# Supply Chain: Logistics Partner Onboarding Lead **Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise **Location**: San Jose, California **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobsathpe/job/San-Jose-California-United-States-of-America/Supply-Chain---Logistics-Partner-Onboarding-Lead_1212313-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_6aef65eb-7cb ## Description Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Logistics Partner Onboarding Lead to join their Supply Chain team. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the onboarding of carriers, 3PLs, freight forwarders, warehouses, and regional fulfillment partners. The role is part of a multi-year transformation program aimed at unifying quoting, ordering, and fulfillment across the combined HPE and Juniper networking portfolios onto a single platform. Key responsibilities include: - Leading the onboarding of logistics partners from solution design through testing, go-live, and hypercare - Designing regional fulfillment models that support service-level, inventory, cost, capacity, customer-promise, and compliance requirements - Defining and supporting processes aligned with Incoterms, transportation responsibility, title/risk transfer, customs requirements, and trade-compliance needs - Enabling B2B transactions using EDI, XML, APIs, IDocs, flat files, and related integration standards - Identifying opportunities to apply agentic automation and AI-enabled workflows to streamline partner onboarding and improve logistics decision-making The ideal candidate will have: - A bachelor's degree in CS, IT, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field - 8+ years of experience in SAP solutions implementations in supply chain, logistics, transportation, warehouse management, fulfillment, or logistics technology - 5+ years of experience leading logistics partner onboarding, carrier or 3PL implementations, transportation integration, or comparable external-partner enablement programs - Hands-on SAP S/4HANA experience in logistics-related functions The role offers a hybrid work arrangement with an average of 2 days per week worked from an HPE office. **Responsibilities** - Lead the onboarding of carriers, 3PLs, freight forwarders, warehouses, and regional fulfillment partners from solution design through testing, go-live, and hypercare. - Own logistics solution design and enablement in SAP S/4HANA, including delivery processing, picking, packing, post goods issue, shipping output/printing, customer and carrier communication, scheduling, outbound delivery, Stock Transport Orders (STOs), shipment processing, and route determination. - Design regional fulfillment models that support service-level, inventory, cost, capacity, customer-promise, and compliance requirements. - Define and support processes aligned with Incoterms, transportation responsibility, title/risk transfer, customs requirements, and trade-compliance needs. - Lead carrier-management activities, including onboarding standards, routing guides, service-level agreements, performance reviews, capacity readiness, and operational escalation management. - Translate business needs into process flows, functional specifications, integration requirements, test cases, and deployment plans. - Enable B2B transactions using EDI, XML, APIs, IDocs, flat files, and related integration standards for orders, shipment status, inventory, labels, invoices, and warehouse communications. - Partner with SAP, integration, data, and external technology teams to define mappings, interface monitoring, acknowledgments, error handling, reconciliation, and production-support processes. - Identify opportunities to apply agentic automation and AI-enabled workflows to streamline partner onboarding, validate transaction data, triage integration failures, manage exceptions, generate operational documentation, and improve logistics decision-making. - Establish operational dashboards and controls for interface health, transaction success rates, carrier performance, delivery status, fulfillment exceptions, and root-cause analysis. - Lead cross-functional testing, including system integration testing, user acceptance testing, end-to-end partner testing, cutover readiness, and post-launch stabilization. - Create training materials and enable internal teams and external partners to operate new logistics processes effectively. **Education And Experience Required** - Bachelor’s degree in CS, IT, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent professional experience may be considered. - 8+ years of experience in SAP solutions implementations in supply chain, logistics, transportation, warehouse management, fulfillment, or logistics technology. - 5+ years of experience leading logistics partner onboarding, carrier or 3PL implementations, transportation integration, or comparable external-partner enablement programs. - Experience in Logistics execution: Shipping (Delivery processing, Picking, Packing, Goods Issue, Printing and Communication in Shipping), Scheduling, Outbound Delivery, Stock Transport Orders (STO), Shipment Processing and Route Determination. - Experience in high-tech industry with complex global supply-chain environment. - Hands-on SAP S/4HANA experience in logistics-related functions, such as SD, LE, MM, EWM, TM, shipping, warehouse, or transportation processes. - Experience delivering B2B integrations using EDI, XML, APIs, IDocs, middleware, managed integration platforms, or similar technologies. - Experience implementing automation, AI, workflow automation, intelligent document processing, or agentic solutions in supply-chain, logistics, customer-service, or integration-support environments is strongly preferred. - Experience with global shipping, Incoterms, trade compliance, customs processes, and regional fulfillment models is preferred. **Knowledge And Skills** - Strong knowledge of end-to-end logistics, including transportation, carrier management, warehouse operations, order fulfillment, inventory visibility, and regional distribution networks. - Deep SAP S/4HANA functional knowledge across delivery processing, outbound delivery, picking, packing, goods issue, shipping communication, scheduling, STOs, shipment processing, and route determination. - Strong understanding of carrier, warehouse, and freight-forwarder integration requirements. - Proficiency in B2B and integration standards, including EDI, XML, APIs, IDocs, flat files, message mapping, validation, acknowledgments, monitoring, and error resolution. - Ability to apply agentic automation concepts to automate repetitive onboarding tasks, detect and resolve transaction exceptions, support operational decision-making, and improve workflow efficiency with appropriate human oversight. - Knowledge of EDI standards such as ANSI X12 and EDIFACT, including logistics-related order, shipment, inventory, status, and invoicing transactions. - Strong ability to convert business requirements into scalable process designs, functional specifications, integration requirements, and testing plans. - Excellent stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to coordinate business leaders, IT teams, implementation partners, carriers, 3PLs, and warehouse providers. - Strong problem-solving, project-management, communication, documentation, and change-management skills. - Ability to manage multiple partner implementations and priorities in a fast-paced global environment. ## Skills ### Required - SAP S/4HANA - logistics - supply chain management - EDI - XML - APIs - IDocs - flat files - B2B integration - agentic automation - AI-enabled workflows ### Nice to have - global shipping - Incoterms - trade compliance - customs processes - regional fulfillment models - automation - intelligent document processing - workflow automation --- Source: [Apply at hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobsathpe/job/San-Jose-California-United-States-of-America/Supply-Chain---Logistics-Partner-Onboarding-Lead_1212313-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)