My client in the renewables industry is looking for a Supply Chain Systems Analyst to join their team in Cape Town.
The purpose of the role is to lead D365 FO Systems improvements in the supply chain team. Assist the digitalization of supply chain in the company, ensuring best practice systems and processes. Ensure master data is maintained globally, drive upskilling of the Supply Chain Management organization and unleash the analytics potential of the resulting supply chain organisation.
Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Support the head of supply chain and the systems owner with creating and maintaining a roadmap for Supply Chain Management improvements in D365 and 3RD party applications with a particular focus on business and systems analysis to ensure best practice in our global processes and data driven analytics
- Lead assessment and reviews of data and records for supply chain to ensure stability and improve data quality
- Develop the standards and requirements in D365 for supply chain and the integration of other systems
- Contribute to develop the overall systems’ roadmap to meet the company’s growth target
- Lead or participate in ERP supply chain improvement projects, contributing with technical input, functional design, liaise with the company’s systems owner, partners, and localization vendors according to the systems roadmap
- Lead supply chain testing and training with the rest of the systems team during implementations and during production
- Ensure that the supply chain D365 processes are aligned with HQ policies to ensure compliance and operational excellence
- Contribute to efficient Supply Chain Management ERP processes in our global offices, supporting the process owner by suggesting process and quality improvements through Fit/Gap analyses
- Stakeholder management to ensure that the supply chain processes are well integrated with the ERP system and are streamlined with other departments that need to provide inputs or receive outputs
- Ensure training of the Supply Chain Management teams and develop superusers
Critical interfaces:
- System owner and financial systems & operations team
- Head of departments for cross functional integration
- Participants in improvement or ERP roll out projects
- Process owners
- Superusers in Supply Chain Management
- External consultants / Systems vendors
REQUIREMENTS:
- Degree in Supply Chain, Business, or Data management / Industrial Engineering
- Combination of 3 years or more of experience with Dynamics 365 FO or AX2012 and 2 years or more within supply chain systems or Supply Chain Management
- Fluent in both written and spoken English
- Basic knowledge of finance modules in D365 FO (Record to report, project accounting, inbound invoice)
- Advanced knowledge of and experience with supply chain modules / vendor management
- Advanced user of Excel
- Experience in Power BI is a plus
- Structured mindset
- Interest in ERP systems management and improvements
Desired Skills:
- supply chain systems analyst
- D365 FO
- supply chain systems
- supply chain modules
- vendor management
- Excel
- Power BI
- best practice
- master data
- analytics