Title: Oracle WMS Lead Consultant – (Automotive Warehousing, Plant Logistics, and Shipping)
Work Location: Remote
Travel Requirement: Up to 50% travel across manufacturing plants, warehouses, sequencing centers, customer locations, and project offices
Industry: Automotive Tier 1 Manufacturing
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Oracle WMS Lead Consultant to lead the design, configuration, implementation, testing, and deployment of Oracle Fusion Cloud Warehouse Management for a global Automotive Tier 1 supplier.
The consultant will implement warehouse and plant-logistics capabilities supporting high-volume receiving, inventory control, replenishment, kitting, line-side supply, picking, packing, shipping, customer compliance, and traceability. The role requires strong Oracle WMS expertise and hands-on knowledge of automotive warehousing, OEM delivery expectations, JIT/JIS fulfillment, returnable containers, and plant material-flow operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead WMS discovery workshops covering receiving, quality inspection, putaway, storage, replenishment, picking, packing, shipping, inventory control, cycle counting, returns, and warehouse exception processes.
- Document current-state and future-state warehouse and plant-logistics processes for raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods, service parts, returnable containers, and customer shipments.
- Configure Oracle Fusion WMS capabilities for facilities, locations, zones, location types, item attributes, inventory controls, RF/mobile transactions, warehouse tasking, directed putaway, replenishment, allocation, waving, picking, packing, loading, and shipping.
- Design RF/mobile, barcode, handheld-device, scanning, printer, and warehouse-user processes.
- Define inventory-control processes for lots, serial numbers, revisions, LPNs, containers, quality status, quarantine, damaged inventory, FIFO/FEFO, traceability, and stock adjustments.
- Design automotive-specific warehouse processes including line-side replenishment, Kanban, milk runs, cross-docking, sequencing, kitting, consolidation, returnable-container handling, and JIT/JIS fulfillment.
- Partner with Order Management, Inventory, Manufacturing, Procurement, Transportation, EDI, and PaaS teams to enable end-to-end pick-pack-ship and shipment-confirmation processes.
- Define warehouse exception processes for shortages, damaged material, failed scans, mis-picks, substitutions, labeling errors, late orders, split shipments, and premium-freight situations.
- Support data migration for warehouse master data, facilities, locations, zones, items, inventory balances, lot/serial records, LPNs, and open transactions.
- Develop process maps, configuration workbooks, test scripts, training materials, cutover plans, hypercare procedures, and warehouse operating procedures.
- Lead SIT, UAT, device testing, integration testing, peak-volume testing, shipping compliance testing, and go-live readiness activities.
- Support command-center operations and post-go-live optimization.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of warehouse-management or warehouse-execution implementation experience.
- 3+ years of Oracle Fusion Cloud WMS implementation or support experience.
- Strong functional knowledge of receiving, putaway, replenishment, wave planning, allocation, picking, packing, loading, shipping, cycle counting, and inventory control.
- Experience configuring warehouse master data, facility structures, locations, zones, tasking, RF/mobile processes, inventory statuses, and exception-management processes.
- Automotive OEM, Tier 1 supplier, plant-logistics, sequencing-center, or JIT/JIS warehouse experience.
- Experience with returnable packaging, dunnage, racks, container loops, line-side supermarkets, and Kanban replenishment.
- Experience integrating WMS with Oracle Inventory, Order Management, Manufacturing, Procurement, Transportation, and external material-handling or print systems.
- Strong knowledge of barcodes, RF scanning, lot/serial traceability, containerization, label printing, and warehouse performance metrics.
- Experience in high-volume manufacturing, automotive, industrial manufacturing, consumer products, or complex distribution operations.
- Strong workshop facilitation, process-design, testing, training, and operational-support skills.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 75% within the United States.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AS/RS, conveyors, warehouse-control systems, pick-to-light, voice picking, RFID, AMRs, or other automation technologies.
- Experience with transportation execution, ASN compliance, carrier integration, dock scheduling, and yard operations.
