What are the responsibilities and job description for the Logistics Specialist – 15168 position at Transcend Solutions?
Logistics Specialist – 15168
Location: Laredo, TX
Work Schedule: Fully Onsite
Assignment Length: 12 months
Top Skills:
- Excellent Microsoft Excel Skills
- Detailed oriented
- SAP or warehouse inbound & outbound operations experience
- Korean/English or Spanish/English bilingual highly preferred
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist in the strategic planning of yard/warehouse operations including capacity, In/Outbound movements of containers, internal movements of materials, and container aging.
- Maintain constant communication with supply chain planning and logistics departments in sales subsidiaries to proactively find solutions to issues such as appointment order
- management and delayed direct ship deliveries.
- Work in delivery coordination including diversion, direct shipment, shipment tracking and delivery from local inland depot or overseas manufacturing to local distribution and
- warehousing facilities.
- Maintain metrics reports and analyzes data to assess 3PL KPI performance and provide information to all relevant parties (sales subsidiaries, production control at production plants,
- logistics department, Factory warehouse, etc.).
- Work in conjunction with 4PL's to solve various problems related to transportation such as delayed deliveries, yard space, and strategic planning.
- Analyze historical operational data to compile reports and create monthly forecasts (CMF) to present to sales subsidiaries.
- Analyze On-Time Right Quantity (OTRQ) and find long-term solutions to improve failed OTRQ with relevant parties.
- Carrier management – Assist assignment based on rates, capacity, transportation mode (include OTR conversion when needed)
- Analyze costs associated with departmental operations to identify opportunities to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
- Participate in the assessment and review of process alternatives and process change proposal impacts.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree (in Business, Logistics)
- Advanced Excel, SAP, WMS and ERP.
- Able to utilize expertise in processes from factory to customer and can identify and predict unlikely problems within the delivery cycle.
- Have the scope of authority to make changes to process, and personnel, to meet departmental objectives.
- The ability to develop, read, prepare, interpret, and understand product shipment information from various order and shipping documents to ensure accuracy and thorough preparation of
- transportation documents.
- Resolves problems of moderate scope where analysis of data requires the identification of obscure or undefined factors and decisions have significant impact on business performance.
