Warehousing & Distribution Specialist

Overview

Supports transportation and distribution operations by planning finished-product transport, monitoring shipments, and maintaining data accuracy across SAP, WMS and logistics systems.

What you'll do

• Prepare and maintain comprehensive transportation plans for finished products, aligned with objectives and established processes, under general supervision.
• Communicate shipment status, delays and other transportation and distribution matters to internal teams and external partners in a timely and transparent manner, escalating issues as needed.
• Ensure quality assurance of master data and transactional data, maintaining accuracy, consistency and reliability across all created and updated records.
• Monitor and maintain subsystem parameters within the transportation system, conducting root cause analysis of daily exceptions and identifying optimization opportunities.
• Calculate transportation capacity and develop short-term transport plans using logistics systems to populate destination data and calculate transport needs.
• Guide the purchase of new means of transport, analyse available transport capacity and underpin adjustments for situations of moderate complexity, keeping operations timely, efficient and cost-conscious.
• Ensure execution of the introduction of new destinations into transportation plans, coordinating with stakeholders for integration with distribution center operations.
• Facilitate daily inbound activities of the distribution center, including priority setting and exception handling such as overdue ASN checks, delivery discrepancy resolution and rework coordination.
• Handle logistics duties, including deciding whether to outsource transportation and/or maintenance within a small budget, and execute daily checks of interfaces between SAP/Infodis/LSP systems.
• Report on service provider performance, conduct regular reviews to identify trends and implement corrective actions, and execute daily checks of interfaces between SAP/TMID/LSP systems.
• Participate in rework activities, ensure timely delivery of products, support promotional Value-Added Services (VAS) activities and coordinate stock alignment between SAP and Warehouse Management System (WMS).

What you'll need

• Minimum 4 years of experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management or a related field.

Nice to have

• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Logistics Systems
• Troubleshooting
• Data Analysis & Interpretation
• Transport Planning & Scheduling
• Data Management
• Documentation & Reporting
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
• Capacity Planning
• Warehouse Management System (WMS)
• Business Acumen

Details

• Office-based teams work in person at least 3 days per week.