Enterprise Process Lead: Logistics Execution & Warehouse Management (Remote Work Opportunity)

Requisition Number: 61100

 

Corning is vital to progress – in the industries we help shape and in the world we share.

We invent life-changing technologies using materials science. Our scientific and manufacturing expertise, boundless curiosity, and commitment to purposeful invention place us at the center of the way the world interacts, works, learns, and lives.

Our sustained investment in research, development, and invention means we’re always ready to solve the toughest challenges alongside our customers. 

Corning’s businesses are ever evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, and automotive markets.

 

We are changing the world with: 

•    Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
•    Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
•    Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of life
•    Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences 
•    Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation 

 

Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in materials science. For more than 170 years, Corning has applied its unparalleled expertise in specialty glass, ceramics, and optical physics to develop products that have created new industries and transformed people’s lives. Corning succeeds through sustained investment in R&D, a unique combination of material and process innovation, and close collaboration with customers to solve tough technology challenges.

 

Corning is one of Fast Company's 2021 Most Innovative Companies as well as one of Forbes ‘Best Employers by State’ in New York and North Carolina.

 

Scope of Position:

The Global Operations Transformation (GOT) office is commissioned to drive the company’s multi-year enterprise resource planning (ERP) transformation from 29 disparate and aging ERP systems across Corning to 3 instances of SAP S/4 HANA. The consolidation of Corning’s current ERP application environments onto a common platform will enable the delivery of enhanced functional capabilities, business efficiencies, increased agility, and a lower ERP cost structure for the company.  The GOT team will ensure Corning has a business-led, enterprise-wide approach to the transformation supporting the migration of our businesses before, during, and after their implementations.

 

As the Logistics Execution and Warehouse Management Enterprise Process Lead, you are a key member of the Enterprise Design and Standards team.  You will ensure process and data standards established in the Corning Global Template are the foundation of each business/site implementation from initial engagement through deployment.  This role requires SAP S/4 HANA product knowledge, including extended warehouse management related business processes, handling unit management, batch management, put-away strategies, and integration to PP/QM/SD where integration to MES is the norm.  This is a Remote Work Opportunity.

 

 

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Understand and shape the end-to-end processes in the logistics and warehouse space, drive alignment, acceptance, and adoption of enterprise-wide business processes
• Provide thought leadership, consolidating and sharing insights enterprise-wide such that the ERP Transformation is delivered on-time and on-budget with the expected value
• Act as a spokesperson for the benefits delivered from Global Template, especially in your area of expertise
• Support divisional COEs and the dedicated deployment teams in the introduction of Corning’s Global Template to local stakeholders, demonstrating systems knowledge and appreciation of the impact at a local level
• During individual deployment / interdependent projects, represent GOT in process review sessions ensuring enterprise impact is considered.  At the same time ensure that any business needs driving a requirement for customization are strongly challenged and options for process redesign are considered.  Where customizations are needed, ensures the justification is documented and change progressed via governance model
• Facilitate meetings to ensure logistics and warehouse teams are on track to deliver against milestones and intervene as necessary to address roadblocks.  Where global standards and/or functional ownership exists, ensure timely guidance is gained and included into design.
• Work with our business and functional process partners to develop roadmaps that best positions our investments in SAP and meet our program objectives
• Identifies and monitors critical KPIs to driv