Below are the 5 Supply Chain Managers, 4 Supply Chain Analysts & 4 Supply Chain Planners with JDA SCM & other systems experience. The Thor Group® provides JDA Supply Chain SME's, supply chain analysts, developers, systems analysts, business analysts & software implementation consultants on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a manager of supply chain processes and purchasing with experience working in manufacturing, pharmaceutical and consumer electronics industries? Educational background is composed of BS in Industrial Engineering and MBA in Strategic Management. This professional has earned Certification in Demand and Supply Chain Management in MIT School of Management. Other professional certifications include Six-Sigma Green Belt Certification and Lean Six-Sigma Certification. Software skills involved JDA Manugistics, JD Edwards, ForecastPro, AS/400, SAP, APO, Oracle and WMS.

Serving in a pharmaceutical company as a manager of supply chain processes and purchasing, has managed the configuration and implementation of the statistical Demand Planning system, ForecastPro. Also, has trained planners in the use of this new system and in the multiple complexities of Demand planning. Some of the tasks were instituting monthly collaboration meetings with key Customer Accounts, to review monthly plans. These initiatives enabled overall forecast accuracy to improve by 22% and allowed the company to improve Customer Service Fill-rate levels from an average of 87% to 98%.

As a demand and supply chain manager, has managed demand and supply chain team for key product categories. In addition, has ensured supply chain KPIs are met such as Fill-rates, on-time delivery, customer service levels, forecast accuracy, appropriate inventory levels in weeks-of-supply, and overall efficiency of the supply chain department. Furthermore, has coordinated procurement of required components, and managed contingencies with Purchasing planners.

Would a detail-oriented supply chain lead with work experience in a healthcare system fit in your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Master of Arts in Marketing. Professional certifications include APICS CSCP-Certified Supply Chain Professional, Scaled Agile-Scrum Master, ITIL V3-Information Technology Infrastructure Library, PMP-Project Manager Professional and Six Sigma Black Belt. Technical skills consist of JDA i2, SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft.

Some accomplishments included reducing out of stocks to >1%, inventory at risk to >2.5% by analysis and directed actions, as well as receiving 99 and 100% on two performance reviews in Customer Relations Group. This professional has utilized ERP system to synchronize planning of wholesale inventory, forecasts and logistics with production and raw materials. Experienced in the consolidation of facilities, operations, systems and inventory.

Shared expertise by analyzing vendor and product history to reduce total spend of pharmaceutical raw materials. As a supply chain lead, has managed multiple projects to reduce absorption/total costs of multiple sites, as well as performed daily supply chain management activities using pc/MRP and Excel for data analytics.

How can a supply chain manager who worked in manufacturing, retail and energy industries help your organization? Educational attainment is composed of BS in Sciences and MBA in Supply Chain Management. Software skills include JDA, SAP APO, Oracle, TMS, WMS and MRP. This Supply Chain Management Professional (MBA) has over 18 years of extensive/progressive experience in supply chain operations management, end-to-end product management, inventory accounting, logistics, demand planning and forecasting, as well as continuous process improvements, strategic planning, customer service, sales and marketing environments.

Working with challenging issues such as being responsible for over $200MM annual spend mostly coming from product imports have vetted this specialist’s work experience. While employed in a manufacturing company as a supply chain operations manager, was responsible for Supply Chain planning and strategy focusing on optimizing the value stream and inventory accounting. Also, has led a team of 5 aligning supply to demand and ensuring satisfactory order fulfillment continuously over 98%. Moreover, has served as an SME for end-to-end supply chain execution across all business functions, stakeholders and partners.

With a “can do approach” in the area of functioning as an SME for end-to-end supply chain process development and improvement have been career objectives. While working as a supply chain manager, has managed teams, programs and projects streamlining supply chain processes which improved order fulfillment by 5% and reduced waste by 10%.

Would hiring a supply chain manager with experience working in retail and manufacturing industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing. Software skills involve JDA MMS, NetSuite, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, Essentus and PLM Enovia.

Acting as a supply chain manager, was responsible for the Operating Standards of the logistics department and warehouse operations departments with KPIs by using root-cause analysis to implement operational efficiency improvements. Some of the tasks were developing all BOM/Assembly Builds and working with PD and Regulatory Affairs for R&D, as well as developing and managing master buying sheet for products amongst different categories and brands. Also, has served as the Supply Chain representative for all special projects and initiatives as well as experienced with forming and facilitating teams.

While working for a retail company as a supervisor of supply chain, finance and operations, has generated, distributed, and held monthly meetings with supply chain for KPI reports and analyzed and suggested strategies to reduce costs in the supply chain process as well as coordinate with executive management to suggest ways to improve efficiency while maintaining transparency. Moreover, has led logistics and communication involved with all inventory transfers, both domestic and international. This individual managed excess raw material and finished goods liquidation process for North America as well as oversaw year end physical inventory counts.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this supply chain manager with work background in retail, logistics and air freight services industries? Educational attainment is composed of Associate in Arts General Studies, Associate in Applied Science Logistical Management and BBA in Supply Chain Management. Professional certifications include Six Sigma Black Belt Professional (SSBBP) and First Line Logistics Leader Certificate. Software knowledge/skills/abilities involve JDA WMS, RFID, Bar-Coding and SAP.

