Below are the 2 Supply Chain Analysts, 2 IT Support-Systems Analysts & 3 SCM Developers with various industry & systems experience. The Thor Group® provides supply chain analysts, IT support-systems analysts & SCM developers with your SCM systems and industry experience on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

What can a supply chain analyst with work background in manufacturing and aviation industries, as well as specialization in Epicor SCM, Epicor Vantage and SAP bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve Epicor SCM, Epicor Vantage, SAP, JD Edwards and Cost Plus Programs. Educational attainment includes Engineering, CNC Programming and Supply Chain Management. This individual obtained certification as APICS/ CPIM.

Working with areas such as analyzing production, forecasting needs, and subsequently planning releases, negotiating best price and making blanket purchases were some of the responsibilities of this supply chain analyst. This specialist was valued for cost consciously sourcing key local and overseas partners. These global actions helped save more than $100,000.00 annually. Concurrently coordinating the needs for various facilities and planning accordingly for the quarterly forecast were carried out. Value was earned for consistently and effectively leading the material requirements review, analyzing production forecasts, and partnering with purchasing to minimize inventories as well as maximize productivity. Skills involved accurately maintaining and tracking a 40,000+ parts inventory for a global line of construction equipment. Knowledge of generating bill of materials and work orders was applied; entries were made into the MRP/ERP system. One of the primary achievements consisted of successfully working with extensively machined assemblies, raw steel and electrical components.

In another job, selecting vendors in which to procure highly complex space and aviation PRV valve components was carried out. Proficiencies involved providing consultative and global procurement services and critical manufacturing-based contributions through enhancing purchasing, supply chain, planning and production management initiatives.

Would a detail-oriented supply chain analyst with work background in home improvement, electrical equipment and manufacturing industries fit in your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Business Management. Professional certifications include SAP SCM520, Internal Auditing for ISO/TS 16949:2002 and APICS: Basic of Supply Chain Management. Software skills involve knowledge and experience in the use of QAD (MFG PRO) and SAP, SNC, as well as implementation of SAP and SNC (Supplier Network Collaboration).

Some accomplishments included evaluating new and existing suppliers for VMI and JIT readiness, as well as transitioning commonly purchase parts from MRP to Kanban/JIT/VMI to reduce inventory levels and frequency of shortages. Serving in a home improvement company as a supply chain analyst, trained vendors local and overseas on the use of SAP and SNC, as well as maintained purchasing systems and procedures with high data accuracy and integrity, including information such as lead-time, safety stock, minimum order quantities, supplier contact data, etc.

Shared expertise by doing negotiations with suppliers on cost reductions, consignment inventories, invoicing issues and delivery schedules. While working as a sr. buyer in an electrical equipment company, used MRP for planning and purchase order placement, as well as ensured compliance with all applicable legal requirements along with company policies and procedures. Furthermore, evaluated and monitored supplier’s quality and reliability, in conjunction with the Quality Team.

Is impacting your organization with an IT support analyst who worked in distribution and manufacturing industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Arts, Major in Business Economics; Minor in Philosophy and Theology, as well as Masters of International Business Management (MIM). Software proficiencies involve Epicor SCM and SAP.

While employed in a manufacturing company as an IT consultant for Epicor Prophet 21 business systems implementation, was contracted as IT project Lead to replace their legacy Infor SXe Distribution System with Epicor’s Prophet 21 solution to run an efficient, end-to-end operation, and integrate it with Corporation systems and applications. Notable accomplishments and successes included successful implementation of “Big Bang” Epicor P21 which started and delivered On-Time and On-Budget, meeting project objectives and deliverables, as well as post-implementation support through normalization. In addition, successfully multi-tasked as IT Project Manager and sole IT resource for business analysis, system set-up, business process management, QA unit, integration, upgrade and regression testing, as well as project tracking, reporting and documentation, from project inception through completion.

Part of the job as a manager of IT solutions engineering: manufacturing & supply chain management was to function as a SAP project manager for company migration from legacy systems to SAP R/3 ERP system for Manufacturing, Planning, Procurement, Engineering, Distribution Logistics and Quality functions. The “Big Bang” multi-site SAP R/3 implementation was successful and went “Live” on-time (13 months) and under budget ($20M), meeting project objectives and deliverables with desired functionality and scope.

How can a Lawson system coordinator with experience working in acute care hospital, and a healthcare system help your organization? Educational attainment is composed of BA Business Administration. Technical skills involve Lawson Mobile Supply Chain Management, Lawson Procurement, Excel and MS Add Ins.

