Job Title: SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Consultant/Architect

Location: Offshore (India)

Position: Full Time

Pay Rate: (Good in INR/Month)

We are seeking an experienced SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Consultant/Architect with strong expertise across Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Order-Based Planning (OBP), and Network Optimization.

Responsibilities

- Lead the design, configuration, implementation, and support of SAP IBP solutions.
- Work with business stakeholders to understand current planning processes, identify gaps, and design scalable IBP solutions.

Configure and support SAP IBP for Demand, including:

- Statistical forecasting
- Demand sensing
- Consensus demand planning
- Forecast models
- Forecast accuracy and bias analysis
- Product and customer segmentation
- Demand review processes
- Configure and support SAP IBP for Supply, including:
- Supply planning
- Capacity planning
- Constraint-based planning
- Production and distribution planning
- Supply allocation
- Deployment
- Supply balancing

Design and support Order-Based Planning (OBP) processes, including:

- Response and supply planning
- Order-level pegging
- Prioritization
- Confirmation strategies
- Allocation
- Supply protection
- Deployment and replenishment
- Design and implement Network Optimization solutions across plants, warehouses, distribution centers, and customer locations.
- Model sourcing, production, transportation, capacity, and inventory constraints across the supply network.
- Optimize product flow across manufacturing plants, distribution centers, and customer locations.
- Support scenario planning and what-if analysis to evaluate supply, demand, capacity, and network alternatives.
- Work with business teams to define planning horizons, time profiles, planning levels, key figures, attributes, and planning operators.

Configure and maintain:

- Planning areas
- Master data types
- Key figures
- Planning levels
- Time profiles
- Copy operators
- Forecasting algorithms
- Supply planning operators




- Alerts and exception management
- Support integration between SAP IBP and SAP S/4HANA, including master and transactional data.
- Work with SAP Cloud Integration for Data Services (CI-DS) and other integration technologies.
- Collaborate with teams supporting SAP PP, MM, SD, APO, EWM, TM, and S/4HANA.
- Lead workshops, solution design sessions, fit-gap analysis, and process harmonization activities.
- Support data migration, testing, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and post-production support.
- Prepare functional specifications, solution design documents, configuration documents, test scripts, and training materials.
- Troubleshoot complex planning, integration, master data, and performance-related issues.
- Mentor junior team members and provide functional leadership across IBP workstreams.

Required Qualifications

- 8+ years of SAP Supply Chain Planning experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on SAP IBP experience.
- Strong implementation experience with:
- SAP IBP for Demand
- SAP IBP for Supply
- Order-Based Planning (OBP)
- Network Optimization
- Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain planning processes.
- Experience with statistical forecasting and demand planning.
- Strong knowledge of constrained and unconstrained supply planning.
- Experience with supply network modeling and optimization.
- Strong knowledge of production, capacity, sourcing, distribution, and inventory planning.
- Experience configuring SAP IBP planning areas, key figures, master data, planning levels, and operators.
- Strong experience integrating SAP IBP with SAP S/4HANA.
- Experience with CI-DS or other SAP integration technologies.




- At least one full lifecycle SAP IBP implementation.
- Strong analytical, communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Demand Planning Experience The candidate should have strong experience in:
- Statistical forecasting
- Demand sensing
- Consensus forecasting
- Forecast model selection
- Forecast accuracy
- Forecast bias
- New product introduction
- Product segmentation
- Customer demand planning
- Demand review cycles
- Sales and Operations Planning / Integrated Business Planning processes

Supply Planning Experience

Robust expertise should include

- Unconstrained and constrained supply planning
- Production planning
- Capacity planning
- Supply allocation
- Deployment
- Distribution requirements planning
- Inventory balancing
- Supply-demand matching
- Bottleneck analysis
- What-if scenario planning
- Production and transportation constraints

Order-Based Planning Experience

Hands-on experience with SAP IBP OBP should include:

- Response and Supply
- Order-level planning
- Supply confirmation
- Pegging
- Prioritization
- Allocations
- Supply protection
- Deployment
- Stock transfer planning
- Real-time or near-real-time order visibility
- Integration with S/4HANA transactional data

Network Optimization Experience The candidate should have experience designing and optimizing multi-level supply networks involving:
- Manufacturing plants
- Contract manufacturers
- Distribution centers
- Warehouses
- Suppliers
- Customers
- Transportation lanes
- Production capacities
- Sourcing alternatives
- Inventory positioning

Experience with cost-based optimization, sourcing optimization, capacity optimization, and network scenario modeling is highly desirable. Regards,

Subash

ERP Initiatives Group Inc.

Email: [email protected]

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