Below are the 5 Supply Chain Managers, 4 Product Managers & 4 Procurement Managers experienced with SAP SCM & other systems. The Thor Group® provides these and other professionals like buyers, inventory analysts, procurement specialists & purchasing agents on a consulting, contracting, or direct hire basis.

Can hiring a global supply chain manager with experience in chemical, petroleum and technology industries have a positive impact on your organization? Knowledge in computer applications covers SAP SCM, SAP IBP (Integrated Business Planning) and SAP APO, along with SQL, Oracle, JDA, Knexis and Steelwedge software. Strengths involve solid experience in Integrated Business Planning (IBP/Sales & Operation Planning), vendor management, inventory management, SC software, budget planning, process improvement, improving customer satisfaction (OCT, OTD, P&L analysis), margin improvement and IT procurement. Educational background spans Bachelor’s in Engineering and Master’s in Management Information Systems (MIS).

Responsibilities of this global supply chain manager involved mentoring and coaching demand & supply planners in a region while leading the complete IBP/S&OP process. The monthly global S&OP demand planning and supply planning meetings were led. Part of the job was building business case to implement S&OP software internally in the company, while also convincing executives for the value proposition and receiving their approvals. The individual led executive S&OP software vendor in working with SAP, JDA, Knexis and Steelwedge software. Other tasks were coordinating and facilitating S&OP process including recommending as well as overseeing improvements across demand and supply planning.

Another job called for developing business processes for sales & operations (S&OP) planning/Integrated Business Planning implementation product management, demand & supply planning, and management business review. Aside from preparing executive S&OP presentation in monthly meetings, the job required designing IBP, demand management, and product management process for business with supply chain, commercial, and marketing leaders.

What advantages can having a supply chain/materials management supervisor from a general hospital give your organization? Technical background covers using SAP SCM, as well as in Oracle, JDE, PeopleSoft, and Chart Master. This experienced professional is also skilled in taking care of SAP implementation and supply chain logistics, along with spearheading strategic business alliances for various major companies. This university graduate finished an international management course in GAP Partnership as well as a certificate course in Purchasing Supply Chain Management.

This supply chain/materials management supervisor in a general hospital served as key team member of the supply chain department participating in “best practices”, increasing turn rates and reducing overall costs. Responsibility was also for over $1 MM in inventory and over 140k items.

Part of the job was also ensuring distribution and fulfillment of all items in PAR Rooms. The individual was also in charge of both automated and indirect counts for fulfillment, along with reconciliation of overstock.

Does employing a supply chain manager experienced in petroleum, technology and business services industries match your organization’s requirements? Computer experience is in using SAP SCM and SAP Ariba. Then individual graduated with B.S. Mechanical Engineering (minor in Mathematics), MBA in Finance, and Supply Chain Management Certificate.

Serving the petroleum industry, this supply chain manager led a team of 5 members driving global, standard process for engagement as well as e-enablement of suppliers and integration into SAP Ariba marketplace. This included oversight of an offshore team of 6 in India supporting supplier enablement, pricebook build and helpdesk support for a Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) initiative. Achievements included developing simplified and user-friendly global supplier support model (GSSM) that expedited customer support and reduced customer complaints by 15%. The individual also reduced PO and invoice transaction time, improving payment time to suppliers by 10%.

Duties in another job involved managing a project on deployment of supplier engagement and enablement change management activities for domestic business units in support of the Purchase-to-Pay initiative. Scope was identified for manual and electronic supplier engagement and pricebook build that improved PO quality, while decreasing invoice processing time, resulting in improved on time payments by 10%. Part of the job was working with procurement to create, monitor and manage Ariba contract workspaces; establish process, as well as with marketplace provider, Quadrem/Ariba, to e-enable 200 suppliers.

Is recruiting a global supply chain manager who has work background in consumer goods, technology and telecommunications industries a good move for your organization? Software knowledge covers the use of SAP SCM, SAP Ariba and SAP Manugistics. The professional has strong software and hardware IT management experience, along with coordinating multiple projects/ business unit objectives, and maximizing ERP systems (SAP, Oracle) effectiveness. Achievements included establishing MRP/ERP processes for SAP and Oracle systems throughout career that enabled predictable and successful STP/PTP processes. Educational background includes Bachelor of Arts, English (with Information Technology & Business) and Master of Science, Supply Chain Management (major in Business Administration). The individual is also a CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional) and a CPSM (Certified Professional Supply Manager).

