Blue Yonder Transportation Management System (TMS) Functional Consultant

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. 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.

Our client, a IT Services and Consulting company, is looking for a Blue Yonder Transportation Management System (TMS) – Functional Consultant for their Austin, TX location.
 
Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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:

• We are seeking an experienced Blue Yonder TMS Functional Consultant to support transportation management implementation, enhancement, configuration, and production operations.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Years of Experience: 7+ years overall; 5+ years Blue Yonder TMS preferred

 
Why Should You Apply?

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities