Business Solutions Architect - SAP TM

Company Profile

Lennox (NYSE: LII) Driven by 130 years of legacy, HVAC and refrigeration success, Lennox provides our residential and commercial customers with industry-leading climate-control solutions. At Lennox, we win as a team, aiming for excellence and delivering innovative, sustainable products and services. Our culture guides us and creates a workplace where all employees feel heard and welcomed. Lennox is a global community that values each team member’s contributions and offers a supportive environment for career development. Come, stay, and grow with us.

Job Description

• Responsible for the overall technical architecture, design, for SAP S/4 HANA TMS
• Accountable for software delivery including continuous improvement, practices, and principles.
• Document major processes and development milestones.
• Stay up to date with technology trends and industry best practices.
• Develop & support enterprise architecture strategies for guiding principles, processes, policies, and standards.
• Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a thorough understanding of application systems and industry requirements.

• Analyzes business and user needs and follows through the full development life cycle.
• Modifies, maintains, and updates complex TMS configuration and program routines.
• Educates others in the workflow, business processes and reporting metrics enabled by TMS modules or other application systems.
• Defines, tests, trains, implements, and supports one or more functional areas within the TMS System or other ERP application systems.
• Monitor’s developers in software development methods, processes, and implementation of those methods.
• Responsible for managing project plan, scope, risk, and resources.
• Act as team leader for project teams.
• Require travel periodically to visit Distribution centers and plants and collaborate with the teams.
• Stay up to date with best practices and follow standards.
• Manage work relations with internal and external partners.
• Ensure solutions align with the IT long-term strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
• Prior experience in working matrix organization and handling multiple stakeholders would be added advantage.
• Knowledge and experience in the following tools, disciplines and processes are preferred: Azure Dev Ops, MS Project, and Agile methodology.
• Solves highly complex problems within their work team.
• Strong influencing, facilitating, and consulting skills in working with stakeholders at all levels in the organization and across departments.
• Ability to quickly adapt to changes in timelines and sequences.
• Adaptability and flexibility including ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity, and change.

Qualifications

• 5 years of Functional experience in SAP Transportation Management with min 1 to 2 end to end implementations on S/4 HANA.
• Possess solid knowledge in SAP TM Master Data including Business Partner, Dangerous Goods transportation network such as Locations, Routes, Zones and resources vehicles, Trailers, HU etc
• Hands on experience in OTR (order based) & DTR (delivery based) processes, including Selection, planning profiles, Condition’s optimizer planning and scheduling, Freight Execution Carrier selection, Tendering and cost distribution.
• Strong hands-on experience in SAP TM Charge Management includes Rate Tables, Scales, Calculation Sheets, Freight Agreements
• Strong hands-on experience integrating SAP TM with other areas such as SAP EWM, Freight Collaboration, SAP LBN, Project 44 and other third-party software such as PC Miler, SMC3 etc
• Nice to have SAP LBN hands on experience especially Dock Appointment Scheduling
• Nice to have knowledge on ABAP Development, Debugging, custom objects such as BADI, functional modules, ALV Reports etc.
• Nice to have experience integrating TMS with Maxload.
• Candidate should have experience working with business to understand their requirements.
• Must have good communication skills and be able to translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications.
• Preferred to have excellent project management skills.