Digital Solution Expert Apriso

Job Information

The Digital Solution Expert (Apriso) will be focused on facilitating operational efficiency, improving organizational communication and customer service as well as implementing new processes and solutions. 

The Digital Solution Expert (Apriso) is also responsible for partnering and building relationships within the organization with the primary objective of providing enhanced organizational capabalities.   

The Digital Solution Expert must have a strong understanding of the technologies and solutions that support the teams and processes in their site. He/She must be able to translate business needs and functional requirements into solutions. 

The successful candidate must be able to lead and manage teams to document, design and implement major business processes as well as evangelize new processes, procedures and technologies to assist with change management.  Leadership of indirect reports and good influencing skills across teams will also be critical skills.
 

Role & Responsibility

General: 

•    Site stake holder management (up to plant manager level)

•    Support process/solution development, improvements and implementation on a site and organizational unit including any adaptations or variants together with Process & Solution key users
•    Bring business knowledge and needs /requirements from the local site to the regional team or global functional team
•    Collect, propose and help prioritize change requests from the local site and organizational unit towards Solution Council
•    Support process acceptance tests (help create rigorous test script, and support the business in execution of those test scripts
•    Analyze business issues and business requests from a process and solution perspective from the local site before initiating a formal change request 

•    Identify root cause to define process and solution improvement area and propose solution for local site or escalate 
•    Communicate and anchor process improvement proposals at the local site/organization 
•    Support implementation of standard process/es at local site/organization 
•    Perform process or solution trainings and give support to process users at the local site/organization 
•    Participate in Solution Council meetings
•    Participate Solution management Meetings together with key users
•    Represent the users in user/reference groups where key users not available
•    Lead local key users in Securing deliveries, Supporting Change Request handling 
•    Facilitate operational efficiency, improve organizational communication and overall customer service

Leadership:

•    Assist with annual resource & budget planning activities
•    Maintain relationship with regional and global affiliates & BU’s for systems which are global in scope
•    Development and mentoring of business process management capabilities in PIT and BU teams
•    Build strong relationships with power users within business functions
•    Apply knowledge of external markets/trends and new technology to daily role.

Solution Delivery:

•    Lead or participate in the fit gap analysis of existing processes
•    Manage business analysts and key users and coordinate with business to make sure to bring all required knowledge about business processes on the project
•    Manage Project teams and deliverables
•    Manage business analysts and key users and coordinate with business to make sure to bring all required knowledge about business processes on the project
•    Identify and define detailed product requirements and use cases.
•    Set up and maintain functional requirement documentation
 

Job Requirement

Education & Qualification

Engineering Degree in related field/discipline and relevant experience implementing business process change

Knowledge & Skills

•    Experience MES (Apriso) (5< Yr) :
    Inventory modules
    Production modules
    Quality modules
•    Automotive / Construction Equipment (discrete) Industry experience (Preferred)
•    Business process management experience
•    Process discovery and documentation
•    Ability to analyze and design business processes 
•    Process improvement vision
•    Process performance management
•    Ability to develop product requirements based on input gathered from a variety of sources including analysis results and feedback from the user community 
•    Ability to develop test conditions and expected results based on the application requirements 
•    Ability to review project deliverables for completeness and quality, and compliance with established project standards
 

Experience:  5+ years