Description
Cummins
- Provides extensive expertise in application functionality, configuration, and support for application software solutions; works with business analysts, architects, technical experts, and software vendors on solution requirements, design, configuration, functionality gap resolution, implementation, support, maintenance, and enhancement of applications.
- Analyzes and evaluates application functionality and makes recommendations for better use of standard application functionality to improve business processes and capabilities
- Determines and documents optimal application setup and configuration to meet functional requirements and specifications; configures and verifies application setup and configuration
- Develops expertise on emerging trends and features of applications and solutions; makes functional recommendations for assigned applications and systems.
- Performs analysis of potential application solutions, identifies and recommends solutions to improve
- Develop’s and maintains close relationships with relevant vendors; works with vendors to improve application functionality and resolve functional issues
- Works with process owners, business analysts, systems analysts, and architects to gather, document, and review functional, architectural, and technical requirements and define functional application designs.
- Serves as subject matter expert and point of contact for content, processes, procedures, and functions related to assigned applications for projects and application support (as needed).
- Creates and manages functional specifications for a given project, based on which programs and configurations are applied to create the program, application, or complete solution
Skills
- Solution Design – Creates and defines solution design including instrumentation and measurement using industry standards and tools, version control, and build and test automation to synthesize diagrams, models, and documentation for application creation to develop a solution that meets integrability, business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
- Solution’ Functional Fit Analysis – Breaks a system down into its component parts using procedures, tools, and job aids to examine how well the components have been designed, purchased, and configured to interact holistically and meet business, technical, security, governance, and compliance requirements.
- Solution; Modeling – Creates, designs, and formulates models, diagrams, and documentation using industry standards, tools, version control, and build and test automation to meet business, technical, security, governance, and compliance requirements.
- Solution, Configuration – Configures, builds, and tests solution for commercial applications (COTS) using industry standards and tools, version control, and build and test automation to meet business, technical, security, and compliance requirements.
- Solution Validation Testing – Validating a configuration change or solution using best practices defined by the function, including Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) standards, tools, and metrics, to ensure that it works as intended and meets customer requirements.
- Business Insight – Apply knowledge of the business and market to drive organizational goals.
- Customer Focus – Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Technical savvy – Anticipate and embrace innovation in business-enabling digital and technology applications.
- Managing Complexity – Making sense of complex, voluminous, and sometimes conflicting information to effectively solve problems.[
- Global Perspective – Taking a comprehensive view when approaching problems, using a global lens.
- Optimizes Work Processes – Knows the most effective and efficient processes for getting things done, with an emphasis on continuous improvement.
- Conflict Management – Handles conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
Training, licenses, certificates
College degree or equivalent in information technology, business, or related field required.
Export control or sanctions compliance license may be required for this position.
Experience
Relevant intermediate level work experience required. 3-5 years of experience.
This is an excellent opportunity that will allow you to help shape our IT planning solutions at Cummins for years to come.
Reporting to the Planning IT Leader, the candidate will be responsible for leading the IT solutions provided by Corporate Supply Chain IT to enable our First Fit Manufacturing Transformation.
The candidate will be expected to lead the design from the beginning and drive the right solutions, minimizing or avoiding customization, but when that is not possible, always ensuring that what is built works across all business units and is never site specific.
Immediately upon joining the team, the candidate will be responsible for this multi-year program will be conducted in collaboration with Corporate Supply Chain Solutions, Corporate Planning (Transformation and Integrated Supply Chain), and the business units to deliver best-in-class planning solutions using i2 Demand Manager, Next Generation Planning BOM (NGPBOM), BlueYonder Sequencer, and Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning.
Continued
The candidate will be involved in other exciting global initiatives that add value to business unit manufacturing sites: Demand & Supply Planning SaaS Solutions, Blue Yonder Sequencer, multi-echelon inventory optimization, rough cut capacity planning and global inventory visibility.
Experience in demand planning, procurement planning (master production scheduling/material requirements planning), and WIP order sequencing is key for this position, while experience in warehousing, purchasing, and work-in-process is a plus. The candidate will also be expected to have a good understanding of Integrated Business Planning (IBP).
candidates is expected to have solid technical knowledge of both Oracle application functionality, setup/configuration, table level knowledge and SQL.
The, candidate must be able to demonstrate the ability to lead and drive solutions involving multiple IT teams that are both technical and complex.
Tcandidate will be expected to demonstrate exemplary requirements gathering skills by capturing requirements in data flow diagrams through to use cases and the resulting test cases.
‘candidate must have strong communication skills, both verbal and written, as you will be making presentations to supply chain and site leaders and be comfortable with both detail and strategy and “executive summary” levels.
