Purpose of the job:
Provide Distribution Solutions as required by business to achieve its goals.
Minimum requirements:
- Matric.
- BCom Honours Logistics
- At least 5 years relevant work experience with exposure to business development through analytics.
Responsibilities:
- Provide and present continuous solution skill sets deemed necessary to supply chain of both internal and external business.
- Conduct costings, logistics solutions, data preparation, and monitoring on projects.
- Use analytical techniques to build theoretical simulation models.
- Requires knowledge of all aspects of distribution i.e. vehicle types/sizes, vehicle applications, routing and scheduling, delivery cycles, customer classifications, human resource characteristics, etc.
- Deliver and present optimal solutions that satisfy both the needs of the customer.
- Resource optimization studies on current and new customer networks.
- Analysis of simulated distribution network in terms of resources required, variable costing elements, etc.
- Costing of simulated and optimized resources.
- Strategic distribution network optimization studies.
- Continuous monitoring and business development of operational solutions.
- Provide internal solutions to projects relating to Logistics and the monitoring of these projects once implemented.
- Introduce solutions to problems identified by business.
- Interpret the clients' as-is logistics environment and propose a to-be solution, which will be more efficient and productive than the as-is.
- Developing of monitoring systems and KPIs to monitor the performance of implemented projects.
- Continuous improvement studies on processes and operational procedures.
- Provide and update rates for the business.
- Ensure that the rates provided are accurately calculated.
- Understand the sales executives' request and the customers' operational requirements.
- Advise the sales team on alternative methods of quoting to ensure that the customers receive the most effective rate.
- Collate information from sales teams to report back to management for future planning.
- Calculate increases for existing customers.
#J-18808-Ljbffr