Implementation Consultant Supply Chain, Merchandising, ERP

We need a bright, switched on Implementation Consultant to work with demand planning and forecasting software for supply chain and merchandising. You may be an ERP Consultant who has experience with Inventory, WMS, Supply Chain, Logistics, Inventory or Distribution software solutions, or you might be at an end user site as a Supply Planner or Supply Planning Manager, with experience of inventory demand & forecasting software solutions in the warehouse. Salary from £35-55k plus a car allowance and bonus of up to two months' salary.

The company is an award-winning market leader in specialist inventory and supply chain software. The Consulting Manager is a terrific guy who has risen though the ranks within the firm over the last 10 years, knows the software inside out and now runs a team of 10 Consultants. Their order books are full, and they need additional consultants.

There are different routes into this role:

You may be an experienced ERP Implementation Consultant working on mid-market solutions, used to taking the clients through the complete software implementation cycle. You will be accustomed to the issues of helping clients to decide what needs business process needs to be changed or what aspects of the software need to change. You will have solid experience with demand planning, merchandising, logistics, warehousing, stock and inventory or distribution solutions. This would suit an experienced Implementation Consultant looking for a chance to engage with larger clients who already have complex ERP solutions. The projects will offer a step up and long-term challenge plus the opportunity to get into a niche software market with an amazing future.

Or you may come from a purchasing, supply chain, forecasting or merchandising background. Your job title might well be Supply Planner or Supply Planning Manager. But you will have worked extensively on inventory planning and forecasting software products like Just Enough, TXT e-soln, AGR, Barloworld - (now Llamasoft), Demand Solutions, Slim4, Nettstock, Future Master, John Galt, Infor division Mercia, Infor Demand Planning, or Relex. You understand the difficulty of merchandising and the issues with sizes, seasons, and a vast array of products. Plus, you will have used one of the demand planning or forecasting tools and ideally have worked through a complete software implementation project.

This is a fully client facing Functional Implementation Consultant role implementing their inventory demand planning and forecasting solution. You will work with clients who are wholesalers. Sometimes these clients will have one person looking after 5,000 separate products and inevitably what happens is they concentrate on the core 500 products and mostly ignore the other 4,500 products. The solution integrates with existing ERP and looks at previous historical sales information and seasonal factors and loads of other elements and helps the buyers and merchandisers buy more effectively and efficiently.

A typical project can be 20 days working on client site or 100 days, depending on the size and complexity of the client's operation. The job involves working in a client facing role, understanding the customers' business processes and getting their requirements, leading the implementation process, assisting the pre-sales consultants, integrating the inventory planning and forecasting solution with the existing ERP software and going through the whole software implementation process through to user training and post implementation support and hand holding.

At the start you will need to be in the office full time, working with consultants, learning the product and shadowing the existing people. Once you are up and running, a typical week will be 3 days on client site, 1 day from home and 1 day in the office near Solihull. They like people to come to the office because there are lots of opportunities to share project information and learn from each other, plus it makes people part of the team. But working from home is part of the role as well.

To find out more, please get in touch with Jake King or Carolyn MacLurg at Ambis Resourcing.