Job Summary:

- The

SAP IBP Solution Architect will serve as the principal design authority for global supply chain planning transformation.

- Will define the roadmap and architecture to migrate legacy

SAP APO SNP environments into

SAP IBP Response &

- Supply and

Inventory Optimization (IO)

and integrating back to S/4 HANA ePPDS

.

- Additionally, you will design a resilient, phased architecture ensuring that these modern IBP models seamlessly integrate with current ERP landscape and naturally evolve to anchor future SAP S/4HANA digital transformation.

- Give architectural supervision and decision support within and across relevant activities for relevant solution area.

- Engage as architect to improve templates, standards and reference architectures and ensure adherence.

- Participate in projects, change requests and other relevant activities like SME to provide (high-level) solution specifications, validate outcomes and when relevant take part of execution.

Key Responsibilities:

1.

Solution

Architecture &

- Design

- Lead blueprints, solution discovery workshops, and fit-gap assessments with executive stakeholders.

- Architect end-to-end planning templates that tie short-term operational execution with mid-to-long-term strategic targets.

- Enforce rigorous governance standards across planning profiles, calculation graphs, and configuration objects.

2. Response &

- Supply Planning (OBP)

- Design / Configure Order-Based Planning (OBP) models to manage real-time supply responses, allocations, and deployment calculations.





- Deploy rule-based prioritization algorithms and mathematical optimizers to resolve short-term capacity and material bottlenecks.

- Standardize confirmation processes with source system.

3.

Inventory

Optimization (IO)

- Design Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) models to establish ideal safety stock baselines across global nodes.

- Map demand uncertainty and supply lead-time variability using built-in stochastic operators.

- Deliver sensitivity models evaluating the trade-offs between working capital reduction and customer service levels.

1. Technical Integration &

- Data Management

- Strategy real-time or batch data flows across systems like SAP S/4HANA, legacy ERPs, and external data lakes.

- Supervise interface builds using native middleware such as Cloud Integration for Data Services (CPI-DS) and Real-Time Integration (RTI)

Required Qualifications:

- 15+ years of experience in SAP supply chain solutions, with at least 10 years in SAP IBP.

- Proven experience in architecting and implementing SAP IBP modules: Demand Planning, Response &
- Supply and Inventory Optimization.

- Good exposure to Inventory Optimization (Safety Stock, Multi-Echelon calculations) and Supply Planning modules of IBP.

- Robust understanding of supply chain processes and planning methodologies.

- Experience with integration tools and technologies (RTI, SDI, CPI-DS etc.).

- Excellent English communication skills, written as well as verbally.

- Strong analytical, communication and facilitation skills.

- Proactively analyzing and driving complex issues and significantly improving, changing or adapting existing processes and systems.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience with SAP S/4HANA ePPDS and SAP APO.

📌 SAP IBP Solution Architect (Sydney)
🏢 ALOIS Australia
📍 Sydney