Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.
Job Title: IT ERP Implementation Support (Expert)
Location: St Louis, MO, 63146
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
- Configures, implements, maintains and upgrades Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application modules (e.g., Human Resources, Finance, Supply Chain Management).
- Analyzes user requirements to determine ERP system configuration and customization.
- Provides ongoing ERP system support. May be involved in the requirements definition and software vendor selection phase.
Role:
- The successful Business Analyst in the area of SAP APO/IBP candidate will work within the high-performance Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing IT Team. Exceptional teamwork is critical to the success of the individual and the achievement of business results.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Analytical teams to understand business processes and planning requirements.
- Collaborate with the Client Business Network to develop and support enterprise planning solutions that reduce operating costs and improve supply chain performance.
- Lead the planning, design, configuration, testing, training, and deployment of SAP APO modules (DP, SNP, PP/DS) and SAP IBP capabilities (Demand, Supply, Inventory, S&OP, Control Tower).
- Provide production support for global planning and manufacturing operations using APO, including integrations with MES, ECC/S4, and external systems.
- Configure and maintain APO/IBP master data: BOMs, resources, PDS/PPM, location-product, classifications, and batch-related structures.
- Develop and maintain interfaces between APO/IBP and ECC/S4 using CIF, OData services, and integration middleware.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives and enhance planning capabilities across global manufacturing sites.
- Create Functional Design Specifications and detailed documentation to support custom enhancements, BI/Analytics, and performance improvements.
- Partner with FI/CO, MM, PP, QM, Security, Basis, ABAP, and Operations teams to resolve technical and process issues.
- Troubleshoot integration issues between SAP APO/IBP and ECC/S4 (MM, PP, SD, FI/CO).
- Identify process improvement opportunities using new SAP functionalities and optimization methods.
- Research and apply SAP OSS Notes and best practices to maintain system reliability and performance.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years hands-on SAP APO configuration experience (DP, SNP, PP/DS) or SAP IBP experience (Demand, Supply, Inventory, S&OP).
- At least 2 full lifecycle APO and/or IBP implementations.
- Expertise in APO functionalities such as statistical forecasting, SNP heuristics/optimization, PP/DS detailed scheduling, supply heuristics, and inventory optimization.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | St Louis, MO |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $85.03 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- ABAP Programming Languageunmatched
- Agricultureunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Bill of Materials (BOM)unmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Business Analysisunmatched
- Business Intelligenceunmatched
- Business Planunmatched
- Business Processesunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Customer/Client Researchunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Financeunmatched
- Forecastingunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Human Resourcesunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Analysisunmatched
- Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
- Middlewareunmatched
- Operational Support Systems (OSS)unmatched
- Operations Planningunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Developmentunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Project Portfolio Management (PPM)unmatched
- Requirements Managementunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- SAP Administrationunmatched
- SAP MMunmatched
- Sales & Operations Process (S&OP)unmatched
- Sales/Support Engineering (SE)unmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Supply Chain Managementunmatched
- Support Documentationunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Systems Maintenanceunmatched
- Systems Reliabilityunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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