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Transportation Planner
Company | Five Below |
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Location | Conroe, TX, USA |
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Salary | $20.05 – $20.05 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- 2 years’ Supply Chain / Logistics / DC Operations preferred
- Proven ability to work in a highly collaborative, team oriented, fast-paced environment
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong work ethic with a high degree of flexibility to work in an ever-changing environment
- Strong interpersonal skills, self-motivated, well organized
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Demonstrate effective problem solving, sense of urgency
- Willingness to take ownership, with demonstrated values of accountability, service, integrity, and innovation
- Advanced Excel skills
- Preferred experience with TMS and As400
Responsibilities
- Responsible for deliveries from pick up at a domestic location through receipt into the ship centers including systemically put away.
- Provide weekly, monthly and quarterly pallet delivery forecast.
- Responsible for collaborating with DCs, Accounts Payable and merchants to resolve OS&D issues.
- Holding vendors and carrier accountable to the routing guide and ensure all charge backs have been implemented, follow up with payment status.
- Work with carriers to logically schedule inbound volume, prioritizing hot freight, while smoothing flow and mitigating costs.
- Monitor aging cargo / shipments approaching last free day’ emails and forward to appropriate trucking group.
- Update TMS with upcoming shipping volume, by DC, including POs, carton totals by PO, trailer, and shipment.
- Monitor TMS daily, routing and tracking freight.
- Maintain carrier and vendor KPIs.
- Monitor TMS daily, work with carriers, ship centers, to ensure empty trailers are moved to outbound pools.
- Moderate weekly calls with each DC, Carrier, Supply Chain to review upcoming volume, domestic transportation network, upcoming holiday closures, discuss equipment and driver availability, DC labor, additional support needed.
- Support a collaborative, innovative, and results-oriented environment with a cross-functional team.
- Notify buying teams of delays in shipments, Pos, and RTS dates.
- Strong focus on process improvement.
Preferred Qualifications
- Preferred experience with TMS and As400