Global Supply Chain Business Process

Job Description

• Facilitate business process innovation/continuous improvement and evolve the global process and application configuration to achieve business objectives and alignment towards best practices

• Design lean, efficient end-to-end integrated business processes for prioritized areas and deliver appropriate training to the Functional Expert community

• Be the custodian of the global best practices, configurations and monitor/ensure compliance

• Drive greater business benefit delivery through processes and applications, including running live site health assessments, challenging business processes, championing best practice, etc.

• Resolve escalated process and functional issues from any of the 80+ and still growing globally located deployments of the JDA application suite used for supply planning and scheduling

• Actively lead the global Supply Planning community of practice —facilitate and influence functional and application experts to share learnings, deliver business benefits and drive business improvements through Supply Planning effectiveness

• Provide in-depth business process and application knowledge, defining and documenting the business processes and data definitions supported by the Supply Planning application solution portfolio

• Ensure and maintain process and portfolio consistency with related business processes and application solutions (ERP/SAP, Reporting/BW, Demand Planning/JDA Demand)

• Manage operational relationship with application vendors (e.g. JDA) and work with them to deliver strategic application functionality

• Partner in external forums to keep abreast of trends in Supply Planning, and support external benchmarking/research/R&D for process and IT innovation

• Define and create appropriate training material that provides both high-level business process knowledge and detailed operational understanding to sustain operational effectiveness

• Provide business process expertise in the ongoing deployment of business solutions (process and applications) into new global segments, markets and factories globally

• Prepare 3 Year draft Portfolio Plan

• Design Template and Tools upgrade and implement new capabilities

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree. Higher education and certification, ideally in Supply Chain,is a plus

• Have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in Supply Planning (ideally as a supply planner, process and application expert), with at least 5 years in Supply Chain

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