning (IBP) (or equivalent).

• Experience working with Real Time Integration (RTI) & Order Based Planning (OBP).

• Strong understanding of IBP Supply Optimizer and Cost Model setup.

• Functional consultant on at least 2 full-lifecycle SAP IBP implementations.

• Experience in presenting to clients or other decision makers.

• Aware of recent SAP IBP innovations and roadmap.

• Experience of Agile working practices on an SAP implementation, along with planning of activities during the project.