Job Purpose
Responsible for project delivery and operational acceptance of solutions deployed into production. Ensure the adherence of standards and SAP best practices. Maintain regular contact with vendor SAP Basis and infrastructure team regarding work progress for India / Thailand / Germany / US and China.Utilize knowledge of defined reference architectures, technology trends and implementation experience to translate business requirements into a system and landscape solution blueprint that represents an end-to-end technical solution.Provide input for the solution road map, integrating multiple disparate processes, and addressing short and long term organizational needs.Responsible for support,Develop and implementation of New Technology Like Power BI and Robotics process for Consolidation of MIS and automization of different processes to save time and Manhours.Ensure that changes to SAP are delivered in line with the business standards in terms of development and testing. Ensure that changes to dependent applications are viable in SAP and do not cause a detrimental impact to production.Lead activities during upgrades and releases with multiple stakeholders, working with change and release management team.
Job Context & Major Challenges
Context
Epoxy division of ABCT (Formerly Thai Epoxy & Allied Products Co., Ltd.) is only Epoxy manufacturing company in South East Asia. It was a joint venture of ABG with Nisho Iwai and Tohto Kasei of Japan. It started its operation in 1992 with a capacity of 10,000 MT. In the year 1996, the plant was expanded to 30,000 MT. New line was dedicated to solid grade epoxy resins. In the year 2000, this solid grade plant was modified to produce both solid & liquid grade epoxy resins due to market requirement. In year 2002, the unit entered into specialty epoxy resins with set up of pilot plant, Application Laboratory and Development lab. The specialty plant of 7500 MT capacity was commissioned in the year 2004. In 2006 the unit set up full-fledged R&D & Application Development Centre. It produces wide range of epoxy resins, hardeners and reactive diluents. The second specialty plant was commissioned in the year 2008.. New India plant of 72000MTA capacity was setup in Vilayat, Gujarat in Nov 2013 and PMRC was inaugurated in Nov 2014 at ABSTC, Taloja. The unit has ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 certification for more than 10 years. Its domestic sales is around 20% and balance 80% is exported to countries around the globe. It operates in a Buyer s market with a global market share of 2% only. The market is dominated by big players like Dow, Hexion, Huntsman and Nanya. The job demands proactive response to changing market needs and focusing on higher-end products and favorable market segments for providing better contribution. The job demands a high level understanding of customer's technical & functional requirements for ensuring an acceptable quality level.
The Job Position Required
- Proven Experience in SAP S-4/HANA Technologies to support business ERP.
- Significant awareness of the future direction for SAP in the relevant functional area
- Proven experience in a professional services environment - including project delivery relating to information management, data warehousing, SAP SAC, SAP HANA, SAP B4HANA, SAP HANA, advanced analytics, or data-focused environment.
- Remote and off-shored team's management in Global delivery model. Experience of working within multi-location teams
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of Software Development Lifecycle
- Significant experience of Service Management, Change and Release Management and Quality Management techniques gained through IT program / project delivery.
Major Challenges
- To support CIO in unification of SAP S-4 / HANA across the units ( India / Thailand / Germany / US and China) to have unified processes and workimg culture.
- Consolidation of Process and MIS to ensure single truth of Data.
- Exploration, evaluation of latest information technology and continuous value addition and change management due to fast obsolescence and technology upgradation.
- Ensure Delivery of SAP process as per location Tax and business policy.
Support in Different location and Time Zones.
Key Result Areas
KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)
Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)
KRA1 1. Ensure SAP Project delivery is In-Line with business requirement and adopting Best Practises with uniform processes.
- Maintain regular contact with vendor SAP Basis and infrastructure team regarding work progress for India / Thailand / Germany / US and China 1.Prepare & recommend process change & integration in order to support end user to perform better.
- Promote innovation & new ideas for value addition.
- Plan technology options and Recommend tech with the long-term vision, thus protecting assets.
KRA2 Provide input for the solution road map, integrating multiple disparate processes, and addressing short and long term organizational needs.
- Help business to leveraging SAP / IT in below Functions:
- Finance and Costing Module
- Sales & Distribution for TH / Germany / US and China
- MM Modules for all the location as above
- PP / PM and QM modules for all the above locations 1.Prepare project plan, mobilize resources, deliverables, milestone with activity schedule, responsibility & propose for approval.
- Plan, Prioritize, and Review projects and the project portfolio as they relate to the selection, acquisition, development, and installation of major information systems.
KRA3 Responsible for support,Develop and implementation of New Technology Like Power BI and Robotics process for Consolidation of MIS and automization of different processes to save time and Manhours. 1.Conversion of Different MIS and reports prepared in excel.
- Implementation of Technologies to help functional and business team to implement the Dashboards and MIS
- Implementation of new processes like Robotics to guide function in minimizing the processes and man efforts.
KRA4 Ensure that changes to SAP are delivered in line with the business standards in terms of development and testing.Ensure that changes to dependent applications are viable in SAP and do not cause a detrimental impact to production.Lead activities during upgrades and releases with multiple stakeholders, working with change and release management team. 1.Promote innovation & new ideas for value addition.
- Keep current with trends and issues in IT industry, including current tech and prices.
KRA5 Internal Customer Satisfaction.
Ensure effective and efficient services to meet the user's requirement. 1.Administer improvement in service level by analysis of data and control over repetitive instances.
- Administer user feedback, analyze, prepare and recommend action plan for implementation.
- Establish appropriate standards and systems.
- Administer training and retraining to the user to operate the computer assets effectively.