Working in a consumer goods firm, this global supply chain manager made recommendations to functional stakeholders regarding the optimal approach to achieve process improvement objectives through supplier management, including implementing lean management techniques, targeting compressible spend, and adopting new BPM practices. Core business processes were improved using lean management and Six Sigma techniques for SAP ERP, to solve business challenges. Working directly with business unit clients was part of the job to understand existing and changing business processes and business strategies.

In another job, tasks involved negotiating price and contract licensing terms with service suppliers (including Kelly, IBM, Motorola, Oracle, Microsoft, AT&T, and Sprint). Cost reductions on supplier products/components were initiated and implemented. Finished goods were procured to support the short term and strategic inventory goals for OfficeMax $1.2B account, using Manugistics, Ariba, SAP, and Microsoft Office.

What opportunities can having a senior supply chain manager who served pharmaceutical, technology and manufacturing industries give your organization? Software skills are in using SAP SCM, SAP IBP, SAP Ariba, Oracle NetSuite, Oracle ASCP, JD Edwards, AS/400, Cloud based systems, Sage MAS 90, Demantra, Point-man, Made2Manage Agile and Windchill. Aside from graduating with Bachelor of Arts degree, the individual is also an APICS Member/Trained and has APICS Detailed Scheduling & Planning Certificate as well as TQM Certificate.

In a pharmaceutical company, this senior supply chain manager oversaw supply chain and warehouse operations, for 8 medical device and pharmaceutical equipment lines. Improvements were made on fill rates from 45% to 99% by closely overseeing planning, as well as on inventory accuracy by 13% reducing stock levels and reducing excess and obsolete inventory. The job called for managing supplier relationship/negotiations contracts to include cost savings and mitigate inventory risk, while ensuring that material was available for production in a timely fashion. The individual was Super User for SAP, responsible for implementing, validating and training for all new employees, while also troubleshooting all issues.

For another job, functions involved overseeing planning/materials with MRP and IBP/S&OP planning, along with demand/supply planning for wafer, back grinding, dicing, assembly, testing and inspection for semiconductors with domestic/ international vendors. Part of the job was working closely with sales and manufacturing to maintain proper inventory of raw materials and finished goods. The job required setting up S&OP process to keep operations, supply chain, marketing and engineering/R&D in sync. The professional interacted with production, sales, warehouse and logistics to ensure proper priorities were met.

How can a group product manager with experience working in financial services, IT services and software industries help your organization? Educational attainment is composed of BS Engineering and MBA Marketing/Finance. This specialist has hands-on experience in SAP ERP/SCM/CRM applications and Agile development methodology. Technical expertise includes On-demand, CRM, Supply Chain, Procurement, Financial Supply Chain, and Security. Also, has working knowledge in XML, EDI, J2EE, and Data Encryption.

Working with challenging issues such as strategy development, recommendation and execution for three of Ariba’s key enterprise solution suites, from opportunity analysis, to market sizing and segmentation, to business case and Go-to-Market plan, as part of product strategy have vetted this specialist’s work experience. As a group product manager, drove the transformation of the Ariba Supplier Network product from a Free service to a new multi-million dollar on-demand subscription business. Additionally, led cross-functional teams and delivered 3 new products in 3 years, generating over $75 million in revenue and over 180 global customers.

With a “can do approach” in the area of executing partnership strategy by defining and managing product integration projects with key e-procurement application vendors, including Ariba and SAP have been career objectives. Acting as a sr. product manager, with SAP and Ariba, gathered and defined product requirements for product integration, facilitated integration testing and internal deployment. Moreover, produced detailed integration training guides to the sales team.

Would hiring a software product manager with work background in software development and commerce solutions industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Engineering (BE), with concentration in Computer Science and Master’s in Business Administration (MBA), with concentration in International Business and Finance. Skills in ERP packages include: SAP modules: SAP-Apparel and Footwear solution (AFS), MM, QM, ABAP Query, LIS, Workflow and ARIBA: Marketplace (AMNE, AMSE) and Supplier Network (ACSN). Also, has extensive experience in product management, project management and systems analysis activities of business software systems.

