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# SAP APO Consultant Fiscal Year Variant Conversion

- **Company:** Georgia IT Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Data Stores, SAP APO, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
- **Published:** June 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/82d42dae-a927-4854-bf23-4ac1cf913509

## About the Role

· Hands-on SAP APO/SCM configuration experience

· Direct experience executing a fiscal year variant change in a live (non-sandbox) APO environment

· Specific experience with planning area de-initialization/re-initialization and time-series reload via /SAPAPO/TSCUBE

· Comfortable scoping/estimating effort and advising on approach, not just executing config

Preferred:

· Prior 4-4-5 calendar conversion experience

· BW/Info Cube exposure

· CIF (Core Interface) awareness for APO-ECC-BW sync

## Description

· Client is converting the fiscal year start from May to January (4-4-5 calendar structure retained on both sides) while running a parallel ECC carve-out

· APO is the highest-risk area, forecast data and planning structures are stored in time buckets that don''''t remap cleanly across the calendar shift

· Phase 1 is advisory: confirm recommended approach, resolve open design decisions (modify existing fiscal variant vs. create new), and deliver an hours/cost estimate before project kickoff

· Phase 2 is execution: extract/store data to Info Cube, de-initialize planning area (deletes time series), apply fiscal year variant change, re-initialize, reload data via /SAPAPO/TSCUBE, test through Dev/QA/Prod before go-live

· Must ensure synchronization across APO, ECC, and BW throughout

· Key risk to manage: misalignment of historical/future forecast data due to 4-week vs. 5-week month mapping

· Work directly impacts sales forecasting and AOP/FP&A planning downstream


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