Transportation Planner

Job Title: Transportation Planner

Location: 825 E Douglas Ave, Wichita, KS 67202

Duration: 6 months

PR: $20.00 - 25.00/hr on W2

Job Description:

Schedule: Monday through Friday 7:30-4:30 PM OR 8:00-5:00 PM

The Transportation Planner will help coordinate client shipments & deliveries to customers & plants.


In this role, you will monitor key integrated business planning performance indicators, cost-to-serve performance data, and help coordinate deliveries to meet high customer-service standards.


Help communicate transportation issues with Business unit stakeholders & carriers


.Work with plants & shipping locations to coordinate pickups.

*Other duties as assigned*


Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

*Minimum Qualifications*


Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Notes:

• This temporary position is to provide additional track and trace support for Packaged Truck Operations.
• This role is responsible for tracking and tracing day to day Packaged Truck deliveries for the Food Enterprise, specifically focused on starches, sweeteners & texturizers.
• Responsibilities include carrier shipment tracking and communication with external and internal stakeholders.
• Works with customer service and transportation team members to provide updates and work to ensure timely pickup and delivery requirements are being met and communicate risks.

Position Description:
This role is responsible for planning day to day Packaged Truck deliveries.

Responsibilities include:
• Carrier utilization and scheduling, cost and service reporting and communication with external and internal stakeholders.
• Works with Sales and Supply Chain groups to understand requirements and make best value delivery decisions to support client's customer requirements.
• Supports the sourcing strategy by tendering and managing orders in SAP with tiered carrier rankings.
• Responsible for day-to-day management of orders from an assigned set of plants and public warehouses.
• Includes building loads, monitoring of unrouted orders, coordinating ship and delivery dates, handling customer add-ons and broken or changed loads and logging and approving carrier invoiced costs.


Typical requirements include a degree in logistics, transportation, business or a related field and 2 or more years of experience or 4 years of experience.