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

Work arrangement
Hybrid