Global Supply Chain Business Process

Company Description

We help Procurement and Recruiting departments faced with the challenge of filling multiple IT-related openings for either long-term employment, or short-term projects. They need to find reliable candidates, with the right expertise, quickly and at the right cost to enable their company to remain competitive, and to increase profit and efficiency.

Stefanini provides the IT contract resources you need to implement crucial projects, handle short-term assignments, or fulfill long-term placements. Our IT staffing services free you from the challenges of finding, recruiting, training and retaining high-quality professional staff, and allow you to focus on managing your business growth.

We provide the ongoing skill development to ensure that professionals placed at your site are trained in leading technologies to support your information technology hardware, software, and network infrastructure. Augment your staff for short or long-term engagements, or for specialized expertise on specific projects.

We have more than 25 years of staffing industry knowledge and can provide you with superior

candidates to match your technical and professional needs.

Job Description

• Facilitate business process innovation/continuous improvement and evolve the global process and application configuration to achieve business objectives and alignment towards best practices
• Design lean, efficient end-to-end integrated business processes for prioritized areas and deliver appropriate training to the Functional Expert community
• Be the custodian of the global best practices, configurations and monitor/ensure compliance
• Drive greater business benefit delivery through processes and applications, including running live site health assessments, challenging business processes, championing best practice, etc.
• Resolve escalated process and functional issues from any of the 80+ and still growing globally located deployments of the JDA application suite used for supply planning and scheduling
• Actively lead the global Supply Planning community of practice —facilitate and influence functional and application experts to share learnings, deliver business benefits and drive business improvements through Supply Planning effectiveness
• Provide in-depth business process and application knowledge, defining and documenting the business processes and data definitions supported by the Supply Planning application solution portfolio
• Ensure and maintain process and portfolio consistency with related business processes and application solutions (ERP/SAP, Reporting/BW, Demand Planning/JDA Demand)
• Manage operational relationship with application vendors (e.g. JDA) and work with them to deliver strategic application functionality
• Partner in external forums to keep abreast of trends in Supply Planning, and support external benchmarking/research/R&D for process and IT innovation
• Define and create appropriate training material that provides both high-level business process knowledge and detailed operational understanding to sustain operational effectiveness
• Provide business process expertise in the ongoing deployment of business solutions (process and applications) into new global segments, markets and factories globally
• Prepare 3 Year draft Portfolio Plan
• Design Template and Tools upgrade and implement new capabilities

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree. Higher education and certification, ideally in Supply Chain,is a plus
• Have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in Supply Planning (ideally as a supply planner, process and application expert), with at least 5 years in Supply Chain
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects with a larger number of diverse stakeholders and bring significant change to the business 
• Business processes in Supply planning to a level of genuine business credibility. The jobholder will be/become an ‘expert’ in all of the following competence areas for Distribution Requirements Planning, Production Planning, Production Scheduling and Deployment 

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