Blue Yonder (JDA) Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)/Iventory Optimization (IO) Consultant

Blue Yonder (JDA) S&OP/IO Consultant
Location: Negotiable

Who We Are:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries - powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 506,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com .

The Work:

Supply Chain Planning individuals who help clients develop strategies and operating models that integrate planning, manufacturing and fulfillment 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 strategies 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:
- Identifies, assesses and solves 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 senior management when establishing near term goals.
- Interacts with senior management at a client and/or within Accenture on matters where they may need to gain acceptance on an alternate approach.
- Has some latitude in decision-making. Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments.
- Conduct the Business Requirements gathering and To-Be state design workshops

Travel Note:
For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only.
Please note: The safety and well-being of our people continues to be the top priority, and our decisions around travel are informed by government COVID-19 response directives, recommendations from leading health authorities and guidance from a number of infectious disease experts.

Unless expressly indicated, this role is not open in the state of Colorado.

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Qualifications

Here's what you need:

- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

- Minimum of 2 years of Blue Yonder (BY) or JDA experience in modules such as S&OP or IO

Nice to have:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in implementing large scale Master Planning solutions in the CPG/Manufacturing industry

- Hands on functional experience with JDA S&OP application and Implemented JDA S&OP solution is a must

- Experienced in integrating JDA S&OP solution with JDA SCPO and other ERP applications

- Experience in driving a business team through designing and/or re-designing complex Manufacturing variants such as MTO (Make To Order) and MTS (Make To Stock)

- An architect that can provide thought leadership around best practices, developed or supported business team in overall business processes, and defined functional requirements that needed to be supported by JDA S&OP application

- Ability to prepare materials and drive/ conduct required design workshops with the client personnel to explain how JDA S&OP works and document the as-is to to-be process

- Experienced in full development lifecycle in JDA S&OP - Business Process Design, Solution Blueprint, System Design, Build, Test, Deploy and Business Stabilization/ Hyper Care

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