Business Systems Analyst SAP IBP

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Job Description

Function

Information Technology/Enterprise Business Systems/IBP

Position Overview

The Business Systems Analyst (BSA) is responsible for supporting, enhancing, and optimizing enterprise applications and business processes within an assigned functional domain. The BSA serves as a trusted partner to business stakeholders, providing functional expertise, solution analysis, process improvement recommendations, and day-to-day operational support to ensure enterprise systems effectively enable business objectives.

The BSA works closely with business users, the Manager Enterprise Systems, Digital Business Partners, technical teams, and third-party service providers to deliver stable, efficient, and scalable technology solutions. This role is responsible for analyzing business requirements, identifying process improvement opportunities, coordinating solution delivery, supporting system enhancements, and ensuring the successful adoption of new capabilities.

In addition to operational support responsibilities, the BSA contributes to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to leverage automation, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, and process standardization to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and user experience.

Domain Responsibility Summary

Planning Process Ownership

Serve as the functional owner for SAP IBP Time Series Planning and Demand Planning processes.

Support mid-term and long-term supply planning processes.

Facilitate planning activities supporting S&OP and Integrated Business Planning processes.

Partner with Supply Chain, Operations, Commercial, Procurement, and Finance stakeholders to define planning requirements and drive business value.

Monitor planning process performance and identify opportunities for improvement.

Support planning cycle readiness and issue resolution.

Ensure planning solutions align with business objectives and industry best practices.

SAP IBP Functional Administration

Maintain and support SAP IBP planning models and planning structures.

Manage planning areas, planning levels, key figures, attributes, and master data structures.

Maintain SAP IBP business roles, security roles, and permission filters.

Support user provisioning, role assignments, access requests, and security audits.

Troubleshoot planning book, workbook, and planning view issues.

Monitor application jobs and planning process execution.

Support system upgrades, testing activities, and release deployments.

Excel Add-In Support

Serve as the subject matter expert for the SAP IBP Excel Add-In.

Resolve workbook, planning view, synchronization, and performance issues.

Troubleshoot advanced Excel-based planning solutions.

Develop and maintain standardized planning templates.

Support user training and adoption activities.

Identify opportunities to improve planner productivity within Excel-based planning processes.

Data Integration, Extractors & Interface Management

Serve as the functional owner for SAP IBP inbound and outbound interfaces.

Support integration between SAP IBP, SAP S/4HANA, and external planning systems.

Provide functional oversight for standard and custom extractors supporting planning data integration.

Partner with development teams to define, prioritize, and implement enhancements to existing extractors.

Analyze business requirements and translate them into extractor enhancements and interface improvements.

Support testing and validation of custom extractor enhancements and interface changes.

Evaluate opportunities to improve data extraction, transformation, and load performance.

Troubleshoot planning data issues and perform root cause analysis across interfaces.

Monitor master data and transactional data loads into IBP.

Ensure planning data accuracy, completeness, and availability within required planning timelines.

Conduct impact assessments related to master data, planning structures, key figures, and integration changes.

Collaborate with ABAP developers, integration teams, architects, and business stakeholders to improve data integration reliability and scalability.

Supply Planning and Planning Heuristics Expertise

Demonstrated knowledge and practical experience with SAP IBP planning algorithms and supply planning methodologies, including:

Time Series Supply Planning heuristics.

Supply Planning operators and execution strategies.

Finite and infinite capacity planning concepts.

Inventory replenishment and distribution planning logic.

Constraint-based planning principles.

Multi-level supply network planning.

Demand prioritization and allocation concepts.

Supply-demand balancing techniques.

Simulation and scenario planning methodologies.

Planning run configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Ability to:

Understand and explain planning heuristic results to business users.

Analyze supply planning outcomes and identify root causes of planning exceptions.

Evaluate planning parameter settings and recommend improvements.

Support testing and validation of planning operators and heuristics.

Diagnose issues related to supply propagation, sourcing rules, production planning, transportation planning, and inventory planning.

Partner with planners and business stakeholders to improve planning effectiveness and solution adoption.

Assess impacts of master data, planning parameters, and integration changes on planning results.

Integration & Technical Collaboration

Act as the primary functional liaison between planning teams and technical integration teams.

Support and guide CI-DS / CPI-DS integration activities.

Validate data mappings, transformation logic, and interface designs.

Participate in solution architecture discussions affecting planning processes.

Support testing, defect resolution, and deployment activities.

Assist in defining integration requirements for future planning initiatives.

Provide functional guidance regarding planning-related integrations and data architecture.

Response & Supply Planning (Nice to have, emerging responsibility)

Support implementation and expansion of SAP IBP Response & Supply Planning capabilities.

Participate in design discussions related to constrained planning and supply balancing.

Support business process design for future response planning workflows.

Order-Based Planning (OBP) (Nice to have, emerging responsibility)

Participate in the evaluation, design, and future implementation of SAP IBP Order-Based Planning.

Assess business impacts of transitioning from Time Series Planning to Order-Based Planning processes where appropriate.

Support solution design involving ATP, aATP, and supply-demand balancing capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnership & Requirements Management

Develop a strong understanding of assigned business processes, objectives, and operational challenges.

Serve as a primary point of contact for business users within supported functional areas.

Gather, document, and analyze business requirements for enhancements, projects, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Facilitate requirements workshops, process reviews, and solution discussions.

Translate business requirements into functional specifications and solution requirements.

Support the evaluation and recommendation of technology solutions that address business needs.

Application Support & Operational Excellence

Provide functional support for enterprise applications within the assigned domain.

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