Below are the 9 Supply Chain Managers with various industry and systems experience. The Thor Group® provides supply chain managers with your industry and SCM systems experience on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

Does a supply chain manager who is experienced in manufacturing, retail and business services industries, as well as knowledgeable in JD Edwards SCM pique your interest? Technical knowledge includes JD Edwards (JDE) SCM, JD Edwards MRP, and SAP. Educational background includes Bachelor of Science in Graphic/ Printing Communications Management. Apart from being a CPM Lifetime Certification holder as member of ISM and APICS, this individual completed Six Sigma Green Belt Training.

Major responsibilities of this supply chain manager included leading and training a team of 6 in purchasing and planning. Leadership was provided in efficient inventory management and effective long term planning. Accomplishments involved increasing on-time, in-full customer orders by 10% over previous levels thru better utilization of JD Edwards MRP planning system, reducing the recommitment of customer orders by 10% with better management of minimum inventory levels and improving timely purchasing, as well as delivery of raw materials, packaging and corrugated boxes. The stocking program was developed to achieve a 4-week or less turnaround time for products. This individual enabled the plant to equal or exceed absorption rate in the last 6 months and $1 million in positive PPV in the last fiscal year.

Contributions in another job involved implementing new packaging process that reduced cost by $.10 per package on small packaging line, resulting in more than $5M in savings annually and directing a purchasing budget that successfully accomplished $1.1M in cost reduction/ avoidance. Tasks consisted of training and managing a team of more than 30 in cost-effective purchasing and inventory management for consumables, corrugated boxes, equipment operating supplies and services for three facilities. Core competencies included merchandising, MRO/equipment and project management.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a supply chain manager with work experience in a children’s hospital and a medical center? Professional certifications involve Bioscience Technology Certification. Technical skills include PeopleSoft SCM and Pyxis. Core competencies encompassed Medical Supply Inventory, Multi- Tasking / Collaboration, Specimen Analysis, Lab Tech Databases, Centrifuge and Lab Safety Equipment.

Serving in a children’s hospital as a supply chain manager, continuously analyzed medical supplies needed throughout the hospital for all nursing stations and Pyxis Machines. Other duties were pulling and delivering supplies to maximize staff time and ensuring patient care. The position required inventorying selected supplies using PeopleSoft, verifying inventory, identifying shortages, and notifying management to order diminished inventory items. Moreover, maintained high level performance in materials management at premier children’s hospital while fulfilling full time work as materials handler.

As a materials handler, cross-trained in loading, picking, and auditing product for to maximize production and staff resources. Furthermore, trained new associates to increase contribution and scheduled work for team of eight to ensure quality and timely production, including communicating issues to management for resolution.

Is impacting your organization with a supply chain manager with experience working in a healthcare system a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Business Administration with Concentration in Information Systems. Technical skills consist of PeopleSoft SCM, Oracle ERP and SaaS. Professional certifications involve Certified Scrum Master.

While employed in a healthcare system as a supply chain manager on Oracle ERP PeopleSoft implementation, was involved in 30+ Supply Chain and Financial applications. Some of the tasks were development and execution of remediation, testing and go live project schedules, as well as coordinating with geographically disbursed teams to meet project objectives within scope, schedule, resource constraints, dependencies, quality, and risks. Part of the job was to work with functional managers to secure project staffing and coordinate work effort. Moreover, ensured timely status updates to all project stakeholders including Project Sponsors and Executive Management.

Part of the job as a senior IT project manager-Certified Scrum Master was to work on patient education SaaS and Hosted platforms. Other duties were IT project management for $1.4 million patient education SaaS and Hosted platforms, as well as cross functional project management and coordination amongst Development, QA, IT Infrastructure, and Operations. Additionally, managed day-to-day project details, facilitated daily stand-up, retrospectives, release planning, demos, bug fixes, change requests, risk mitigation, and enhancements for key products to meet business need. Furthermore, defined resource requirements and managed resource allocation specific to assigned projects.

