School supply and furniture distributor with curriculum, design, and technology services
School Specialty operates a 1,000+ person supply-and-services business for K-12 districts across the U.S. and Canada. The tech stack is classical ERP-driven — Oracle EBS as the core, feeding Salesforce for sales and Blue Yonder WMS for logistics — with Syndigo and Salsify layering product information management on top. Active projects cluster around data integrity (pricing, supplier records, item reconciliation), warehouse automation (Blue Yonder integration), and sales motion (pipeline development, lead generation, customer reactivation), revealing an organization scaling sales coverage while tightening supply-chain operations. Hiring is sales-led (7 of 20 active roles) with steady junior-to-mid movement.
School Specialty is a distributor and service provider for PreK-12 schools in the U.S. and Canada, with a 60-year operating history. The company bundles classroom supplies, furniture, design services, educational technology, science curriculum, and professional development into a suite aimed at school districts. The core business runs on Oracle EBS, with a sales organization (Salesforce) and a logistics operation (Blue Yonder WMS). Recent focus includes bond and funding execution for districts, competitive assortment and pricing research, and integration work to sync product data and order fulfillment across systems. The organization sits at 1,001–5,000 employees.
Oracle EBS (core), Salesforce (sales), Blue Yonder WMS (logistics), Syndigo and Salsify (product information), AWS EBS (cloud), Microsoft Office/Excel (operations). The stack reflects a traditional enterprise distribution model.
Data integrity (pricing, supplier records, item reconciliation), Blue Yonder WMS and Syndigo/Salsify integrations with Oracle EBS, lead generation and sales pipeline development, and customer reactivation strategies.
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