Manufacturing Data Analyst & ERP Optimization

Velocity Machine, Inc.; De Pere (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Velocity Machine, Inc. is seeking a Business Analyst to structure, explore, and analyze data to back strategic decisions across functions.

You will ensure data accuracy and produce dashboards, reports, and KPIs to drive production scheduling, supply chain improvements, and inventory control in a manufacturing setting. The role partners with purchasing, planning, operations, logistics, quality, finance, IT and suppliers, applying Lean/Six Sigma concepts and ERP expertise (JobBOSS or similar) to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Information Systems, or related field preferred, equivalent experience considered.
• 3+ years of experience in an ERP functional analyst or business systems role required.
• Proven experience leading ERP enhancements and process improvement initiatives required.
• Experience supporting AI enablement in supply chain, including process automation, analytics, reporting, decision support, governance, or workflow improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Perform data exploration and analysis to identify trends, patterns and business insights.
• Structure, clean and prepare datasets from multiple sources for analysis and reporting.
• Develop and maintain recurring reports, dashboards and visualizations for stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual reporting, reduce rework, improve data visibility and simplify supply chain decision-making.
• Translate business questions into analytical approaches and clearly communicate findings.
• Validate data accuracy and consistency across reports and analytical outputs.
• Partners with business leaders and process owners to identify process improvement and optimization opportunities.
• Partner with buyers, planners, category managers, operations, finance, quality and IT to define reporting needs, document business requirements and support system or process enhancements.
• Analyze supply chain, purchasing, planning, supplier management and operations processes to identify inefficiencies, data issues, procedural gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Collect, analyze and interpret supply chain data including procurement lead times, supplier performance, inventory levels and order fulfillment rates.
• Maintain accurate master data within ERP systems, ensuring vendor, material and production records are current.
• Develop and monitor KPIs such as on-time delivery, order accuracy, fill rate and inventory turnover for reporting to management.
• Optimize inventory management, including safety stock calculations, reorder points and raw material planning.
• Collaborate with vendors and suppliers to improve delivery reliability, compliance and quality.
• Analyze production schedules and utilization to support machine shop throughput optimization.
• Develop and maintain production dashboards that track work in progress, capacity utilization and bottlenecks.
• Provide statistical forecasting to anticipate demand fluctuations and inform resource allocation.
• Partner with production teams to implement lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Serve as a functional expert on ERP systems (JobBOSS or similar) used for production, inventory and scheduling.
• Develop and maintain reporting tools within ERP systems for production control, supply chain visibility and quality tracking.
• Support ERP implementation, configuration and upgrades by documenting functional requirements, coordinating user acceptance testing (UAT) and training end-users.
• Ensure data integrity, compliance and proper access controls within ERP modules.
• Analyze production and quality data to identify trends, deviations and root causes of defects.
• Lead statistical analysis such as control charts, process capability studies and regression analysis to support quality initiatives.
• Collaborate with quality engineering teams to track corrective actions and compliance with ISO/IATF standards.
• Contribute to Six Sigma and Lean projects to reduce waste and improve production quality.
• Coordinates with external partners, integrators, or vendors supporting ERP initiatives.
• Acts as a bridge between business teams and Information Systems to ensure alignment, clarity and shared accountability.
• Support the document control requirements and assure you and your teams work to get all work instructions documented and controlled, as well as, any required forms that your departments utilize.
• Identify, lead and support cost savings opportunities and initiatives.
• Understand and adhere to all company policies and support the mission and values.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Data visualization

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Finance/Supply Chain or related field

Tools

JobBOSS ERP

Excel

Job description

Velocity Machine, Inc. is seeking a Business Analyst to structure, explore, and analyze data to back strategic decisions across functions.

You will ensure data accuracy and produce dashboards, reports, and KPIs to drive production scheduling, supply chain improvements, and inventory control in a manufacturing setting. The role partners with purchasing, planning, operations, logistics, quality, finance, IT and suppliers, applying Lean/Six Sigma concepts and ERP expertise (JobBOSS or similar) to