Job Purpose:
This role will be pivotal in supporting the velocity at which the business is conducted, using transport planning to create optimal transport routes/plans for our business. Determine the most cost-effective way to meet service commitments whilst leveraging saving opportunities through consolidation of vehicle routing and scheduling.
Key Accountabilities:
- Oversee Planning team and guide resources around analyzing of orders on origin and destination locations.
- Apply best methods overall to lower transport and routing costs - thereby reducing delivery costs.
- Ensure Planning teams consolidate orders into loads, and guide resources in determining the best way to move those loads.
- Increase DHL asset utilization.
- Effectively automate routing process.
- Manage, plan and utilize all internal resources to ensure maximum productivity.
- Reduce operating costs through improved fleet utilization, reduce waiting time, reduce distance travelled, etc.
- Maximize routing solutions: balance service levels and delivery costs.
- Fixed dynamic routing: manage costs per route, customer, order sequence, lowest cost, shortest route, shortest distance.
- Ensure all systems are used effectively and ensure teams use the appropriate systems.
- Support LH planners in daily market purchase (subcontractors).
- Review Regional Lane LH trends and propose improvement initiatives.
- Health and safety management and compliance.
- Increase customer service levels.
- Measure attendance and performance in accordance with site procedures and policies.
- Ensure compliance with all legislative and site policies and to ensure all relevant site processes and procedures are adhered to, which would include Health and Safety requisites.
- KPI Management.
- Process Improvement.
- Review and analyze results.
- Collaborate with Business Leads on new projects, initiatives and or other implementations.
- Ensure SOPs are reviewed at minimum every 24 months.
- Collaborate with Functional CCT Dept Leads and support where necessary.
- Share applicable monthly reports with management.
- Manage holistic customer database by building the best routes for our dedicated and sub-contractor fleet.
- Ensure databases of customers, products and routes are continuously updated.
- Ensure Daily/Weekly/Monthly Resource schedules are in place.
- Ensure development and succession plans are in place.
- Ensure all new subcontractors are on-boarded in DHL's compliant manner.
Qualifications, Experience & Attributes:
- Matric.
- Relevant professional qualifications.
- Degree/Diploma in Road Transport, Supply Chain Management will be an advantage.
- Experience in Fleet Management.
- Ability to handle transport network in near real-time.
- Exceptional in-depth knowledge of operations.
- Support complex operations - cross docking.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
- Excellent knowledge of Excel.
- Ability to review and analyze results, reports, and findings.
- Ability to function on a strategic level.
- Customer focus and problem solving.
- Computer software - Select, C-Track, Heat, MS Office.
- Fixed/dynamic routing experience.
- Geocoding on Victor maps with full street search.
- Analyze and manage distribution resources.
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