Business Analyst II, ERP COE

Work Schedule First Shift (Days) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. JDE E1 Functional Analyst Supply Planning, Procurement, Inventory & Distribution FUNCTION IT / Business Applications CORE SCOPE Supply & Demand Planning  |  Procurement  |  Inventory  |  Warehouse  |  3PL / EDI EXPERIENCE 5+ years JDE E1 ROLE PROFILE Provide functional and business-process support for Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (JDE E1) across the end-to-end supply lifecycle: demand and supply planning, MRP/DRP, purchasing and procurement, inventory, distribution and warehouse operations, and supplier / 3PL integrations. Partner with Planning, Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, Distribution, Warehouse, Manufacturing, 3PL providers and IT to improve supply availability, inventory productivity, purchasing execution, transaction visibility, standardisation and automation.   ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES   1. Supply & Demand Planning / MRP / DRP ·   Own the JDE E1 functional domain for MRP, DRP and supply planning, ensuring demand, inventory and planned supply are translated into actionable replenishment decisions. ·   Support MRP generation, demand/supply balancing, planned purchase, manufacturing and transfer recommendations, planning messages and exceptions, lead times, safety stock, order policies, planning horizons/time fences, supply-demand inclusion rules and branch/plant parameters. ·   Ensure sales demand, forecasts, inventory, purchase orders, manufacturing orders and transfer orders are appropriately represented in planning logic and supply recommendations. ·   Partner with planners to improve planning effectiveness, reduce spreadsheet-based planning and manual overrides, and strengthen exception-based planning and supply continuity. ·   Support multi-site planning scenarios across warehouses, manufacturing locations, suppliers and intercompany supply flows. 2. Purchasing & Procurement ·   Act as the key functional IT partner for JDE E1 Purchasing and Procurement across requisitions, purchase orders, approvals, supplier/item purchasing information, blanket and contract orders, releases, PO changes/cancellations, direct and inventory purchases, receipts, supplier returns and PO close/reconciliation. ·   Improve purchasing efficiency, PO accuracy, supplier performance and exception management while promoting standard JDE E1 functionality and consistent procurement processes. ·   Convert MRP and replenishment recommendations into effective purchasing execution and maintain alignment between procurement, inventory and supply requirements. ·   Identify opportunities to automate purchasing activities, approvals, supplier interactions and exception handling. 3. Inventory Management & Planning Master Data ·   Provide functional leadership for inventory processes supporting planning, procurement and distribution, including availability, commitments, transfers, adjustments, lot-controlled inventory, inventory status, cycle counts and physical inventory. ·   Improve inventory accuracy and visibility to reduce shortages, excess / obsolete inventory and planning distortion. ·   Govern item master, item branch/plant, supplier/item relationships, lead times, safety stock, order policies/multiples, planning codes/fences, units of measure and branch/plant parameters. ·   Diagnose inventory and master-data issues that drive incorrect planning