BCG Platinion | Manager, Enterprise Solutions – Planning Platforms – APS

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BCG Platinion's presence spans across the globe, with offices in Asia, Europe, and South and North America. We achieve digital excellence for clients with sustained solutions to the most complex and time-sensitive challenge. We guide clients into the future to push the status quo, overcome tech limitations, and enable our clients to go further in their digital journeys than what has ever been possible in the past.

At BCG Platinion, we deliver business value through the innovative use of technology at a rapid pace. We roll up our sleeves to transform business, revolutionize approaches, satisfy customers, and change the game through Architecture, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Application and Risk functions. We balance vision with a pragmatic path to change transforming strategies into leading-edge tech platforms, at scale.

Enterprise Solutions Managers at BCG Platinion are:

• Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross-functional stakeholder groups to existing teams.
• Agile advocates. They are well-versed in Agile methodologies and use their expertise to strategically tackle difficult challenges and implement change.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. They know the path forward isn’t always well-defined. They are comfortable and confident working through the unknown.
• Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive IT expertise that drives novel solutions routed in complexity.
• Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They can align and onboard teams to implement new processes and toolsets. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize IT best practices.
• Influencers. They build strong relationships to build trust and influence stakeholders.

Planning Platform Solution Design and Deployment

• Developing feasibility studies, assessing platform suitability (e.g., Kinaxis vs. o9) and issuing recommendations
• Supporting core planning process redesign and alignment with platform capabilities
• Leading technical demonstrations and proof-of-concept sessions for prospective clients
• Developing functional and non-functional requirements for planning platforms
• Leading full lifecycle implementations for Advanced Planning Systems (APS) in Supply Chain
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying UI/UX and Kinaxis configuration to support one or more of the following: IBP/S&OP, Demand/Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Order Fulfillment, Control Tower
• Experience conducting data discovery, mapping, transformation and normalization for APS use cases
• Developing integrated solution architecture designs for APS, ensuring integration with enterprise systems such as ERP, HRIS, and data platforms and warehouses, as well as custom analytics and insight applications (e.g., AI/ML prediction engines)
• Designing and implementing data integration patterns that allow for secure, performant and fast time-to-value deployments
• Creating implementation…