Senior JDE Manufacturing Functional Consultant

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior JDE Manufacturing Functional Consultant for a contract position of 6+ months, based in Irvine, California. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Manufacturing modules, business process consulting, solution design, and leadership of global ERP implementations across manufacturing organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end implementation, rollout, upgrade, and support projects for JDE EnterpriseOne Manufacturing.

• Analyze business requirements and design scalable JDE Manufacturing solutions aligned with business objectives.

• Conduct requirement gathering workshops and prepare Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Specifications (FS), and Solution Design Documents.

• Configure and support Manufacturing modules including:

• Product Data Management (PDM)

• Bill of Materials (BOM)

• Routing

• Work Orders

• Shop Floor Management

• Manufacturing Accounting

• Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP)

• Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

• Demand Planning

• Inventory Management

• Quality Management

• Collaborate with technical teams to develop customizations, Orchestrations, reports, and interfaces.

• Support integrations between JDE and external systems such as MES, WMS, PLM, Salesforce, MuleSoft, RFSmart, and other third-party applications.

• Lead conference room pilots (CRP), system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), and production deployments.

• Perform fit-gap analysis and recommend best-practice solutions.

• Manage production support, root cause analysis (RCA), defect management, and continuous process improvements.

• Mentor functional consultants and provide leadership to cross-functional teams.

• Coordinate with business stakeholders, project managers, architects, and offshore/onshore teams.

• Drive process standardization and ERP transformation initiatives.

• Support change management, user training, and knowledge transfer activities.

Qualifications

• Required

• 20+ years of ERP consulting experience.

• 12+ years of hands-on experience with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Manufacturing.

• Strong expertise in Manufacturing, Product Data Management, Shop Floor Management, Manufacturing Accounting, Inventory Management, Procurement, Sales Order Processing, Warehouse Management, Demand Planning, and Capacity Planning.

• Experience with JDE EnterpriseOne 9.2.

• Strong knowledge of manufacturing business processes in process and discrete manufacturing industries.

• Experience with JDE Orchestrator and workflow automation.

• Knowledge of integration technologies such as MuleSoft, REST APIs, and middleware.

• Familiarity with reporting tools such as BI Publisher, One View Reporting, or Power BI.

• Strong understanding of ERP implementation methodologies (Waterfall and Agile).

• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

• JDE EnterpriseOne certification.

• PMP, PRINCE2, or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.

• Experience in Oracle Cloud Manufacturing or other ERP transformation programs.

• Experience with RFSmart, MES, and Warehouse Automation.

• Knowledge of Oracle Cloud SCM.

• Exposure to DevOps, Azure DevOps, Jira, and ServiceNow.

• Experience leading global rollouts and multi-country implementations.

• Strong presentation and executive communication skills.