Planning Specialist

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.