Job Title: Kinaxis Solution Consultant

Job Location: India remote

Job Duration: 9 months

Required Experience

• 8+ years of overall experience implementing enterprise Supply Chain Planning solutions.

• 5+ years of hands-on Kinaxis RapidResponse implementation experience.

- Proven experience delivering:

o Full lifecycle implementations o Enhancements o Global rollouts o Proof of Concepts (POCs)

- Experience working directly in configuration and development capacities within Kinaxis.
- Experience supporting global planning organizations and complex supply chains.
- Strong understanding of supply chain planning processes within large multinational manufacturing or CPG organizations.

Experience as a Kinaxis end user or superuser alone does not qualify as implementation experience.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Design & Implementation

- Design, configure, develop, and implement Kinaxis RapidResponse solutions aligned with global business requirements.
- Lead business process discovery sessions, workshops, and solution design discussions for supply chain planning initiatives.
- Analyze current-state ("As-Is") planning processes and develop future-state ("To-Be") solution architectures.
- Create and maintain:

o Solution Design Documents (SDD), o Functional Design Specifications, o Technical Design Documentation, Data Mapping Documents o Testing and Deployment Plans
- Configure planning models, calculations, scenarios, alerts, dashboards, and data structures within Kinaxis.
- Support full project lifecycle activities, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, hypercare, and ongoing support.

Kinaxis Development & Configuration
- Develop and configure solutions within Kinaxis RapidResponse.
- Build and maintain:

o Workbooks, o Worksheets, o Control Sets, o Alerts, o Measures, o Metrics, o Scenarios, o Dashboards, o Supply Planning Models, o Demand Planning Models,
- Implement advanced planning logic and business rules supporting:





o Inventory optimization, o Capacity planning, o Supply balancing, o Material planning, o Production planning, o Demand fulfillment
- Troubleshoot and optimize existing Kinaxis configurations and performance.

Integration & Data Management

- Design and support integrations between Kinaxis and enterprise applications including:

o SAP S/4HANA, o SAP ECC, o SAP APO (where applicable), o SAP BW, Azure Data Services, o Enterprise Data Warehouses o Third-party supply chain applications

- Develop and troubleshoot inbound and outbound data integrations.
- Work closely with integration teams to ensure data accuracy, timeliness, and completeness.
- Support master data governance and planning data quality initiatives.

Business Partnership & Stakeholder Engagement

- Collaborate with global business teams across:

o Supply Planning, o Demand Planning, o Procurement, o Manufacturing, o Logistics, o Customer Supply Chain, o Finance
- Provide recommendations based on supply chain planning best practices and industry standards.
- Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders on planning process improvements and technology adoption.
- Facilitate executive and operational workshops to align business processes with system capabilities.
- Translate business requirements into scalable Kinaxis solutions.

Testing & Deployment

- Define testing strategies and coordinate:

o System Integration Testing (SIT), o User Acceptance Testing (UAT), o Regression Testing, o Production Validation
- Support release planning, deployment activities, and post-go-live stabilization.




- Assist business users during testing cycles and issue resolution.

Required Qualifications

Education

- Bachelor's degree in: o Computer Science o Information Systems o Supply Chain Management o Engineering o Related discipline
- Master's Degree, MBA, or Supply Chain specialization preferred.

• Proven experience delivering:

o Full lifecycle implementations, o Enhancements, o Global rollouts, o Proof of Concepts (POCs)

- Experience working directly in configuration and development capacities within Kinaxis.
- Experience supporting global planning organizations and complex supply chains.
- Strong understanding of supply chain planning processes within large multinational manufacturing or CPG organizations.

Experience as a Kinaxis end user or superuser alone does not qualify as implementation experience.

Functional Expertise

Solid experience in one or more of the following areas:

Supply Planning, • Inventory Planning, • Capacity Planning, • Production Planning, • Replenishment Planning, • Constraint-Based Planning

Demand Planning

- Statistical Forecasting, • Consensus Forecasting, • Demand Sensing, • Demand Analytics

Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

- Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP;), • Scenario Analysis, • Executive Planning, • Supply/Demand Balancing

Manufacturing & Materials Planning

- MRP, • DRP, • Procurement Planning, • Material Availability Planning

Technical Skills

Kinaxis RapidResponse

- Data Modeling, • Configuration, • Authoring, • Workbooks & Worksheets, • Dashboards, • Alerts & Notifications, • Planning Scenarios, • Analytics & Reporting

ERP & Enterprise Systems

- SAP S/4HANA, • SAP ECC, • SAP BW, • SAP APO (preferred)

Data & Integration

- REST APIs, • ETL Processes, • SQL, • Data Mapping, • Master Data Management

Cloud & Analytics (Preferred)

- Microsoft Azure, • Azure Data Factory, • Azure Synapse, • Power BI

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