I'm an experienced capacity planner and I like to develop new tools to solve the difficult problems.
View resume Contact meQuality data should be the foundation of your decision making. Most likely your business already has an ever growing collection of data stored in one or more databases.
However, to turn your data into value you must first turn it into knowledge. Data from many different tables must be linked together, grouped and filtered, sometimes based on advanced logic.
You need someone who can write the queries that return high quality information quickly and reliably for further processing in business intelligence and spreadsheet programs.
If you want to truly boost your productivity coding is the skill you must have.
Maybe you have to repeat the same task in SAP over and over again? Then a VBA script would be a quick way to save numerous hours.
Perhaps you are crunching numbers in Excel but just missing that one function to make your life easier? No problem - a new function can easily be implemented. Or maybe even an add-in.
Whether you want to save time on routine tasks or reduce errors in complex processes programming is the solution.
Maybe you are facing complex decision making problems? Trying to keep inventory costs to a minimum while ensuring maximum availability of materials? Or perhaps trying to identify the production plan that optimizes machine utilization constrained by stock availability?
Then you are in the world of operations research. Although the human mind is often able to identify acceptable solutions, the complexity of these problems means that special techniques are required to identify optimal solutions.
You need someone with mathematical optimization skills.