Below are the 5 Business Analysts, 4 Software Engineers & 4 Supply Chain Analysts with JDA & other systems experience. The Thor Group® provides business analyst, software engineer or supply chain analyst on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

Would a detail-oriented sr. programmer/business analyst with experience working in retail, clothing and logistics industries fit in your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Major in Computer Science and Minor in Business Management. Technical skills consist of JDA, IBM ES 9000, AS400/iSeries, IBM PC, RPG IV, RPG III, RPG II, MICROFOCUS COBOL, CICS, Oracle-RMS and SQL.

Some accomplishments included modifying, enhancing and supporting all applications via JDA on the iSeries, as well as working with team to identify and modify files, DSPFs, CLs, and RPG programs for JDA 4R4 to JDA 4R6 Conversion. Serving in a retail company as a sr. programmer/business analyst, has drafted business requirements aligned with technical requirements, as well as analyzed, designed, developed and tested processes to meet business requirements. Moreover, has drafted business requirements for setup of new Returns Warehouse and aligned with technical requirements.

Shared expertise by supporting the sales audit, inventory control, accounts payable, point of sale processing, international business, EDI system using sterling integrator, distribution center processes areas of the business. While employed as a technical consultant/business analyst, has analyzed impact of new development and modifications to software and downstream applications per requirements from the business.

Does a detail-oriented business analyst with experience working in a not-for-profit health care organization and an acute care hospital fit in your organization? Technical knowledge encompasses JDA (Parathon-Paraclaim), ImageNow, Budget Advisor, Visionware, Premier Operations Advisor, BusinessObjects, InfoView, OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition), Crystal Reports and Management Console, Tableau, SQL, Lawson, Kronos Timekeeper and Meditech.

As a business systems analyst in a clinical care network, has performed analysis, procedure optimization, development and implementation of a solution to present specific remit data coming from SQL Server based JDA DB to facilitate Medicaid department operations. This process originally had a full time analyst dedicated to creating weekly data using a rudimentary and complicated process; the new process was a very simple one using embedded queries with T-SQL that takes between 20-30 minutes a week. Also, has provided ongoing Level II support for the staff of analysts in the area on Crystal Reports and SQL queries to provide timely ad-hoc reporting based on JDA DB to all areas of Revenue Cycle teams.

This individual was in charge of monthly statistics generation, analysis and recording of Quantitative Management Information Reporting System (QMIRS) for financial and clinical data. This specialist also performed a complicated analysis to adopt existing process to generate statistics in order to produce data to be recorded in QMIRS in a specific format.

How can an IT business support analyst who worked in manufacturing and biotechnology industries help your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Associate’s Degree in Applied Science, Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Systems and Master’s Degree in Computer Resources and Information Management. Credentials include Chancellors Certificate in Unix, TCP/IP, NT Server Administration, and Routers. This professional has 16+ years of experience in Supply Chain Management working on TMS systems: I2/ JDA (3 + years), SAP (8+ years), JD Edwards (6+ years) and Red Prairie (2 + years).

Working with challenging issues such as being responsible for support of company’s SAP, I2/JDA and Cambar WMS System for the CS, TMS,WMS, MM, and production groups have vetted this specialist’s work experience. As an IT business support analyst, has addressed end-to-end process questions, requests, and application issues for both SAP and non-SAP systems. Some of the tasks were researching issues and collaborating with appropriate functional teams and company application resources for resolution, as well as providing technical and functional support for user base in 50 + locations.

With a “can do approach” in the area of working closely with corporate and divisional functional and architectural groups on an automated testing tool project, rolling Certify (by Worksoft) out to company’s functional IT and business teams. Acting as a QA testing business analyst-IT, has acted as the Project Lead facilitating the rollout for a twelve month project doing the planning, executing, and implementation of the project on-time and within budget to achieve the project deliverables.

