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Accenture’s Supply Chain and Operations (SC&O) partners with the world's most powerful platforms to push the boundaries of what technology can enable, empowering new ways of working and transformation at speed. With the largest and most influential tech ecosystem behind us, we play a pivotal role in helping clients accelerate their path to value.
Supply Chain and Operations houses individuals who help clients develop strategies and operating models that integrate planning, procurement, product design, manufacturing, and fulfillment functions within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain.
The Solution architect leads the overall solution design of a customer's Transportation capability, working with the Technical Architect who leads the technical design and delivery. The Solution Architect leads cross functional teams and is a key contributor to communication between program delivery leads, customer stakeholders, and IT teams. They are comfortable presenting complex business processes and solutions to a variety of audiences including executive project sponsors. They influence the customer to adopt industry’s best practices and define how the Blue Yonder Transportation solutions will be configured and delivered to ensure customer objectives and goals are achieved.
Lead end-to-end delivery of Blue Yonder TMS implementations and transformations, ensuring high-quality, on-time, and on-budget execution.
Manage complex, global programs across multi-region deployments, ensuring alignment with client business objectives and logistics strategies.
Drive delivery excellence frameworks, governance models, and best practices across all TMS engagements.
Key lead in all aspects of customer journey throughout discovery, design, construction, testing, deployment and hypercare focused on transportation capabilities
Facilitate customer change management leveraging industry best practices and process methodologies
Design and develop solutions to close gaps between customer requirements where functionality does not exist in the out-of-box solutions
Serve as an overall solution owner attending and contributing to key meetings between Project Manager, Technical Architect, key customer contacts, and customer users
Build and scale a robust TMS sales pipeline across industries, proactively identifying and shaping new opportunities.
Lead and support client pursuits, RFP responses, and proposal development, with a strong focus on value articulation and differentiation.
Drive win conversions by leveraging domain expertise, delivery credentials, and innovative solutioning.
Provide variety of support to the project team, including quality assurance/design review, environment configuration, batch operations consulting, troubleshooting, and system testing
Define integration strategies across TMS, WMS, OMS, ERP, and control tower platforms to enable end-to-end supply chain orchestration
Leverage AI/ML and advanced analytics for intelligent routing, dynamic planning, predictive ETAs, and autonomous logistics execution
Drive adoption of cloud-based, real-time, and platform-driven TMS architectures
Work with Blue Yonder Support Services team to ensure environment readiness and to proactively resolve customer issues
Guide and conduct user acceptance testing and training sessions for end users, as project demand dictate
Work with Cloud service team to ensure a seamless transition to Blue Yonder Steady State team
Support the Transportation Segment Lead in client discovery, origination and solutioning of client needs during sales cycles
Practice Development & Capability Building
Contribute to scaling a $100M TMS practice, including revenue growth, talent development, and capability expansion
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