QAD ERP Solutions Lead — Sales, Shipping & Manufacturing

Avance Consulting; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Avance Consulting seeks a seasoned QAD Functional Consultant to partner with business and IT stakeholders across sales, shipping, invoicing, and manufacturing. You will translate operational needs into scalable ERP solutions, promote standard QAD capabilities, and lead end-to-end delivery from discovery to production stabilization.

The role requires 10+ years in ERP functional consulting with deep QAD experience in manufacturing, strong fit-gap skills, and a proven SDLC background in Agile or

Qualifications

• 10+ years of ERP functional consulting or business systems analysis experience, including at least 8 years supporting or implementing QAD in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience across sales & shipping, invoicing, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience delivering solutions through full software development lifecycle in Agile and/or Waterfall.
• Strong capability in business-process analysis, fit-gap assessment, functional design, configuration, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Working knowledge of testing methods: functional, integration, regression, and UAT.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery, fit-gap analysis, and solution design for QAD across order-to-cash, shipping, invoicing, and manufacturing operations.
• Document current-state and future-state processes, requirements, configuration decisions, and specifications.
• Configure QAD functionality for sales order management, pricing, allocations, shipping, invoicing, and related financial touchpoints.
• Support manufacturing processes: item/site data, BOMs, routings, work orders, inventory movements, and planning transactions.
• Assess cross-functional impacts across customer service, supply chain, warehouse, logistics, manufacturing, finance, and master data teams.
• Collaborate with technical teams on interfaces, reports, data conversion, and integrations; provide functional specs and acceptance criteria.
• Plan and execute unit, functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing; manage defects and traceability.
• Prepare user guides, process docs, and training materials; deliver knowledge transfer to business users and support teams.
• Provide production support, root-cause analysis, sustainable fixes, and assist with release, cutover, and hypercare.

Skills

QAD ERP experience

Fit-gap analysis

Requirements discovery

Business process analysis

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in related field

Tools

QAD

Job description

Avance Consulting seeks a seasoned QAD Functional Consultant to partner with business and IT stakeholders across sales, shipping, invoicing, and manufacturing. You will translate operational needs into scalable ERP solutions, promote standard QAD capabilities, and lead end-to-end delivery from discovery to production stabilization.

The role requires 10+ years in ERP functional consulting with deep QAD experience in manufacturing, strong fit-gap skills, and a proven SDLC background in Agile or