Job Description
ROLE: SAP IBP Lead S and OP
Role Description
- IBP Lead S and OP is responsible for
- Designing and helping build successful implementations of SAP IBP in customer organizations.
- Liaising with Sales and Delivery Teams to help grow the Services.
- Business around IBP in line with Organizational strategy and goals.
- Mentoring Junior IBP Team members within the Organization.
- Drive Assist with building Assets and Accelerators within SAP IBP.
- No of Implementations At least Two End to End IBP implementations not including Rollouts Mandatory.
Qualifications And Experience
- Qualification Graduate in Engineering, Post Graduate MBA, MTech, MS in Operations Management SCM preferred.
- Mandatory Ten Plus years of Supply Chain Planning Experience with at least 3 years in SAP IBP.
- Desirable Experience in SAP APO or other Planning solutions would be an added advantage.
PROCESS KNOWLEDGE
- Deep Process understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain planning familiarity expertise with SCOR model is preferred technology agnostic.
- Expertise in at least two industries eg, CPG, Chemical, Automotive, Life Sciences etc.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
- Good level of understanding of all modules of SAP IBP with expertise in IBP for Sales and Operations Planning.
- Deep knowledge and experience in end to end IBP implementation projects in Process and Discrete industries.
- Ability to lead and conduct Design workshops in front of an audience comprising of both Business and IT teams.
- Ability to conduct User Acceptance testing and Business user training sessions.
- Ability to work on complex configuration scenarios, create planning areas, define key figure calculations, create planning view, application jobs and other set up required to build S and OP.
- Deep knowledge on Statistical Forecast algorithms, Product segmentation and Driver based planning.
- Deep knowledge in S and OP Heuristic algorithm and other functionalities like Forecast consumption.
- Very good understanding of ECC Master data and Transaction data from planning standpoint along with writing specifications for CPI tasks.
- Basic understanding of SAP PP or SD.
Soft Skills
- Excellent communication skills verbal as well as written.
- Positive attitude with the flexibility and maturity to work in a challenging client environment.
- Conduct trainings and be a mentor for junior IBP team members.
VALUE CREATION
- Ability to devise and lead Go To Market strategies for IBP to assist Sales and Alliance teams in expanding Bristlecone's IBP footprint globally.
- Build Assets and Accelerators to reduce the overall cost to serve.
