SAP IBP Consultant S/4HANA Transformation

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced SAP IBP Consultant with strong hands-on experience in SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and its integration with SAP S/4HANA. The consultant will be responsible for supporting IBP implementation/transformation initiatives, designing planning solutions, configuring IBP modules, and working closely with business and technical teams to deliver integrated supply-chain planning solutions.

The ideal candidate should have strong knowledge of Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Response & Supply, Inventory Planning, IBP for Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and integration between SAP IBP and S/4HANA.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in SAP IBP implementation, rollout, enhancement and transformation projects.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand supply-chain planning requirements and translate them into SAP IBP solutions.
• Configure and support SAP IBP planning areas, key figures, attributes, time profiles, planning levels and planning operators.
• Design and implement planning processes covering:
• Demand Planning
• Supply Planning
• Response & Supply
• Inventory Planning
• S&OP
• Configure and support SAP IBP Excel Add-In and planning views.
• Develop and maintain SAP IBP integration with SAP S/4HANA.
• Work with integration technologies such as CPI-DS / SAP Integration Suite, as applicable.
• Support data integration between S/4HANA and IBP, including master data and transactional data.
• Analyze and resolve integration, planning and data-reconciliation issues.
• Work with functional teams across SD, MM, PP, APO/SAP IBP and S/4HANA wherever required.
• Participate in requirement gathering, solution design, configuration, testing and deployment.
• Prepare functional specifications and technical/functional documentation.
• Conduct unit testing, integration testing, UAT and defect resolution.
• Support data migration, cutover and go-live activities.
• Provide post-go-live support and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate with offshore/onshore teams and business stakeholders.

Mandatory Skills

• 5+ years of overall SAP experience, with significant hands-on experience in SAP IBP.
• Strong hands-on experience in SAP IBP implementation/support/transformation projects.
• Good knowledge of SAP IBP Demand Planning and Supply Planning.
• Strong understanding of IBP planning areas, planning levels, key figures, attributes and time profiles.
• Experience with IBP S&OP / Response & Supply.
• Good understanding of SAP S/4HANA business processes.
• Hands-on experience integrating SAP IBP with SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience with master-data and transactional-data integration.
• Good understanding of supply-chain planning processes.
• Experience in requirements gathering, configuration, testing and production support.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills

• SAP IBP certification.
• Experience with SAP CPI / Integration Suite / CPI-DS.
• Knowledge of SAP ECC to S/4HANA migration/transformation.
• Experience with SAP APO.
• Knowledge of SAP PP, MM and SD integration.
• Experience with IBP Demand Sensing.
• Knowledge of Inventory Optimization.
• Experience with IBP Supply Planning / Response & Supply.
• Knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
• Experience with SAP Fiori.
• Exposure to SAP S/4HANA Public or Private Cloud.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

S/4HANA Transformation Experience

The candidate should ideally have experience in projects involving:

SAP S/4HANA → Integration Layer → SAP IBP

with understanding of:

• S/4HANA master data
• Material/Product master
• Customer/location master
• BOM and production-related data
• Stock and inventory data
• Sales orders / demand
• Purchase orders
• Production orders
• Planned orders
• Supply and demand integration
• Data validation and reconciliation
• Integration monitoring and error handling