Required Knowledge & Skills
Kinaxis Platform QA Expertise:
- 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 what‑if 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 service‑level 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 multi‑site and multi‑region planning.
Pharma Supply Chain QA (Preferred)
- Experience validating pharmaceutical demand and supply planning processes, including:
- Product lifecycle considerations
- Regulatory and lot/batch‑driven planning constraints
- Understanding of quality‑critical 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 end‑to‑end supply chain context.
Analytical & Professional Skills
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills for test data creation, scenario analysis, and defect root‑cause analysis.
- Critical thinking and structured problem‑solving capabilities.
- High attention to detail with the ability to link test outcomes to overall supply chain performance.
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