Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sharp Solutions, Inc is hiring an IFS Supply Chain Application Consultant for its Professional Services team. The role configures, implements, and supports IFS solutions by translating business requirements into functional designs and system configurations. It also supports solution workshops, testing, integrations, documentation, training, and end-user adoption across ERP supply chain initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Gather and analyze business requirements through workshops, interviews, and documentation review, translating findings into clear functional designs and system configurations
- Configure IFS applications to support defined business processes, ensuring alignment with requirements, project scope, and IFS best practices
- Support solution design activities in collaboration with Solution Architects and senior team members, contributing functional expertise and practical implementation insight
- Facilitate and participate in solution workshops to validate requirements, demonstrate functionality, and align stakeholders on design decisions
- Prepare and maintain functional documentation, including configuration details, process flows, and design specifications
- Collaborate with technical teams to support integrations, data migration, and system extensions as required
- Participate in system testing activities, including unit testing, system integration testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT), ensuring solutions meet defined requirements
- Identify and escalate risks, issues, or design gaps, working with project leadership to support resolution
- Provide end-user support, training, and knowledge transfer to ensure effective system adoption
Skills
- The IFS Application Consultant is responsible for configuring, implementing, and supporting IFS solutions that enable customers to achieve their business objectives
- We are seeking an Application Consultant who is comfortable working directly with business users and project teams, with strong expertise in IFS Cloud and earlier Apps versions and a proven ability to support supply chain delivery across complex ERP initiatives
- Solid functional knowledge of IFS Cloud and earlier IFS Applications versions across relevant modules, with the ability to configure and support solutions aligned to business requirements
- Ability to gather, interpret, and translate business requirements into system configurations, ensuring alignment with standard functionality and project scope
- Strong ability to work effectively with business users, functional teams, and technical resources, communicating clearly to support alignment and successful delivery
- Understanding of how business processes span across functional areas, with the ability to support coordination and alignment across modules to enable end-to-end workflows
- Understanding of core supply chain processes, including demand planning, procurement, inventory management, warehousing, order fulfilment, shipment, receiving, and replenishment activities across end-to-end ERP workflows
- Experience configuring IFS supply chain functionality, including inventory parts, suppliers, purchasing, requisitions, purchase orders, inventory locations, warehouses, customer orders, shipment handling, receiving, and related basic data
- Knowledge of purchasing processes within IFS, including supplier setup, sourcing support, purchase requisitions, buyer workflows, purchase order processing, receipt management, supplier performance considerations, and coordination with accounting and inventory controls
- Understanding of inventory accuracy, warehouse operations, lot and serial tracking, inventory movements, cycle counting, picking, packing, shipping, location management, and controls required to maintain reliable stock visibility and operational traceability
- Ability to support supply planning processes, including demand and supply review, reorder and replenishment methods, lead time considerations, safety stock, order proposals, and alignment of procurement and inventory decisions with customer and operational requirements
- Awareness of how supply chain processes integrate with other functional areas, including Manufacturing, Sales, Service, Projects, Quality Management, and Finance, ensuring end-to-end process integrity, accurate inventory valuation, and reliable operational reporting
- Proven experience implementing or supporting ERP solutions within a Professional Services or consulting environment, with exposure to IFS implementations preferred
- Strong functional knowledge of IFS Cloud or earlier Apps versions within one or more modules
- Experience participating in ERP implementations, including requirements gathering, configuration, testing, deployment activities, and supply chain process validation
- Understanding of core ERP concepts, including supply chain process design, data structures, inventory and procurement controls, and system configuration
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and a structured approach to delivery
- Effective communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to engage business users and project stakeholders
- Ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consulting environment
- Experience contributing to project documentation and supporting delivery activities across multiple workstreams
- Highly organized and self-motivated, with the ability to manage priorities and meet deadlines
- This position does NOT require relocation
Benefits
- Bonus
- Full benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Ability to advance within a growing organization
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