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Role: Blue Yonder TMS Functional
Location: Austin, TX (Onsite)
Duration: 6 months
Blue Yonder TMS Functional Expert with EDI Focus
Job Description:
- Act as the SME for Blue Yonder TMS order management, planning/optimization, tendering, execution, and freight audit & pay
- Translate business requirements into configuration: routing guides, rate tables, business rules, carrier setup, user roles
- Lead functional testing for upgrades, patches, and periodic releases
- Maintain functional design docs, configuration specs, and process flows
**Design and support EDI end-to-end**
- Build and maintain EDI transaction sets used across TMS operations (204, 990, 214, 210, 810, 997
- Own trading partner onboarding spec review, mapping, testing, go-live for new carriers and customers
- Troubleshoot transaction failures and mapping errors across VAN, AS2, SFTP, and API connections
- Work with integration teams to resolve issues between TMS, ERP, WMS, and partner systems
**Drive testing quality**
- Lead or support SIT, UAT, and Day-in-the-Life (DITL) testing cycles with an EDI-specific lens
- Write test scripts covering standard, edge-case, and exception flows
- Validate mappings, acknowledgments (997/999), and end-to-end reconciliation
- Own defect triage and root-cause analysis through go-live and hypercare
**Keep it running**
- Provide L2/L3 support for TMS and EDI incidents within SLA
- Monitor transaction queues and error logs; get ahead of failures before they become escalations
- Push for automation and standardization to shrink manual exception handling
- Be the connective expert between business users, IT, and external partners on all things TMS/EDI