About the role
HP is hiring for the role of Planning Process System Consultant!
Responsibilities of the Candidate:
- Support and manage end-to-end Demand and Supply Planning activities across Print, S&G, and Personal Systems businesses. - Execute daily, weekly, and periodic planning processes, ensuring planning activities are completed accurately and on time. - Analyse planning data and reports to identify demand, supply, forecast, and planning-system issues and highlight potential business impacts. - Monitor key supply chain and planning KPIs, including forecast accuracy, demand-supply alignment, and other operational planning indicators. - Identify planning gaps and operational risks, perform initial root-cause analysis, escalate critical issues, and coordinate actions toward resolution. - Partner closely with Business SMEs, IT, and cross-functional teams to troubleshoot planning issues and ensure demand and supply alignment. - Communicate planning issues, business impact, corrective actions, and resolutions to relevant stakeholders and support/lead regular SME discussions. - Identify opportunities for process improvement, standardization, automation, and cost reduction across demand and supply planning processes. - Participate in cross-functional projects and planning transformation initiatives, including business requirements, testing, validation, and implementation activities. - Support the implementation, stabilization, and continuous improvement of planning tools and systems, while maintaining process documentation, controls, and planning best practices.
Requirements
- Demand & Supply Planning Fundamentals: Good understanding of demand planning, supply planning, forecasting, inventory, and demand-supply balancing. - Planning Systems Knowledge: Working knowledge of SAP IBP, SAP HANA, ARIBA, Enterprises Business Warehouse or similar supply-chain planning systems. - Data Analysis: Strong analytical skills with the ability to review planning data, identify exceptions, trends, gaps, and potential issues. - Planning KPI & Performance Monitoring: Understanding of planning metrics such as forecast accuracy, demand-supply match, inventory, backlog, and service-level indicators. - Problem Solving & Root-Cause Analysis: Ability to investigate day-to-day process, data, and system issues and support root-cause identification and resolution. - Excel & Reporting Skills: Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel; exposure to Power BI or other reporting/analytics tools is preferred. - Master Data & Data Quality: Basic understanding of master-data dependencies and the importance of data quality within planning processes. - Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to coordinate effectively with planners, Business SMEs, IT/support teams, and other cross-functional stakeholders. - Communication Skills: Ability to clearly communicate planning issues, business impact, risks, corrective actions, and resolution status. - Testing & Implementation Support: Ability to support requirements gathering, UAT, validation, implementation, go-live, and stabilization activities. - Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, master's in supply chain, or a related discipline. BTech, BE, MCA, or equivalent qualification preferred. - 1-3 years of overall experience, preferably with exposure to Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, or Planning Operations. - Working knowledge or hands-on exposure to SAP APO and/or SAP IBP modules. - Basic understanding of end-to-end Demand and Supply Planning processes. - Exposure to SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, or related supply-chain applications is an added advantage. - Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word for analysis, reporting, and business presentations. - Knowledge of SQL, MS Access, Excel Macros/VBA, Power BI, or other data/automation technologies is an added advantage. - Willingness and flexibility to work across different time zones based on business requirements. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. - Good written and verbal communication skills. - Ability to work effectively with Business, IT, and cross-functional teams. - Strong attention to detail, particularly when working with planning and master data. - Ability to learn new processes, systems, and technologies quickly. - Good time management and prioritization skills. - Proactive approach toward issue identification and resolution. - Strong teamwork and collaboration skills. - Customer and business-oriented mindset. - Willingness to take ownership and accountability for assigned activities.