Senior Planner - Kempton Park, South Africa - DHL

DHL
DHL
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Kempton Park, South Africa

1 week ago

Thabo Mthembu

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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
  • 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 services levels
  • Measure attendance and performance in accordance with site procedures and policies
  • To 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 SOP's are reviewed at minimum every 24 Months
  • Collaborate with Functional CCT Dept Leads and support where necessary
  • Share applicable Monthly reports with Management
  • Manage wholistic customer data base 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 onboarded in DHL's compliant manner

Qualifications, Experience & Attributes:


  • Matric
  • Relevant professional qualifications
  • Degree/ Diploma in Road Transport, Supply Chain Managements
  • Experience in Fleet Management
  • Ability to handle transport network in near real time
  • Exceptional indepth knowledge of operations
  • Support complex operations cross docking
  • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
  • Excellent knowledge of Excel
  • Ability to review and analyse 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
  • Analyse and manage distribution resources
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