Below are the 4 Business Analysts & 3 Systems Analysts with various industry & systems experience. The Thor Group® provides business analysts & systems analysts with your SCM systems and industry experience on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

What can a business analyst who has work background in manufacturing and telecommunications industries, as well as specialization in Oracle SCM, SAP and Oracle Enterprise Manager bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve Oracle SCM, Oracle Enterprise Manager, SAP and Financial Modules like OM, INV, WIP, AR, AP and GL as well as Projects, Multi-Org, Oracle Workflow, Self Service Web Application and Oracle Applications Express (APEX). Educational background includes Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) and Polytechnic Diploma in Computer Science.

Working with areas such as getting involved in full life cycle implementation, requirements gathering and functional requirements document preparation while upgrading documents like BR100, MD50, MD60 and MD70 have vetted this business analyst’s work experience. Duties covered analysis, scoping, preparation of high level design document and technical design documents (MD70), as well as handling development and setups. Test plan preparation, unit testing and ensuring adherence to software quality processes were some of the tasks. Key roles covered user training, developing various custom menus and ensuring SOX compliance. This specialist coordinated the resolution of production issues on a day to day basis for the smooth functioning of business. Business requirements were gathered by interacting with the client/business group. Environment worked on covered Oracle Applications 11.5.10 Accounts Payable.

Skills consisted of working with the Oracle technical support on SR resolution, getting involved in gap analysis and preparing business requirement documents based on as-is business processes and to-be process. Technical design documents were prepared for deliverables. Business flows were developed for to-be processes; interaction with the business team was carried out to get the approvals for these enhancements.

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.

Would a business analyst with familiarity in a general hospital, a children’s hospital and a health system, as well as skilled in PeopleSoft SCM, Oracle and SAP help your organization achieve greater success? Technical specializations cover PeopleSoft SCM, Oracle, SAP, Sage MAS 90, ADP, Cerner, JD Edwards and Lawson. Educational attainment includes MS in Healthcare IT, MBA in Finance & HR, BS in Business Information System, BS in Accounting & Finance and BS in Economics.

One of the key focuses of this business analyst was serving as a liaison between stakeholders, SME (subject matter experts), physicians, nurses, pharmacists, medical staff, and business end users from various departments coordinating with the developer’s team to boost care management process. Responsibilities covered managing compliance incidents management and related processes ties in with corrective action plans, apart from assisting hospital compliance teams to align with metrics or HIPAA regulations and to promote training/ development. In addition, this individual coordinated site visits for state/ federal regulators to ensure HIPAA compliance and managed priorities according to regulatory memos. Overseeing Medicare/ medical payments, billing, and invoicing process through Oracle PeopleSoft, Sage MAS 90, Great Plains and other ERP systems was efficiently handled.

Notable skills used on a regular basis included monitoring changes in federal/state regulations and communicating with the managers. The job covered interfacing with business areas, vendors, customers, revenue cycle and technical teams to enhance return on investment and innovative solutions by discussing alternative solutions, and vendor solutions to ensure maximum benefits with reduced cost by establishing reports on cost benefit analysis and pros-cons of solutions.

What can a senior JDE (JD Edwards) business analyst who has work background in IT services, manufacturing and professional services industries, as well as specialization in JD Edwards SCM, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve JD Edwards SCM, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (E1), Oracle, HRMS, Access and Orchestrator. Educational attainment includes Master of Business and Administration (Finance and Management); Master of Science (Computer Science); and Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering).

Duties of this senior JDE business analyst covered working on integrity issues with GL, AP, AR, and FA modules and setting up the fiscal year calendar for approximately 80 companies following a 12-period posting. Responsibilities covered fixing multiple batches with posting issues due to period number, GL dates and fiscal year, as well as fixing multiple issues related to integrity in AP/AR modules that arose due to system instability. This individual worked on integrity issues with GL/AP/AR/FA modules and provided new interfaces for ACH Fund transfer to the bank. The batch posting process was optimized for the A/R module.

Other jobs involved working with several clients to implement JD Edwards GL, AP, AR and FA modules. Various UBEs were customized to produce CSV output for Hyperion utilities provided functional specs. Functions consisted of managing and developing JD Edwards E1 cross reference address book application to provide an interface for the users. Multiple batches were fixed with posting issues due to period number, GL dates and fiscal year. In addition, multiple issues related to integrity in AP/AR modules that arose due to system instability were fixed. Other skills included Address Book, procurement, job cost and capital asset management.

