Associate Supply Chain Enabling Apps

About the job

Job Description You will be joining the Operations and Supply Chain Solutions practice at PwC as an Associate Supply Chain Enabling Apps. Your role will involve leveraging your strong analytical and problem-solving skills to enhance planning performance for clients through data-driven insights, process design, and cross-functional collaboration. Key Responsibilities - Support client engagements ... in designing and improving integrated planning processes across demand, supply planning, inventory management, and S&OP. - Evaluate planning performance, forecast accuracy, service levels, capacity utilization, and inventory health through analytical assessments. - Develop data-driven insights and models for scenario analysis, planning optimization, and decision-making. - Define requirements, validate findings, and co-develop future-state planning processes in cross-functional workshops with client teams. - Translate business requirements into APS system configuration needs and assist in configuring planning applications like o9, Kinaxis. - Support the development of data mapping documents and integration test cases to validate data flows between ERP, data lake, and APS systems. - Collaborate with data and digital teams to ensure analytics solutions align with business planning needs. - Prepare high-quality deliverables such as analytical reports, presentations, and process documentation. - Contribute to business case development by quantifying the potential impact of process and planning improvements. - Participate in internal capability-building initiatives by developing accelerators, frameworks, and thought leadership on integrated planning and analytics. Education - Minimum requirement of a Bachelors degree in supply chain management, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. Nice to have: MBA or masters degree in a relevant field. - Certifications in o9, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, or SAP IBP are advantageous. Required Skills - Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain planning processes, including demand planning, supply planning, and inventory management. - Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools such as Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, or Python. - Exposure to at least one APS platform like o9, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, SAP IBP. - Excellent attention to detail, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills. - Ability to work with large, complex, and unstructured datasets, performing cleaning, transformation, and validation. - Comfortable working in fast-paced consulting environments and managing multiple priorities. Optional Skills - Experience supporting end-to-end APS implementations including requirement gathering, configuration, testing, and go-live support.

Requirements

• analytical skills
• problem-solving skills
• data-driven insights
• process design
• cross-functional collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in supply chain management
• Operations
• Industrial Engineering
• Computer Science
• MBA or masters degree in a relevant field

Preferred Technologies

• analytical skills
• problem-solving skills
• data-driven insights
• process design
• cross-functional collaboration