Below are the 6 Supply Chain Managers & 5 Category Managers with JDA and other systems experience. SCM professionals with JDA experience are offered through The Thor Group® on a consulting, contracting, interim or direct hire basis.

Would hiring a supply chain manager with experience working in manufacturing, logistics and beverage industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational attainment is composed of BBA in Business Management. Technical skills involve JDA, SAP, Manugistics, JBA and JD Edwards. This specialist has comprehensive background in inventory management and logistics as a supply chain manager, senior material planner, customer service supervisor, finished goods planner, national materials planner, as well as transportation, warehouse and field services supervisor.

Acting as a supply chain manager in a manufacturing company, has managed 4 different teams since 2008. Some of the tasks were distributing and expanding fragrance brands, as well as meeting or exceeding the unit fill rate goal of 95% for all teams. Also, has managed the packaging revision of the entire Color cosmetics product line (1,200 SKUs), as well as kept liabilities to a minimum. Moreover, has interacted with direct reports to remain within budget while still reducing slow and obsolete inventory.

While working as a supply chain consultant, has managed the production planning for multiple skincare brands within the portfolio. Part of the job was to use three different ERP systems to convert the global demand forecast into a viable production schedule to ensure high fill rate levels are attained.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this supply chain manager with work experience in a healthcare system and a global medical technology provider? Educational background is composed of BS in Business Administration and MBA in Management. Professional certification consists of Certification in Production & Inventory Management (CPIM). Technical skills involve JDA, Manugistics, SAP R3/APO and MRP.

Contributed to the organization’s success by eclipsing company average FG inventory turns of 5.5 on a $60 million base and plant compliance to schedules of 95% or greater. Serving as a supply chain manager in a global medical technology company, has improved operational performance; minimized backorders to less than 1% of sales and increased forecast accuracy from 62% to 88%. This professional has increased product flow reliability and reduced safety stock by $3.5 million by changing monthly manufacturing plans on 25 high velocity products to weekly production.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by setting up preset truck appointments at Canaan plant, resulting in 60% lead time reduction (from five to two days); as well as reducing in-transit inventory by $360,000 per week. Moreover, has achieved metric targets for a $400 million business unit, resulting in 95% customer service rating based upon material availability. Some of the tasks were creating a process to manage company REACH reporting for 13 worldwide plants exporting to Europe, which allowed 100% compliance by the program due date; receiving award for actions, as well as initiating and maintaining the S&OP process in the medical-surgical business. Furthermore, has minimized product shortages and improved internal sterilization speed by 50% through recommending acquisition of contract sterilization capacity to manufacturing operations.

Is impacting your organization with a supply chain manager who worked in manufacturing, distribution and automotive industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of BA in Materials and Logistics Management. Computer skills involve JDA, QAD, Oracle, SAP, INFOREM, CMMS, VISTA, MAPICS, LN, MAS 200 and UVX. This specialist is a recognized CPIM professional through ASCM (formerly APICS).

While employed in an automotive manufacturing company as a supply chain manager, has directed the process of planning, production, inventory control, logistics, and distribution for over 32,000 SKUs, and 23 direct reports across 4 sites to increase inventory turns from 1.5 to 6.7. Some of the tasks were developing and managing a customer focused procurement and inventory management team that properly interfaced with engineering, accounts payable, quality, operations management and supply base. Also, has developed, implemented and monitored cost savings strategies throughout the supply chain. Moreover, has managed inventory systems to plan and track material flow from customer demand though procurement to delivery in support of the company supply chain management strategy.

Notable contributions as a sr. production control manager in a chemical manufacturing company involved attaining qualified savings of $42,000,000 through competitive leveraging, global competitive sourcing and total cost of ownership improvements, as well as significantly improving inventory turns by more than 100%. Furthermore, has introduced a Supplier Optimization Program to increase on-time delivery by 40%, supplier quality by 28%, and productivity improvements by 15%.

What contributions could an e-commerce supply chain manager with extensive experience working in the retail industry bring to your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Business Administration. Software proficiencies involve JDA, AS/400, MMS, PMA, Magento and Crystal Reports. Areas of expertise include inventory management, e-commerce & supply chain process, retail, strategic planning and expert use of dynamic forecasting systems. Also, has expertise and functionality in e-commerce and supply chain disciplines. Highly skilled in managing systems (JDA E3, MMS, AS/400, Inforem, Logility) to achieve in-stock, service level and turnover goals.

