Thoucentric - IBP Consultant - Implementation & Enhancement

Role Summary: -

The role requires individuals to design, configure, test and coordinate IBP projects across various business and geographies. The ideal candidate for this role needs to be an excellent Supply Chain functional consultant with experience in managing business process re-engineering through configuration within sophisticated IT tool to deliver results, adhering to cost and project delivery timelines.

The role would need individuals to gradually pick up both functional and technical aspects of supply chain technologies that are currently used by client or other market standard technologies recommended by us to the client.

Over time, we expect the individual to grow into leading project teams - in supply chain technology implementations or non-technology based supply chain improvement projects.

Job Description:

Experience: - Experience in SAP IBP modules; Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Inventory Planning. Master data in ECC & APO, Integration with other systems (SAP & NON-SAP);

1) Experience in Supply chain, Demand & Supply planning is mandatory

2) Support/Implementation/Roll out experience in IBP or APO is essential. Trained in APO or end user role in APO will not work

3) Configuration experience is essential either in IBP or APO or HCI (Hana Cloud Integration)

4) Good knowledge of statistics, forecast modeling, forecast strategy, Planning & Analysis

5) Good knowledge on Master data integration aspects

6) Knowledge in heuristics, Optimizer is must

7) IBP Experience required: 1 - 2 years or else should have APO experience of 2 - 3 years

8) Should be able to manage different phases of the Project - Analysis, Kick-off,, Design, BPR, Build, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression testing, Cut-over, Go-Live, Post Go-Live Support & Enhancements

9) Should be able to manage the documentation required in different phase of the Project

10) FMCG experience will be added advantage

11) Ability to manage conformity to established procedures & processes

12) Trained/experienced in emerging tools like S4/HANA is added advantage

13) Trained/experienced in NON-SAP tool like Anaplan/Kinaxis/JDA is added advantage

14) APICS certification is added advantage

Interpersonal Expertise

- Client facing role

- Ability to work with different geographies (esp. US)

- Ability to work independently

- Ability to be flexible with scope of work

- Ability to work with other Vendor Partners & On-site teams

Behavioral Competencies:

- Excellent communication skills

- Ready to accept new challenges and ready to move into newer technologies if required

Technical Competencies

- Technical skills from a wide range including MS Excel, MS PowerPoint & MS Access

- Fluent English (speaking, reading and writing)