Acting as a software product manager in a software development and design company, developed, implemented and supported a supplier adoption to enable procurement through marketplace using Ariba’s AMNE and ACSN products. Responsibilities included supplier on boarding deliverables, supplier training and support. Software product management functions included gathering, facilitating, documenting and refining requirements from customers, sales, product marketing and other business owners across the organization. The overall responsibility was to shepherd products through the product development, QA and delivery process, as well as develop revenue and cost models to justify product development.

While working as a product manager in a provider of customized content and commerce solutions, interacted with software vendors to evaluate products, integration capabilities and pricing negotiation. In addition, assisted in designing integration scenarios with customer’s SAP System.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this manager of product management who worked in technology, software and professional services industries? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Engineering. Professional certifications include Certified Scrum Product Owner and Certified Scrum Master certifications. Awards received consist of Outstanding Performer Award at SAP-Ariba and Winner of Innovation Challenge (SAP Ariba). Technical skills include SAP SCM and SAP Ariba Cloud Platform.

Contributed to the organization’s success by leading a portfolio of key product initiatives which included Ariba Open API, an AI-based cognitive solution in collaboration with SAP Leonardo and IBM Watson, Search 3.0, BPM (Business Process Monitoring), Self-Service Forms builder as well as Archive and Purge solutions. Serving in a technology software company as a manager of product management, reported to the CTO of SAP-Ariba as a part of Ariba Cloud Platform team. Also, was part of Ariba Network (AN) which enabled about $3 Trillion of commerce. This specialist brought to market the Ariba-Fieldglass integrated solution and Ariba Mobile Shopping cart solutions. A notable achievement was bringing to market the first Ariba Open API solution, which allowed partners and customers to co-innovate with Ariba. Ariba Open API was showcased in Ariba Live Los Vegas and was one of the top analysts picks as the most innovative solutions from the leader in procurement on cloud company.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by using Accenture Delivery Method for large-scale SAP implementations, as well as designed, developed and deployed a highly scalable and integrated solution for a pharmaceutical giant ($89 Billion Market Cap).

Is impacting your organization with a product manager with experience working in aerospace/defense, technology and software industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Sales Mgmt. Professional certifications involve APICS Certification in Inventory Management, Master Production Scheduling, and Basics. Software know-how involves SAP R/3, Baan ERP, PeopleSoft, and Siebel.

While employed in an aerospace & defense company as a product manager with SAP R/3 BAPI, worked on B2B infrastructure and adapters including eLink Information Integrator, eLink BAPI Adapter for R/3, eLink ALE Adapter for R/3, WebLogic Adapter for SAP R/3 BAPI, and XML/Non-XML Translator (WLXT). This professional developed and delivered sales and technical demos, on-hand lab training and exercises, technical presentations and roadmap presentations for BEA field and customers. Also, provided and delivered technical expertise on large account sales opportunities.

Part of the job as a product manager with SAP Ariba & R/3 in a technology software company was to contribute product management skills to build application adapters (SAPR/3 BAPI and IDOC, Baan, PeopleSoft and technology adapters) that plug into the leading EAI solution, MQSeries and MQSeries Integrator. Other duties were providing consulting services to Commerce One, Broadvision and Ariba. Furthermore, developed high level design requirements for engineering of NEON Adapters including SAP R/3 BAPI, SAP IDOCs, PeopleSoft and Siebel.

What opportunities can hiring a regional procurement manager who worked in recreation, media and automotive industries give your organization? Computer proficiency is in using SAP SCM, SAP Ariba and SAP BW, as well as Oracle PeopleSoft, SPSS, Egrades, NCE, Outlook, SIRE, Excel, INSIGHT, IFAS, WebCT, Project Docs, WMS, MRP, SYTEK, Sage ACCPAC, Clipbase, Navision, and Nimsoft Ticketing System. The individual graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English (minor in Spanish) and Master of Public Administration.

Focusing on the use of SAP Ariba, this regional procurement manager was in charge of over 15 million dollars in procurement spend. Besides saving over $600K within a twelve-month period, another $200,000 was saved through re-negotiating a renewal agreement for food and beverage distribution services. Other tasks involved managing the corporate travel booking system while continuously benchmarking agent fees across other companies, along with several corporate contracts, to include travel, office supplies, freight, maintenance, repair and operational supplies as well as print, creative design, food, beverage and IT related services/ products. One accomplishment was developing the company’s first e-sourcing bid event through Ariba in partnership with Blackstone. Part of the job was coordinating with finance, new business development, IT, marketing, call center, facilities management, wardrobe and HR when working on procurement projects.

