Kinaxis Analyst

Ford Business Solutions; Chennai District; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford Business Solutions in Chennai, India is seeking a Functional / Data expert to support the SPCPS Business Manager using Kinaxis RapidResponse. You will drive inbound data loads from OVS, SAMIS, MASTER, SMART OMS into SPCPS Kinaxis and verify data robustness for SPP authoring by the Sales team.

You will collaborate with regional MPL Sales planning and IT teams to diagnose incidents, maintain incident tickets, participate in governance meetings, and develop dashboards and alerts in

Qualifications

• Experience in data-driven demand planning, allocation or capacity processes.
• Familiarity with SPCPS Kinaxis and RapidResponse is preferred.
• Strong problem solving, attention to detail and ability to learn new systems quickly.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate month-begin inbound data loads from OVS, SAMIS, MASTER and SMART OMS into SPCPS Kinaxis.
• Verify data robustness to enable Sales team SPP authoring in Kinaxis.
• Work with regional MPL Sales planning to author demand and capacity in SPCPS Kinaxis.
• Collaborate with IT teams to diagnose and resolve Kinaxis incidents.

Skills

Data analysis

Excel reporting

Kinaxis RapidResponse

Analytical skills

Communication

Team player

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engg/Science/IT

Tools

Excel

Kinaxis RapidResponse

Job description

The candidate need to support the SPCPS Business Manager as a Functional / Data expert using Kinaxis Rapid Response and be responsible to deliver the following:

• Drive and co-ordinate month beginning Inbound integration / data load activities from OVS, SAMIS, MASTER, SMART OMS SOB into SPCPS Kinaxis.
• Check and verify data robustness to support seamless SPP authoring by Sales team in SPCPS Kinaxis.
• Work with regional MPL Sales planning team to help author demand / capacity in SPCPS Kinaxis
• Interact with technical, data IT team members to diagnose and resolve incidents in Kinaxis
• Keep track of SPCPS Kinaxis incident tickets for quicker resolution without affecting business.
• Interact with business / IT to document, follow and implement SPCPS Kinaxis functional enhancements
• Coordinate with the PDO / Codification / IT teams to pull new entities into SPCPS Kinaxis
• Support on testing functional enhancements in EDU and QA environment to avoid issues post implementation.
• Bring issues which require escalation/help to the leadership team for support.
• Regional/Goverance/Approval meetings
• Bring defects / enahancements request to weekly SPCPS BPR for approval
• Creat workbooks, worksheets, alerts, schedule task, scorecards, automation chain and dashboards in Rapid response
• Provide creative solutions to complex business problems while maintaining best practices;
• Work closely with Kinaxis Solution Architect to develop a business process design that leverages RapidResponse capabilities; Providing high levels of customer service.

• Fair understanding of business data, planning parameters, and business logic used in the demand planning, allocation and capacity process
• Good at excel based analysis and reporting through visualization
• Having knowledge of SPCPS Kinaxis and Rapid response
• Good at process adherence
• Good analytical skills and problem solving skills
• Proven ability to quickly learn new systems/programs
• Good Team player
• Good communications

Willingness to work across time zones

• Bacheor's degree in Engg / Science / IT