Supply Chain Planning Prof Senior

The Specialist, SAP Master Data & Logistics is responsible for providing insights to drive accuracy and speed in production Planning. The incumbent will ensure the production schedule is continually developed and maintained to meet customer orders and inventory requirements. This position is responsible for ensuring master data is accurate and current. This individual will perform master data inputs for their respective team.

Responsibilities:

• Promote a culture of safety within the team by setting a positive example and fostering environments where safe practices are a priority.

 

• Responsible for continually developing and maintaining the production schedule to meet customer orders and inventory requirements.
• Interface with Customer Service, Supply Chain, and production personnel to ensure optimal balancing of production efficiency, scrap rates, and customer demands. 
• Gain knowledge of all planning areas to fully understand the bottle necks and efficiency impact of how the schedule is maintained.
• Maintain inventory targets where appropriate, ensuring targets are kept up to date to meet customer requirements while maintaining planned inventory levels.
• Generate and analyze daily and weekly production/inventory reports.
• Execute master data timely in SAP, including end-to-end processes

• Cross-functional partnership to gather requirements and ensure data alignment

• Understand and identify data dependencies in support of master data object creation and change processes

• Conduct data validation, regular audits, and implement data quality checks

• Drive key performance metrics for the health of the SAP master data

• Utilize the management system to meet established goals and objectives and drive continual improvement projects.

• Develop documentation and other training materials

• Maintain change management creation and change workflow owners and task configurations for assigned locations/profit centers

• Supports troubleshooting of process and technical issues to support timely fixes by working with business owners, IT, and data stewards

• Support the technology, tools, resources, and processes required to create / maintain consistent and accurate master data throughout the global organization
• Perform other duties as assigned, within reasonable scope of the role.

 

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in an industrial manufacturing industry with direct data management experience with material numbers, bill of materials, and routings in an ERP system

• Proficiency in the use of SAP S/4 Hana, ECC, BMAX, and related tools

• Strong Knowledge and experience of data governance and data quality principles

• Strong analytical skills to understand how pieces of data relate to each other and thus to detect and thereby prevent inappropriate transactions and data entry

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, and attention to detail

<