Location: Europe (Any)

The Accenture Technology IPS Supply Chain & Operation Planning is seeking an Kinaxis Business Solutions Consultant to develop and grow our IPS SC&O Planning business for the platform like Kinaxis Rapid Response.

IPS Supply Chain and Operations houses individuals who help clients develop strategies and operating models that integrate planning, procurement, product design, manufacturing, and fulfilment functions within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain.

Supply Chain Planning professionals develop and implement integrated supply and demand planning solutions that improve cost efficiency, increase business effectiveness, and create synergies and collaboration across companies.

A professional at this position level within Accenture has the following responsibilities:

• Supports identification, assessment of complex business problems for area of responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

• Closely follows the strategic direction set by management when establishing near term goals.

• Interacts with management at a client and/or within Accenture on matters where they may need to gain acceptance on an alternate approach.

• Works in a team to determine methods and procedures on new assignments. 

• Part of medium to large sized Kinaxis Business Solution teams and/or work efforts at a client or within Accenture.

• Ensure that the deliverables support for architecture, capabilities, and operations are consistent across the enterprise and meet the requirements.

• Part of a team to configure the system to support business requirements, design / configure different seeded resources like worksheets, Alerts, Metrics, scorecards, etc.

• Supports end to end testing during System Integration Testing

• Supports User Acceptance Testing

• Works on delivery using Kinaxis to achieve a defined business outcome, working with Interfaces, workflows, and data management/data migration.

• Works to adopt standard business supply chain planning operating model practices.

• Has some knowledge of integrating Kinaxis with host ERP systems for both Inbound and Outbound Interfaces, workflows, Query development, preparation of detailed functional specifications.

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Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in a Business Concentration

• Experience in Supply Chain Operations and Execution

• Experience Supply Chain Planning

• Experience in implementation of Kinaxis modules

• Experience implementing supply chain planning business solutions

Professional Skill Requirements:

• Experience in other APS tools preferred - SAP APO, o9 Solutions, BY/i2/Manugistics/JDA, OMP, Aspentech, Quintiq, etc. or at least 1 full life cycle Kinaxis implementation

• Experience of with technical design for inbound / outbound processes

• Intermediate knowledge for Kinaxis Authoring

• Intermediate knowledge at least one major applications: Supply, Aggregate Supply, Capacity, Order Promising, Demand Management, Forecasting, MEIO, S&OP

• Intermediate knowledge of functional integration (ongoing closed loop) to major ERP

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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.