This individual’s main concern was SAP & supply chain. Responsibilities were developing procurement procedure related to IT. Aside from managing purchasing group workflow approvals in SAP, the job called for working closely with SAP architect to resolve issues in SAP. Information technology purchase orders were created/reviewed for hardware, software, peripherals, print font, and annual maintenance using SAP.

Can having a procurement manager experienced in pharmaceutical, media and business services industries have a positive impact on your organization? Technical experience encompasses the use of SAP SCM, SAP Ariba and SAP SRM. Besides being an experienced SAP Global implementation functional lead, other technical skills are in development of training, on-line catalogs, supplier classification, and process mapping. This French-speaking professional finished purchasing management program.

As procurement manager for a pharmaceutical firm, duties were for categorization of suppliers for upcoming SAP Ariba implementation. Part of the job was working on team to establish the source to contract process. Besides conducting in-depth category spend/ market analysis, another task was developing category strategy documents. The individual designed and executed complex requests for proposal, as well as template in Excel to use to upload RFP documents into Ariba.

Functions in another job involved leading deployment of SAP/SRM/e-Sourcing implementation. Functions also involved recording and delivering training to end-users and approvers in various locations. The job called for working closely with finance to integrate expense reporting into the SAP tool, as well as acting as global indirect procurement manager covering commercial print, and corporate. Accomplishments included leading a commercial print sourcing project that resulted in an annual cost reduction of $1.5M USD or over 30% of the baseline spend. The individual also facilitated a sourcing event for packaging materials used in distribution that yielded 250,000USD in savings or 16% of the baseline spend.

What advantages can employing a procurement manager who served technology, financial services and retail industries give your organization? Software knowledge covers SAP SCM, SAP Ariba, PeopleSoft, McKesson ERP, Oracle, Adobe, Mercury, and Symantec systems. Educational background includes AA Program Film Studies and AA Program Business Administration. Aside from having CPM Certification, the individual is also Certified in ITIL Service Management and is HIPAA Professional Certified.

Focusing on the use of SAP applications, this procurement manager managed a procurement buying team for all technology requirements from various automotive companies and affiliates. Tasks were issuing RFPs, along with negotiating HW-SW, maintenance and professional services agreements with domestic and global vendors. Procurement Team utilized SAP procurement tool for all sourcing events.

Another job focused on procurement with SAP & Ariba. The job called for negotiating agreements that reduced risk and increased value to the firm. The individual increased savings to firm by $50M once the team became involved. Part of the job was managing domestic procurement contract team of 5 vendor management/contract specialists. Achievements involved leading management team that chose e-procurement provider, Ariba, in 2000 and installed it on 17,000 workstations nationwide. The individual also led project that partnered with legal to review and make changes on any regulatory contract issues domestically or globally.

Does recruiting a procurement manager with experience working in business services, petroleum and technology industries match your organization’s requirements? Systems experience includes using SAP modules such as SCM, Ariba, PP, QI, QM, MM, FICO, SD, GL, AP, AR, IM, OTC, CRM, HCM, MIGO, and PTP (Procure-to-pay), along with TIBCO, Enertia; Oracle; and Open Invoice. Educational background covers Bachelor of Science/Business Management & E-Business, Master of Business Administration/Energy Management, as well as Doctor of Business Administration/Project Management & Global Supply Chain (DBA). Aside from receiving Certified Supply Chain Professional Training, the individual also has CSCMP-SCPro Certification and SAP FICO /SAP Inventory Management & Physical Management Certificate. Membership is with Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals.

Working with SAP (SCM & Ariba), this procurement manager managed all software licenses, tracking, maintained license budgets, payments, and upgrades to ensure software access was not interrupted. The individual served as primary point of reference to business, technical teams, and document preparations (PO’s)/RFx (RFI, RFP, and RFQ)/EBuy for vendor approvals. Key accomplishments included developing processes and document for software cost savings, software license tracking document, as well as CapEx tracking for senior management. Priorities were negotiated and requirement conflicts were resolved among various stakeholders/suppliers in SAP Ariba (SIPM).

In another job, assistance was given to internal customers in all aspects of managing software assets: finance, legal, tax, internal-audit, accounts-payable, and indirect procurement. The professional was also in charge of sourcing (annual budget renewal-pre-paid, allocations, OPEX, CAPEX, and contract negotiations (SAP, TIBCO, & Microsoft).