Blue Yonder TMS Functional Consultant

Job Title: Blue Yonder TMS Functional Consultant
Duration: 6-12 months
Location: Onsite - Austin, TX




Work Type:
Rate: Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.




Skills :
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, 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
Willingness to work 5 days onsite
Ability to work from Austin, TX

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

ABOUT Ztek:
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Ztek Consulting Inc is a minority- and woman-owned business enterprise that leverages a unique blend of human talent, machine learning algorithms, and artificial intelligence to provide customized talent management solutions for clients. Ztek's diversity-focused hiring models have proven successful, particularly in hiring veterans. The company's veteran-focused hiring and deployment program, Z-V.E.T, matches skilled veterans with clients' needs in various areas.
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