Contributed to the organization’s success by controlling and monitoring high value inventory, with all deliveries being in line with productivity and scheduling requirements. As a supply chain manager in a retail company, has managed the procurement function of the operation and managed warehouse expenditures. As an operations supervisor in transportation and supply chain/logistics, has provided operational leadership to individual contributors and hourly workforce to ensure the execution of daily tasks and activities including driver deliveries, loading/unloading of trailers, and customer service operations in a manner consistent with company services and cost objectives. Part of the job was to supervise most processes directly including workforce and equipment scheduling and to be responsible for making corrective action and disciplinary decisions up to written warning level.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by determining most cost effective and efficient transportation modes, routing, equipment, or frequency as well as contingency processes to ensure continuity of service in emergency situations. As a transportation supervisor, has resolved problems concerning transportation, logistics systems, imports or exports including customer issues.

Would hiring a supply chain analyst with experience working in retail, manufacturing and telecommunications industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management. Software skills include JDA, Oracle and SAP.

Acting as a supply chain analyst in a telecommunications company, has participated from project launch through post-process management & ongoing improvements. Key achievements were processing improvement initiatives that resulted in finding $20MM in un-invoiced receivables, as well as reporting errors totaling over $500K owed to the company. Some of the tasks were overseeing and auditing of SLA compliance metrics, as well as integration with Inventory accounting, IT and customer service. Also, has provided supply chain productivity support for processes and efficiency improvement projects, including warranty / exchange, A-to-B stock flips, reporting and human capital consolidation, and streamlining master data management processes.

While working for a manufacturing company as a supply chain manager, has reduced backorders by 40% through collaboration with multi-national sales, product development and manufacturing departments to improve demand forecasting. Moreover, has reduced inventory carrying costs by 17% through tighter inventory allocation & order forecasting controls, as well as more efficient communications. In addition, has streamlined Accounts Receivables processing from 15 days to 2 days.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this supply chain analyst with work experience in food services and retail industries? Technical skills involve JDA, Manugistics, E3 and JDE. Educational background is composed of Bachelors of Business Administration, Major in Integrated Supply Management (SCM) and Minor in Economics. This professional has over 80 hours in a Project Management mentorship program which included being the project manager of the upgrade of the JDA system for the Supply Chain department.

Contributed to the organization’s success by providing strategic interdepartmental promotional planning, as well as being responsible for the forecasting and replenishment of 25 food service stores. As a supply chain analyst in a food distribution company, has served as a project manager for upgrade of the Supply Chain team’s JDA system. Also, has managed inventory for several markets. As a forecasting and replenishment analyst, has led internal teams tasked with improving turns and reducing shrink over all categories. Additionally, was responsible for the forecasting and replenishment of items for the center of the plate category to improve service level and reduce shrink.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by sourcing raw materials, packaging, and components for cosmetic and liquid products, from a global supply base. Serving as a supply chain planner, has performed production planning of core cosmetic finished goods as well as printed items.

Is impacting your organization with a supply chain analyst who worked extensively in a manufacturing company a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor in Business and Masters in Business Administration. Software skills involve JDA, JDE, Excel spreadsheets, AIM, SAP, Power Way and PowerPoint.

While employed in a tobacco manufacturing company, as a senior supply chain demand planner/supply chain analyst II, has initiated request for technical assistance on a particular product as well as saved 20% of product waste and saved the company $10,000 on a per cure basis on a product that was running 40-50 cures a week. This specialist has identified production improvement opportunities to minimize downtime and improve run time on production lines. Also, has prepared and analyzed production, quality and budget reports for upper management. More so, direction was provided on future production rollouts, promotional items, product and de-listings.

Part of the job as a supply chain analyst was to create, establish and direct production standards for each department and production line. Other duties were preventing and detecting product shortfalls and material shortages as well as meeting sales forecast with minimal waste. Moreover, has used JDA, MSF, JDE and IBT systems for transferring and maintaining inventory. Furthermore, has established strategy and processes that ensured increased productivity, minimized downtime and balanced workload.

What contributions could a supply chain analyst with vast experience working in automotive and manufacturing industries bring to your organization? Educational background is composed of English, Business and Psychology. Technical skills involve JDA i2 System, Cognos, MSS, OpenOrders, Fastracc, Teleaid, NetStar, (Vista, ESS) and SAP.

Challenges like managing national ordering and distribution of all recall and service campaign parts to achieve all quality/campaign targets were welcomed and successfully completed. As a supply chain analyst/parts logistics in a car manufacturing company, has managed relationships with supply chain stakeholders, vendors, distribution centers and freight providers to achieve strategic inventory goals in line with corporate sales, market share, and service level targets. Also, has driven demand planning and forecasting for the National Recall and Service Campaigns for the business, as well as interpreted and accounted for seasonality, port and transport related delays including other critical factors.

