Solution Architect (Oracle Cloud Demand Management and Oracle Cloud S&OP)

Job Description: • Interact with key business users, understand their business processes, recommend best practices, drive discovery / requirements gathering workshops, lead solution design sessions, communicate build requirements to consultants to build and configure the system and lead UAT sessions. • Should possess strong communication skills. Expertise in Oracle Demand Management Cloud: • Demand Sensing, defining and managing demand plans. • Forecasting Profiles: Configuring statistical parameters, selecting forecasting methods, and managing decomposition. • Defining forecast accuracy, bias, and MAPE metrics. • Demand Sensing: Understanding short-term forecasting using recent shipping and sales data. • Causal Factors & Events: Defining price changes, promotions, or holidays and analyzing their impact on demand. • Managing New Product Introductions (NPI) and ""modeling by analogy"" for items without history. • Managing how data rolls up from the SKU level to product categories or customer hierarchies. Expertise in Oracle S&OP Cloud: • S&OP Lifecycle Management: Product Review, Demand Review, Supply Review, Financial Integration, and Executive Review. • Scenario Management & Simulations: Creating ""What-if"" scenarios to compare different business strategies. • Consensus Planning: Facilitating the alignment between Finance, Sales, and Operations. • Financial Integration: Monitoring Revenue, Margin, and Cost impact within the planning cycle. • Resource and Capacity Analysis: Analyzing rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP) for critical resources and Suppliers. Requirements: • More than 17 years of experience in Oracle Supply Chain Planning Suite as a solution architect. • Expertise in Oracle Demand Management. • Expertise in Oracle S&OP Cloud. • Good understanding of Oracle Supply Planning Cloud and Replenishment Planning will be an added advantage.