Supply Chain Planning and Rapid Response Solution Expert

3 days ago


Canada CloudLabs Inc Full time
CloudLabs Inc Overview

Founded in 2014, CloudLabs Inc is a transformative partner for business acceleration advisory, application development, and managed services. With offices in the US, Canada, Australia, and India, we offer exceptional IT and business consulting services at a competitive price.

Job Title: Supply Chain Planning and Rapid Response Solution Expert

We are seeking an experienced professional to fill this position in Canada.

Estimated Salary: $120,000 - $180,000 per yearJob Description:

The primary focus of this role is to ensure the continuity, reliability, extendibility, and scalability of the Rapid Response technology critical to clients' supply chain planning and operations.

This individual will work closely with client functional GSC Planning COE workstream leads, functional super users, and stakeholders to define and implement improvements to supply chain planning solutions.

  • Demand planning (including statistical/consensus forecasting)
  • Supply planning
  • Capacity planning (constraints)
  • PP&S
  • MRP
  • DRP
  • MEIO
  • SI&OP

This person will also collaborate with IT partners supporting platforms that are critical to data ingestion and stability of the solution.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Decide and plan the right architecture for Rapid Response solutions, including architectural design, development, and deployment
  • Prepare alternate architecture options to achieve company needs, with benefit/drawback analysis
  • Maintain knowledge of new architectures that can increase performance and/or capacity
  • Provide technical thought leadership to help workstreams and stakeholders reach strategic initiatives
  • Support functional workstreams in refining requirements to complete gap assessments versus existing solutions
  • Inform and consult on creative design approaches and plans while maintaining best practices
  • Provide best practice and solution guidance and mentorship to workstream and technical teams
  • Support workstream leads with business process design and end-user training leveraging Solution capabilities
  • Perform data readiness assessment, understand, and guide data cleansing & transformation rules and process
  • Ensure the successful implementation and remediation of Rapid Response ensuring that the solution is producing the expected results
  • Lead and consult to ensure that the configuration of Rapid Response interfaces, data models, analytics, and customizations supports business process requirements
  • Define the process, provide guidance, and perform Data Harmonization across different ERP Source systems integrated with Rapid Response
  • Lead testing strategy with functional workstream leads and cross-functional team for strategic projects
  • Support technical and UAT testing aligned with testing strategy
  • Provide escalated technical support for system administration and support team and partner to identify long-term solutions, reducing system/integration instability
  • Perform damage control and diagnoses, Identify/troubleshoot possible or existing inefficiencies and/or problems with current architecture
  • Work with workstream leads to develop a functional roadmap accounting for new solution capabilities and sustaining projects (i.e., system upgrades)
  • Collaborate with Integration teams to ensure successful data migration from different ERP Source systems to Kinaxis and vice versa
  • Build content and processes to maintain quality documentation and deliver new GSC Planning COE RR Support team members and refresher communications and trainings to our GSC Planning COE Team
  • Support our system administration, analysts, and technical support team in resolving user system and process issues
  • Lead the team through scoping and prioritizing technical solutions that will help us ensure scalability for the future
  • Foster a community of supply chain planning COE that shares best practices and drives innovative ideas for further improving our planning processes
  • Establish and support a work environment of continuous improvement that supports BSC's Quality Policy, Quality System, and appropriate regulations for the areas supported
Qualifications and Skills Required:
  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Business, IS, or related fields
  • Master's degree in IS, statistics, mathematics, economics, or related field
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in supply chain planning and strong knowledge of concurrent planning systems, integrations, and Rapid Response
  • Experience with leading configuration and data modeling
  • Experience with SAP MRP and advanced supply chain planning software
  • Strong facilitation/communication skills with the ability to successfully interact at all levels of the organization
  • Has strong communication skills and business acumen that enables translation of highly technical solutions to business process and impact
  • 5+ years of people management experience
  • Highly adaptable, flexible, and willing to accept new ideas, processes, and procedures
  • Strong project management and leadership skills
  • Strong analytical problem-solving skills
  • Ability to lead and create a blueprint for the RR solution across all process levels
  • Facilitate working sessions with stakeholders
  • Strong functional knowledge of demand planning (including statistical/consensus forecasting), supply planning, capacity planning (constraints), PP&S, MRP, DRP, MEIO, and SI&OP
  • Strong technical knowledge on the standard business processes, control settings, and data model for the above applications in Kinaxis
  • Experience with configurations and data modeling
  • Detail-oriented and organized; performs to a high level of accuracy in all tasks


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