Job Summary
Our client has an EE opportunity available for a Planning Specialist.
Requirements:
- Degree or Diploma in logistics.
- 3+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience in using planning tools.
- FMCG and retail experience would be advantageous.
- Understanding of transport and its different cost elements.
- Understanding of total operational costs and cost drivers.
- Code B or EB driver’s license.
- Flexible work hours.
Responsibilities:
- Planning transport activities cost effectively daily to meet agreed KPI’s and SLAs.
- Working together with the operations team and senior planners to be aware of daily operational variables which may influence future route scheduling.
- Updating and interpreting hard and soft constraints on delivery sites and fleet
- Building optimal shipments from the movement requirements
- Deciding what to complete with dedicated vs ad-hoc capacity.
- Producing accurate and cost-effective plans based on database parameters and certain manual intervention for dedicated fleet.
- Securing capacity for ad-hoc demand.
- Building relationships with transport service providers and their operational staff who book vehicles.
- On-time and accurate publishing of route schedules per delivery type.
- Continuous improvement of planning function and reporting.
- Continuous monitoring of actual vs. planned performance through all functions to quickly respond to changes in the system.
- Crisis management and providing formal feedback on changes to plan and execution.
- Continuous improvement of Transport plans taking changing operational dynamics into account.
- Assist to manage the end-to-end customer service process.
- Working together with the operations team to be aware of daily operational variables which may influence future route scheduling.