Our client, a IT Services and Consulting company, is looking for a Blue Yonder Transportation Management System (TMS) – Functional Consultant for their Santa Clara, CA location.
Responsibilities:
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:
Lead functional analysis, configuration, implementation and enhancement of Blue Yonder Transportation Management solutions.
Gather requirements from transportation, logistics, supply-chain and business stakeholders and translate them into functional specifications.
Configure and support transportation planning, optimization, shipment execution, tendering, routing, carrier management and freight settlement.
Work on transportation modeling, rates, lanes, calendars, equipment, locations, carriers and routing guides.
Support load planning, consolidation, multi-stop/multi-leg shipments and transportation optimization.
Configure and troubleshoot auto-tendering, carrier selection, shipment lifecycle and exception-management processes.
Work with integration teams on interfaces between Blue Yonder TMS and ERP, WMS, OMS, carrier and external logistics systems.
Participate in functional testing, SIT, UAT, defect resolution, production deployment and post-production support.
Analyze transportation processes and recommend improvements to cost, service levels, utilization and operational efficiency.
Create functional specifications, process flows, configuration documents, test scenarios and user documentation.
Collaborate with technical teams on APIs, integrations, data mapping and external-system connectivity.
Provide Tier-2/Tier-3 functional support and perform root-cause analysis for production issues.
Coordinate with offshore/global development teams and manage deliverables across multiple workstreams.
Participate in Blue Yonder upgrades/releases and evaluate impacts of new TMS functionality.
Support business users and provide training on new functionality and process changes.
Requirements:
7+ years overall; 5+ years Blue Yonder TMS preferred
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, CPG, manufacturing, semiconductor, logistics or distribution
Experience integrating TMS with SAP, Oracle, WMS or OMS
Experience with cloud-based Blue Yonder implementations
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
Not a fit:
Candidates with only generic supply-chain consulting experience but no hands-on Blue Yonder TMS experience.
Ideal candidate profile:
The ideal candidate is a Blue Yonder TMS Functional SME who can independently interact with business stakeholders, understand transportation processes, configure the TMS, troubleshoot functional issues, coordinate with technical/integration teams, and drive requirements through UAT and production
ICONMA is a global information consulting management firm providing Professional Staffing Services and Project-Based Solutions for organizations in a broad range of industries.
Corporate Headquarters in Troy, Michigan; 20+ locations worldwide.
Certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE); certified by Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC); and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
Founded in 2000
2000+ Employees
The company was founded on the principle that success is derived from delivering high quality service and resources in the most responsive, flexible, and innovative way. ICONMA invests in people and resources with a single goal: To provide our customers with the highest quality service in the most responsive manner. Through its network of offices, ICONMA provides the resources to help clients maintain their competitive advantage.
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