Does a supply chain manager who is experienced in a children’s hospital and a community hospital, as well as knowledgeable in Lawson SCM, PeopleSoft and SAP pique your interest? Technical knowledge includes Lawson SCM, MMIS, PeopleSoft, SAP, JDA/Manugistics, MS Dynamics Great Plains, Oracle, Meditech, JD Edwards, AS/400, SharePoint, Visio, Visual Basic, Access and Project. Educational background includes BS, Landscape Architecture.

One of the major responsibilities of this supply chain manager included developing targeted supply chain business plans focused on cost savings, development initiatives, strategic growth and tactical steps required for goal execution to drive supply chain cost savings for clients. Apart from conducting vendor business reviews, opportunities for improvement were identified and implemented. Key roles covered developing rolling forecasts, vendor contract plans and providing guidance to clients in prioritizing initiatives to meet or exceed established cost savings goals. Consulting with the supply chain management, purchasing with Lawson and accounts payable teams to assess contract compliance and data integrity, articulating conclusions to improve contract review efficiency with vendors, and ensuring master data accuracy for analytics were efficiently completed.

The job covered projects for creating the MS Access databases to interface with ERP system, providing the supply chain management (SCM) team with more efficient ways to manage their data and making more efficient purchasing and inventory management decisions. This individual implemented a purchasing automation process by creating, documenting and managing all supply chain targeted goals. One of the tasks was collaborating with clinicians, supply chain leaders, value analysis team, and suppliers in a cost containment assessment/ implementation of strategies resulting in a $650,000 savings and the roll-out of a new supply chain process matrix.

What can a supply chain manager with work background in manufacturing, communications and aerospace industries, as well as specialization in Epicor SCM and Epicor Vantage bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve Epicor SCM, Epicor Vantage and ECi M1 MRP system. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Science in Business Management.

Working with areas such as directing supply chain operations, including procurement, production control, scheduling, inventory operations, shipping/receiving and capacity planning were some of the responsibilities of this supply chain manager. One of the duties covered driving the organization to achieve/exceed sales & EBIT targets. Inventory was reduced by over $3 Million over the last 2 years. Cycle counting and transactional integrity were implemented to drive inventory accuracy from 73% to 99.6%. Processed and procedures were improved across multiple functional departments. Supply chain spend was decreased on freight and supplies by 30%. This individual utilized over 500K of reserved E & O material into production, improved margins and EBIT, and implemented the Capacity Planning module in Epicor Vantage ERP system.

Accomplishments in another job involved leading effort to develop a new laser designator and capture international contract, which culminated in $50 million dollar contract in less than 14 months, along with achieving 100% on-time delivery of systems to end use customers in assembly environment where 100% of detail parts were procured (L-3). Areas of expertise included team leadership/optimization, process improvement, cost management, inventory control, MRP/ERP implementation, supply chain management and purchasing.

How can your organization gain an advantage with the help of a supply chain manager who has work background in communications, technology and business services industries, as well as skilled in Oracle SCM and SAP? Technical skills cover Oracle SCM, SAP, Agile and Visual manufacturing. Educational attainment includes MBA (Operations) and BA Economics, major in International Trade and Business.

Main functions of this supply chain manager involved leading and managing all the company’s product lines commercial engagement (+$500M revenue/year), as well as leading the supply chain setup and execution. This specialist led the extended supply chain team and stakeholders to provide functional deliverables, worked on project planning, scheduled updating, proactively identified supply chain risks and managed issues. Concise management reporting of project status, risks and closures was provided to executive management. Duties included creating the cost model and defining specific product, commodity-level cost reduction targets and associated supply strategies to achieve through negotiations and cost reduction roadmaps.

Notable tasks consisted of suppliers’ contract development and negotiation with various CMs and suppliers. Contract execution and management were some of the responsibilities. Functions involved designing suppliers’ scorecard and performance metrics, in addition to conducting quarterly business and management reviews. NPI sourcing strategy development, management and execution, as well as risk mitigation analysis/ plans were efficiently managed. NPI build plan reviews, mass production (MP) and material ramp readiness reviews were conducted. Being accountable for the successful program introduction from prototype into mass production, and achievement of agreed project goals and metrics were parts of the job.

