Below are the 3 Solutions Architects & 6 Business Analysts with JDA SCM & other systems experience. The Thor Group® provides supply chain managers, analysts, planners, SME's, developers, functional consultants, software engineers & JDA software implementation consultants on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

What opportunities can hiring a JDA solution architect with work experience in manufacturing, IT and semiconductor industries offer your company? Technical background consists of JDA Software (particularly i2), SAP (SD), UNIX based OS and good knowledge of PERL, Oracle, PL/SQL, Informatica and C++. This analyst has over 7 years of global experience in various areas of supply chain management, such as sales & operations planning, statistical forecasting, distribution & logistics planning, functional consulting, analytics, forecast optimization & supply planning in consumer electronics, computers, semiconductors and metals industries.

As JDA solution architect for a steel producer, the job focused on master planning solution implementation. Duties were designing and modeling of Master Planning process for the United States division. Aside from doing Master Planning workflow design, the individual was in charge of the design of various input/ output data and user interfaces for the Master Planning solution. Achievements included developing a reporting system for Master Planning as well as performing plan analysis and user training.

Another job with the same employer focused on demand manager implementation. The work required analysis of a forecasting process in various areas and identifying the gaps. Part of the job was completing technical/ functional ownership of the DM solution for North America and Europe. Contributions included development of multi-currency support and proceeds generation for a Europe unit.

Is hiring a JDA solution architect with background working in food services, retail and consumer goods industries a priority for your company? This Advanced Certified Professional Forecaster (ACPF, care of Institute of Business Forecasting) is technically adept in JDA versions 7.4 – 8.0 (Demand, Fulfilment, Collaborate, Monitor, Market Manager, Demand Classification), Manugistics versions 5.4/ 6.12/ 7.2, Oracle and SQL.

Working in chemical distribution company, this JDA Demand solution architect was in charge of upgrade from Manugistics 6.1 to JDA 8.0 Demand, Collaborate, Monitor and Demand Classification. The job covered a full end-to-end upgrade. Tools used included JDA 8.0.

In a food services firm, work involved JDA upgrade from 7.4 to 8.0 for Demand, Collaborate, Monitor, Fulfillment and Demand Classification. Also performed was the development of custom forecast alerts for Fulfillment planners utilizing JDA Monitor. Another contribution was developing custom SKU classification designations for default Fulfillment parameter settings. The work involved a full end-to-end upgrade.

Can the future of your business be helped by employing a technical architect with experience in retail, food services and petrochemical industries? Technical knowledge covers JDA / Manugistics 8.1 / 7.8 products – Demand Planning, Fulfillment, Order Optimization, Master Planning, Collaborate, CPP Workbench, SCPO Database, WebWorks, SRE, Scenarios/Simulations, IGP, Weblogic, Websphere, JDBC, XML, Oracle 11, SQL, PL/SQL, Korn Shell scripts, AIX, and Windows Server. In addition to diverse IT skills, this solution architect has experience with supply chain management.

While working for a petrochemical firm, this technical architect worked with Spinnaker in implementing JDA 8.0 solution comprising of Demand Planning, Fulfillment, Collaborate and Monitor in environments hosted by JDA Cloud. The JDA solution integrated with SAP and a home-grown ERP system on IBM mainframe (UVX), home-grown BI system on Microsoft platform using an ETL layer running on Amazon Web Services’ Redshift cluster in the cloud. Responsibilities included leading a team of 3 technical consultants; gathering requirements from business users or IT groups in various workshops, designing the solution; developing a Conference Room Pilot; performing gap analysis; and estimating level of effort, as well as working with JDA Cloud and external vendors in implementing SSO in the Cloud using PingFederate, environment design/ maintenance.

In a food/ beverage production company, responsibilities involved leading a team of 4 technical consultants, and gathering requirements from business users and IT groups in various workshops. These efforts were meant to design the solution, conduct a Conference Room Pilot, perform gap analysis, and estimate level of effort.

