Blue Yonder Supply Chain Planning and Optimization (SCPO) Consultant

Blue Yonder Consultant/Developer – SCPO, Demand Planning, Oracle SQL & Control-M

Location: Mississauga, Hybrid- 2 days in office a week

Mandatory Skills
• Strong understanding of Blue Yonder (JDA) Supply Chain Planning and Optimization (SCPO) architecture.
• Experience with SCPO data model, metadata configuration, batch processing framework, and system administration.
• Knowledge of Demand Planning, Fulfillment, and platform-level configurations.
• Hands-on experience supporting and enhancing Demand Planning applications.
• Understanding of forecasting concepts, forecasting hierarchies, causal forecasting, and forecast consumption.
• Ability to develop custom solutions and support forecast-related business processes.
• Knowledge of Fulfillment master data configuration and batch execution.
• Experience working in Blue Yonder SaaS-hosted environments.
• Strong understanding of BY tables and entity relationships.
• Ability to analyze data flow between source systems and Blue Yonder applications.
• Knowledge on BY Control-M Batch flow, Monitoring and troubleshooting failed batch executions.
• Experience troubleshooting platform-level issues and application performance bottlenecks.
• Understanding of workflows, option sets, searches, user security, and environment management.
Technical Skills
• Strong Oracle SQL and PL/SQL development experience.
• Unix/Linux Shell Scripting (KSH/BASH), Development and maintenance of shell scripts for automation.
• Control-M Scheduler Administration and Support.
• Data validation and reconciliation between source systems and BY applications.
• Debugging production issues through data analysis.
• Production Support and Incident Management, Incident analysis and resolution.
• Data cleanup and reconciliation scripts.
• Automation scripts for data validation and maintenance activities.
Functional Skills
• Requirement Gathering and Analysis.
• Interact directly with business users.
• Understand functional requirements and business processes.
• Conduct workshops and requirement-gathering sessions.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Technical Design Documentation.
• Unit Testing and UAT Support.
• Production Deployment and Release Support.
• Business Process Understanding.
Soft Skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to explain technical solutions to business users.
• Strong client-facing experience.
• Ability to drive issue resolution and decision-making.
• Problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience working with global teams.
• Task allocation and tracking on-going activities.
• Status reporting and delivery management.
• Knowledge transfer and mentoring activities.
Preferred Skills
• Blue Yonder Demand and Supply Planning (Demand and Fulfillment).
• Blue Yonder Inventory Optimization.
• SCPO Platform Administration.
• Application Integration Experience.
• Control-M Batch Optimization.
• SaaS Migration and Cloud Support Experience.