Purchasing, Ordering and Procurement Engineer

at  SAP

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The Purchasing, Ordering and Procurement (POP) team is responsible for the end-to-end ordering and delivery of HW to match a defined Infrastructure capacity (product) in a defined Data Center. An infrastructure product consists of servers, network, storage, back up and peripheral equipment. The efforts are finished when all HW is received by SAP where it is then used to build up additional infrastructure capacity supporting SAP and its customers. The role will be required to align across multiple teams and SMEs in compute, network and storage to review, validate, order and receive all HW and supporting components for a defined product build. The role will work closely with external SAP suppliers and HW manufacturers to place orders and track trough delivery to SAP. Active escalation management is regularly required to push for fastest delivery timelines. The responsibility includes:

• all planning and validation of defined Bill of Materials (BoMs) within SAP and with external suppliers
• Creation of purchase order requests and tracking approval chain to PO released.
• alignment with compute, network, and storage SMEs
• adherence to well established KPIs and reporting using SAPs S/4 HANA Cloud where all builds are managed.
• Active engagement w/ SAP external providers and HW manufacturers to establish clear planning and delivery timelines for all orders.

Additional tasks are:

• Report to SDC and DLS Management on status
• Close collaboration with the other Build, Design and Infrastructure teams
• Contribute to planning and execution maturity / continuous improvements.
• Work along the rules defined and the tools given by DLS build governance.

The role reports to the Head of SDC.