Kinaxis Consultant / Developer

• Proven experience validating Kinaxis Rapid Response implementations across demand, supply, inventory, and control tower modules.
• Ability to design and execute end-to-end test scenarios covering planning cycles, exception management, and whatif simulations.
• Strong understanding of Kinaxis data models, planning logic, and configuration dependencies to support accurate test coverage.
• Demand Planning & Forecast QA

Ability to validate:

• Statistical forecasting logic and model outputs
• Demand data maintenance processes
• Customer and internal input workflows
• Capability to assess the impact of forecast accuracy on:
• Inventory levels
• Manufacturing and transportation costs
• Warehousing costs
• Customer service performance
• Experience testing forecast overrides, consensus demand, and approval workflows.
• Supply, Inventory & Network Planning QA

Validation experience in:

• Tiered inventory strategies and safety stock logic
• Inventory cost optimization aligned with servicelevel targets
• Supply plans aligned to corporate and financial objectives
• Ability to test supply network, material planning, and capacity planning models across tactical and strategic horizons.
• Exposure to global inventory management scenarios, including multisite and multiregion planning.
• Pharma Supply Chain QA (Preferred)

Experience validating pharmaceutical demand and supply planning processes, including:

• Product lifecycle considerations
• Regulatory and lot/batchdriven planning constraints
• Understanding of qualitycritical planning impacts relevant to Pharma environments.
• Analytics, Reporting & KPI Validation

Ability to validate planning metrics, KPIs, and dashboards, including those supporting:

• S&OP / IBP processes
• Customer service performance
• Inventory and cost optimization
• Skill in translating complex optimization outputs into clear, testable business outcomes.

QA Leadership & Process Capabilities

• Test Strategy & Governance

Ability to define and execute:

• Test strategies (SIT, UAT, regression, performance)
• Traceability between business requirements, test cases, and defects
• Experience establishing QA standards and best practices for supply chain planning programs.
• Process Assessment & Continuous Improvement

Capability to assess current supply planning processes and systems and identify:

• Gaps
• Risk areas
• Opportunities for quality and performance improvement
• Experience supporting process, people, and system validation during transformations.
• Collaboration & Execution

Strong collaboration skills to work with:

• Business stakeholders
• Functional planners
• IT and implementation partners
• Ability to manage testing detail while maintaining endtoend supply chain context.

Analytical & Professional Skills

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills for test data creation, scenario analysis, and defect rootcause analysis.
• Critical thinking and structured problemsolving capabilities.
• High attention to detail with the ability to link test outcomes to overall supply chain performance.