- Work directly with key business stakeholders as an Oracle Supply Chain Planning functional expert to align with leading business processes and conduct gap/impact analysis
- Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and collaborates to determine corresponding system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and analyze functional requirements.
- In collaboration with the Sr. Technical Analyst translate business requirements into Oracle application configurations and solutions
- As system adoption matures, your expertise enables improved product adoption and user experience.
- Collaborate with technical teams for customizations, extensions, and integrations when necessary.
- Contribute to the implementation of Oracle applications, including version upgrades and patches.
- Ensure smooth transition and minimal disruption during system changes.
- Develop and execute test plans to validate the functionality and performance of Oracle applications.
- Development of user stories for product backlog items and acceptance criteria.
- Maintenance of testing tracking software.
- Work closely with business users to conduct user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Maintain training documentation and provide training to end-users on Oracle applications and other tools.
- Offer ongoing support, troubleshooting, and issue resolution for end-users, specifically around data variances.
- Develop and monitor Key Performance Indicators and metrics, such as but not limited to support tickets, validate data quality, healthy backlog, cycle time, planned-to-done ratio.
- Partner with business stakeholders to address all exception reports in a timely manner.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of configurations, customizations, and processes.
- Create user guides and documentation for business processes related to Oracle applications.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including end-users, business analysts, developers, and project managers.
- Work closely with Oracle support and third-party vendors to resolve issues and implement improvements.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization within Oracle applications, and downstream systems.
- Stay informed about Oracle updates, industry best practices, and emerging technologies.
- Consults with technical subject matter experts to develop technical solutions. Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on other business processes and system priorities.
- Act as subject matter expert on Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Planning functionality.
- Implements a prioritized implementation/transformation roadmap.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization within Oracle applications.
- Able to take a business question or need and turn it into a process design and/or data question for the purpose of transforming functions and analyzing data to extract an answer or resolution.
- Stay informed about Oracle updates, industry best practices, and emerging technologies.
- Provide functional support to end-users and resolve issues related to Oracle Fusion applications.
- Collaborate with technical analysts to troubleshoot and debug system errors, or escalate to vendors.
- Ability to develop documentation including, but are not limited to, current and future systems/landscapes, business capability maps roadmaps, and process design documents.
- Keep documentation up-to-date with changes and enhancements.
- Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects.
- Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating business processes with technology skills
- Highly collaborative and supportive of business and of its ideals and strategies.
- Skilled at influencing, guiding, and facilitating stakeholders and peers with decision making.
- Bachelor's degree in business, information systems or related discipline. A combination of education, training and experience that results in demonstrated competency to perform the work may be substituted.
- 3 5 years of experience with implementing Oracle Supply Chain solutions. Have been part of at least one full lifecycle of implementation.
- 3 years of experience in maintaining information systems that support supply chain.
- 8 years of experience in consumer-packaged goods (food & beverage preferred) is a plus
Senior Functional Analyst Supply Chain Planning - Horsham, United States - Bimbo Bakeries USA
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Senior Functional Analyst Supply Chain Planning
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Employment Type: Regular
Location: HORSHAM,PA
Have you ever enjoyed Arnold, Brownberry or Oroweat bread? A Thomas English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee, Entenmanns or Marinela cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA
More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure our consumers have the freshest products at every meal. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we provide a safe and inclusive work environment that appreciates diversity, promotes development and allows our associates to be their authentic selves.
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Position Summary:
In collaboration with Platform/Product Owners, and under the general direction of the Head of IT Architecture, is responsible for providing functional expertise and support for Oracle Fusion Supply Chain applications.
As an Oracle Functional Analyst, you will play a crucial role in supporting and enhancing the organization's Oracle-based systems and applications. Your primary responsibilities will involve understanding business processes, analyzing requirements, configuring Oracle applications, and ensuring the effective use of Oracle technology to meet business objectives. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, including business users, IT teams, and external vendors, to implement and maintain Oracle solutions.
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The physical and mental demands described in each job posting are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of each job. Reasonable accommodations may be requested to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of each job.
Bimbo Bakeries USA is an equal opportunity employer with a policy that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, any other classification protected by law.