Senior Solutions Architect: SAP APO/IBP for Supply Chain

PeopleGateway; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid & Flexible Working

25 Days Annual Leave

Pension: 14.5%

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Job summary

Princes is seeking a Solutions Architect - Supply Chain Planning (SAP APO/IBP) to design and govern the planning technology landscape across demand, supply, production and inventory planning. The role leads architecture for SAP APO, IBP and S/4HANA planning integrations, ensuring scalable and secure solutions aligned with the Princes technology roadmap.

Working closely with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Logistics, Commercial and Finance, you will influence transformation programmes, drive unified

Qualifications

• Extensive SAP Supply Chain Planning experience.
• Strong SAP APO architecture expertise.
• Deep understanding of demand planning, supply planning, production planning, inventory management, forecasting processes and S&OP/IBP processes.
• Experience designing large-scale SAP integrated solutions.
• Strong knowledge of SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA integration patterns.
• Experience creating solution architecture documentation and design artefacts.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience supporting complex transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain end-to-end architecture for Supply Chain Planning solutions.
• Produce solution designs, architecture artefacts, integration models and technical standards.
• Ensure planning solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and strategic technology roadmaps.
• Govern solution design decisions throughout project lifecycles.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical assurance activities.
• Act as principal solution authority for SAP APO.
• Lead architectural decisions across Demand Planning, Supply Network Planning, Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling, Global Available-to-Promise, forecast consumption, safety stock and inventory optimisation.
• Define future-state architecture and roadmap for SAP IBP adoption and expansion.
• Support migration and coexistence strategies between APO, IBP and SAP S/4HANA
• Partner with Supply Chain leadership to understand strategic planning requirements.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Support annual planning, S&OP, forecasting and inventory optimisation initiatives.
• Provide trusted technical leadership to business and project stakeholders.
• Support business process harmonisation across acquired organisations.
• Define integration architecture between planning platforms and SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, Manufacturing Execution Systems, data and analytics platforms, master data solutions and third-party planning tools.
• Ensure robust data quality, master data governance and planning data models.
• Support real-time and batch integration architectures.
• Provide solution architecture leadership on planning transformation initiatives.
• Support business case development and investment proposals.
• Guide project teams through design, build, test and deployment phases.
• Identify technical risks and mitigation plans.
• Support cutover, transition and hypercare activities.
• Ensure compliance with architecture governance standards.
• Support cyber security, resilience and audit requirements.
• Maintain planning application standards and documentation.
• Contribute to IT design authorities and governance forums.
• Planning solution architecture quality
• SAP APO and SAP IBP technology roadmaps
• Integration architecture for planning systems
• Technical design governance
• Planning platform scalability and sustainability
• Alignment to architecture standards
• Reduction of technical debt within planning solutions
• Supportability and long-term maintainability of planning systems

Skills

SAP APO architecture

Demand planning

S/4HANA integration

Stakeholder management

Solution architecture

Tools

SAP APO

SAP IBP

SAP ECC

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Princes is seeking a Solutions Architect - Supply Chain Planning (SAP APO/IBP) to design and govern the planning technology landscape across demand, supply, production and inventory planning. The role leads architecture for SAP APO, IBP and S/4HANA planning integrations, ensuring scalable and secure solutions aligned with the Princes technology roadmap.

Working closely with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Logistics, Commercial and Finance, you will influence transformation programmes, drive unified