Logistic & Planning Manager

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For the purposes of this article, we are looking for a Logistic & Planning Manager.

Your goal

In order to strive for optimal customer service and to achieve the preconceived objectives of the department, the Logistic Planning Manager must draw up the national transport and resource planning (inter IMC, Milkround and coordination with local organizations) and determine, coordinate, implement and proactively adjust a national daily, weekly and monthly schedule for Operations Logistic.

Your mission

1. Drawing up a national daily and weekly schedule for the benefit of transport resources for the 5 garages on the 5 sites in a one-factory approach

-         Determining a daily and weekly schedule based on the monthly volume forecasts;

-         Deploy the appropriate levelling measures (e.g. detailed transport, roles and responsibilities, resources) in order to comply with the SLAs;

-         Checking the conformity of the transport plan and, if necessary, setting up extra trips between the IMCs, deploying extra Milkrounds, organizing specials;

-         Informing the Transport Managers about the national daily and weekly planning, in order to enable them to adjust their local planning accordingly;

-         Mediate in case of any disagreements between Transport Managers.

2. Continuous adjustment of the daily and weekly planning in case of changing volume forecasts or changing production schedules communicated by the various sites.

-         Adjusting the transport plan based on the changing production schedules and expected volumes

-         Update and re-evaluate volume forecast conversion to transport capacity

-         Make recommendations to have an e2e alignment around transport capacity and production plan

3. Identify potential pitfalls with regard to transport between the different sites (e.g. productivity, volume allocation, flows) and submit optimisation proposals to the Supply Chain Forecasting & Planning Manager

4. Thorough analysis of the transport, sorting and distribution processes, in order to arrive at potential end-2-end optimisations regarding the national transport and resource plan (base and specific periods) and to submit them to National Logistic Planning & Organisation Manager Supply Chain Forecasting & Planning Manager.

-         Optimising the national transport plans in consultation with the National Logistic Planning & Organisation Manager Supply Chain Forecasting & Planning Manager; 

-         Optimising national transport resource planning

-         Optimising the transport plan for the journeys between the IMC's, the Milkrounds and the coordination of the journeys IMC-DO and collection journeys;

-         Optimising the daily and weekly transport plans;

-         Optimize the daily and weekly transportation resource plans.

5. Create the necessary transport simulations in collaboration with the Logistics Systems & Data Expert and ensure the ideal transport organisation in the AWCS tool.

6. In collaboration with the Transport Managers and the Site Managers, coordinate the management of transport or production disruptions (machine breakdown, strike, transport problem) through the introduction of a contingency plan, by actively participating in the rescheduling of national journeys, by advising on the necessary capacity to eliminate the contingency.

7. Optimising the just-in-time processes (parcels flow, letter flow) taking into account the available resources:

-         Passing on any capacity problems (products/volumes) to Operations Logistic managers;

-         Act as a central validation point for all requests for changes to inter-IMC or Milkround rides;

-         Continuous consultation with the planning/production  & regional supply chain manager in order to align the production schedules with the transport schedule and thus ensure an efficient transport process.

8. Providing expertise in operations logistic to the project managers of the various 'New Parcel Model' Programme:

-         Performing simulations with the Transport Planning Tools taking into account the necessary hypotheses that change over time, customer and market evolution;

-         Checking the feasibility of a process/flow with regard to the capture of volumes and providing advice that is included in the project approach;

-         Integrate all changes in the transport planning tool.

Your profile

a)     Level of education: Master's degree or equivalent through experience.

b)     Required experience for the position: At least 5 years of experience in a similar operational/logistics environment, and at least 5 years of experience in a similar position.

c)     Language skills: Excellent knowledge of Dutch and French (written and oral), and good knowledge of English (written and oral)

d)     Technical knowledge required to perform the function:

-         Thorough knowledge of the transport processes;

-         Thorough knowledge of the forcasting and planning processes;

-         Thorough knowledge of the postal processes and of the sorting and distribution processes;

-         Excellent analytical skills;

-         Mastery of the MS Office tools;

-         Mastery of the various planning tools (TOM, AWCS, etc.)

-         A sense of synthesis and structure.