Would hiring a business analyst with work experience in retail, software and financial services industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational background is composed of Associate’s Degree in Accounting and Bachelor’s Degree with Double Major in Accounting and Business Management. Software knowledge consists of JDA, Oracle, Monarch, Satmetrix and Salesforce.

Acting as a business analyst in a software company, has developed, executed and managed the User Acceptance Testing process using JDA and industry best practices. Some of the tasks were working across all levels of the organization to support customer success and objectives, as well as supporting one or more projects and working with the teams to provide insight to develop and execute the necessary strategy and actions to ensure successful adoption by leadership, associates and customers. This professional has experience in application and operations management, was familiar with change management and was supportive in developing a customer-centric organization that can take advantage of new opportunities as they arise. Responsible for the care and feeding of all survey programs including but not limited to developing and updating program users and their profiles, survey edits, building and updating survey contact files as well as working with program team on customer facing invitations and reminders.

While working for a financial services company as a business analyst, has identified opportunities to streamline end-to-end loan origination process and improve the customer experience. Other duties were learning processes in short periods of time, as well as entering, owning, and driving CAP processes and internal controls.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this business analyst who worked in retail, aerospace and software industries? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Technology, Major in Electronics and Communications as well as Executive MBA. Software knowledge consists of JDA SCPO, MySQL, T-SQL, SQL Developer, and Toad for Oracle.

Contributed to the organization’s success by starting to work at post implementation of JDA Supply chain tools and improving the process, integrating newly acquired businesses and support on all requests and activities related to supply chain domain. While working in an aerospace company as a business analyst, has improved revenue of $150,000 for commodity products and $45,000 for chemical products. Based on user inputs, has designed a system to analyze contract details and flag first time buys. This resulted in reduction of past due by 15% or 75,000 lines over a period of a year. This professional has used knowledge of forecasting methods, implemented new forecasting methods, thereby improving forecast, as well as designed custom forecasting logic to recognize parts as slow movers, using historical trend and contract activity.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by working along with JDA Cloud team to resolve complex application issues in real time, which would result in unavailability of either the entire or certain components of the application. Acting as a business analyst, accomplishments were spearheading multiple integration projects, as well as collaborating with stakeholders, developers, and testers to create project plan.

Is impacting your organization with a senior software engineer with experience working in retail, publishing and pharmaceutical industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Major: Business Information Processing, Minor: Mathematics). Software packages involve JDA and JD Edwards (JDE World). Software knowledge consists of RPG II, RPG III, RPG IV Free, ILE RPG/400, RPG/SQL, CLP, COBOL/400, AS400 SQL, EDI and SQL Server.

While employed in a retail company as a senior software engineer, has configured and modified JDA SCM system for new store launches involving data transfers between company, clients, web store, third party credit authorization, fulfillment centers, and customer service. This professional has worked on data transfers that included item master, item hierarchy, item pricing, receipts, inventory transactions, point of sale, customer information, third party shipments, order status, advanced shipment notifications, purchase orders, sales orders, and shipped orders. This specialist has managed projects and was responsible for requirements gathering, cost estimates, design documentation, and completion of all phases (coding, testing, and implementation). Technical skills applied included RPG/ Free, /SQL, /ILE as well as JDA, SVS, PGP, IBM System I5 AS/400 and PC platform.

Part of the job as a senior software engineer in a publishing company was upgrading new and legacy RPG code for changes to master, work, and configure files that included adding new fields to the Account Master, Title Master, and various configuration files. More so, the job entailed creating new configuration files along with maintenance and window prompt selection programs.

What contributions could a software engineer with work experience in retail, manufacturing and oil refinery industries bring to your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering as well as Master of Business Administration in Financial Services Management. Technical skills involve JDA, Oracle, MySQL, and Teradata Utilities like MLOAD, FXPORT, BTEQ, FLOAD, TTU 14.0, TPTLOAD, LOADER, DB2 and Hadoop. This individual is Talend Certified, Hadoop, SCRUM Foundation Certified, PMP Certified, Six Sigma Green Belt and ITIL Foundation Certified.

