Blue Yonder Transportation Management System (TMS) – Functional Consultant
Iconma
- Santa Clara, CA
- 1 day ago
- $64.29–$71.43 Per Hour
Highlights
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.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Santa Clara, CA |
| Industry | Management Consulting Services |
| Salary | $64.29–$71.43 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | https://www.iconma.com/ |
Description
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:
Requirements:
Why Should You Apply?
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
- 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:
- 10.00 Years of Experience
Why Should You Apply?
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
Benefits
401K, Employee Referral Program, Life Insurance
About Company
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.