TGV AMERICASis looking for anSAP APO SR Consultant: specific technology specialist with experience on Demand Planning and Supply Relationship Management.
SAP Supply Chain Management / APO technology specialists (DP and SNP)
The APO consultants report to Senior ERP SCM staff and will primarily support the team's design, build and implementation work for the implementation of Demand Planning and Supply Network planning in the Umoja SAP solution.
Functional duties:
As part of Umoja's Supply Chain Management team, and under the supervision of Senior ERP Analysts, the two resources (senior and junior consultants) will be responsible for the following duties:
: Contribute to the requirements gathering to formalize the solution's implementation of SAP SCM/APO Demand Planning (DP) and Supply Network Planning (SNP).
: Following SAP methodologies, standards and ERP SAP implementation best practice, contribute to the design, build and implementation roll:out of the APO DP and SNP solution to build a seamless integration of forecasting, sourcing decision and Supply Network Planning (SNP) with the logistics processes.
: Analyze, design, document and test custom developments to support the delivery of SAP SCM/APO DP and SNP functionality.
: Contribute to the preparation of test cases and execution of testing cycles.
: Provide input to the preparation of related business specification, functional specification and training materials, inter alia.
: Provide post:go live functional and technical support
Experience and technical SAP APO requirements:
: Deep dive technical experience in SAP SCM/APO Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), APO Business Intelligence (BI) and core planning solutions.
: Said experience shall be of at least 10 years and 5 years in the senior and junior instances respectively, and cover a minimum of 5 years of full life cycle ERP implementation for the senior and over 2 years in the case of the junior.
: Said experience shall include:
o Strong working knowledge in core SAP modules (and related master data), including, Sales and Distribution, Logistics Execution, Inventory Management and Purchasing.
o Strong business process design / re:engineering experience
o Strong experience in master data setup.
o Strong Experience in material master data analysis and assessment in ECC in relation to planning in APO.
o Strong working knowledge and experience in interfaces, including Core Interface (CIF) integration models and the ability to troubleshoot CIF issues.
o configuration (including in respect of historical data mapping)
o design of APO BI
o Experience in configuring the interactive planning tool in APO.
o Experience in Data Analysis, statistical model analysis and selection.
o Experience in configuring the Alert monitor for highlighting custom alert situations in APO DP.
o Strong analytical experience to be able to analyze the inputs / outputs of the statistical models / optimization techniques and explain to the business in simple terms how to interpret the results or adjust the model.
o Life Cycle Planning
o Macro development of DP/SNP
o Proportion factors
o Sourcing integration in SRM and Quota arrangement
o Experience with Demand aggregation and disaggregation
o APO Global ATP
o Final demand release to Supply Network Planning (SNP)
o Forecast consumption/reduction
o Experience in SNP planning in aggregated, heuristic and optimization mode.
o Capacity and Resource planning
o SCOR based KPI design/implementation for Supply chain performance analysis in Supply Chain Cockpit (SCC) based on information from APO / ECC / TM and SAP BW.
o Experience and ability to translate business strategy into SAP APO through Supply Chain Cockpit.
Additional desirable skills and experience:
o Working knowledge and experience with SAP SCM/APO within an application architecture which includes an Extended Classic Scenario implementation of Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).
o Working knowledge and experience with Shipping and Tra
