ERP Analyst

Tenneco • Van Wert, OH

2d

About The Position

The ERP Analyst is the plant owner of the controls that keep ERP transactions, master data, and physical inventory aligned. The role establishes process ownership, standard work, pay-point discipline, cycle-count governance, traceability, access controls, and audit-ready evidence. By connecting system behavior with shop-floor execution, the ERP Analyst creates a trusted data foundation for P3 Integrated Supply Chain planning, customer delivery, financial accuracy, and certification.

The role partners with supply chain planners, operations and material handling, finance and controllership, IT and application teams, and plant and regional leadership. It supports reliable planning and inventory decisions, accurate transaction standards, inventory valuation and reconciliation, system improvements and user adoption, and leadership visibility into KPI trends, controls, risks, and recovery actions. The intended outcomes include aligned ERP and physical inventory, disciplined transactions, controlled master data, a culture of inventory accuracy, and readiness for audits and P3 requirements.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with ERP inventory, production, purchasing, sales, warehouse, and master-data transactions.
• Experience with cycle counts, physical inventory, reconciliation, variance analysis, traceability, and adjustment governance.
• Experience governing BOMs, routings, locations, item data, lead times, MOQ, and related planning records.
• Knowledge of financial controls, access controls, evidence retention, and audit support in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience creating standard work, training users, resolving recurring issues, and eliminating offline workarounds.
• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, supply chain, finance, engineering, or a related field.
• Strong ERP, Excel, and BI/analytics capability.
• Understanding of inventory accounting and internal-control implications.
• Strong analytical discipline and attention to detail.
• Ability to influence process owners.
• Fluent in English and the local plant language, as required.

Nice To Haves

• WMS knowledge.
• MDM knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own plant controls that align ERP transactions, master data, and physical inventory.
• Establish process ownership, standard work, transaction pay points, cycle-count governance, traceability, access controls, and audit-ready evidence.
• Ensure receipts, issues, transfers, production reporting, order closure, shipments, scrap, returns, and inventory adjustments are transacted at defined pay points, and resolve failed transactions promptly.
• Govern item, supplier, customer, location, BOM, routing, lead-time, MOQ, and planning data through ownership, approvals, change control, and recurring audits.
• Run cycle-count and reconciliation processes; analyze variances, govern adjustments, protect traceability, and drive corrective actions that prevent recurrence.
• Define plant ERP standard work, roles, access, training, backups, escalation processes, and evidence requirements.
• Work with IT and application experts to address system barriers without creating shadow systems.
• Simplify transactions, eliminate duplicate work, improve first-time accuracy, and make data quality visible through daily management and root-cause problem solving.
• Provide supply chain planners with reliable master data and inventory balances for MRP, scheduling, promises, and inventory decisions.
• Create practical transaction standards with operations and material handling that accurately reflect physical movement and production execution.
• Support finance and controllership with inventory valuation, reconciliation, controls, audit readiness, and adjustment governance.
• Define business requirements, prioritize system issues, test solutions, and sustain user adoption with IT and application teams.
• Provide plant and regional leadership with trusted KPI trends, control status, systemic risks, and recovery actions.
• Support disciplined transaction closure, master-data change control, inventory accuracy, and audit and P3 readiness.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package designed to support well-being.
• Opportunity to work and learn in a fast-paced manufacturing environment while shaping the P3 Integrated Supply Chain operating system.
• Hands-on exposure to Lean, ERP, analytics, cross-functional problem solving, and plant transformation.
• Culture committed to operational excellence, simplicity, accountability, and becoming best-in-class.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time