Analyst, IT Logistics Sys

Brentwood, TN

Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers

About the position

This position is responsible for configuring, supporting, and maintaining the logistics systems located at the distribution centers, mixing centers, and import centers within the organization from both a project and operational perspective.

Responsibilities

• Perform and/or coordinate configuration changes for applications in the area of responsibility.
• Define, analyze, and evaluate existing business functions and processes and makes recommendations to management on opportunities for process improvements.
• Meet with business partners, project managers, and vendor partners to determine project scope and vision, set system goals, identify and resolve system issues, and lead prioritization of build items.
• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications to stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Lead design sessions in prototyping new systems for the purpose of enhancing business processes, operations, and information process flows, documents risks and identifies mitigation strategies.
• Participate in the execution of test cases as part of the Quality Assurance process.
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developer's/project team.
• Review system design plans for reasonableness and fits with the business requirements.
• Conduct research on software and hardware products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts.
• Provide orientation to end users for modifications to existing processes and new functionality.

Requirements

• 3 years in supporting WMS Systems, MHE Systems, RF Technology, Voice Transportation Management System Technology in a retail environment.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in the field of business administration, computer science, or management information systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodology.
• Ability to implement and support Manhattan WMS, Labor Management, Manhattan TLM and Material Handling Systems is preferred.
• Experience with RF and Voice devices.
• Knowledge in supply chain from a distribution center process flow is preferred.
• Ability to write and execute SQL queries.
• Understanding of the capabilities and limitations of Manhattan WMS and TLM functionalities.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite.