Below are the 5 Supply Chain Planners, 4 Business Analysts and 4 Functional Consultants with JDA and other systems expertise. The Thor Group® provides Techno-Functional experienced professionals we provide include systems analysts, software engineers, developers and JDA implementers / trainers on a consulting, contracting, or direct hire basis.

How can a supply chain planner with experience working in retail, manufacturing and logistics industries help your organization? Educational attainment is composed of BS in Organizational Business Management and MBA. Professional certifications involve APICS CPIM. Computer skills involve JDA 7.8, Manugistics 7.2.2, SAP, Oracle / JD Edwards (ERP System), SAP, Manugistics 7.2.1 and QAD.

Working with challenging issues such as performing user acceptance testing with upgrade of Manugistics system to JDA 7.8, as well as generating deployment orders daily by reviewing recommended shipments through JDA have vetted this specialist’s work experience. As a supply chain planner in a retail company, was responsible for upkeep of JDA 7.8 settings for assigned categories. Also, has served as a planning team lead for the company’s diversified business unit sale, transitioned at $700 million. Also, has developed and implemented a successful 3-month production ramp-down plan for the closure of a facility.

With a “can do approach” in the area of skillfully project managing materials through all departments contributing to an increase of 12.3% in Order Fill Rate up from the prior year have been career objectives. As a planner/buyer, has served as a leader of transformation initiative to reduce budget and labor costs which resulted in a savings of $200,000 annually. Achieved inventory accuracy results above 98% for $2 million in annual finished goods volume.

Would hiring a supply chain planner with vast work experience in a healthcare solutions provider help meet the needs of your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Associates in Business Management and Accounting as well as Bachelors in Management in Healthcare Administration. Technical skills involve JDA, Oracle E-Business Suites, SAP, JD Edwards, Allscripts and SaaS.

Acting as a supply chain planner, has collaborated with global sourcing team to achieve sourcing and procurement strategy. Some of the tasks were supporting accounting to resolve memos to buyers, credit hold issues, invoice errors, packing slip mistakes and purchase order reconciliation to ensure on hand quantities are accurate, as well as working with standard budgeting and forecasting models. This professional has facilitated meetings with supervisors, managers, compliance, process owners to determine S&OP requests and answer any questions. Moreover, has driven the team to meet or exceed the goals by providing superior global cross- functional operational leadership and management in a matrix organization.

While working as a global product compliance analyst, has resolved data quality issues by auditing the Scrum SAP Master Data by managing ERP and JDA material master data for component compliance documentation. This included part number research data entry, supplier research, material classification (UN numbers) and contact to ensure compliance with corporate requirements in support of final product compliance.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this sr. supply chain planner who worked in manufacturing, retail and cosmetics industries? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. Technical skills involve JDA/Manugistics and SAP.

Contributed to the organization’s success by using JDA/Manugistics and SAP to support the finished goods and component planning process. Serving as a senior supply chain planner, has helped streamline the supply chain, boosting in-stock positions, improving replenishment with 98% + customer service. Some of the tasks were managing the master planning, scheduling process for multiple contract mfg. sites while supporting global requirements, as well as planning the supply base to support non turnkey TPM while improving the responsiveness of the same. This specialist has managed effectively end to end procurement / supply chain, as well as supported new product rolls outs with on time product availability to meet ship to trade dates.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by using SAP R/3 and JDA Manugistics as the primary supply chain planning tools. While employed as a supply chain specialist, has achieved 99% customer service levels from the mass retailers while working with less FG, as well as developed a weekly MPS for both in house and third-party manufacturing sites. Moreover, has led the move of in house production to contract manufacturing sites without affecting service levels.

Is impacting your organization with a supply chain planner with experience working in retail and staffing industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Associate of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Management. Key skills involve JDA Software Package, EAS Tableau, Oracle, and MicroStrategy.

While employed as a supply planner, has created several documents for the menu simplification program which focused on streamlining processes to assist with appropriate removal of menu items from the JDA forecasting system. This professional has supported root cause analysis through the creation of daily promotion status reports, and development of relevant actions plan. Also, has provided oversight in determining the supplier production and inventory management plans as well as the distribution strategy for all product promotions. Moreover, has managed the replenishment processes for a food service company, including 33 Distribution Centers and 14,000 restaurants that consisted of issue resolution and reallocation decision processes.

Part of the job as an inventory analyst was to use analytical data, optimizing in-stock inventory and minimizing unproductive inventory while maximizing profit of seasonal merchandise. Increased fashion sandal gross margin dollar amount to $438,000 compared between Q3 2014 and Q3 2015. In addition, this individual bought 100,000 less units of inventory, being able to sell the product at a higher price and eliminate unnecessary markdowns. Furthermore, has created an Inventory tracker in Q3 2015 to monitor store sell through performance. Findings were 249 out of 554 stores sold women’s winter boots at a 10% sell through or higher versus the total average of 6%. Results were able to send additional inventory to the 249 stores to capitalize gross margin dollars.

