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Tridant

Australia's largest specialist consulting firm in Planning & Analytics. Supply chain planning practice in active expansion across Anaplan, Kinaxis and Syncron.

Private · Founded 2007 HQ · Melbourne (Docklands) Footprint · 8 AU offices + NZ + Singapore Headcount · 51–100 Role · Supply Chain Planning & Technology Consultant Mode · Remote · AU / NZ / Singapore
◉ Industry Pulse

What the Supply Chain Practice Director is watching this quarter.

Eight signals shaping demand for the role I'm applying for. Sources: Gartner, IDC, Supply Chain Dive, Prologis Research, ABS, vendor partner announcements, Q1 2026.

AU S&OP / IBP Software Spend
A$340M
▲ 11.4% YoY · Anaplan, Kinaxis, SAP IBP, o9, Blue Yonder
Kinaxis Q4 2025 Revenue
US$132M
▲ 14% YoY · Maestro platform momentum
Anaplan APAC Customers
2,400+
Connected Planning, Supply Chain Planning modules
Syncron VAR Expansion
15 Dec '25
▲ Tridant added as ANZ Value-Added Reseller partner
AU Tariff & Supply Volatility
High
US tariff regime + rare-earth controls driving redesign demand
Spreadsheet-to-Platform Migration
#1 Driver
Tridant's stated supply chain offering centres on this exact replacement
AI in Supply Chain Planning
+38%
▲ AU enterprise adoption of AI-augmented forecasting, FY26
Consulting Day Rate Range
$1.4–2.2k
Senior planning consultant, AU market, Q1 2026
◉ Five Mandates, Five Approaches

What the role asks for, set against what I have built.

Five mandates pulled directly from the job ad. Each one matched to a concrete build from career, not a competency claim.

MANDATE 01
Configure and implement modern planning technology solutions across demand, supply, inventory, and S&OP/IBP.
Tridant works across Anaplan, Kinaxis, Syncron, SAP IBP, o9 and Blue Yonder. The practice is in expansion mode following the December 2025 Syncron VAR announcement.
APPROACH 01
Built and deployed planning systems at Saputo Dairy Australia across the retail and bulk ingredients divisions over an 8-year tenure.
Retail covered the cheese portfolio — Devondale, Coon, Cheer — including supply planning for the Coon-to-Cheer national rebrand transition delivered at the point of moving to bulk. Bulk ingredients carries two systems in current business use: a daily order-and-invoice projection system feeding finance, sales and operations; a centralised demand change portal built on Smartsheet capturing verification, approval, reporting and audit trail for every demand change request through the S&OP cycle. Same spreadsheet-retirement problem Tridant's supply chain offering sets out to solve at platform scale.
MANDATE 02
Facilitate workshops, gather business requirements, and translate them into solution designs.
Stakeholder management across business users, managers and executives. Hands-on engagement, not advisory at distance.
APPROACH 02
At Pacific Brands Workwear Group, designed and built a centralised VBA planning engine harvesting six divisional ERPs, producing branded supply and S&OP decks for divisional CEOs with mandatory sign-off governance.
Multi-site team across VIC, NSW and NZ. In year one of operation the build delivered a 20% finished-goods stock reduction worth $15M for the NNT division alone. Workshop-driven requirements gathering at group level, with stakeholder buy-in spanning operating-unit managers, divisional CEOs and the group executive.
MANDATE 03
Design future-state supply chain planning processes — not just configure existing ones.
The Option 2 candidate brings supply chain depth into a technology consulting practice. Process design, not just tool configuration.
APPROACH 03
Career spent in supply chain roles inside FMCG, manufacturing and apparel — demand planning, supply planning, inventory optimisation, S&OP, master production scheduling.
Designed planning processes from the operator's seat in six different businesses before ever architecting the technology. Understands what good demand planning looks like before naming the platform.
MANDATE 04
Perform hands-on data analysis and modelling, and contribute to solution architecture discussions.
Hands-on consulting, not slide-deck consulting. Configuration, modelling, integration, testing, deployment.
APPROACH 04
Power BI · DAX · VBA · Power Query / M · Python · Excel at enterprise scale · SAP ECC source extraction · Microsoft Dynamics AX integration experience.
Tridant is a Microsoft Gold Partner with deep Power BI and Fabric practices. Career's worth of hands-on modelling in this stack maps directly to the analytics layer of any Anaplan, Kinaxis or Syncron delivery.
MANDATE 05
Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders; contribute to practice growth and internal capability development.
The role is positioned for someone with consulting potential, not just delivery throughput. The practice is in growth mode and wants people who lift the team.
APPROACH 05
Built two complete planning systems for non-technical operating businesses — taught the users, documented the architectures, governed the data feeds.
Translation between technical platform behaviour and operating-business language is what I do for a living. The capability-building side of consulting is not foreign — it is most of what made these builds work in the first place.
◉ News & Signals (Last 6 Months)

What's been moving at Tridant.

