SAP IBP Consultant

Job Description

SELECCIÓN Consulting, a leading SAP consulting firm, represents innovation in SAP services. Our mission is to be your partner of choice for digital needs. SELECCIÓN excels in advisory, projects, managed services, and staff augmentation. With the introduction of RISE, we enhance your digital experience, providing speed, agility, and cost efficiency for maximum returns on your digital investments.

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

Strong 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.

SELECCION CONSULTING LLC is an equal opportunity employer, providing equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.