Does hiring a senior business analyst with experience in the manufacturing industry pique your interest? This textile technology graduate’s technical knowledge covers JDA Transportation Manager, JDA Inventory Optimizer, Aspen technologies, C, C++, VBA, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft Access. Areas of expertise include supply chain system module implementation; gathering requirements; data analysis and interface design; supply chain process optimization; and other operations. Besides having a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, the analyst was trained in JDA Inventory / Transportation Optimization Module. This Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP, care of APICS) also completed the Practitioner Certificate Program in Project Management.

In a manufacturing firm, this senior business analyst performed analysis and provided technical support to improve overall effectiveness of supply chain systems in support of business. Other duties were gathering requirements as well as coordinating development and implementation of systems/ processes to facilitate achievement of functional excellence. Areas of improvement were identified to enhance and optimize the supply chain methodologies. Also performed was overseeing support and maintenance for all forecasting and supply planning applications in Aspentech supply chain management software.

This individual also contributed in the design phase for implementation of JDA’s multi-echelon inventory optimization module to minimize stock-outs and inventory handling costs while maintaining customer service levels. Technical support was provided for JDA Transportation Manager application, then daily discrepancy reports against SAP were analyzed to minimize errors in planning deliveries for shipments.

What possibilities can recruiting a senior business analyst who worked in retail, manufacturing and construction industries offer your business? Technical background includes using JDA Software (particularly Warehouse Management or WMS), AS/400 and VBA. Other proficiencies are in querying, data analysis and control language use. This analyst was also trained as JDA Merchandise Management Systems Power User & Consultant. Membership is also with the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA).

Working in a company specializing in distributing paper products, this senior business analyst manager’s primary responsibilities include performing data analysis, forecasting and data variance investigations. Part of the job was providing 24/7 technical/ user support for US and UK JDA WMS programs. This manager traveled to the UK to implement JDA WMS into three distribution centers. Training was done for management and hourly team members in all functions of the JDA WMS, including receiving inventory, allocation, processing transfers/orders, shipping, and inventory checks/balances.

Another job in the same company called for analyzing JDA warehouse management systems to ensure that all jobs and files in the WMS were processing correctly. Contributions included creating inventory control programs using MS Excel complex formulas, VBA, SQL databases, and macros, which increased e-commerce production by 95% and web order audits by 75%, resulting in more production with less inventory variances.

Will it benefit your company to employ a business analyst with work background in the financial services, professional services and IT industries? This Engineering/ Information Technology graduate has technical know-how consisting of JDA Software, JD Edwards OneWorld, Oracle, SAS-Base, SAS- SQL, Oracle TOAD, MS Access, Cognos, Informatica, and TABLEAU. Aside from having a Master’s in Computer Science, certification was also received on Base SAS for SAS 9.

This business analyst for a software company aimed to continue Master Management and expand the functionality of Manugistics to deploy a standard master planning platform globally. The integration would read data from SAP R/3’s MARA, MARC, MARM, and MAKT tables to populate the Networks JDA Demand and JDA Fulfillment Item, Loc, SKU, Sourcing and DmdUnit tables. The job called for working on an enhancement initiative to modify and upgrade the existing demand planning process with an aim to redesign the existing business processes, design and User Interface. The job required providing business process expertise in all phases of JDA software implementations including the installation and configuration of JDA Demand and other supply chain products.

For a financial services group, this senior business analyst was called to provide a forecasting tool able to generate statistical forecasts that could be reviewed by each of the planners in order that promotional planning could be added and adjusted as necessary. The solution would also allow for promotional activity to be recorded within the solution and the final forecast would then be transferred from JDA system to JDE OneWorld system on a weekly basis.

