Sr. SAP IBP Business Systems Analyst

Job Description

Role: Sr. SAP IBP Business Systems Analyst

Location: Greensboro, NC or Hillsboro, OR – Hybrid

Type: Contract

 

Looking for a big picture and experienced IT Sr. SAP Business Systems Analyst in IBP solution as a key contributor for the business transformation leveraging SAP S/4 HANA, IBP S&OP/Demand/Control Tower/Inventory/Response and Supply

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Experience implementing SAP IBP modules in complex ERP (SAP/S/4 Hana) landscape is required

Conduct client workshops and translate business requirements into SAP IBP Based design

Optimize business plans with effectively balancing demand, supply and inventory; increasing speed and agility of planning process, enabled real-time collaboration between business functions. Must be able to configure IBP Process Templates to allow business to develop Budgets/Latest Estimates (LE), run simulations and model constraints at various aggregation/planning levels. Configure complex calculations using Period Attribute Transformation. Experience with EPM Sheet Formatting and Custom Alerts

Must be able to configure of advanced statistical forecasting models including Gradient boosting for improvement of forecast accuracy

 

QUALIFICATIONS:         

Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or Business

10+ years of working in IT projects as a IT Business Analyst in Integrated Business Planning or Supply Chain Planning role

Deep experience in SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) – S&OP/Demand/Control Tower/Inventory/Response and Supply

Expertise in Demand Sensing, modeling external downstream demand signals such as POS / Retail Store level data for deployment decis

Expertise in IBP Inventory, Optimized multi-stage inventory targets across network to improve customer service levels considering demand/supply variability, cost factors, lead times and other constraints. Inventory

Expertise in IBP Inventory and Control Tower

Expertise in Integration – Cloud Platform Integration (CPI)– Agent configuration, data services, webservices, datastores, importing metadata etc. Smart Data Integration (SDI) configuration for Order Data integration between S/4 and IBP

Must be able to configure SAP FIORI based launchpads, apps and tiles

Excel UI – Must be able to configure and develop templates with custom planning views/key figures/layouts/filters/alerts for business user

Experience with other integrated business planning systems and tools, such as SAP APO, Kinaxis, Anaplan is a plus