IT Functional Analyst – Supply Chain Management & Planning

Jobinhalt

Our IT Centre EMEA counts 3 departments: IT Planning (PLAN), IT Development (BUILD) and IT Infrastructure/Operations (RUN). Within our IT Development department, we have 2 competence centres: one in Madrid and one in Ostend.

You will become part of IT Development in Ostend.

The IT Development department in Belgium consists of 20 internal colleagues strengthened with external consultants and an offshore team. The group is young and dynamic with a good team spirit and open communication structure. We implement innovative IT solutions for our 7500+ Daikin colleagues all over Europe & Middle East.

Function

We are looking for an enthusiastic (senior) IT Functional Analyst and Project Manager to structure, improve and promote our Supply Chain Management & Planning (SCM) processes in our EMEA region.

After an intensive introduction and training period, your main tasks will be:

• Leading different (international) projects within your area of expertise and cross-module; this with focus on standardization, uniformization and innovation. In doing so, you take our “project management methodology” into account to deliver high-quality IT solutions towards business. This also includes the presence of clear documentation and a proper hand-over to our IT Operations Team (RUN).
• You willcoordinate, analyse & implement improvement requests in your area of expertise in close cooperation with your business peers, internal IT colleagues and our offshore team. This with a critical, though constructive mindset taking best practices into account. Although we hand-over live projects to our RUN team, assistance in 3rd line IT support is sometimes required.
• You will follow and explore thefuture roadmap on IT solutions within the SCM domain. This includes studying, planning and driving innovation (Eg. S/4HANA, SAS, AI,…) and bring our strategy into reality.

Today in Daikin, we use mainly SAP APO for:

• DP (Demand Planning) for product forecast
• SNP (Supply Network planning) for (Requirement Planning; Production Planning; Allocation Planning; Supply Distribution Planning for optimal distribution planning between factories and European warehouses to align stock in each warehouse towards 24h delivery in Europe; Transport Planning (TLB) to ensure cost-efficient and optimal truck loading)
• G-ATP for Available-To-Promise and backorder processing
• Supply Chain Planning Reporting and Data Analytics

At the moment, we are ending our RFP process to find a proper replacement for SAP APO (our current Advanced Planner & Optimizer tool). In the next coming years, we will re-engineer the processes and gradually move from SAP APO into the new tool.

This is THE ideal opportunity to jump (together with our colleagues) into this journey from the very beginning.

We see you as a main driver to standardize and improve our SCM processes within an EMEA context.

Profile

• You havea master degree as economist, engineer, computer scientist or equal.
• You have3+ experience in a similar IT or Business surrounding.
• You have ananalytical & innovative spirit and interest in our company’s need to grow & accelerate.
• You are pragmatic and have a strong interest inrecent IT evolutions and technologies.
• You have asolution oriented mind-set and a drive to continuously improve your area.
• You have the necessary self-discipline to make and follow-up a planning.
• You are ateam player and try to establish and keep a good relationship with both your IT and business colleagues.
• You have goodcommunication skills and are not afraid to present to groups.
• You are prepared to occasionallytravel to Daikin group companies in EMEA.
• You have a very good knowledge of English and Dutch.