What contributions could a sr. supply chain analyst/planner who worked in manufacturing, pharmaceutical and aerospace industries bring to your organization? Educational background is composed of BS (Industrial Production/Management) and MS (Industrial/Systems Engineering). Software skills include JDA/i2 Planning systems, SAP/R3 ECC 6.0, Oracle SQL and SPSS. Also, has JDA/i2 planning systems implementation experience for Supply Chain Planner and Material Allocator modules. This specialist is a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt and Certified Lean Practitioner.

Challenges like being responsible for the new JDA/i2 system implementation tool for the different modules such as Material allocator, Supply Chain Planner modules were welcomed and successfully completed on a regular basis. As a sr. supply chain analyst/planner in an aerospace company, has worked closely with the JDA consultants for the design construct and deploy stages of the software implementation project for supply planning processes. Also, was responsible for maintaining more than 95% OTD (On-Time Delivery), improving inventory efficiency, In-Stock %, Stock transfer efficiencies. Moreover, was responsible for reducing excess/obsolete inventory and at the same time maintaining optimum safety stock levels and replenishments with more than 250 warehouses globally.

Shared expertise by managing demand/supply of (over the counter) OTC pharmaceutical drugs for North American generics market. Serving as a supply chain planner, has monitored & maintained FG SKU’s in different packaging configurations supporting annual sales of $120MM for some of the major retail customers.

Would a detail-oriented business analyst with experience working in retail, banking and energy industries fit in your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering. Software knowledge consists of JDA, Oracle E-Business Suite and Kronos. This professional is experienced in the implementation of Kronos Workforce Central (WFC), Kronos Workforce Management (WFM) Timekeeper, Scheduler, Accruals, HR, Payroll, pay code, Payrolls and Pay Rules.

Some accomplishments included configuration and deployment of Kronos 4500 Biometric and InTouch 9000 clocks. As a sr. Kronos business analyst in a bank, has worked on the implementation of JDA/Vortex Mobile Notification and drove sales by strategic placement of goods through JDA Allocation Systems and forecasts warehouse quantities based on sales history and demand. Also, has analyzed results using statistical data from SAP, Retail Enterprise, and JDA to provide ongoing reports.

Shared expertise by working on implementing all building blocks of the Workforce Time & Attendance module as well configuring the web server and app servers for the Kronos environment. Moreover, has led Kronos upgradation project, Kronos 7.0 to Kronos 8.0 cloud solution, created business case/project plan, and created documentation for existing processes/reports/interfaces. In addition, was responsible for all functional and technical support of Kronos software including current live products (Kronos Workforce Timekeeper and HR/Payroll).

How can a business analyst with work experience in retail and telecommunications industries help your organization? Educational background is composed of BBA in Business Administration, BS in Information Technology Technical Management and MS in Business Administration. Professional certifications: Institute of Certified Records Managers (CRM), CSM Scrum Master, SAP Solution Manager and Six Sigma Lean Greenbelt. Technical skills include JDA, SAP, Tableau, PeopleSoft and Oracle.

Working with challenging issues such as preparing detailed technical documentation for ecommerce JDA enterprise operations and plans have vetted this specialist’s work experience. As a business data analyst in a retail company, has designed and developed various functions using PeopleSoft People Code and Application Engine, as well as created report using SQR for the New Hire Notification email. The report had all information of the applicant being hired. This specialist has worked on process improvement integrations with prescribed guidelines for in store retail structured development, as well as engaged in open dialogue with customers regarding ways to improve and expand user engagement, and to solicit feedback in order to improve product and service offerings. Contributed to the JDA Red Prairie Apps team to meet customer expectations and Service Level Agreement (SLA) targets through best in class support, development & administration practices.

With a “can do approach” in the area of preparing detailed technical documentation for ecommerce JDA enterprise operations and plans have been career objectives. While working as a data business analyst, has demonstrated expertise in all aspects of SDLC application project in addition to Infrastructure, Break-fix-model MSP for SMB provider, Change Management, San Storage and Disaster Recovery.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a lead techno-functional consultant who worked in manufacturing, logistics and entertainment industries? Educational attainment includes BE. Experience encompasses JDA 8.2, Integrator System, Parcel System, Web Visibility, DDA (Data Driven Applications) and EMS (Event Management System). This professional has expertise in creating Functional Design Document (FDD), Technical Design Document (TDD) and User Test cases, as well as skills in solution designing for WMS solutions and played the role of Solution Architect in multiple implementations. Also, has extensive experience on JDA (Red Prairie) WMS system.

Serving as a lead techno-functional consultant, has implemented new JDA (Red Prairie) WMS solutions based on customer requirement. Some of the tasks were successfully implementing projects, as well as providing functional and technical support to 100+ sites for Production, UAT and Test environment on JDA (Red Prairie) WMS system. Also, has worked on reporting system bugs to JDA by raising case for them in JDA portal and deployment of rollout provided by JDA apart from doing unit testing of functionality.

As a techno-functional consultant, responsibilities were implementing new JDA (Red Prairie) WMS solutions based on customer requirement. Moreover, has provided functional and technical support to all sites for Production, UAT and Test environment on JDA (Red Prairie) and Compass WMS system.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this business analyst with experience working in retail and food services industries? Educational background is composed of B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering as well as MS in Information Technology and Management. Technical skills consist of JDA SCPO, Visio, Jira, Informatica, Visual Studio, SAS, SAP BW and SAP HANA.

