Kinaxis Functional and Data Analyst

Ford Motor; Chennai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford Motor is seeking a Kinaxis Analyst to support SPCPS as a functional and data expert. You will drive inbound data loads, verify data robustness, and assist in authoring demand and capacity in Kinaxis Rapid Response.

You will interact with regional MP&L, sales planning and IT teams to diagnose incidents, document enhancements, and deliver high-level customer service while coordinating governance meetings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science or IT with strong analytical skills.
• Good understanding of Kinaxis Rapid Response and SPCPS Kinaxis concept.
• Proven ability to analyze data, design processes and deliver solutions.

Responsibilities

• Support SPCPS Business Manager as functional/data expert in Kinaxis Rapid Response.
• Coordinate inbound data loads from multiple sources into SPCPS Kinaxis and validate data.
• Collaborate with regional teams to author demand/capacity in Kinaxis and resolve incidents.
• Document enhancements and coordinate with IT for implementation and testing.
• Create dashboards, alerts, and automation workflows in Rapid Response.

Skills

Kinaxis Rapid Response

Data analysis

Excel & visualization

Problem solving

Communication skills

Team player

Time zone coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering / Science / IT

Tools

Kinaxis Rapid Response

Job description

Kinaxis Analyst 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 MP&L & 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 Experience Level Senior Level