Working with challenging issues such as setting up entire OR into Par Locations for better management of inventory, as well as using MS add ins to upload all newly created locations in Lawson have vetted this specialist’s work experience. As a Lawson system coordinator, incorporated all Par Locations into handhelds for quicker ordering process, as well as verified that all items were attached to the appropriate contract pricing. This professional created a common ordering template for all off site locations for ordering both inventory items and non-stock items. Moreover, was involved with complete changeover of items to a new primary vendor from McKesson to Cardinal.

With a “can do approach” in the area of reconfiguring all Par Locations on all Nursing Units to increase productivity and set up to meet the needs of the individual specialties, as well as incorporating all locations into handhelds for quick and accurate replenishment have been career objectives. Part of the job was to work on implementing ORMIS as the OR computer system. More so, did discovery work and set up to connect Lawson with ORMIS for replenishment of supplies.

Is impacting your organization with a supply chain developer with diversified enterprise level experience in aligning and translating business and technical requirements into technical specifications and data models a current business consideration? Technical skills include Oracle 11i/9i/8.x, DB2, UDB, SQL Server 2005/7.0/6.5, MS Access 7.0/2000, Windows NT/XP/2000, HP-UX, Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting (Bourne Shell, Korn Shell), SQL, Script, Informatica and Siperian. One notable achievement was re-evaluating current processes and techniques for increased efficiency and maintainability. Educational background includes an Associate Degree in Computer Science.

Being employed in an academic medical center as a supply chain developer, designing the Oracle application based on the project requirements and client guidelines was a primary responsibility. Working on supply chain, POS, forecast and sales analysis subject areas of the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) was another accomplishment. Moreover, documenting the DataStage job process and preparing technical design/specifications for data extraction from DataStage to Informatica were key tasks.

Part of the job as a supply chain developer for an integrated healthcare consortium was to design, develop and test the ETL processes using Informatica 7.1, PL/SQL and UNIX shell scripts to maintain the data marts. Other responsibilities involved developing/fine-tuning Informatica mappings as well as creating mappings, mapplets and workflows.

The future success of your organization could be helped by this supply chain developer who is proficient in PeopleSoft Supply Chain with experience in cancer care, a community hospital and a medical center. Technical competencies involve PeopleSoft Supply Chain, PeopleSoft Financials, C, C++, C#, COBOL, PL/SQL, SQR, Oracle, SQL Server and more.

Key roles encompassed setting up and implementing XML Publisher, as well as maintaining Epic and PeopleSoft interfaces. Managing PeopleSoft Queries for finance users, redesigning the existing flow of data from PO to AP and AM, along with providing recommendations for changes in business rules were part of the job descriptions. This supply chain developer coordinated with the development and SYS admin teams in writing functional specifications.

Important contributions included providing PeopleSoft production support for finance, accounting and SCM, business requirements gathering, as well as interacting with finance, accounting power users and stakeholders. Apart from user training, the job entailed improving the business process, leading the tools upgrade project and administering PeopleSoft security. Crystal Reports and NVision Reports were also implemented.

What contributions could an Oracle developer who worked in gambling, mobile app and workforce automation industries bring to your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering. This professional has extensive work experience with modules like General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Cash Management (CM), Advanced Pricing, E-Business Tax, Fixed Asserts (FA), Advanced Collections, Order Management (OM), Inventory (INV), Purchasing (PO), iExpense, I-Procurement, Supply chain Management (SCM),PA (Costing and Billing) and AOL.

Challenges like studying existing system and developing strategies for conversion of Legacy system data into Oracle Applications R12 (12.1.3) were welcomed and successfully completed on a regular basis. Serving in the gambling industry as an Oracle Apps developer, planned and performed the configuration, testing and documentation of the Oracle Accounts Receivable (AR) application version 12.1.3 after the reorganization of the company. Part of the job was to develop Staging Tables, Conversion Routines, and Custom PLSQL API to import, as well as work with finance department (AP, AR, GL, FA) on various reports like Returns report, Trail Balance Reports and General Ledger (GL) reports.

Shared expertise by designing, writing functional (MD050), technical (MD070) documents, as well as developing custom PL/SQL API’s for interfaces. While employed in a mobile app company as an Oracle Apps developer, performed Inbound Interface to load Journals from ADP into General Ledger (GL).