SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Consultant required for remote consulting role implementing and optimizing SAP IBP for a food and beverage company.

Strong SAP IBP experience required; supply chain planning and management solutions, demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, sales and operations planning (S&OP).

Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with client to understand their business processes, supply chain requirements, and specific planning challenges.

• Identify and document the client's business needs and objectives related to supply chain planning.

• Design and configure SAP IBP solutions to meet the client's specific requirements.

• Define planning models, hierarchies, and key performance indicators (KPIs).

• Configure and customize the system to align with the client's supply chain planning processes.

• Support the implementation of SAP IBP, including data migration, system integration, and system testing.

• Work with technical teams and developers to ensure successful system integration.

• Set up data models for demand, supply, and inventory planning.

• Configure data integration with various source systems, such as SAP ERP, external databases, and other data sources.

• Define and manage master data for products, customers, suppliers, and locations within the SAP IBP system.

• Configure demand planning processes, including forecasting, promotion planning, and consensus demand planning.

• Implement statistical forecasting methods and demand sensing.

• Configure supply planning processes, including supply network optimization, inventory optimization, and distribution planning.

• Set up scenarios for supply chain simulations and what-if analyses.

• Design and implement S&OP processes to facilitate collaboration and decision-making across different functions within the organization.

• Develop dashboards and reports for S&OP meetings.