Supply Chain Operations Senior Analyst

Overview

Supply Chain Operations Senior Analyst within the Supply Chain Planning team, responsible for end-to-end supply planning and execution, with a focus on Order Management from order creation to order fulfillment and financial settlement.

What you'll do

• Lead the team and support overall lead on delivery of program deliverables and interdependencies in an optimized manner.
• Assess, design, build and implement best practices on process, organization and technology for Order Management from order creation to order fulfillment and financial settlement, including order prioritization, purchase order receipt, invoice matching, inventory availability and promise, accuracy and fulfillment, provisioning of services and activation of billing.
• Supervise day-to-day Order Management operations including order entry, incompletion resolution, allocation checks, VAS setup, release management, and document distribution.
• Serve as level-1 escalation for order processing issues including missing prices, credit blocks, VAS timing conflicts and supply allocation exceptions.
• Oversee Claims processing activities ensuring SLA adherence.
• Manage Returns workflows including coordination of call tags, overage debit memos, and SR processing; ensure documentation is maintained in SAP.
• Monitor team execution against Z-Curve automation targets and identify manual steps that can be streamlined or escalated to the Overall Lead for automation investment.
• Prepare metrics.
• Manage escalation process level 1.
• Engage with stakeholders on tactical matters, i.e. follow up with stakeholders to collect data.
• Develop and deliver training to educate stakeholders on documented procedures, data flows etc.
• Execute audit compliance actions.
• Collaborate with business partners to verify and validate business rules and make revisions as required.
• Troubleshoot order processing services issues, validate results sets, recommend and implement improvements, and provide ad hoc reports and analyses.
• Assist with test strategy and execution as required; execute scripts testing.
• Assist with data related technical issues and support data infrastructure needs.
• Support ad hoc requests and base business functions; execute select project tasks; execute error handling activities.
• Monitor and report on shipping schedule management, release workflows and allocation reporting across regions.
• Share lessons learned, best practices and other relevant information with other members of supplier staff who are supporting the buyer.

What you'll need

• Any graduation (Bachelor's degree).
• 5 to 8 years of overall experience.
• Overall data experience with SAP module.
• Hands-on experience with SAP SPM order entry and management.
• Working knowledge of incompletion resolution processes and credit block management in SAP SPM.
• Experience with claims processing via CMS portal, including template upload and pricing verification.
• Familiarity with returns handling including overage management, call tag creation and debit memo processing.
• Experience using SAP BI for order and allocation reporting.
• Strong process orientation, attention to detail and ability to maintain quality.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with structured datasets.
• Ability to solve problems and apply logical thinking for accuracy, quality and peer reviews.
• Effective communication skills, oral and written, US English; conversational Hindi.
• Experience in developing formulas and plans using MS Excel.
• Comfortable working independently and as part of a team.
• Basic business and/or technical knowledge and understanding of supply chain data elements, process and organizational support models.
• Ability to share lessons learned and best practices with other members of supplier staff supporting the buyer.
• Good research and organizational abilities.
• Knowledge of Distributed Order Management for both on-line and physical network management.

Nice to have

• Select resources may need experience with technologies such as SQL, Tableau etc.
• Familiarity with Python-based automation tools or Excel-based report automation is an advantage.

Details

• Location: Mumbai.