Supply Chain Applications Manager

LP Building Solutions - Nashville, TN

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Nashville, TN

11-50 employees

Wood Product Manufacturing

About the position

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP Building Solutions) is a leading provider of high-performance building solutions that meet the demands of builders, remodelers, and homeowners worldwide. We manufacture engineered wood building products that include an extensive offering of innovative and dependable building materials and accessories. LP's values-driven culture creates an environment where talented and hardworking people thrive in an ethical, inclusive, challenging, and rewarding place to work. Since our founding in 1972, we've developed careers and provided advancement opportunities in the building products industry. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, LP operates more than 20 facilities across North and South America. In the role of Supply Chain Applications Manager, you will support the evolution of LP's supply chain planning and order fulfillment capabilities through the use and administration of advanced tools and technologies. This support will span activities related to requirements gathering, design, build, test, and delivery of new tools and functionality. You will engage with Supply Chain, Logistics, and Business users to understand operational and process management needs, identify business process improvement opportunities, and create proposals for implementation. You will execute enhancement and implementation projects end-to-end with minimal support, acting as a business subject matter expert in supply chain planning processes. Your responsibilities will include supporting the ongoing training, education, and adoption of LP tools by all LP users, specifically focusing on developing and promoting best practice use of our applications within the Logistics and Supply Chain Planning team. You will maintain LP LLamasoft model parameters and updates as needed, support opportunity analyses for project planning, prioritization, and approval, and assist in the development, documentation, and training of Supply Chain Best Practices and Standard Operating Procedures. Additionally, you will manage direct reports and/or assigned resources as necessary, ensuring all duties are performed in accordance with safety rules and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Engage with Supply Chain, Logistics and Business users to understand operational and process management needs.
• Identify Business process improvement opportunities and create proposals for implementation.
• Execute enhancement/implementation projects end to end with minimal support.
• Act as a Business subject matter expert in supply chain planning processes.
• Support the ongoing training, education and adoption of LP tools by all LP users.
• Maintain LP LLamasoft model parameters and updates as needed.
• Support opportunity analyses for project planning, prioritization, and approval.
• Support the implementation of supply chain visibility tools and processes.
• Support Business and Supply Chain groups with master data management processes and activities.
• Maintain an overall LP Network model to support LLamasoft/APO/IBP/BTP inputs.
• Act as a power user of all supply chain applications as appropriate.
• Assist in the development, documentation and training of Supply Chain Best Practices and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Manage direct reports and/or assigned resources as necessary.

Requirements

• 7+ years' experience in IT, reporting, data analysis or similar roles.
• 5+ years of experience with LLamasoft tool implementation and support.
• Experience in a SAP supported work environment.
• Database design and administration skills.
• Thorough knowledge of primary modules of LLamasoft like network design, Cost to Serve, Causal forecasting.
• Good understanding of supply chain management processes and concepts.
• Knowledge of SAP cloud-based planning and integration tools.
• Ability to work with and support network optimization applications.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong mathematical and statistical analysis skills.
• Very strong Excel, database and data management skills.
• Ability to operate a computer and supporting software programs.
• Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Business, computer science or other related field.

Nice-to-haves

• Willingness to build a thorough knowledge of company products, processes, and business rules.
• Ability to work and communicate with BI/BW as well as COE and SAP Technical teams.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Health and welfare benefits
• 401(k) program
• Career mobility
• Tuition reimbursement
• Volunteer opportunities
• Profit sharing
• Hybrid work schedule