Could your organization use a senior manager- supply chain who is experienced in petroleum, business services and IT industries, as well as proficient in PeopleSoft SCM, QuickBooks and Oracle? Technical proficiencies cover PeopleSoft SCM, QuickBooks, Oracle, HTML, CSS, Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Educational background includes MBA, Management Information Systems Concentration; BBA, Finance (Honors); and BS, Accounting. This individual obtained Certifications in Lean/Six Sigma Green Belt, as Project Management Professional and as Professional Scrum Master.

Some impact contributions of this senior manager- supply chain included managing the design and development of a shopper marketing analytics platform, as well as utilizing Agile Scrum framework and loyalty, transactional, and market data to determine key consumer behaviors and emerging trends. A revenue of $22M was generated. This individual conducted an A&U segmentation study to identify key need states, resulting in five focused consumer segments and led the development of the marketing master data management and governance processes, increasing data quality by 85%. Predictive analytics were driven to proactively influence consumers during the path to purchase by identifying $5M+ opportunities optimizing product mix, increasing trips, price optimization, and the design of digital marketing campaigns.

An important accomplishment involved developing a private label brand strategy resulting in $1M margin increase for initial rollout. The job consisted of implementing market research online consumer (MROC) panels for internal insights surveying and managing the development of retail pricing strategy using elasticity, demographic, geographic, and competitor pricing data. Leading the development and on-going reporting of the annual marketing business plan with data visualization and dashboards were efficiently carried out.

Would hiring a global supply chain lead with experience working in manufacturing, aviation and telecommunications industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational background is composed of Bachelors of Engineering in Instrumentation and Control. This specialist has 13 + years of over-all experience and 12 years of Oracle Apps experience. Also, was involved in 5 Oracle ERP manufacturing full life cycle implementations and 1 Fusion ERP Full Life Cycle implementation, as well as managed 3 Oracle ERP Implementations and 1 Fusion implementation with 7 Years of Functional Lead/Manager experience. Oracle Apps processes knowledge included SCM Planning Modules: Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP), ODP, Forecasting, Demantra, as well as Procure to Pay: Purchasing (PO), Accounts Payable (AP), iExpenses, MRP, i-Procurement, Inventory, Receiving, iSupplier, Scheduling and WMS.

Acting as a global supply chain lead, worked on Oracle R12 implementation for OPM Mfg. and supply chain as well as planning integrating with other modules like Demantra and forecasting. Efforts required coordination among all stakeholders, business users and development team to identify the business and new functionality.

While working as a technical lead/developer, interfaced with users, identifying functional and technical gaps, estimating work, architecting system interfaces, designing custom solutions, programming, leading developers, scheduling, producing documentation, and providing production support. Moreover, worked with the business owners and key users to understand and develop business processes and produce plans for implementation of changes to the Oracle Fusion system.

How can your organization gain an advantage with the help of a supply chain supervisor who is skilled in Lawson Mobile Supply Chain and Epic with background working in a general medical/surgical hospital and a medical center? Technical competencies involve Lawson Mobile Supply Chain and Epic. Educational attainment includes Master of Public Administration (Healthcare Management, with honors), Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and Associate of Arts (pre-med). This individual is a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA).

One of the main functions of this supply chain supervisor included managing the inventory control staff that maintained the inventory for five separate departments (including cardiac catheterization, interventional radiology, electrophysiology, neuroradiology and pre/post holding) within the heart and vascular center. Improving the inventory through streamlining processes, assisting in capturing proper charging for surgical procedures/products and being available for inventory specialist as a resource were all part of the duties competently performed on ongoing basis. This individual worked hand in hand with manager and physicians to address any changes, issues, or concerns that might exist, as well as collaborated with value analysis and material management and aided the project management team in projects throughout the facility. With the operation of Lawson Point of Use, the inventory in the Catheterization lab decreased by $260,000.

The job entailed working in partnership with Infor Lawson to improve Lawson Point of Use and establishing an interface between Lawson Point of Use and Epic. Utilizing functions, reports, and Microsoft Add-ins within Lawson Back Office was done to improve the heart-vascular center. Operating the Lawson Mobile Supply Chain to facilitate process improvements was also completed.