Sr Supply Chain Analyst / SAP IBP Business Process Owner

About the role

The SAP IBP Business Process Owner serves as the primary business superuser and functional expert responsible for SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) across the enterprise. This role ensures SAP IBP effectively supports end-to-end supply chain planning processes including demand, supply, inventory, and S&OP planning. The position partners closely with IT and cross-functional supply chain teams to translate business requirements into system capabilities, drive process standardization, and improve planning performance and adoption.

Responsibilities

• Serve as business superuser and functional lead for SAP IBP (Demand, Supply, Inventory, S&OP, Control Tower, Scenario Planning).
• Translate business needs into functional requirements, system design inputs, testing scenarios, and enhancement requests.
• Ensure SAP IBP configuration, master data, planning views, key figures, and dashboards align with business requirements.
• Act as first escalation point for SAP IBP planning and system issues.
• Support and improve integrated planning processes including demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning, and S&OP.
• Drive standardization of planning processes across regions, products, and supply chain sites.
• Define planning governance, calendars, review cycles, and exception management processes.
• Partner cross-functionally to improve visibility, alignment, and decision-making.
• Maintain SAP IBP enhancement pipeline based on business value and user feedback.
• Lead requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, and user story development.
• Partner with IT and SAP teams on system enhancements, integrations, and roadmap initiatives.
• Improve forecasting accuracy, service levels, inventory optimization, and planning efficiency.
• Lead UAT for SAP IBP releases, enhancements, and system changes.
• Develop training materials, process documentation, and user guides.
• Train planners and cross-functional users on SAP IBP functionality and planning best practices.
• Establish and support a superuser network to drive adoption and issue resolution.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of SAP IBP master data and planning inputs.
• Monitor and resolve data quality issues impacting forecasts, supply plans, and reporting.
• Support development of dashboards, KPIs, alerts, and planning analytics.
• Define governance standards for data, planning assumptions, and system changes.

Qualifications

• Experience with SAP IBP implementation, enhancement, or support activities.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Supply Chain, IT, Finance, and Operations teams.
• Strong knowledge of SAP IBP modules: Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Optimization, S&OP, Control Tower, Scenario Planning.
• Understanding of SAP IBP architecture including planning areas, key figures, master data, and planning versions.
• Experience integrating SAP IBP with SAP ECC or S/4HANA preferred.
• Strong Excel skills; experience with Power BI, Tableau, or SAP Analytics Cloud is a plus.
• Strong understanding of supply chain KPIs (forecast accuracy, service levels, inventory turns, capacity utilization).
• Ability to translate system outputs into business insights and decisions.
• Experience in process design, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Strong facilitation skills for workshops and cross-functional alignment.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Experience leading training, testing, and adoption activities.
• Strong ownership mindset with focus on process standardization and business impact.

Purpose and Scope

The Sr. Supply Chain Analyst position will support Network Design and Optimization projects and efforts. Will be responsible for supply chain analysis and developing network optimization projects. He / She will work in a complex network modeling environment to identify opportunities to improve performance and reduce total landed costs. He / She will provide the data and analysis necessary to make the proper decisions for the organization and company.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Supervision

None

Education

Bachelor’s Degree required. MS preferred in Business, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering or other related field.

Experience and Required Skills

• 3-5 years of Supply Chain / Logistics, Engineering, Business Analysis or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to solve complex problems, generate ideas, and develop creative solutions.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite, SQL, VBA – working with formulas, large data tables, pivot tables, charts, queries, custom functions, data management and analysis.
• Must have experience using AIMs modeling software or equivalent Supply Chain Guru and/or LogicNet Plus.
• Experience with statistical and / or data-mining tools (Minitab, SQL Server etc.).
• Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, etc.).
• Knowledge of a variety of Supply Chain systems, network modeling, simulation, ERP, WMS, mapping software and routing software.
• Ability to manage, plan, organize and work through multiple assignments within effective timeline.
• A high attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced global team environment with other technical teams.
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results.