Challenges like successfully completing many Volumes data ingestion for JDA application’s Oracle to Teradata using Teradata utility TPT, where the volume of data to be loaded is 3-4 billion records per week were welcomed and successfully completed. Serving in a retail company as a software engineer, has worked on Siebel upgrade and changed the structures in DB2, modified OBIEE Informatica Jobs to accommodate the changes for ETL and altered Oracle tables to accommodate the length increase, with short amount of time.

Shared expertise by saving $700K in storage cost for the organization, migrating 12 years of high volume sales data from Teradata to Hadoop using combination of mainframes, SCOOP, Pig scripts and Hive. Furthermore, has saved millions of dollars in Legal cases via data analysis and reports for Legal team to support a company for claims filed by Vendors and Suppliers.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a software architect who worked extensively in the software industry? Educational background is composed of AAT in Programming and BS in Psychology. Proficient in JDA, VC++, Visual Studio, TFS, Visual Source Safe, RPG IV, CL, DB2/400, SQL, IBM iSeries (AS/400) and WebEx.

Serving in a software company as a software architect, has led the design and development of the integration between the E3 Suite of products and other products in the JDA Supply Chain suite. Also, has acted using Lean Six Sigma principles to keep processes as effective and simple as possible. As a result, new defects were reduced by 40%. Some of the tasks were managing complex projects with dispersed teams (US, Europe, India), as well as taking development projects from initial concept to completion as ready to install solutions.

As a senior software engineer in a software company, has trained and mentored associates in the US and India, as well as created and enforced standards and best practices for development on the IBM iSeries (AS/400) platform and VC++ development on the Microsoft platform. In addition, has collaborated with team members and across the Product Management and QA teams to design and implement enhanced versions of all of the E3 products.

Would a detail-oriented principal software engineer with experience working in manufacturing and retail industries fit in your organization? Educational attainment is composed of BS in Business Management and Associate’s Degree in Computer Science. Professional certifications involve IBM Certified RPG IV Programmer Specialist. Technical skills include JDA, RPGILE, PL/SQL, Unix Scripting, Perl, Java, JavaScript, XML, HTML, IBM DB2 and Oracle 10G.

Some accomplishments included providing IT support and training for JDA Transportation Networks (V 7.5.2), as well as support for technical/application issues for the business. While working in a retail company as a principal software engineer, has researched data, logs and error reports when in-house tickets were submitted indicating long run times, application failures and such. This individual was able to resolve issues without opening a ticket with JDA, yet supported the business in working with JDA open tickets. Also, has involved sending data base schemas to JDA, working together with JDA on issues, running tests and involving the business analysts to participate in the resolution. Moreover, has worked with SWAT teams during crucial issues. Additionally, has served as lead role in several JDA application patch installations and version upgrades, as well as provided JDA training on Networks Transport and Freight Pay business application usage including IT upgrade and support.

Shared expertise by supporting Supply Chain business releases with custom SQL queries, Shell scripts, Perl scripts and CRONTAB adjustments providing business needs to assist JDA Transportation and Freight Pay Networks. Furthermore, has installed JDA transportation patches and application upgrades.

How can a supply chain analyst with experience working in retail, telecommunications and logistics industries help your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelors of Business Administration and Masters of Business Administration. Professional certifications involve Inventory Management Institute JDA/E3 Operator and Project Management Certification. This supply chain leader has extensive hands on experience and a consistent track record in exceeding goals for large scale and international projects, fostering growth and delivering strong and sustainable gains. Also, has negotiated and developed transportation guide reducing LTL rates from 3.5m to 1m (71% savings) and long-haul transportation rates from 2m to 1.67m (17%).

