Experienced Associate – Supply Chain Integrated Planning

This role offers the opportunity to work on digital planning transformation programs for leading organizations across industries, collaborating closely with client stakeholders, system integrators, and internal consulting teams.technologies to empower clients to transform their operations.

As an Associate, you will contribute to client engagements and projects while developing your skills and knowledge to deliver quality work. You will be exposed to clients to learn how to build meaningful connections, manage and inspire others, and grow your personal brand by deepening your technical knowledge of firm services and technology resources. You will embrace ambiguity, ask questions, and use these challenges as opportunities for growth.

In this role at PwC Acceleration Center India, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive analytics projects, and utilize a range of technologies to optimize supply chain performance and processes. You will support practice building activities, including team hiring and development, business development, and capability building.

Key Responsibilities

• Support advanced planning systems implementation projects across Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Optimization, and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) modules.

• Contribute to the design of future-state planning processes and translate business requirements into system configurations or functional designs.

• Configure or support configuration of different screens / functionalities in planning applications (e.g., o9, Kinaxis), including master data setup, planning logic, and scenario modeling.

• Support development of data mapping documents, linking source (ERP/legacy systems) fields to APS data models (e.g., o9, Kinaxis).

• Assist in building and maintaining integration test cases to validate data flows between ERP, data lake, and APS systems.

• Validate master data accuracy (items, locations, BOMs, resources, lead times, calendars) and ensure readiness for planning model configuration.

• Support testing cycles (unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing) and document functional scenarios and results.

• Troubleshoot functional or data-related issues and collaborate with technical teams to drive resolution.

• Prepare deliverables such as process maps, functional design documents, and configuration guides, and data mapping and transformation documents

• Contribute to internal initiatives, such as developing accelerators, reusable assets, or thought leadership on digital planning and analytics.

What You Must Have

- At least a Bachelor’s in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. Nice to have: MBA or master’s degree in a relevant field.

- Certifications in o9, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder or SAP IBP
- At least 2 years of experience
- Oral and written proficiency in English required

What Sets You Apart

- Understanding of end-to-end supply chain planning, including demand, supply, and inventory processes.

• Hands-on experience or strong exposure with configuration of at least one APS platform (e.g., o9, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, SAP IBP).

• Ability to translate business requirements into system designs or configurations.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working in cross-functional, client-facing teams.

• Ability to work with large, complex, and unstructured datasets, performing cleaning, transformation, and validation.
• Experience supporting end-to-end APS implementations inclding requirement gathering, configuration, testing, and go-live support.

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

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