ERP and Inventory Analyst

Tenneco • Waupun, WI

3d

About The Position

At Tenneco, the ERP and Inventory Analyst serves as the plant owner of 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 analyst creates a trusted data foundation for P3 Integrated Supply Chain planning, customer delivery, financial accuracy, and certification.

The analyst governs ERP transactions and master data, ensures effective inventory assurance, builds system governance, and promotes lean data integrity. The position works cross-functionally with supply chain planners, operations and material handling, finance and controllership, IT and application teams, and plant and regional leadership to improve data reliability, transaction discipline, inventory accuracy, audit readiness, and operational decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, supply chain, finance, engineering, or a related field.
• 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.
• Strong ERP, Excel, and BI/analytics capability.
• Understanding of inventory accounting and internal-control implications.
• Strong analytical discipline and attention to detail, with the ability to influence process owners.
• Fluency 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, pay-point discipline, 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; resolve failed transactions promptly.
• Govern item, supplier, customer, location, BOM, routing, lead-time, MOQ, and planning data through ownership, approval, change control, and recurring audits.
• Run cycle counts and reconciliations, analyze variances, control adjustments, protect traceability, and ensure corrective actions prevent recurrence.
• Define plant ERP standard work, roles, access, training, backups, escalation, and evidence; work with IT and application experts to resolve 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 reliable master data and inventory balances to support MRP, scheduling, customer promises, and inventory decisions.
• Create practical transaction standards that reflect physical movement and production execution accurately.
• Support inventory valuation, reconciliation, controls, audit readiness, and transparent 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.
• Build and sustain ownership and change control for data used in planning, production, logistics, and finance.
• Maintain organized evidence, standard work, access control, KPI review, and corrective-action records supporting audit and P3 readiness.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package designed to support employee 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