Central Key User SAP EDI

Company Description

Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2022, Continental generated sales of €39.4 billion and currently employs around 200,000 people in 57 countries and markets.

The ContiTech group sector develops and manufactures, for example, cross-material, environmentally friendly and intelligent products and systems for the automotive industry, railway engineering, mining, agriculture and other key industries. Guided by the vision of “smart and sustainable solutions beyond rubber,” the group sector draws on its long-standing knowledge of the industry and materials to open up new business opportunities by combining various materials with electronic components and individual services. 

Job Description

For the EDI and System Interfaces / EDI Operations at ContiTech, we are looking for a new employee to provide support and consulting in SAP EDI Module (Electronic Data Interchange). Job title is Central Key User SAP EDI and requires realization of EDI processes/projects including frequent interaction with SD (Sales and Distribution) and MM (Materials Management) partners.

Main tasks (Job description and definition of responsibilities):

• Conducts and starts EDI connections with external partners.
• Conducts and starts improvements based on user requirements, blueprint design and documentation.
• Performs testing that would lead to correct implementation of an EDI connection.
• Manage EDI incidents raised by the ContiTech locations and implements solutions with the external AMS provider or IT System Interfaces of ContiTech
• Raises BMC EDI changes, based on incidents or partner request.
• Change and incident management in BMC.
• Interacts across all organization levels comfortably with internal customers, technical support resources, and external business partners such as: Customers, Banks, Freight Forwarders, and vendors for any EDI related topics.
• Participation in IT and business projects that require EDI involvement.
• Globally supports the Business Areas in the SAP Rollout Projects for the EDI module.
• Supports and initiates process standardizations for the EDI Module.
• May lead and coordinate the work of a small team when working in projects.
• Raises internal requests for EDI packages offered by third party like WSW
• Second-level support for the EDI Local Key Users
• Generates/Creates a Knowledge Network for EDI processes within the locations all around the globe.
• Ensure compliance to existing and development of required data and reporting standards.
• Coordination and support of ContiTech’s corresponding local key users / contacts.
• Provision of functional directions to the ContiTech local key users for the use of SAP EDI applications
• Specialist contact person for the Sector’s IT departments or IT providers for issues concerning more than one company.
• Creates training materials and deliver trainings to the end users.
• Performs testing of problem fixes, enhancements, system upgrades and new functionalities.
• Administration of SPEEDI/JUNIQ add-ons in the ERP systems
• Creation of routines or sequence of routines that lead to proper data interpretation.
• Updates in SPEEDI/JUNIQ tables

Qualifications

• Logistics or Technical university degree.
• Technical SAP Knowledge, (transport management, working with tables, fields, authorization concepts, roles, etc.).
• Understand technical dependency between the different SAP modules.
• Knowledge of SAP transactions used in the EDI module: WE02, WE05, WE09, WE10, WE19, WE20, BD64, BD87, EMFOR, EMASN, EMORD.
• Knowledge of tables that requires maintenance in the EDI process: OVAI, OVA9, VOE2, VOE4.
• Ability to read information from the IDOC structure (incoming/outgoing).
• Knowledge about EDI connection types: OFTP2, AS2, VAN.
• Ability to read and understand file formats: EDIFACT, VDA, ANSI X12, ODETTE.
• 2-3 years of SAP experience with operational business (Operations Sales and/or Purchasing).
• Fluent in English is mandatory.
• Strong communication skills and project realization.
• Availability for traveling worldwide required.
• Ability to work in a global team.
• Results orientation, assertiveness, resilience, strong teaching skills.
• Capacity for Analysis of big processes interactions and Synthesize information.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Driving license.
• German Language is considered a plus.
• Knowledge about WSW and their products: SPEEDI and/ JUNIQ is considered an additional plus.

Additional Information

In Continental we are committed to an inclusive and non-discriminatory culture, we will never require a HIV or pregnancy test as a part of our selection process.

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