Challenges like leading team to improve average in stock level from 46% to 92% across all categories; 97% for key items were welcomed and successfully completed. While employed in a retail company as an e-commerce supply chain manager, has developed reporting to support in stock and other corporate change initiatives, led implementation for MMS dynamic replenishment for Kids/Media areas; as well as converted over 70% of items to dynamic; reducing inventory by 26%. This specialist has reduced aged inventory liability by 8% or $6 million, as well as identified and implemented e-commerce efficiencies; improving sales margin percent by 27%.

Shared expertise by implementing JDA E3 DC replenishment; improving in stock for key items to 98.5%; DC fill rate to 97.5%; as well as lowering average DC supply by $2.8 million. Acting as a senior inventory manager – consumables, has worked with a team of 10 managing inventory flow to support over $600 million in sales of dog and cat food through 8 distribution centers and over 1,200 stores.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a supply chain manager with work background in manufacturing and food services industries? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Technical Management. Skills in proprietary project and warehouse management programs include JDA Transportation 7.8/JDA Fulfillment, Tableau Desktop/Tableau Prep/Tableau Server, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle DEMANTRA Forecasting, SAP Production/Warehouse, Query Analyzer, and SAP PTP Production System/LES EWM Extended Warehouse Management.

Serving in a food services company as a supply chain manager, was responsible for SAP to JDA communication maintaining routing guides, order logic and STO parameters within SAP. Some of the tasks were partnering with fulfillment centers to implement cost-saving and error reducing process improvements, as well as creating custom performance indicators in Tableau for transportation network based on costs. This professional has led process re-design implementation, and developed custom solutions utilizing Microsoft Access/Tableau to pull open orders, prevent invalid data, and create analysis reports.

As a logistics manager in a manufacturing company, has served as a subject matter expert in supply chain projects implementing Tableau analytics. Moreover, has incorporated business unit plans, network optimization changes, and plant downtimes into supply planning process. Furthermore, has created monthly and annual supply chain planning scenarios utilizing Tableau, Microsoft Excel, Oracle and Access. In addition, has created network supply chain plans to support a $400 million joint treatment business unit.

Would a detail-oriented supply chain manager who worked in manufacturing and communications industries fit in your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology. Professional certifications involve Greenbelt-Inventory Record Accuracy, Project Manager (IBTA), Certified Senior Purchasing Manager-Direct Spend & Expense, SAP Boot Camp, SOX Auditor, Supplier and Customer Relationship Management (SCRM) and Project Management. Skills overview consists of JDA, IBM AS/400, SAP R/3, Oracle and Macola (SQL Database & Crystal Reports). This professional has held dual roles as SAP R/3 and Oracle functional pro across AP, PE, MM, PP, WMS; while working as the Supply Chain, Inbound Logistics and Purchasing Manager.

Some accomplishments included performing daily, weekly and monthly; creating ad-hoc queries to perform business analytics and KPI reporting using SQL, Oracle-ODBC, Data Warehouse and JDA Systems. Acting as a business analyst-operations & supply chain in a manufacturing company, has served as a business analyst and manufacturing single point of contact (SPOC) for 6 US/LA manufacturing sites across 41 Product Lines with 6000 + active SKUs & $300MM in sales in the US and globally. Part of the job was to obtain forecast input from sales and Marketing as well as use Salesforce.com to gather data and create demand projections and statistical forecast for plant operations & manufacturing.

Shared expertise by acting as a supply chain leader and business coach for 7 manufacturing direct report and contactors creating rough cut capacity plans, master production schedules, material management, parts expediting and business analyst tasks. This individual used Business Intelligence Warehouse (BW) and One Source to create a 12-month rolling Forecast and work with Sales and Marketing on SKU rationalization projects.

Would hiring a category manager with experience working in beverage, distribution and retail industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Marketing. Professional certifications earned as: Certified Professional Category Manager (Category Management Association) & JDA Space Planning Professional. Technical skills consist of JDA Space Planning, Nielsen and IRI.

Acting as a category/space management analyst in a distribution company, has created planograms using JDA Space Planning software, as well as analyzed category sales to identify opportunities to optimize product assortments. Also, has participated at category sets to execute planograms on behalf of manufacturers. This specialist has utilized sales data to ensure fair share of space for major manufacturers and brands.

While working as a senior category analyst, has supported Business Managers with category reviews, pulled and analyzed sales data using a database in Nielsen Nitro, as well as utilized sales data to ensure fair share of space for major manufacturers and brands. Some of the tasks were creating planograms using JDA Space Planning software, analyzing category sales to identify opportunities to optimize product assortments, as well as participating at category sets to execute planograms on behalf of manufacturers.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this category space manager with work experience in marketing and beverage industries? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Geography (Economic Geography). Professional certifications include JDA Certified Space Planner v7.6.1 . Technical skills consist of JDA Suite (SPP, EIA, Planogram Generator, Script automation). This individual is a Proactive Category Space Manager with 13+ years of experience in executing planograms, including roles in retailers and chains, as well as fine wines, spirits, and malts.

