Business ERP/Supply Chain Analyst

Description

The Supply Chain Analyst is a core member of the Enterprise Center of Excellence (CoE). In this hybrid role, you will move beyond daily transactional purchasing to focus on the governance, standardization, and architectural integrity of the global supply chain.

You will act as the bridge between the technical solutions and the Procurement/Supply Chain teams, ensuring that ERP workflows are standardized, data is clean, and system enhancements are driven by strategic value rather than ad-hoc requests.

Core CoE Responsibilities

1) Governance & Process Standardization

• Global Process Custodianship: Define and maintain the "Global Template" for all purchasing, receiving, and inventory management workflows within the ERP system.
• Standardization: Identify and eliminate "shadow systems" (offline trackers and manual spreadsheets) by re-engineering processes to fit within the core enterprise systems.
• Compliance & Audit: Partner with internal teams to ensure system configurations support SOX compliance and maintain strict Segregation of Duties (SoD) across supply chain functions.

2) Systems Integrity & Data Architecture

• Master Data Governance: Establish and enforce standards for Item Masters, Vendor profiles, and Lead-Time logic to ensure "one version of truth" across all locations.
• Value-Based Prioritization: Manage the intake and scoring of system enhancement requests, ensuring that development resources are allocated to projects with the highest ROI and strategic alignment.
• Root-Cause Analysis: Investigate system-driven supply chain failures (e.g., inaccurate safety stock triggers or MRP errors) and implement permanent process fixes.

3) Strategic Project Coordination

• System Migrations & Rollouts: Act as the project lead or coordinator for site-level system integrations, plant startups, or major ERP version upgrades.
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Design and execute testing protocols for new system features to ensure zero-day disruptions to production or procurement.
• Change Management: Develop standardized training materials and lead "Super User" programs to drive system adoption across the organization.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or Information Systems.
• Experience: 2–5 years of professional experience in a supply chain or business systems role, ideally within a manufacturing or OEM environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Hands-on experience navigating and configuring mid-to-large scale ERP systems (e.g., QAD, Plex, SAP) & Advanced data analysis skills (Excel, Power BI, or SQL).
• Project Coordination/Management: Proven experience tracking project milestones, managing stakeholders, and facilitating cross-functional meetings.

CoE Competencies

• The "Systems" Mindset: Ability to understand how a change in the purchasing module ripples through to inventory valuation and financial reporting.
• Strategic Influence: Comfortable coaching regional teams to adopt centralized standards and move away from localized workarounds.
• Operational Excellence: Familiarity with Lean Six Sigma or other process improvement methodologies.

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)

• Professional certifications such as APICS (CPIM/CSCP) or PMP/CAPM.
• Experience in highly regulated industries requiring detailed audit trails.
• Technical writing experience for creating SOPs and system manuals.