Contributed to the organization’s success by evaluating and integrating Mainframe DB2 MMS applications with other systems like Informatica, JDA planning and fulfillment, and Multi-Channel systems. As a business analyst in a retail company, has written the technical specifications to interact incessantly implemented assignment of 20 plus sprints while exhibiting the proficiency in requirement gathering, user story writing, product backlog management, sprint planning, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives. Also, was responsible to write production validation test cases for the new software team and facilitated UAT with 180 business users with zero conflicts increasing the customer satisfaction rate by 33%. Moreover, has utilized expertise in Rational tools for creating Use Cases, Version Control, Defect Tracking, and Monitoring as well as extensively used Agile and Scrum methodologies in all areas of the software development life cycle (SDLC).

Supported organizational goals and objectives by optimizing the store and warehouse inventory by 20%, saving the company $80,000 a year. Serving as a lead IT business analyst, has managed and led the team of 7 to implement 300 plus technical requirements for the new POS application to be deployed on 10,000 plus outlets across US.

Is impacting your organization with a technical and functional support lead with experience working in manufacturing, retail and entertainment industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelors of Technology in Information Technology. Software knowledge consists of JDA Manugistics, TOAD, Oracle 9i/ 8i/10g/11g, SQL and PL/SQL.

While employed in a manufacturing company as a technical and functional support lead, has provided techno-functional consultant support to the Advanced Planning and Scheduling suite of applications of JDA’s Manugistics. This professional has supervised operations correlated with demand planning, demand fulfillment, scheduling & transportation planning, as well as material requirements planning and master production schedule. Technical skill set acquired during this period were UNIX, Oracle, and Manugistics v6.1.8, 7.2.1, 7.4.2, 7.5.2. Also, has looked after the entire production support portfolio of Advanced Planning and Scheduling area for company in a 24 x 7 Global delivery model, making sure uninterrupted business continuity to the end users. Moreover, has implemented the version upgrade of existing Manugistics applications from 6.1.5 to 6.1.8 and 7.2.1 to 7.5.2.

Part of the job as a technical and functional support lead was to provide techno-functional consultant support to the Planning and Scheduling suite of applications of JDA’s Manugistics. This individual provided techno-functional consultant support to the Transportation Management suite of applications of JDA’s Manugistics.

What contributions could a functional consultant/IT SME with work background in retail, banking and manufacturing industries bring to your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Engineering. Professional certifications involve JDA certified Allocation Functional Administrator Level III, JDA certified professional in JDA ALLOCATION and JDA IKB Data Manager Certification v8.0. Areas of expertise consist of JDA Allocations, IKB Data Manager, E3(ASR, AWR), Control-M, Service Now, Smart Test, HP ALM, ITSM and VSAM.

Challenges like upgradation and integration of JDA Allocation tool to various other systems were welcomed and successfully completed on a regular basis. Serving in a retail company as a functional consultant & IT SME, has worked on a project on the upgradation and implementation of JDA Allocation. This tool was used to allocate the merchandise from Warehouse to Stores. Some of the tasks were coordinating with different groups like development (JDA), DBA, Unix Admins, Integration, etc. to complete the day to day activities, as well as project planning and resolving all the day to day issues. Part of the job was to do JDA Allocation functional Admin activities, review the functionality and suggest improvements, as well as monitor the production after implementation and taking necessary actions as required.

Shared expertise by managing the development, business analyst and QA team members, as well as coordinating with different groups like Development, DBA, Unix Admins, Integration, etc. to complete the day to day activities.

Would a detail-oriented technical and functional lead consultant with extensive experience working in the retail industry fit in your organization? Educational background consists of Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communication Engineering). This professional has worked almost 9 years in supply chain planning domain on ERP products like JDA SCPO (Manugistics-Demand / Fulfillment), JDA Demand Manager, and JDA Assortment Planning. Technical specialties involve JDA Assortment, JDA SCPO (Manugistics Demand/ Fulfillment), JDA Demand Manager, Oracle PL/SQL, Unix, XML, SQL, PL/SQL Performance Tuning and basic knowledge in Data Stage.

Some accomplishments included requirement gathering, creating functional design, reviewing technical design and code, offshore coordination, as well as implementation and execution. Serving as technical and functional lead consultant in a retail company, has worked on a project that involves upgrading JDA Demand/Fulfillment from 7.4 to 8.2 along with implementing new business requirements. Also, the legacy system was integrated with JDA ERP. Some of the tasks were completing interface data mapping and designing various reporting.

Shared expertise by working on the integration solution replacing existing Legacy mainframe system with new JDA SCPO (Manugistics7.5-Demand and Fulfillment) forecasting and replenishment solution system using IBM information sever ETL tool. Acting as a designer and developer, has enhanced the capabilities of the existing legacy forecasting solution by integrating legacy data from all desperate applications, transforming the data according to business requirements and finally loading it to common JDA/ Manugistics Database.