Purchasing, Ordering and Procurement Engineer

 We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

What you'll do: 

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.

What you bring:

• 2 or more years of work experience that preferably includes Supply Chain, IT Infrastructure or other comparable industries (e.g. manufacturing or construction)
• Experience with supply chain delivery.
• Experience with the methods and tools of product build in IT or other industries.
• Strong consumer / customer orientation, high quality, work focus and result / deliverable oriented thinking.
• Ability to work in a globally distributed organization and eagerness to work with people of other cultures.
• Fluent Business English

Meet your team: 

Global Cloud Infrastructure and Delivery (GCID)is responsible for running SAP’s backend technology including operations of state-of-the-art data centers and the technical platforms as integral part and foundation for all SAP Cloud solutions and services around the globe. 
The GCID unit provides these shared services for SAP’s external Cloud Business and for SAP’s internal infrastructure such as development, training, or demo landscapes.

Within GCID and among other responsibility, the Supply Chain and Decommissioning (SDC) organization is globally responsible to fulfill the demand for Infrastructure capacities and Lifecycle Decommissioning requests in the various Data Centers and hand it over to the consumers of the infrastructure and to the Infrastructure Run organization. The SDC team is set up in regional units.

​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 412098  | Work Area: Software-Development Operations  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.