Senior Planner: KC Vulcania at DHL Supply Chain

Role Outline

• Under limited supervision administer logistics planning activities to provide transportation and distribution activities for fast, reliable, efficient, safe and cost-effective transportation of goods and materials from origin to destination in line with the business plans and requirements, corporate guidelines and policies. Support the DHL KC dedicated planning role and capture all related route information to support billing accuracy. Maintain accurate data capturing to provide accurate daily and month end reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the DHL KC dedicated Bulk planner under limited supervision administer logistics planning activities to provide transportation and distribution data input capturing to support accurate transportation information and billing.
• Perform broad range of tasks and activities to provide fast, reliable, efficient and affordable transportation of goods from origin to destination.
• Accurate transport trip allocation data capturing of all KC hauliers national transport shipments from DCT transport planning into SAP.
• Reconciliation for both Linehaul and Fine pick trips.
• Checking data accuracy and segregation of duties related to the systems.
• Expediting all PODs within the respective lead times e.g. bulk trips 10 x days.
• Liaise with the respective GRA dept and all TSPs & Cross Doc depots to have all Fine pick PODs captured.
• Build and promote strong relationships with the nominated hauliers.
• Closely interact with the Planners to ensure all orders and trips are correctly allocated to the correct hauliers.
• Interact with the receive hauliers related to shorts, damages and late deliveries
• Attend to any daily queries to be dealt with and resolved.
• Updating of confidential rates on the DCT system as well as OTIF (On Time In Full) data for monthly reporting.
• Extract BI Reporting to track and expedite PODs not yet processed.
• Updating both Primary and secondary loads spreadsheet reporting for month end reporting.
• Interact with the mother warehouse to ensure the correct loads are allocated to the correct hauliers
• Updating the monthly OTIF (On Time In Full) data to meet month-end reporting.
• Attend to routine tasks and support for any emergency or contingency plans when necessary.
• Gather data and information for conducting freight analysis and analysis of current transportation and operations practices to support decision making and improvements.
• Follow and achieve compliance by following laid down processes and guidelines for efficient and safe operations for logistics facilities and transport networks.

Stakeholders

• May influence others within the job area through explanation of facts, policies and practices.
• Support and interact with senior colleagues of own and other teams including the client.
• Build professional relationships with the nominated transporters.
• Address task-related issues appropriately to maintain work relationships.

People Management

• Individual contributor without direct responsibility for leading others
• Provide assistance and training when required.

Skills

• Warehousing, Production Planning, Demand Planning, Supply Chain Optimization, Process Improvement, Inventory Control,
• Export, Shipping, Transportation, Forecasting, DPDHL Business Knowledge, Business Processes, Stakeholder Management,
• Feedback with strong EXCEL capabilities and proficiency.

Qualifications & Experience

• Matric (Grade 12) Essential and having a degree will be advantages
• Vocational/Specialized/Technical/Certification
• More than 2 years of experience

Languages

• English - verbal and written.