Position: Blue Yonder Transportation Management System (TMS) Functional Consultant
Locations: Santa Clara, CA
Experience: 7+ years overall; 5+ years Blue Yonder TMS preferred
W2 Position
| Name | Required |
| BY Transportation Management | Yes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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.