15 Dec 2025
Syncron adds Tridant to global Value-Added Reseller program for Australia & New Zealand — aftermarket inventory planning and pricing solutions GlobeNewswire
9 Dec 2025
Tridant publishes BlackLine Video Series — Financial Close practice content series tridant.com
4 Dec 2025
"Top 3 Financial Planning and Analysis Software Solutions for 2026" — Tridant editorial positioning across Anaplan, Workday, BlackLine tridant.com
26 Nov 2025
"What Financial Planning & Analysis Tool Should I Use?" — practice-led market commentary tridant.com
Nov 2025
Microsoft Fabric Fast-track service launched — accelerated migration offering for Power BI customers moving to Fabric tridant.com
2025
Active hiring across Anaplan, supply chain planning, BlackLine, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI practices — Senior Consultant (Anaplan) listing posted to LinkedIn LinkedIn
2024–25
Listed Microsoft, OpenAI and Databricks among trusted partners — AI-augmented planning increasingly central to practice positioning tridant.com
Ongoing
Featured case study: Built global analytics support function for Lendlease — centrally hosted planning solution servicing global finance team tridant.com
◉ Operations & Technology

The stack they deliver on.

Tridant operates across three solution domains — Data & AI, Finance, Supply Chain — with a Microsoft-centric delivery stack and a multi-vendor planning portfolio.

Supply Chain PlanningAnaplan
Supply Chain PlanningKinaxis
Aftermarket / SLMSyncron (Dec 2025)
FP&A PlanningWorkday Adaptive
Financial CloseBlackLine
CPM / PlanningIBM (Cognos, TM1)
Disclosure MgmtWorkiva
BI / AnalyticsMicrosoft Power BI
Data PlatformMicrosoft Fabric
AI / CopilotMicrosoft Copilot
CloudMicrosoft Azure
AI PartnerOpenAI
Data PlatformDatabricks
Data PlatformSnowflake
AnalyticsTableau · Alteryx
IT Cost MgmtApptio
◉ Where I Land

Why this role, why this firm.

The Option 2 profile is mine almost word-for-word.
Career in supply chain planning roles — demand, supply, inventory, S&OP, master scheduling — with a genuine interest in planning technologies and a recent record of building enterprise-scale planning systems from inside the business. The transition into consulting is exactly the route Tridant has flagged as open.
Spreadsheet-to-platform is the migration I have already led.
Tridant's supply chain practice positions itself on "replacement of legacy spreadsheets with innovative, modern, real-time systems and best-practice processes." That is the work I have done at scale — first with the Pacific Brands group VBA engine across six divisional ERPs that delivered a $15M stock reduction in year one for the NNT division, then with multiple planning systems at Saputo Dairy Australia including the centralised demand change portal and order-and-invoice projection now running in the bulk ingredients business. Client-side empathy comes built in.
The Microsoft delivery stack is my native tongue.
Tridant is a Microsoft Gold Partner with active Power BI, Fabric, Copilot, Azure and Purview practices alongside the planning portfolio. Power BI, DAX and Power Query / M are core to the analytics layer of every delivery. Career's worth of hands-on enterprise modelling in this exact stack.
AI-augmented build methodology aligns with where Tridant is pointing.
OpenAI and Databricks both listed among Tridant's trusted partners. AI-augmented planning is moving from "interesting" to "expected" across the industry. I have built planning and BI systems with Claude as engineering partner since 2024 — LLM-augmented build is part of how I work, not a side project.
Multi-industry experience matches the practice's sector breadth.
Tridant's stated industry coverage spans Financial Services, Mining, Retail, Manufacturing, FMCG, Education, Media, Oil & Gas, Government and Communications. Career has put me inside manufacturing, FMCG, apparel and group-level governance — three of those four are within the practice's active sector mix.
◉ Honest Framing

What the hiring manager needs to know before reading the CV.

One working detail and one education flag worth surfacing up-front so we are not having the wrong conversation. Neither is a deal-breaker.

◉ Working Arrangement & Travel
Location
Warrnambool, VIC. Working from home since 2019. Family circumstances make relocation off the table; the role's remote scope makes that a non-issue.
Remote Scope
Tridant's careers page confirms the role is full-remote across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. AEST timezone, available across business hours.
Client Travel
Planned and infrequent travel for workshops, milestone meetings, or go-lives is fine and built into the rhythm of consulting work. The ask is that travel be scheduled rather than ad-hoc.
◉ Education
Formal Degree
I do not hold a completed bachelor's degree. Career — practical experience across supply chain planning, BI, and enterprise systems delivery — is what I bring to the requirement. Happy to discuss this directly if it is a hard gate.