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Elanco IT has been on an exciting journey for the past few years, and we continue to optimize and improve our ERP platform to facilitate our business by implementing best practices and providing a key foundation to our growing company. Bring your skills and talents to Elanco and our ERP team, where you will have the opportunity to make an impact on the lives of animals and people around the globe.
Position Summary:
SAP Integration SME is an important position in the ERP team where you will have the opportunity to partner with key stakeholders, architects, AMS providers and ensure timely delivery of secure and compliant integrations.
Responsibilities:
The primary purpose of this job is to deliver enhancements, system fixes related to ERP integrations in partnership with our AMS providers.
· Responsible for overall release management in SAP related to integrations including but not limited to SAP PO, A2A integration, B2B integration, EDI, on-premise and cloud application integrations (CPI), BTP Integration Suite, etc.
· Work with business stakeholders, architects, implementation partners and AMS providers to enable business outcomes and ensure optimal functionality of SAP.
· Provide technical guidance and effort estimates on new solutions to optimize business expansion, ensure they are well documented and simple to understand.
· Provide support for ongoing operations and identify opportunities to improve processes.
· Responsible for change management communication, accountable for user acceptance tests and documentation prior to going live, and post go-live production support handover.
· Ensure adherence to global SAP design and architecture and participate in architecture review boards as needed.
· Responsible for ensuring all changes/enhancements meet required quality and compliance requirements (GxP, SOX)
Basic Qualifications:
· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Informatics or Engineering
· Minimum 5 years of experience in developing integrations in both A2A and B2B scenarios using SAP PO, configuring File, IDoc, JDBC, RFC, HTTP, SFTP, JMS, REST, SFSF, AS2 adapters and SOAP
· Good understanding in the following areas: EDI document standards – EDIFACT and TRADACOMS.
· Knowledge in various interfacing scenarios in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) – XML to IDocs /BAPI, File to IDocs/BAPI, HTTP to IDocs/BAPI, ABAP Proxy to JDBC.; and experience in working with Solution manager and ServiceNow for release management.
· Experience in building cloud integrations using SAP CPI/BTP Integration Suite for SAP Cloud solutions like Ariba, SAP Commerce Cloud, SuccessFactors, IBP, SAP Business Network for Logistics (BN4L) and S/4 HANA.
· Experience in complete end to end interface scoping, development/configuration/solutionevaluation/documentation/validation and deployment.
· Good understanding of business processes in the Life sciences/Pharmaceutical domain and compliance with GxP.
· Good analytical and communication skills; ability to communicate effectively both verbally and with written communications.
· Ability to listen, hear, and translate complex business requirements in simple easy to understand language.
· Capable of managing multiple projects and competing requirements with good time management skills.
Additional Skills/Preferences
· Good understanding of SAP business processes and integration with SAP modules like Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Warehouse Management (WM) and Finance (FI).
· Knowledge of all EDI standards for a 3PL system.
Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status