Is impacting your organization with an SAP SD/SCM senior systems analyst with work background in energy-oil, gas services/equipment and industrial automation industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of BS Engineering. Professional certifications include WebMethods Enterprise 4.5 Certification, WebMethods Business Partner Integration 4.0 Developer, SCM605 – Sales, SCM610 – Delivery Process, SCM615 – Billing, SCM620 – Pricing, SCM520 – Purchasing, SCM510 – Inventory Management and Physical Inventory, SCM682 – Stock transfer Customizing and Master Data, BW330 – SAP BW Modeling, BW350 – SAP BW Extraction, SRM210 – Supplier Relationship Management and MDM100 – Master Data Management. SAP skills consists of SCM, SD, MM, IM, FI, PM, PS, QM, EH&S.

While employed in an energy-oil company as an SAP SD/SCM senior systems analyst, configured and tested the plan-driven procurement scenario in R/3 and SRM – MRP driven requisitions sent from R/3 to SRM. Also, was involved in the SAP MDM configuration consisting of MDM Console, Data Manager, Import manager and syndicator. Furthermore, was involved in the design of MDM repository schemas and taxonomies, setup of MDM workflows and validations, as well as setup of MDM integration with SAP core modules of ECC 6, SRM and BW.

Part of the job as a senior SCM (SD/MM) consultant in a gas services & equipment company was to coordinate user acceptance testing and be fully responsible for Unit and Integration testing for SD/MM, covering all the test scenarios of the business requirement.

Is impacting your organization with a systems analyst who worked in apparel, software and website design industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Biomedical and Master of Business Administration. Professional certifications involve ITIL Information Technology Fundamentals, as well as SAP, SAP SCM 600, SAP CRM 100, SAP SCM 605, and SAM CRM 400 training certifications. Technical/functional skills consist of Epicor Merchandising, Epicor POS, Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, SAP CRM and AS/400.

While employed in an apparel company as a systems analyst, saved millions in solution and process expenses by transitioning enterprise resource planning, supply chain, customer service and manufacturing (SAP SD AFS, WMS, etc.) solutions for company’s collection after corporate takeover by a Golf Company. Also, worked on end-to-end implementation of the two-year, multi-million dollar supply chain and enterprise resource planning and financials (WMS, SAP SD AFS, SAP FI) after another company acquisition. Results of this relation included reduction in supply chain operational and office staff by 15%, increase in manufacturing and shipping efficiencies, and increase in inventory accuracy and on time shipping to 90%.

Part of the job as a systems analyst was to analyze information for processes. Results led to process that formulated, evangelized, and sold cross-organizational corporate taxonomy to increase software sales in Q4 2011 by 16% to 1.74 Billion, or annual sales growth in software revenue of 22% to 590 million in accountable business unit. Furthermore, established one unified SAP operational process to streamline and synchronize various communication and sales channels by driving adoption of new SAP taxonomy repositories for 25 industries, with special focus on Retail, Wholesale, Financial Services, Consumer Products, and Manufacturing.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a Lawson systems analyst who worked in medical centers? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Management. Professional certifications involve Computer Career Program (CCP). This professional is experienced in business-related full life cycle project development with enterprise client/server software applications including implementations in Lawson SCM, Lawson Financials Suite and Oracle EBS General Ledger/Accounts Payable.

Serving in a medical center, served as a Systems Analyst implementing upgrade of Lawson-Infor Financials (GL, AP, AR, RQC) from v9 to v10 Windows environment. As SME, collaborated with accounts payable, general ledger and supply chain management functional teams to define business requirements for security and requisition approval string system enhancements. Also, worked with the corporate finance and accounting businesses as a liaison to document requirements and transformed them into high level, detailed functional and technical requirement specifications. Part of the job was to work with various IT areas to document existing processes and workflows.

As a Lawson systems analyst in a medical center, identified and documented existing HR and Payroll interfaces, as well as wrote numerous Micro Focus Cobol programs to convert data. Furthermore, wrote numerous reports, screens, and interfaces using Lawson CASE Tools.