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SAP IBP Consultant
VARITE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
- 🇮🇳 India
- On-site
- Mid level
- 20 hours ago
- AI
- SAP
- S/4HANA
- SAP ECC
20 hours ago
About The Client:
Client is a leading digital transformation solutions provider and IT services company with over 30,000 employees across 30+ countries. Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, it helps Fortune 500 and Global 1000 clients with digital, cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and engineering services.
About The Job:
- We are looking for an experienced Entreprise solutions- III - SAP IBP professional to design, configure, and support integrated business planning solutions.
- The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise across core IBP planning processes, with working knowledge of CI-DS/CI for system integration.
- Lead or support end-to-end SAP IBP implementations — requirement gathering, blueprinting, configuration, testing, and go-live support
- Design and configure planning areas, master data structures, key figures, and planning views within SAP IBP
- Configure and optimize forecasting algorithms, supply heuristics, and optimizer settings based on business requirements
- Conduct workshops with business stakeholders to understand planning processes and translate them into IBP configuration
- Perform data validation, exception/ configuration, and performance tuning of planning runs
- Coordinate with technical teams on CI-DS data flows for master, transactional, and time-series data between ECC/S4HANA and IBP
- Support UAT, cutover activities, and post-go-live stabilization
- Prepare functional/technical documentation, training materials, and conduct end-user training
- Troubleshoot and resolve planning-related production issues; provide ongoing application support
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including supply chain, demand planning, and finance
- Order-Based Planning (OBP) Candidates with experience in the following will be given preference:
- Configuring order-based heuristics (constrained/unconstrained), order categories, and order-based attributes
- Setting up sourcing rules and priority profiles for order-driven planning
- Implementing Allocation Planning (quota arrangement/fair-share/priority-based) and ATP/CTP logic
- Handling priority-based order confirmation/re-confirmation during supply shortages
- Understanding of the handoff between time-series (mid/long-term) and order-based (short-term/execution) planning horizons
Mandatory Skills
- 5–7 years of overall SAP experience, with a minimum of 4+ years hands-on in SAP IBP
- Strong, hands-on configuration experience in one or more IBP modules: Demand, Supply Planning, Response, Inventory Optimization, S&OP
- Solid understanding of SAP IBP planning areas, master data types, key figures, planning views, and time profiles
- Experience building and maintaining planning models, algorithms (forecasting models, heuristics, optimizer setup)
- Working knowledge of integrating SAP IBP with SAP ECC/S4HANA via CI/CIDS
- Minimum 1–2 full lifecycle SAP IBP implementations (blueprint through go-live/Hypercare)
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and client-facing communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, IT, or related field
- Strong understanding of SAP IBP core concepts, data model, and planning processes
- Ability to work independently and manage planning workstreams end-to-end
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, comfortable engaging with planners and business leadership
- SAP IBP certification
- Exposure to SAP Advanced ATP (aATP) · Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for planning dashboards
- Prior experience migrating from SAP APO to IBP
- Prior consulting/implementation partner background
- Strong problem-solving mindset for planning process design and issue resolution
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Comfortable engaging directly with supply chain planners and business leadership
- Willingness to work in onsite-offshore deliver
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Experience Level Bonus Referral:
| 0-2 years | INR 5,000 |
| 2-6 years | INR 7,500 |
| 6+ years | INR 10,000 |
About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
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SAP IBP Consultant · VARITE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED