Integrated Business Planning Senior Consultant / Solution Lead – 90 Days

Overview

An advanced Integrated Business Planning roadmap focused on architecture, integration, migration/modernization, production operations and senior interview judgment.

Topics covered

Week-wise plan

1. Week 1

   Demand-Driven Replenishment — senior depth

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   • Review advanced design trade-offs, integration boundaries and production risks for Demand-Driven Replenishment
   • Solve the advanced scenario and explain how you would prove the root cause with evidence
   • Practice architect/senior interview questions and define a production-readiness checklist
2. Week 2

   Supply, Response and Inventory Planning — senior depth

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   • Review advanced design trade-offs, integration boundaries and production risks for Supply, Response and Inventory Planning
   • Solve the advanced scenario and explain how you would prove the root cause with evidence
   • Practice architect/senior interview questions and define a production-readiness checklist
3. Week 3

   Demand Planning — senior depth

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   • Review advanced design trade-offs, integration boundaries and production risks for Demand Planning
   • Solve the advanced scenario and explain how you would prove the root cause with evidence
   • Practice architect/senior interview questions and define a production-readiness checklist
4. Week 4

   Supply Planning — senior depth

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   • Review advanced design trade-offs, integration boundaries and production risks for Supply Planning
   • Solve the advanced scenario and explain how you would prove the root cause with evidence
   • Practice architect/senior interview questions and define a production-readiness checklist
5. Week 5

   Response Planning — senior depth

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   • Review advanced design trade-offs, integration boundaries and production risks for Response Planning
   • Solve the advanced scenario and explain how you would prove the root cause with evidence
   • Practice architect/senior interview questions and define a production-readiness checklist
6. Week 6

   Inventory Optimization — senior depth

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   • Review advanced design trade-offs, integration boundaries and production risks for Inventory Optimization
   • Solve the advanced scenario and explain how you would prove the root cause with evidence
   • Practice architect/senior interview questions and define a production-readiness checklist
7. Week 7

   Sales and Operations Planning — senior depth

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   • Review advanced design trade-offs, integration boundaries and production risks for Sales and Operations Planning
   • Solve the advanced scenario and explain how you would prove the root cause with evidence
   • Practice architect/senior interview questions and define a production-readiness checklist
8. Week 8

   Control Tower — senior depth

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   • Review advanced design trade-offs, integration boundaries and production risks for Control Tower
   • Solve the advanced scenario and explain how you would prove the root cause with evidence
   • Practice architect/senior interview questions and define a production-readiness checklist
9. Week 9

   Planning Areas — senior depth

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   • Review advanced design trade-offs, integration boundaries and production risks for Planning Areas
   • Solve the advanced scenario and explain how you would prove the root cause with evidence
   • Practice architect/senior interview questions and define a production-readiness checklist
10. Week 10

    Key Figures — senior depth

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    • Review advanced design trade-offs, integration boundaries and production risks for Key Figures
    • Solve the advanced scenario and explain how you would prove the root cause with evidence
    • Practice architect/senior interview questions and define a production-readiness checklist
11. Week 11

    Planning Operators — senior depth

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    • Review advanced design trade-offs, integration boundaries and production risks for Planning Operators
    • Solve the advanced scenario and explain how you would prove the root cause with evidence
    • Practice architect/senior interview questions and define a production-readiness checklist
12. Week 12

    Integration — senior depth

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    • Review advanced design trade-offs, integration boundaries and production risks for Integration
    • Solve the advanced scenario and explain how you would prove the root cause with evidence
    • Practice architect/senior interview questions and define a production-readiness checklist

Practice tasks

• Produce architecture and integration diagrams for the major process areas
• Review at least five production failure scenarios and define evidence-driven RCA steps
• Create a design-decision log with alternatives and trade-offs
• Run senior/architect mock and interview questions and refine weak areas

Interview preparation

• Defend design choices with business, technical and operational evidence
• Explain failure isolation across application, integration, security and data layers
• Discuss clean-core, upgrade, performance and supportability implications where applicable
• Define cutover, monitoring, rollback and ownership for critical changes

• Can lead solution/design reviews
• Can separate symptom from root cause across integrated systems
• Can define measurable production-readiness criteria
• Can coach junior consultants using reusable troubleshooting patterns

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