What are the responsibilities and job description for the SAP SCM Solution Architect position at Collinwood Technology Partners?
Location: Chicago, Overland Park or Pointe-Claire, QC
Job Summary:
As an SAP SCM Solution Lead, you will be a key player in the Morton intelligent enterprise team that helps Client and define the problem statement, evaluates solution options, and makes recommends to our internal customers. As a lead you will align technology and business strategy working together with our internal customer gathering requirements to analyze, design and/or implement technology, SAP best practices, business changes to achieve defined business goals. You will also support knowledge transfer with the objective of providing value-adding consulting solutions that enable our clients to meet the changing needs of our global business.
You'll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation from SAP APO to SAP IBP and from SAP ECC to S/4HANA where it impacts the supply chain planning processes.
Duties and Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Job Summary:
As an SAP SCM Solution Lead, you will be a key player in the Morton intelligent enterprise team that helps Client and define the problem statement, evaluates solution options, and makes recommends to our internal customers. As a lead you will align technology and business strategy working together with our internal customer gathering requirements to analyze, design and/or implement technology, SAP best practices, business changes to achieve defined business goals. You will also support knowledge transfer with the objective of providing value-adding consulting solutions that enable our clients to meet the changing needs of our global business.
You'll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation from SAP APO to SAP IBP and from SAP ECC to S/4HANA where it impacts the supply chain planning processes.
Duties and Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for:
- SAP application design, development, integration, testing, deployment and support for the current SAP APO environment and the future SAP IBP environment.
- Research and document current business processes and provide process improvement recommendations to the business.
- Implement newly improved Supply Chain Planning and cross-functional business processes based on business requirements.
- Support the current SAP APO Environment and prepare for a transformation to SAP IBP.
- Ensure IT applications are available and operating on a day-to-day basis
- Work with managers, business partners, and process leads to identify and prioritize issues, improvements, and projects
- Provides end user support for break/fix issues and process improvement requests. Provides subject matter expertise as the functional owner of SAP Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Distribution, and gATP. Responds promptly and accurately to issues and requests.
- Analyze business processes and recommend improvements aligned with best practices within the assigned functional modules
- Collaborates with decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business, financial, and operations requirements and systems goals, makes recommendations based on expertise and implements agreed upon and approved solutions.
- Provide project management that is effective at managing multiple tasks, multiple resources (employees and vendors), while meeting project timelines, project goals, and staying within the project budget
- Ensure team members and vendors employ approved maintenance and support processes
- Provide leadership in collaboration with members of other functional teams
- Work closely with other team members with proactive sharing of expertise, to improve and ensure team success
- Participate fully in the success of the overall IT team
- Work with software vendors to develop solutions in response to systems malfunctions, software bugs, program changes and modifications
- Direct resources in the testing of information systems solutions
- Manage user acceptance testing of applications prior to promoting changes into the production environment, while providing documentation of the testing and appropriate signoff
- Ensure that proper segregation of duties is enforced between development, test, and production environments
- Ensure that proper Software Development Lifecycle Management is performed
- Transfer knowledge and skills to IT staff and clients
- Understand IT goals and objectives with regard to core applications.
- Track current application portfolio, plan and implement maintenance, patches, and upgrades, and develop roadmaps for new versions or different software solutions
- Adhere to Change Management standards
- Communicate tough messages to business and staff
- Other duties as assigned
- Travel, domestic and international, up to 25%
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Confident and client facing personality with excellent analytical and communication skills.
- Experience with project management highlighting strong planning and coordination skills.
- Experience and desire to work in a transformative environment that requires travel depending on location and projects.
- 10 years of IT industry work experience including business systems analysis, solution design, application development and deployment of major Enterprise solutions
- Minimum of 7 years' experience in SAP Demand/Supply Chain Planning, Distribution and gATP
- Strong SAP configuration/set up knowledge and business processes in DP BW Building blocks (Characteristic, Key figure, Info cube etc.), DP Building Books (Planning area, Planning books, Data views, Selection IDs etc), Various techniques of data loading into DP, Various statistical forecasting methods, Various disaggregation factors, BW Reports and DP Authorization, Experience with macros and alerts, forecast errors, creation and monitoring of background jobs and process chains, demand release to SNP, Master data and transactional data that support DP, SNP, gATP, Design, implement, monitor and manage data integration between SAP systems using Core Interface (CIF), Analyzing and diagnosing issues with planning engine output (Heuristic, CTM, Optimizer), Experience creating storage bucket profiles, Planning Areas, Initialize Planning Areas, Creation time/Planning- bucket Profiles, maintain forecast profiles and generate forecast profiles, MRP, Process Manufacturing
- Perform realignment activities. Forecast release including ad hoc release
- Deployment Optimizer and TLB
- Experience in master data and its role in enabling systems
- Experience with functional design and configuration of IT Applications
- Experience with end-user support for SAP and non-SAP systems providing a high level of customer satisfaction
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Supply Chain Management, or equivalent industry experience.
- Speaking / Writing in Spanish and / or French are optional.
