Innovation Hub I Advanced Planning Solution - OMP Solution Architect, Consultant, Cairo, Egypt

Egypt | Posted on 29-Aug-2024

Position Summary

Location
Egypt Delivery Center
Advanced Planning Solutions - OMP Solution Architect, Consultant, Cairo, Egypt

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Deloitte innovation hub (DIH) is a strategic initiative/priority established by Deloitte North & South Europe (NSE) to support our ambition to become the leading business transformation partner of choice for our clients and to expand and scale our delivery footprint across EMEA. With access to a scaled, diverse, highly skilled, motivated, and engaged workforce, DIH is delivering complex technical solutions for clients’ most complex business problems, across Portfolios that include ‘Strategy & Transactions’, ‘Customer’, ‘Engineering, AI & Data, ‘Enterprise, Technology & Performance’ and ‘Cyber’. DIH is aiming to become the destination for top talents in Egypt for a long, exciting career.
We invest in outstanding people of diverse talents and backgrounds and empower them to achieve more than they could elsewhere. Our work combines advice with action and integrity. We believe that when our clients and society are stronger, so are we. Our organization has grown in scale and diversity, providing services across the region, with our shared culture remaining the same. We aim to help clients realize their ambitions, make a positive difference in society, and maximize the success of our people. This drive fuels the commitment and humanity that run deep through our every action.

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This position is responsible for overseeing and ensuring the success of the end-to-end solution delivery process including resource allocation, serving as the primary interface with the client, and directing a cross-functional team to achieve established goals. This role will manage solution delivery through a variety of activities including process design, data analytics, solution configuration, and deployment, establishing performance metrics and new policies, testing, and knowledge management.
The role requires deep analytical, technical, and complex problem-solving skills with knowledge of optimization methods, statistical analysis, and certification & experience with OMP implementation and configuration. It also requires exposure to data science, and associated software and programming technologies. The successful candidate will be a skilled leader with a proven track record of driving results, exceeding client expectations, building trust across the organization, applying critical thinking and business management skills, and managing diverse groups of people and projects.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation resource for OMP business/data requirements.
• Ensure business processes developed from business/data requirement documentation adhere to industry best practices and align with client objectives and business model. Oversee collection and analysis of necessary data from sources like ERP systems, databases, Excel sheets, emails, and others. Ensure accuracy and completeness of data collected.
• Support Project Management and Client Management teams with capability listings, and effort estimates to define project scope, timelines, and execute signoffs with customers.
• Perform detailed discovery sessions with OMP end users to understand and document supply chain software requirements, including: the customers supply chain network, operating model, systems landscape, planning processes, as well as objectives and targets for a software solution implementation.
• Translate functional requirements into OMP technical requirements and assess complexity.
• Drive OMP solution architecture and design fit-for-purpose solutions. If needed, design new functionalities to solve complex business requirements.
• Define the overall systems architecture and data flow, including both standard software functionalities to be used as well as any software extensions needed.
• Configure standard OMP functionalities (i.e. Tier 1), such as configuration of parameters, tables, objects etc.
• Implement complex and more advanced OMP features (e.g.,Tier 2 &3), such as configuration of dashboards, pyramids, solver configurations etc.
• Perform functional, performance & integrated testing of configured functionalities.
• Guide and coach lead configuration consultants throughout the project. Resolve technical questions and design issues.
• Apply advanced mathematical models, optimization techniques, and artificial intelligence algorithms to improve customer supply chain performance and achieve business objectives, such as overall costs reduction, inventory reduction, revenue or margin improvement, demand satisfaction, operations efficiency increase, and demand forecast accuracy improvements.
• Understand Supply Chain Industry trends and benchmark customers performance against the same. Support data management and data integration activities, including source systems data transformation, data loading into OMP, data cleanup and validation.
• Support customer and project team on Quality Control/Quality Assurance practices to the configured solution, executing unit test scripts and supporting the execution of end-to-end tests and user acceptance tests.
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of solution issues.
• Assess project performance and document lessons learned to increase institutional knowledge.
• Ensure solutions team adheres to OMP methodologies and quality standards.

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• Bachelor’s degree in operations research, Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management, Business Analytics, Computer Science, or related fields with a concentration in operations or analytics.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in implementation & configuration of OMP modules, such as SOP, DP and OPR.
• Certified as a OMP Solution Architect or has completed all requirements for OMP Solution Architect certification (e.g., Tier 1, 2, 3 for OPR, SOP or DP).
• In-depth technical knowledge of OMP Data & Application Architecture and Features (incl. interfacing and new Release planning).
• Expert in OPAL coding/development.
• Expert knowledge in all OMP modules including OPR, SOP, DP, E2E architecture, and performance-influencing factors.
• Advanced E2E supply chain knowledge, and understanding of supply chain planning processes.
• Advanced experience in workshop preparation and facilitation; strong communication skills.
• Experience presenting on complex topics in a clear, concise, and effective manner.
• Firsthand experience in leading a team through the full lifecycle of a supply chain planning solution implementation including business requirement gathering, solution design & development, testing, go-live/cutover, hyper care, and value realization.
• Experience in Agile methodology to deliver large scale enterprise solutions.
• Thorough understanding of supply chain planning concepts, processes (demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, S&OP, etc.), KPIs and best practices in supply chain planning.
• Strong analytical skills, data mining knowledge, and proficiency in handling and processing large volumes of data.
• Ability to identify key insights and critical thinking to prioritize and focus on the highest value opportunities or the biggest risks.
• Strong verbal, written, presentation, and demonstration/training skills are required.
• Ability to communicate mathematical, technical, or software usage concepts to audiences with limited background / knowledge on the subject.
• Ability to drive and work in cross-functional teams, distributed across locations and time zones and across multiple hierarchy levels.

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