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BE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE

DHL Supply Chain is the world’s leading contract logistics provider that combines value-added and management services with fulfilment and distribution. At DHL Supply Chain we are committed to looking after tomorrow & today with our Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy.

So, what's it like to work for DHL Supply Chain? At DHL we’re proud of our international reach as it brings together people with a wide range of skills, experiences, cultures, and viewpoints. We see the diversity of our employees as a genuine strength and we’re proud of our supportive work environment where employees are given the tools and training, they need to learn, grow and succeed.

We are offering an exciting opportunity for the position of Planner (Fixed Term). In this position you will play a crucial role to support our vision of becoming a Great place to work for all.

Role Outline

This role will be pivotal in supporting the velocity at which the business is conducted, using transport planning to create optimal transport routes/plans for our business. Determine the most cost-effective way to meet service commitments whilst leveraging saving opportunities through consolidation of vehicle routing and scheduling.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse orders on origin and destination locations
• Lower transport and routing costs - thereby reducing delivery costs
• Consolidate orders into loads, determine the best way to move those loads
• Produce daily or multi period transport route plans for tactical planning
• Manage customer data base by building the best routes for our dedicated and sub contractor fleet
• Accommodate various elements - delivery windows, delivery appointments, loading and unload time, drops per vehicle etc.
• Ensure driver briefing and de-briefing is completed correctly and regularly
• Health and safety management and compliance
• Increase asset utilization
• Increase customer services levels
• Assign orders and customers to routes
• Re-arrange route sequence
• Pool equipment and driver resources according to established business rules.
• Effectively automate routing process
• Keep up to date databases of customers, products and routes
• Manage , plan and utilize all internal resources to ensure maximum productivity
• Measure attendance and performance in accordance with site procedures and policies.
• To ensure compliance with all legislative and site policies and to ensure all relevant site processes and procedures are adhered to, which would include Health and Safety requisites
• Reduce operating costs through Improved fleet utilization, reduce waiting time, reduce distance travelled, etc.
• Maximize routing solutions: balance service levels and delivery costs
• KPI Management
• Process Improvement
• Driver Management
• Review and analyse results
• Fixed dynamic routing: Manage costs per route, customer, order sequence, lowest cost, shortest route, shortest distance.

Requirements* Matric

• Tertiary qualification (Logistics / business)- desirerable
• 2-year experience in a similar role and environment

Languages

• English