Blue Yonder Transportation Management System (TMS) – Functional Consultant

TechDigital
  • Santa clara, CA
    1 day ago

    Job Description

    Role Overview:
    We are seeking an experienced Blue Yonder TMS Functional Consultant to support transportation management implementation, enhancement, configuration, and production operations. The consultant will work closely with business stakeholders, transportation/logistics teams, technical teams, and offshore delivery teams to translate business requirements into scalable Blue Yonder TMS solutions.
    Blue Yonder TMS covers transportation planning, optimization, load building, execution, carrier management, visibility, procurement, and freight settlement.

    Key Responsibilities:
    1. Lead functional analysis, configuration, implementation and enhancement of Blue Yonder Transportation Management solutions.
    2. Gather requirements from transportation, logistics, supply-chain and business stakeholders and translate them into functional specifications.
    3. Configure and support transportation planning, optimization, shipment execution, tendering, routing, carrier management and freight settlement.
    4. Work on transportation modeling, rates, lanes, calendars, equipment, locations, carriers and routing guides.
    5. Support load planning, consolidation, multi-stop/multi-leg shipments and transportation optimization.
    6. Configure and troubleshoot auto-tendering, carrier selection, shipment lifecycle and exception-management processes.
    7. Work with integration teams on interfaces between Blue Yonder TMS and ERP, WMS, OMS, carrier and external logistics systems.
    8. Participate in functional testing, SIT, UAT, defect resolution, production deployment and post-production support.
    9. Analyze transportation processes and recommend improvements to cost, service levels, utilization and operational efficiency.
    10. Create functional specifications, process flows, configuration documents, test scenarios and user documentation.
    11. Collaborate with technical teams on APIs, integrations, data mapping and external-system connectivity.
    12. Provide Tier-2/Tier-3 functional support and perform root-cause analysis for production issues.
    13. Coordinate with offshore/global development teams and manage deliverables across multiple workstreams.
    14. Participate in Blue Yonder upgrades/releases and evaluate impacts of new TMS functionality.
    15. Support business users and provide training on new functionality and process changes.

    Required Skills:
    Blue Yonder TMS / Transportation Manager
    Strong functional/configuration experience
    Transportation planning and execution
    Transportation optimization
    Load building and consolidation
    Carrier management and tendering
    Routing guides and rate management
    Freight settlement / audit
    Shipment lifecycle management
    Transportation modeling
    Exception management
    Functional requirements & documentation
    SIT / UAT / production support
    ERP/WMS/TMS integration experience
    Strong SQL/data analysis skills preferred
    Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills
    Blue Yonder's current TMS capabilities include transportation modeling, procurement, optimization/planning, load building, transportation management and network connectivity.
    Preferred Experience
    Blue Yonder TMS implementation or upgrade experience
    Experience with JDA Transportation Management / legacy JDA TMS
    Experience in retail, Client, manufacturing, semiconductor, logistics or distribution
    Experience integrating TMS with SAP, Oracle, WMS or OMS
    Experience with cloud-based Blue Yonder implementations
    Experience supporting large-scale transportation networks
    Knowledge of multimodal transportation: TL, LTL, parcel, rail and ocean
    Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology
    Candidate Must-Haves Must have:
    Hands-on Blue Yonder TMS functional experience
    Strong transportation/logistics domain knowledge
    Configuration and implementation experience
    Excellent requirements-gathering skills
    Strong communication and stakeholder management
    Willingness to work 5 days onsite
    Ability to work from Santa Clara, CA
    7+ years overall; 5+ years Blue Yonder TMS preferred

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSanta clara, CA
    IndustryOther/Not Classified
    Company Size100 to 499 employees

    Skills

    • Acceptance Testingunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Automotive Repair and Maintenanceunmatched
    • Business Supportunmatched
    • Cargo/Freightunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Consultingunmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Data Mappingunmatched
    • Delivery Managementunmatched
    • Documentationunmatched
    • ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
    • Functional Analysisunmatched
    • Functional Testingunmatched
    • Less Than Truckload (LTL)unmatched
    • Load Planningunmatched
    • Logisticsunmatched
    • Network Connectivityunmatched
    • Offshoringunmatched
    • Oracleunmatched
    • Process Analysisunmatched
    • Process Flowunmatched
    • Process Improvementunmatched
    • Production Supportunmatched
    • Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
    • Requirements Managementunmatched
    • Retailunmatched
    • Root Cause Analysisunmatched
    • SAPunmatched
    • SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
    • Semiconductor Manufacturingunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Test Scenariounmatched
    • Training/Teachingunmatched
    • Transportation Modelingunmatched
    • Transportation Planningunmatched

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