Contributed to the organization’s success by mentoring and training up to five category space coordinators, as well as leading to incremental captaincy gains in the Great Lakes region. Serving in a beverage company as a category space manager, some of the tasks were focusing on identifying and developing opportunities to boost sales performance and growth. This specialist has communicated company shelf management capabilities and schematic recommendations to retailers. Also, has devised clear merchandising guidelines and analyzed proper product mix by store, as well as facilitated meetings with competition and buyer to better present validation for recommendations.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by acting as lead contractor on a food account; managing a team of three contractors which helped maintain captaincy on the account for four straight years while increasing space and sales share. Acting as a category space analyst, key accomplishments were implementing retailer-specific account criteria and developing planograms for sales floor execution.

Is impacting your organization with a category manager who worked in distribution, beverage and food products industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Business Administration. This specialist is a CPCM-Certified Professional Category Manager. Technological expertise involves JDA Space Planning and Adobe.

While employed in a distribution company as a category manager-Certified Professional Category Manager (CPCM), was responsible for increasing expectations of Distributorship and suppliers regarding Category Management Standards. Some of the tasks were maintaining monthly space and accuracy requirements for the company and developing brand and category standards. Accomplishments consisted of increasing shelf space percentages by 1.5% (11,213 facings) in overall company territory, as well as defining strategies for implementation of Category Management Department structure and setting growth guidelines to achieve desired retail partner objectives-current growth of Partner Accounts is 8.8% in CE’s and 8.9% in Sales Revenue. Moreover, has developed and presented critical category insights such as pricing and margin gaps relevant to current market data as well as opportunities to realign the retailers’ strategy on growing overall revenue and overall foot traffic and incremental sales.

Part of the job as a category manager/space analyst/district sales manager in a beverage company was to rebuild Category Management Department to current brewing company standards, including all tracking and certification on Advanced Space Planning, leading to 500% increase in number of resets.

What contributions could a category manager with experience working in retail and distribution industries bring to your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing. This professional has 5 years of experience working with AS/400 for inventory, shipping, and distribution. Software knowledge consists of JDA Space Planning and Apollo Space Planning Tools.

Challenges like creating custom planograms (POG) using JDA Space Planning tool based on research and discussions with retailers/sales team were welcomed and successfully completed. While employed in a retail company as an assistant category manager, has attended multiple trade shows and setup meetings with the vendors and leagues in order to build relationships as well as to better understand company goals. Also, has won “Supplier of the Quarter Award” (2nd time in company history). Some of the contributions were generating and researching companywide plan to save $2M annually through more efficient shipping methods at no cost. Accomplishments entailed improving gift category total sales by 23% in 2015 and 18% in 2016.

Shared expertise by creating new POGs annually through JDA and Apollo Space Planning Tools, as well as beating sales and margin dollar plan every quarter. Serving in another retail company as an assistant category manager, has improved category cost of goods sold by 3.5% through driving own brands growth. Furthermore, has negotiated $500K new light bulb program with new vendor to improve the cost of goods.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a category manager with experience working in manufacturing, retail and logistics industries? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Journalism/Advertising. Technical tools involve JDA ProSpace and Apollo; Walmart RetailLink; Target Partner’s Online; Kmart Workbench; Nielsen Syndicated Data Reporting Packages; Spectra Marketing and Space Management.

Serving in a manufacturing as a category manager, highlighted achievements were growing sales by 5% in a declining grocery channel, as well as evaluating existing promotional and pricing strategies and identifying opportunities to implement additional programming. This professional has secured 90% shelf placement in 90% of grocery channel accounts for “Project Rainbow,” new package of items, as well as created and implemented customized dashboard and fact-based reporting tool to provide consumer-focused category overview. This was to address opportunities, drive category growth, and reduce ad-hoc execution of data. This initiative boosted sales in nationwide drug, natural, and grocery channels within Midwest and Southeast regions on behalf of this manufacturer and marketer of world’s most popular tabletop sweeteners.

As a senior category manager, has managed map/atlas category with emphasis on optimizing sales, profitability, and driving efficiencies by implementing category management principles for key national and regional accounts. Moreover, has designed and implemented standardized interdepartmental reporting tools, including volume, product mix, ranking, and trend analysis for “Top 25” accounts.