Minimum Requirements

Matric

Tertiary qualification in Logistics, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering an advantage. Experience in planning, warehouse -and transport industry an advantage.

Knowledge in WMS and TMS software/apps

Highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint for data management and reporting

 

Job Related requirements

• Experience in expediting, planning, scheduling & balancing of workload
• Experience in a warehousing environment
• Intricate understanding of work balancing and capacity planning between multiple departmentswithin an operation to find synergies to be able to achieve the highest output from a limited amount of resources
• Sound and proven skills in Planning, Organizing, Directing, Controlling & Monitoring.
• Must be able to meet and manage customer expectations and ensure compliance to Policies,Regulations, Work Instructions and Workloads.
• Good interpersonal skills for client account management.
• Very good analytical and -problem solving skills, and ability to think logically.
• Be able to lead and manage a team
• Comfortable presenting & communicating to all levels of management

 

Added Advantages for this role

• Warehouse experience & understanding • Expediting, Planning & Scheduling experience •Experience in healthcare and retail environment

 

Main purpose of the role

This role will be responsible for for the expediting, planning, scheduling & balancing inbound activities to ensure internal & external requirements are met.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Understand the customer’s business
• Understand the customer’s customer requirements
• Develop a strong, trusting relationship with clients
• Deep understanding of contractual SLAs & KPIs
• Adherence to HSE compliance and responsibilities
• Adherence to tasks not stipulated in job profile i.e. audit compliance, adhoc duties due tooperational requirements.
• Query management
• Complete daily system checks to ensure all orders are planned and executed as percustomer KPI’s Senior Logistics Coordinator:
• Daily analysis of the inbound schedules and capacities, compare it to the available resources andcreate an optimal warehouse and transport execution plan to achieve the highest output for the facility

o  Plan according to SLA

o  Ensure available time to process specific lines and units to achieve required SLA

o  Ensure execution of the inbound plan

o  Timeously communication of deviation of the inbound plan

• Have clear and consistent communication within and between relevant stakeholders to ensure all achievements and exceptions are managed pro-actively to ensure proper management ofexpectations

o              Must push back to relevant stakeholders when the targets are not achievable and createalternatives to the challenges to ensure best outcome is achieved

• Job Rotation: Rotation amongst team members to create flexibility and personal grow

 

Consistently reviewing data to identify areas of improvement to further improve the output of the operation, inbound plan and deliverables within the team.

 

Tagged as: Industrial Engineering, Logistics, Supply chain, WMS