Does a senior business analyst with experience serving the IT and retail industries pique your interest? Technical background includes JDA Software (E3, Intactix, Arthur), SPI (Seasonal Profiling by Intellect), MMS, JD Edwards OneWorld, Rational Rose (RUP), Use Case diagrams, various estimation methodologies (Use Case point, Function point, Complexity based), Photoshop, Flash, Visio, Version Control (PVCS, CVS, Visual SourceSafe, Aldon), DB2/400, SQL Server, Oracle, J2EE, Web technologies and AS/400. Expertise is also in custom developed system integration/ implementation; client requirements study; gap analysis; estimations for system development; and other functions. In addition to a BSCM (Basics of Supply Chain Management) certification from APICS, this analyst is a Sun Certified Java Programmer for the Java 2 platform 1.4 with an additional IBM certification on Application Development with Websphere Studio V5.0.

Serving a mid-tier department store chain, this senior business analyst was in charge of implementation of JDA E3, SPI, MMS, and Arthur Allocation. Aside from preparing a project plan for system implementation, another duty was to conduct system testing, integration testing and participate in end to end testing for the entire retail portfolio applications (Arthur planning, Arthur Allocation, Retail Ideas, JDA MMS, JDA E3, SPI, Intactix, APM(Advertising and Promotion Management), Lawson). Contributions included taking care of issue resolution with the help of JDA customer support and in-house support team.

As business analyst for a large duty free retailer, responsibilities were for the design and implementation of the interface for third party store replenishment tool. Also carried out was the implementation of interfaces between the client system with warehouse system.

Is recruiting a business analyst with knowledge in the retail, financial services and automotive industries a good business move? System knowledge spans JDA Software, particularly EIA (Efficient Item Assortment), CCI (Channel Clustering Intactix), and IKB (Intactix Knowledge Base). Other proficiencies are in using Oracle, IBM Mainframes, Power Designer, MS Visio, SmartDraw, Advanced MS Excel, SAS/BASE, SAS/SQL, SAS/MACRO & SAS/Advanced Analytics. The individual also has excellent understanding of the requirements engineering process including requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation and management.

Additional advantages included experience with traditional software development methodologies like Waterfall and iterative/incremental methodologies like Rational Unified Process (RUP). Proficiency was displayed in techniques like document analysis, one-on-one and group interviews, questionnaires, brainstorming, prototyping and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for gathering requirements. Besides having in-depth understanding of As-Is, To-Be and Gap Analysis techniques for analyzing requirements, the individual is skilled in classifying information into various categories like business requirements, business rules, functional and non-functional requirements, external interface requirements, assumptions, constraints and data definitions.

Working in a chain of retail home improvement and appliance stores, this business analyst worked on projects for business integration of JDA’s Channel Clustering (CCI – for store segmentation) and Efficient Item Assortment (EIA – for creating & managing assortment plans). This specialist worked on a web application which would enable the merchants to manage (create/edit/view/delete) ‘Data Requests’ to pull and load data (sales & product data) into JDA CCI and EIA for the requested assortments. A thorough understanding of an existing business process was developed through document analysis, shadowing business users.

Can employing a business analyst with background in supporting the financial services, retail and automotive industries have a positive impact on your business? Technical skills are in using JDA Software, Oracle, Informatica, Rational Rose, RequisitePro, ClearQuest, Erwin, iRise, and ARTS data warehouse model. Core competencies include data analysis, consumer behavior, data modeling, digital marketing and other operations. Aside from having extensive experience in product management and business process re-engineering, this analyst has knowledge in requirements gathering, data modeling, feasibility studies, scope documents as well as in handling supply chain activities from production plan to various client locations all over the world.

This senior business/data analyst for a retailer of aftermarket automotive parts worked with a project manager to develop a project plan and allocate the required resources to marketing and IT team. The job called for experience in KPI and metrics to track or improve web 2.0 communications. Contributions included creating a planogram following JDA architect and ARTS standard as well as working towards effective category management and supply chain management for a new set-up.

Other responsibilities involved working with supply chain analyst and store managers to lean out the process for overall stock management using IT back-end interface i.e. developing planograms. In addition to creating a planogram following JDA architect and incorporating it in AIRS model, interviews with key business users were conducted to collect requirement and business process information.