ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a hands-on Consultant / Subject Matter Expert engagement supporting an enterprise client’s live SAP IBP Demand environment. The scope covers configuration, enhancement and troubleshooting across statistical forecasting, demand sensing and consensus demand processes, integrated with SAP S/4HANA, ECC, APO and BW via CPI-DS.

This is not a solution architecture or programme leadership role. The client’s technical evaluation is deliberately hands-on: candidates are tested on configuration detail — specific profiles, methods and fields — rather than on approach, governance or stakeholder management. Candidates who answer at a design-authority level, however experienced, have not converted at this client.

CRITICAL DIFFERENTIATOR — READ BEFORE SUBMITTING

"SAP IBP" as a bare CV skill line is not enough for this client. Every submission must show module-level detail: which specific IBP Demand modules the candidate has configured (Demand Planning, Demand Sensing, S&OP;), what they personally built — forecast model structure, outlier correction settings, key figure and attribute configuration, realignment rules — and how recent that hands-on work is.

Profiles that read as broad SAP planning experience without demand-specific configuration depth are being filtered out at interview regardless of total years of experience. Do not submit on the strength of a skill tag alone — confirm module-level depth at pre-screen first.

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED

Core — Mandatory:

- Deep, recent hands-on SAP IBP Demand Planning experience, from named production projects
- Statistical forecasting model configuration: full model structure (pre-processing, forecasting, post-processing), model selection logic, and forecast error measures (MAPE, bias, forecast value added)
- Outlier correction configuration,



including handling genuine seasonal peaks without losing real demand signal
- Key figure and attribute configuration: attribute transformation versus attribute as a key figure, and realignment rules (including which key figure types can be used)
- Planning area and planning level design, master data types and attributes, copy operators
- Integration between SAP IBP and SAP S/4HANA, ECC, APO and BW via CPI-DS
- 8+ years total SAP demand / supply chain planning experience across APO and/or IBP

Advantageous:

- Demand sensing configuration and short-term forecast override judgement (for example, distinguishing a genuine spike from a prior-year order pattern distortion)
- Analytical stories / dashboard build, including performance tuning on large data volumes
- Working conceptual knowledge of SAP IBP Supply / OBP / Time Series — enough to explain how the demand plan feeds supply
- Experience operating in a ticket-driven AMS / support setting, including P1/P2/P4 incident triage
- SAP IBP certification — valued alongside production delivery evidence, not as a substitute for it

CANDIDATE PROFILE

- Comfortable working as a hands-on Consultant / SME — configuring, diagnosing and fixing issues directly, not advising from a distance
- Able to speak to their own work at configuration and field level, not only at process or approach level
- Genuine hands-on SAP IBP Demand delivery within the last 12 months, not only historical or APO-era experience
- Available for a structured technical evaluation call (45–60 minutes) followed by a client-facing round if successful
- Willing to work offshore with some overlap into US hours for priority incident support

HOW TO APPLY

- Submit CV with explicit IBP module-level detail — not a bare skill tag — covering what was configured and how recently
- Include current availability, notice period, and confirmation of no competing representation for this requirement
- Email submissions to [email protected]

📌 SAP IBP Consultant - Demand Planning (India)
🏢 FinTribes
📍 India