Working with challenging issues such as directly maintaining supply chains at service levels that exceed customer expectations without sacrificing inventory levels and using International Materials Institute Level I certification, (JDA E3 SLIM/TRIM MRPII software) have vetted this specialist’s work experience. While working in a retail company as a supply chain analyst, has directed the collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment program for regularly stocked, promotional and seasonal product shipping from multiple manufacturing sights to 17 designated retail distribution centers for issue to over 7,000 stores.

With a “can do approach” in the area of writing and adapting international purchasing and supply chain policies and procedures for the areas of purchasing, material returns, vendor qualification / quality surveys, and non-standard purchase order requests. This specialist was also part of the catastrophic disaster recovery team.

Would hiring a supply chain analyst with work experience in retail, aerospace solutions, and logistics industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational attainment is composed of BS Business Administration of International Shipping Management and MS in Supply Chain Management. Software knowledge consists of JDA, Python and R.

Acting as a supply chain analyst in an aerospace solutions company, has analyzed and compared different forecasting algorithms in JDA Demand Manager, using Python and R to select suitable forecasting algorithms for general and intermittent demand patterns, and improved forecasting accuracy of class-0 1000 CSM (chemical and specialty materials) SKUs by 9.70%, and class-1 1850 CSM SKUs by 5.18%. This specialist has analyzed JDA buy signals and data to improve the chemicals planning process, focusing on identifying the buying error signals, and removing duplicate signals and reducing forecasts noise in JDA Enterprise Supply Planning. Also, has reduced products purchasing Past Dues from around $300,000 to $131,943, as well as analyzed and improved current stocking strategy, preformed advanced ABC inventory analysis combined with dynamic shelf life to reduce high expiration and scrap risk inventory by 1,692 parts and $62,194.

While working for a logistics company as a consultant, has provided executive summary and suggestions on target markets, potential consumer segments, and potential partner firms to enable expansion in these economic areas, based on a comprehensive microeconomics, e-commerce and logistics infrastructural analysis.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this supply chain analyst who worked in retail and manufacturing industries? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Business Administration, Major in Supply Chain. Professional certifications include Six Sigma Green Belt and Lean Six Sigma. Knowledgeable in JDA, WDM and JDE Systems.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by working in JDA Advanced Warehouse and Store Replenishment as well as streamlining flow of goods from point of origin to point of consumption. As a supply chain analyst in a retail company, has coordinated with supply chain leaders to maintain and provide update in all pricing as well as prepare routine reports for all data with the help of various Lean tools. Other tasks were setting up and maintaining purchase orders, resolving purchase orders/invoice issues, as well as calculating, tracking, and communicating material related performance issues.

Contributed to the organization by working cross-functionally with the production, procurement, engineering and material deployment teams to streamline the supply chain process and resolve any issues with materials. Serving as a purchasing analyst in a manufacturing company, has worked closely with key Supply Chain Leaders as a change- agent within the business unit to help align supply chain best practices and the development of a more seamless supply chain that was being implemented across America.

Is impacting your organization with a supply chain analyst with experience working in manufacturing and nonprofit industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Management Science as well as Master of Science in Management, Operations Research and Supply Chain Management. Skills in Enterprise Resource Planning involve JDA and SAP. Other expertise consists of SAS, SPSS, EVIEWS, Python, Arena and Tableau.

While employed in a manufacturing company as a supply chain analyst, has developed, reviewed and analyzed sale reports utilizing data from Cognos and SAP, which was used in weekly update reports across all executives and demand teams. This professional has forecasted point of sale level by leveraging a variety of data: weather, promotions, customer inventory level and other significant variables as well as presented trends and analysis in the monthly demand meeting to vice president and SOP group. Also, has modified demand forecast models across all products and several major customers in JDA utilizing price, store count variance and other market intelligence factors.

Part of the job was to create new database in Excel with VBA to evaluate different projects and financial performance using 5 years of data and $100,000 of donations. Furthermore, has analyzed different fundraising events according to return on investment and gave suggestion on event plan. In addition, has audited financial records to locate donations and material contributions in 27 sub organizations.