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WestRock Company · 1 month ago

Lead IT Analyst - Demand Planning

Atlanta, GA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

WestRock Company is a global leader in sustainable paper and packaging solutions. The Lead IT Analyst - Demand Planning will serve as a trusted partner and thought leader on the future state technology landscape, responsible for designing, configuring, and delivering key functional use cases for O9 Supply Planning.

CommercialManufacturingPackaging ServicesPaper ManufacturingSustainability

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Help with Configuration & setup of O9 Enterprise Modeler by creating, constructing, and modifying an Enterprise Planning Model

Experience with strategic planning, financial planning, medium-term, and tactical or operational planning within Supply chain management

A solid understanding of supply chain planning concepts, including network planning, Optimization, Distribution Planning, Master Planning, and Sales and operations planning (S&OP)

Experience with constraint-based planning, infinite planning, and rough cut capacity planning

Experience with the entire lifecycle of a supply chain planning solution implementation, including business requirement gathering, solution design & build, UAT/SIT, go-live/cutover, and value realization

Experience using agile methodology to deliver large-scale enterprise implementations

Experience in integrating multiple ERP systems and implementing an end-to-end supply chain solution

Help Westrock Demand planning team improve forecast accuracy, system adaptability, and simplify business processes with demand planning architecture

Deliver key functional use cases for Supply Planning in the O9 Supply Planning tool

Configuring o9 for Constrained Plan, Master & Aggregate Supply Planning, Safety Stock, Transactional Data Flow, Plan Parameters, Requirements Plan, Capacity Planning

Monitor batch jobs and troubleshoot issues related to data and system bugs

Achieve BU reporting SLA’s and recommend improvements on KPI’s and delivery of these reports

Understand Planning Parameters, and their impact on the Supply Chain Solver (SCS) runs, O9 batch orchestration

Matching demand and Supply by using O9 Supply Chain Solver (SCS) by configuring SCS to execute the most efficient plan by adhering to the business priorities/rules such as Demand/Customer Priorities, Inventory Policies, and Demand Fulfilment

Experience with supply chain planning tools like O9 IBP (preferred), JDA or SAP IBP, or Kinaxis

Experience in configuring planning levels, attributes, master data dimensions, and batch job management

Experience with gathering requirements and writing or reviewing FSD, KDD, and Solution design documents

Experience with expert understanding of demand planning, statistical forecast generation, aggregation, and disaggregation

Collaborate with project managers to document issues, risks, action items, and project team decisions from project meetings

Provide training and support to end-users on the new supply planning tools

Develop and execute projects to optimize supply chain operations and ensure alignment with business goals

Work with cross-functional teams, IT, and business stakeholders to ensure the successful planning and execution of the project

Support end-user training

Identify and document data requirements needed to enable aligned to-be business processes, such as network planning, inventory, Optimization, logistics, and other operations/supply chain data

Analysis of necessary data from sources like ERP systems, Data Lake, Excel sheets, and others. Where data is not available, partner with Westrock business points of contact to create missing data elements

Support the Integration strategy and workshop sessions for O9 supply planning

Qualification

O9 Supply PlanningSupply Chain ManagementERP IntegrationAgile MethodologyStatistical ForecastingEnd-user TrainingData AnalysisCross-functional Collaboration

Required