SAP IBP Consultant

Quantum Integrators; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Integrators seeks an experienced SAP IBP Consultant to lead end-to-end IBP solutions across supply/demand planning, inventory optimization, and S&OP. The role requires translating business needs into scalable IBP designs and coordinating with business users and technical teams.

The candidate should possess strong SAP IBP configuration experience, mastery of planning objects, and proven stakeholder management. UK shift timings imply global coordination and mature delivery practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline.
• 8+ years of SAP supply chain planning experience with significant hands-on SAP IBP experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with SAP IBP configuration and implementation.
• Strong understanding of demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning, and S&OP processes.
• Experience translating business requirements into SAP IBP solution designs.
• Strong knowledge of SAP IBP planning objects, key figures, planning levels, planning operators, and planning areas.
• Experience with SAP IBP integration and data flows with SAP ERP/SAP S/4HANA and other systems.
• Experience in full lifecycle SAP IBP implementations or major transformation programs.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead SAP IBP assessment and solutioning discussion.
• Implementations, rollouts, enhancements, and support engagements across the supply chain planning landscape.
• Gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into effective SAP IBP solutions.
• Design and configure SAP IBP modules, including S&OP, forecasting, inventory planning and optimization, and supply planning.
• Configure planning operators, application jobs, alerts, and key figure calculations.
• Support integration between SAP IBP and SAP/non-SAP systems.
• Lead workshops with business users and senior stakeholders to identify gaps and future-state processes.
• Develop functional specifications and collaborate with technical teams on extensions, reports, and automation.

Skills

SAP IBP functional expertise

Supply chain planning

Demand and supply planning

Inventory optimization

Solution architecture and design

Business requirements analysis

SAP integration

Data analysis and troubleshooting

Consulting and communication

Leadership and mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline

Tools

SAP IBP

SAP S/4HANA

SAP ECC

SAP APO

SAP PP/DS

SAP BW

SAP IBP Excel Add-In

CPI-DS

SAP Integration Suite

Job description

Company Profile: Quantum Integrators is an international strategy and business consulting group whose mission is to help clients create and sustain competitive advantage. As a truly client-focused firm, our highly trained and experienced consultants consider it their mandate to help client organizations achieve a quantum state.

Position : SAP IBP Consultant

Duration: Full time

Shift: UK Shift (04.00 PM - 01.00 AM IST)

Job Description:

Position Overview:

We are seeking an experienced SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Consultant to lead and deliver end-to-end SAP IBP solutions across supply planning, demand planning, inventory optimization, and S&OP processes.

The ideal candidate will combine strong SAP IBP functional expertise with a solid understanding of supply chain planning processes and the ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, high-performing planning solutions. This role will work closely with business stakeholders, solution architects, SAP teams, and technical teams to deliver transformation initiatives and continuously improve planning capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead SAP IBP assessment and solutioning discussion
• Implementations, rollouts, enhancements, and support engagements across the supply chain planning landscape.
• Gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into effective SAP IBP solutions.
• Design and configure SAP IBP modules, including:

Sales and operations planning (S&OP)

Forecasting and demand management

Inventory planning and optimization

Response and supply planning

Supply chain visibility, where applicable.

• Design planning areas, time profiles, attributes, key figures, master data, planning levels, and aggregation/disaggregation logic.
• Configure and optimize statistical forecasting, demand sensing, supply planning, and inventory planning processes.
• Develop and maintain supply planning models, heuristics, finite planning, optimizer-based planning, and response planning scenarios.
• Configure planning operators, application jobs, alerts, key figure calculations, and exception-based planning.
• Support integration between SAP IBP and SAP/non-SAP systems using appropriate integration technologies and interfaces.
• Work with SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BW, and other enterprise systems to ensure accurate and timely master and transactional data integration.
• Participate in solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Develop functional specifications and collaborate with technical teams on extensions, integrations, reports, and automation.
• Lead workshops with business users and senior stakeholders to understand current processes, identify gaps, and define future-state planning processes.
• Conduct unit testing, integration testing, UAT, defect resolution, and performance optimization.
• Prepare solution documentation, configuration guides, test scripts, training materials, and operational procedures.
• Provide knowledge transfer and mentor junior consultants and business users.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve planning processes, system usability, automation, and supply chain performance.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of SAP supply chain planning experience, with significant hands-on SAP IBP experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with SAP IBP configuration and implementation.
• Strong understanding of demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning, and S&OP processes.
• Experience translating business requirements into SAP IBP solution designs.
• Strong knowledge of SAP IBP planning objects, key figures, planning levels, planning operators, and planning areas.
• Experience with SAP IBP integration and data flows with SAP ERP/SAP S/4HANA and other systems.
• Experience in full lifecycle SAP IBP implementations or major transformation programs.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAP IBP certification.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA and/or SAP ECC.
• Experience with SAP APO, SAP PP/DS, SAP BW, or other SAP supply chain planning solutions.
• Experience with SAP IBP Excel Add-In and planning applications.
• Knowledge of CPI-DS and/or SAP Integration Suite.
• Experience with SAP IBP demand sensing, inventory optimization, or advanced supply planning.
• Experience working in global, multi-country SAP transformation programs.
• Strong knowledge of supply chain KPIs such as forecast accuracy, bias, service level, inventory turns, working capital, and OTIF.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies.
• Ability to lead workshops and communicate effectively with business and executive stakeholders.
• SAP IBP functional expertise
• Supply chain planning
• Demand and supply planning
• Inventory optimization
• Solution architecture and design
• Business requirements analysis
• SAP integration
• Data analysis and troubleshooting
• Consulting and communication
• Leadership and mentoring

Success Measures:

• Success in this role will be measured by the ability to:
• Ability to discuss and assess the process and current IBP set up Across

1. End-to-End Supply Planning Process Assessment

2. Supply Planning Accuracy & Trust in Recommendations

3. Inventory Strategy & Warehouse Balancing

4. Safety Stock & Inventory Target Methodology

5. Forecast Consumption & Demand Integration

7. Alignment Between Current Business Processes and IBP Capabilities

8. Operational KPI Review

• Recommend best practice, improved approach to resolve business concerns.
• Deliver SAP IBP solutions on time and within agreed quality standards.
• Improve demand, supply, and inventory planning processes.
• Increase forecast accuracy and planning efficiency.
• Improve supply chain visibility and responsiveness.
• Reduce manual planning activities through automation and standardization.
• Drive successful adoption of SAP IBP among business users.
• Deliver measurable improvements in service levels, inventory performance, and planning productivity.