Description
SAP APO Business Analyst
Requirements:
- at least 8 year of experience working with hands on SAP APO consulting.
- Senior level APO - DP: Excellent knowledge of SAP BW data flows and APO DP.
- Senior level APO - SNP: Excellent knowledge of the APO SNP module. Knowledge of integration points with SAP ECC
Logistics modules.
- Senior Level APO - PPDS: Excellent knowledge of the APO PPDS module along with hands on CIF experience. Good
knowledge of PPDS function modules.
- Interfaces: Required experience in building interfaces from and to SAP R3 and SAP APO systems. Required strong knowledge of Replenishment planning processes in particular as well as Supply Chain processes in general.
Functional skills:
-Have a good functional understanding about SCM processes: Should be able to translate business requirements
into SAP solution. Should possess good documenting skills: specifying the solution clearly in functional and technical design
documents. Identify test cases to test the solution. Translate functional and technical design to appropriate test scripts.
Required
strong adherence to the SDLC.
Basic level APO - GATP
Experience in working with a virtual team & collaboration with off-shore ABAP team
Experience in working with an international environment, with key users located across different geographical regions.
Experience working with GxP environment.
Experience with AGILE SCRUM methodology.
Responsibilities:
- Develop a strong understanding on the requirements and design.
-Understand and evaluate business requirements, and translate them into functional specification and technical design.
-Build interfaces for APO DP to load data from Manugistics system, using material number conversion.
-Perform necessary configuration in DP, SNP and PPDS to make plan for the demand loaded in DP
- Build interface from APO PPDS to extract data for Manugistics system with material number conversion.
- Configure/Build the file exchange mechanism using Web methods.
- Perform hands-on configuration and instruct ABAP programmers.
-Define unit test scenarios and execute unit testing. Document test scripts and test evidence in testing tool (HP Quality center).
- Define integration test scenarios and execute integration testing. Document the scripts and evidence in the testing tool.
-Assist business users during UAT.
- Perform Regression test scenarios for testing the existing functionalities against changes.
- Provide post go-live support and drive the smooth transition of the support to the respective teams
- With the other team members, be accountable for on time delivery of the project deliverables.
Personal skills:
Some flexibility in working hours is required (occasional over-time or weekend/holiday work)
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Must be able to work on multiple simultaneous tasks with limited supervision
Quick learner, motivated self-starter
Excellent customer service, interpersonal, communication and team collaboration skills
Able to understand and adhere to change management procedures and internal guidelines
Occasional project related travel is possible