Shared expertise by organizing and overseeing parts allocations to car dealers from distribution centers in critical situations for recall vehicles and stop sale situations. Other duties were doing order management in SAP and leveraging strong relationships to mitigate customer delays and outages. Furthermore, has administered reordering and replenishment processes, serving as a subject matter expert on inventory planning during weekly discussions.

Would a detail-oriented supply chain planner with experience working in electric utility, retail and pharmaceutical industries fit in your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology and Master of Arts in Management. Professional certifications earned: Certified Six Sigma Greenbelt (CSSGB) and Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM). Software knowledge consists of JDA Master Planning Tool and JD Edwards.

Some accomplishments included being responsible for detailed scheduling and planning for the production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) in three compliant production buildings utilizing the JDA Master Planning tool. Acting as a supply planner in a pharmaceutical company, has communicated any issues to marketing and corporate logistics in order to set production priorities. Some of the tasks were performing daily review of planning messages and use to generate plan metrics, investigating any significant changes in metrics and resolving underlying issues, as well as maintaining and creating routings, bills of materials, and production shop orders in Business Planning and Control System (BPCS) v. 8.0 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite.

Shared expertise by reviewing open sales orders and forecast demand to ensure appropriate allocations are made, as well as monitoring on-hand inventory and providing order recommendations. Serving as a senior supply chain planner, has generated purchase orders in JD Edwards based upon agreed to forecast requirements, as well as worked with contract manufacturers on an attainment report and conducted weekly reviews.

How can a supply chain planner with work background in software, distribution and banking industries help your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science Supply Chain Management. Software skills involve JDA, Salesforce.com, HAVI/OBI, CSR Web, Inventory Management, Supportforce, Docusign, Coupa/Oracle, Tableau, Analytical Solver and JDE.

Working with challenging issues such as creating, updating and maintaining report records such as BOM, threshold exceptions, and significant order changes as well as monitoring these reports for three DC’s and over 1000 restaurants have vetted this specialist’s work experience. As a supply chain planner in a retail company, has pulled and analyzed reports from JDA and HAVI/OBI for data feed and sales exceptions, as well as reviewed customer orders on JDE while constantly maintaining over 99% accuracy on order management. Part of the job was to analyze data reports exceptions to determine errors by calculating usage and build-to for accurate proposals.

With a “can do approach” in the area of creating a 14-day forecast for new promotional items for five different DCs have been career objectives. Other tasks were reviewing store counts and comparing with routing schedule to verify for accurate restaurants deliveries, by preparing daily reports for DCs to investigate any supply chain issues. Moreover, has optimized Global Sourcing Delivery in supply chain environment, by applying root cause analysis and improving the overall process flow.

Would hiring a supply chain planner who worked in multinational agricultural supplies and logistics industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational background is composed of BS in Agricultural Business Management. Technical competencies consist of JDA Material Planning System (MPS), SAP (SBO and R3) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems.

Acting as a supply chain planner in a multinational agricultural supply company, has analyzed and applied data to balance long and short-term business strategy with customer needs and production line capacities. Some of the tasks were maintaining multiple master production plans to balance risk, as well as managing performance of supply chain team. This professional has regularly filled role of S&OP as well as Operations leader, including leading supply chain-encompassing projects, attending executive meetings, and contributing company-level financial reporting. Also, has led weekly production planning meetings to streamline collaborative workflow between capacity and demand, as well as oversaw training and career development for 15 employees and continuously improved logistic processes.

As a planner, has lowered inventory levels by 35% ($40M) while keeping three months of supply on hand at all times; reduced excess and obsolete material by 70%. Other achievements were achieving and maintaining 95% on-time completion rate (previously 60%) with newly optimized production line capacity plan, as well as implementing custom MRP planning process for Supply Department.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this supply chain inventory planner with experience working in manufacturing, food and retail industries? Software skills involve JDA Advanced Planning System and SAP.

Contributed to the organization’s success by managing inventory for a company which represented over $700MM in annual revenue. While working in manufacturing company as a supply chain inventory planner/distribution planner, has monitored and maintained inventory levels to ensure coverage to targeted service levels, as well as communicated key service issues to Retail Sales leadership and Branch Operations teams. This specialist has executed corrective measures to alleviate product shortfall/overage concerns, as well as planned shipments from upstream DCs to field DSD branch locations utilizing JDA Advanced Planning System and SAP. Other accomplishments were optimizing production deployment within DC & Branch capacity limitations, as well as building efficient Loads and selecting optimal transportation modes.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by managing all aspects of customer service and order processing for high-volume retail accounts. As a customer service supply chain coordinator, ensured orders are processed and priced accurately and efficiently utilizing an SAP environment, as well as ensured customer is well informed in regards to all pricing, sourcing, and pertinent information changes. Furthermore, has managed execution of high volume direct store delivery programs, as well as collaborated with both internal and external customers in resolving key supply chain and financial issues.