(May 2007 – April 2009) Supply Chain Solution Architect at Qimonda AG
After almost one year and a half of being part of the implementation and later steering the development of the long term planning solution, probably due to the good results achieved, my quick learning capabilities and my good relation with the business counterpart i was invited to step up and become Solution Architect for the Supply Chain.
As Solution Architect i’m responsible for new business models implementation over the Application landscape. Besides i was asked to improve the existing functionality of the several applications in order to bettre serve business needs.
The SC landscape is basically composed of a Demand forecasting environment based on thh I2 DMAN solution, and inventory optimizer application also from I2, two Supply planning environments (one with focus on short term operations with weekly cycles and the other with a focus on long term procurement and strategy) and two scheduling and promise applications ( I2 Factory planner for the locations with make to stock products and SAP APO PP/DS for the make to order location) running locally on the factories. Additionally APO DP is also implemented to support the global and regional sales allocation process.
During the period at this role i can distinguish two phases. During the first year the focus was simplification and tuning of the platform to achieve better performance and business satisfaction. Later the focus was downsizing and trimming of the platform to the essential functions in order to cut costs.
The role provide me the chance to extend my understanding of SCM from my original focus on Capacity and Long term planning and become familiar with other processes and business models.
