Logistics Officer

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Logistics Officer is mainly responsible for the delivery of products covering all assigned area of the branch/office by facilitating and managing activities and personnel engaged in physical distribution of product: receiving from Production, storage of finished goods, in coordination with Billing to secure timely delivery of products; developing and implementing processes and programs to address customers’ demands, minimizing bad orders or damaged goods and ensures Company compliance to government rules and regulations. The Logistics Officers introduces processes to reduce logistics costs while improving transit times to meet Supply Chain directives and uphold the agreed Customer Service Level (CSL) standards.The employee is also responsible in managing fleet activities and maximizing utilization of vehicles with manageable maintenance and repair costs. Moreover, this role is accountable in keeping the fleet of vehicles running effectively, understand systems and processes pertaining to fleet management and delivers solutions to fleet problems as wells as network with suppliers with regards to vehicles parts for maintenance.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

(The listed duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following key areas and performance indicators)

Fleet Management

• Plans, manages and evaluates logistics operations liaising with internal stakeholders, suppliers, logistics providers, transportation companies and customers
• Creates and implements best practice logistics principles, policies and processes across the organization to improve fleet management and cost efficiency of fleet maintenance
• Delivers solutions to logistics problems while maintaining high levels of quality and service within budgetary requirements
• Monitors quality, quantity, delivery times, and transport costs
• Responsible for all on site aspects of the logistics, supply chain, andcustomer delivery operations, in-charge of making sure that each stage of the distribution process is progressing on time, on budget and to the right quality standards
• Develops and/or participates in the development offleetstrategy for the organization
• Ensures proper management of Fuel Fleet Cards and monitoring of fuel consumption for every vehicle unit

Fleet Maintenance

• Oversee repairs and preventive maintenance for all fleet
• Serves as the point person in assisting maintenance and/or repair needs of SCPA fleet
• Analyze maintenance costs and provide recommendations on fleet utilization and replacement.
• Negotiate and establish the lowest, best price possible for repair costs or parts pricing with commercial vendors, ensuring quality
• Maintains inventory of vehicle spare parts and tires and coordinates requests of needed spare parts
• Recommends, coordinates, and monitors need/s for repairs to external providers
• Keeps historical record of repairs and maintenance
• Train drivers in doing walk-around regular vehicle safety inspections

Third Party Provider Management (Trucker)

• Negotiates rates and selects carriers/truckers and monitor service against performance criteria
• Ensures carrier compliance with company policies or procedures for product transit or delivery
• Supports continuous improvement initiatives and identify inefficiencies and cost optimization opportunities
• Facilitates evaluation of services of third party trucking providers
• Prepares contracts for renewal of third party trucking providers
• Reviews application of potential third party providers
• Checks the weekly billing requests of 3rd Party Truckers and ensures accuracy of report

Routing and Dispatching

• Plans and schedules deliveries making sure thatemployee'sgroup and load items for delivery correctly to make the most efficient use of transport
• Strategize, plan, and coordinate the routing and scheduling of daily deliveries aligned to determined cut-off schedules of stores and clients
• Ensures that routing and schedules of deliveries comply with time schedules and law restrictions, rules, and regulations (truck bans, etc.)
• Ensures products are delivered appropriately to ensure quality of goods during transportation
• Monitors quality, quantity of deliveries and coordinates with stakeholders any discrepancy during and/or after deliveries
• Coordinates development and/or changes of assigned routes schedules, and delivery time and/or dates
• Oversees and assists in resolution of conflicts pertaining to assigned routes.
• Monitors efficiency of routing and delivery activities by managing the Logistics Command Center and GPS system

Relationship and Customer Service Level Management

• Develops