SAP APO Consultant - Collinwood Technology Partners, LLC

Collinwood is assisting our client, a dynamic company specializing in providing comprehensive IT solutions to businesses worldwide, in their effort to hire an SAP APO Consultant located in the Encinitas, CA area. 

What We Need From You:

• • 10+ years of IT industry work experience including business systems analysis, solution design, application development, and deployment of major Enterprise solutions
  • Delivery experience in Business Applications
  • Solid understanding of business processes including, but not limited to, demand planning, supply chain planning, production, and quality
  • Team building capabilities, negotiation skills, and capacity to drive win-win outcomes
  • Experience working in a distributed, team-oriented, collaborative environment
  • Demonstrated experience with large SAP Enterprise ERP implementations in the areas of technical & functional design specification, development, and knowledge transfer.
  • Experience designing, configuring, implementing, and supporting solutions in SAP APO including but not limited to DP, SNP, and GATP. SAP ECC PP and QM. 5 years and 2 full life cycle implementations desired and knowledge of:
    • DP BW Building blocks (Characteristic, Key figure, Info cube, etc.)
    • DP Building Books (Planning area, Planning books, Data views, Selection IDs, etc)
    • Various techniques of data loading into DP
    • Various statistical forecasting methods
    • Various disaggregation factors
    • BW Reports and DP Authorization
    • Experience with macros and alerts, forecast errors, creation and monitoring of background jobs and process chains, demand release to SNP
    • Master data and transactional data that support DP, SNP, gATP, PP, QM
    • Design, implement, monitor, and manage data integration between SAP systems using Core Interface (CIF)
    • Analyzing and diagnosing issues with planning engine output (Heuristic, CTM, Optimizer)
    • Experience creating storage bucket profiles, Planning Areas, Initialize Planning Areas, creating time/Planning- bucket Profiles, maintaining forecast profiles and generating forecast profiles
    • MRP, Process Manufacturing, Inspection plans, Inspection lots, COA, COC
  • Experience with SAP S/4 HANA including IBP, Production, and Quality processes
  • Perform realignment activities. Forecast release including ad hoc release
  • Experience in master data and its role in enabling systems
  • Experience with functional design and configuration of IT Applications
  • Experience with end-user support for SAP and non-SAP systems providing a high level of customer satisfaction
  • Experience using Microsoft Office, including Outlook

Nice To Have:

• Spanish and/or French language skills
• Basic understanding of SAP ECC 6.0 and any of the core modules (FI, SD, HR, LE) and manufacturing and consumer products business processes
• Experience in ABAP, ABAP OOPS, Smart Forms, SAP Scripts
• Basic understanding of SAP BW system and query design