Overview
This role supports a complex Epicor-to-JDE upgrade with a heavy focus on validating high-impact inventory data loads, ensuring correct Supply Chain & Finance configuration, and guiding the internal team through core functional decisions. The consultant must bring deep hands-on JDE Inventory Management expertise, strong data validation capability, and proven experience with Service & Warranty Management — where inventory will ultimately be committed and consumed. This is an execution-heavy role requiring a senior functional expert who can work directly with IT, SMEs, and cross-functional stakeholders to safeguard data integrity, costing accuracy, and end-to-end process continuity.
Responsibilities
- Lead the functional validation of inventory value loads, ensuring accuracy across customer-owned and internally owned inventory.
- Confirm appropriate costing methods, item configuration, and field usage, advising on what data is required, where it must live, and how it impacts downstream processes.
- Assess whether configurations will break existing processes, disrupt MRP, or cause costing anomalies, and recommend corrective actions.
- Work closely with IT and SMEs to validate final pieces of high-impact inventory, ensuring alignment before cutover.
- Support the creation and refinement of data validation and integrity plans, including test plans for pre- and post-refresh cycles.
- Guide SMEs through Quotes, Sales Orders (PP&S), and related data requirements when relevant.
- Collaborate with the technical team to ensure functional correctness of data loads, even when the technical loading mechanisms are already in place.
- Provide clarity, structure, and decision support to teams learning the JDE portfolio, helping them merge existing processes into a templated JDE environment.
- Participate in technical and alignment discussions with a small interview panel and IT leadership as needed.
- Work PST hours (remote OK) while maintaining tight communication and rapid turnaround on functional issues.
Qualifications
- Senior-level JDE functional expertise in Inventory Management (INV) with strong grounding in Supply Chain and Finance modules.
- Deep experience validating and configuring high-impact inventory data loads, including costing methods, item setup, and functional impacts across MRP.
- Hands-on JDE Service & Warranty Management module experience, specifically how inventory is committed, consumed, and tracked (distinct from Manufacturing).
- Strong data and process validation capabilities, able to determine correct data fields, configuration impacts, process breakpoints, and ensure data integrity during and after refresh cycles.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting major system upgrades (Epicor-to-JDE or similar complex transitions) in industrial, manufacturing, or complex multi-site environments.
- Background working with cross-functional IT and SME teams to refine test plans, execute UAT, and manage data signoffs.
- Familiarity with custom reporting requirements, item configuration edge cases, and data integrity planning.
- Ability to provide ad-hoc functional leadership to teams that are new to JDE, supporting knowledge transfer without redesigning processes.
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