Advanced Planning   

Ken Spigarelli, Metachain. Ken specializes in logistics and supply chain consulting to clients in the Chemical, Consumer Product, Food & Beverage, and Paper & Pulp industries. He has 10 years of  JD Edwards APS implementation experience and has served as the solution architect and functional development lead on over 30 APS implementations. Ken is a co-founder of MetaChain, Inc. MetaChain is the premier service provider for the JD Edwards World/EnterpriseOne Advanced Planning Solution.  Ken.Spigarelli@ERPtips.com

Supply Chain / Manufacturing    

Pat Martino, Focus Systems. Pat Martino has over twenty years of expertise in Manufacturing and Distribution systems, with more than ten years' worth of experience implementing JDE Supply Chain solutions. Prior to consulting, he gained hands on Supply Chain know-how in roles ranging from Manufacturing Engineer to Materials Manager, while working in a broad range of industries including Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, and Aerospace. Much of his expertise was gained while living in Europe, working exclusively for very large multi-national companies at a senior level designing and implementing standardized global Supply Chain solutions on JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne.  Pat.Martino@ERPtips.com  

Manufacturing    

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) / Plant  & Equipment Maintenance          

Scott Hollowell, Asset Management Solutions, LLC.  With degrees and work experience in both Civil & Manufacturing Engineering, Scott combines his real-world experience with over 7 years of JDE implementation and development support to deliver comprehensive, value-driven asset management solutions. 

Understanding customers from all sectors, Government to Manufacturing, Life Sciences to Oil & Gas, face the same equipment reliability constraints, Scott delivers practical solutions to balance and optimize the financial & operational objectives of each customer.  Scott.Hollowell@ERPtips.com

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)                       

This Associate Editorship is open.  To apply, contact Laura.Donovan@ERPtips.com. 

Order Fulfillment                       

Russ Bartunek, C.P.M., CTL, Klee Associates, Inc. Russ combines 17 years of experience with a Fortune 100 Transportation Company with nearly ten years of consulting experience specializing in the JD Edwards Distribution applications, plus Forecasting, Distribution Requirements Planning and the core Financials modules. Russ has been a Certified Instructor of JD Edwards applications since September 1998 and was certified by PeopleSoft in Supply Chain Management in April 2004. As you would expect, Russ is also one of the primary instructors of Klee Associates/JDEtips Mastery Level training.  Russ has implemented World and EnterpriseOne software at both large and small clients in a variety of industries, including restaurant food and equipment distribution, pharmaceuticals, energy and chemical, medical technology, telecommunications, and various consumer products. Russ's main priority in any implementation is to find creative ways of fitting the software to the business; eliminating the need for costly modifications to the greatest extent possible.  And also to build up more JDE jokes for his repertoire. Russ.Bartunek@ERPtips.com

Warehouse Management & Data Collection

Transportation

Financials

Susan Stooksberry, Klee Associates.  Susan has twelve years of JDE financial system implementation experience, five as an end user for an engineering and construction firm and seven as an implementation consultant.  She has another dozen years of experience in accounting, auditing, and financial management. 

Susan is a CPA, CIA, and CISA and holds 10 JDE Certifications in Financials, Distribution, and other modules.  She has completed implementations and provided post-implementation support for companies with JDE Financials, Distribution, Manufacturing, AEC (job cost, service billing, work orders), and HR/Payroll suites.  Her experience includes business process improvement and retrofitting or restructuring of accounting systems.  Susan.Stooksberry@ERPtips.com 

Financials, Service & Contract Billing, Real Estate               

Richard Berry, Klee Associates. Richard is a qualified accountant, and for the last 12 years he has been implementing JDE software. Richard specializes in the Real Estate and Construction industries, Professional Services and Financials.  Richard currently does training and implementation projects as well as managing the Asia/Australia/New  Zealand consulting practice of Klee Associates, Inc. Richard.Berry@ERPtips.com 

HR & Payroll

One World Technical                                 

CNC

Mike Wright, Werner Company.  Mike has been a CNC administrator for over 3 years.  His focus has been on the system side of the EnterpriseOne software but he also has a fair amount of knowledge on the development side as well.  Prior to working with the EnterpriseOne software, he worked as an AS/400 administrator where he attained multiple IBM certifications. 

Mike may be reached at Mike.Wright@ERPtips.com.

World Technical                                 

Jim Rubino, Fike Corporation.  Jim has over twenty-five years experience in various manufacturing environments.  The majority of his experience has been invested in the programmer/consultant role, with the last five years being specifically focused in the JD Edwards arena.  He also has significant experience with upgrading and enhancing multiple modules in JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne. 

He has written numerous in-house programs and has created other in-house systems to make JDE and other bolt-on applications more user friendly.  Jim holds the distinction of being the Fike guru with Create!Print and Create!Forms solutions. 

Jim may be reached at Jim.Rubino@ERPtips.com.

Senior Technical Editor

Paul Hanson has 18 years of IT experience including systems design, development, implementation, project and IT management.  He has spent the past 10 years working with JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne as a senior technical consultant and project manager. 

Paul has extensive experience with the iSeries, World and EnterpriseOne technical tools, custom development, data conversions, and integrations.  Paul possesses both technical and application skills in most of the JD Edwards software modules.   Paul.Hanson@ERPtips.com