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Contractor Transportation Analyst
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- 🇺🇸 United States
- On-site
- 1 day ago
- Excel
- SAP ERP
- SAP
1 day ago
Job Location: Shepherdsville, Kentucky
Job Duration: 7 Months on W2
Descrtiption:
As the Contractor Transportation Analyst, you will be responsible for providing direction and oversight of day-to-day transportation requirements to third party logistics (3PL) teams, foster relationships with collect and prepaid carriers, lead clients overages, shortages, and damages (OS&D) processes in collaboration with customer service, order management, and warehouse leadership, identify OS&D trends, develop actions, and monitor implementation, collate data for reporting, and complete cooperative cost savings analyses.
What You Will Do:
- Report transportation performance results and initiate action plans to address root causes from load failures, OS&D disputes, on time/in full gaps, and other transportation related KPIs.
- Lead Client's OS&D process end-to-end, address transportation specific root causes, audit carrier feedback dwells, and collaborate with 3PLs to generate actions to mitigate OS&D.
- Collate, manage, and audit the daily, weekly, and monthly *** transportation reporting requirements such as receipt of goods reporting, outbound parcel and freight spend, OS&D, and transportation spend forecasting.
- Foster relationships with carriers and the warehouse through consistent communication centered around shared understanding of capacity requirements, daily plans, and escalations for exceptions and missed freight.
- Collaborate with Client's Procurement & 3PLs to identify cost savings through new carrier onboarding or transferring lane awards.
- Support direct import post goods issues for invoicing with Order Management.
- Assist in continuous improvement projects.
- Bachelor's Degree preferably with a degree in SCM, Operations, Logistics or Management
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience
- Strong organizational, interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to handle multiple projects and responsibilities
- Ability to solve problems and analyze data using MS Excel/Access
- Ability to think and work independently but also work well in teams
- Highly proficient in SAP ERP management transactions
- Consumer electronics background
- APICS certification
- SAP experience
- Exposure to business planning with big-box retailers (Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, etc.)
- Be willing to work in a warehouse in Shepherdsville, Kentucky
- Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment
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