**Career Area**:
Supply Chain and Logistics
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**Role Definition**
Analyzes and develops transportation plans to control the movement of commodities throughout a manufacturing or distribution network to ensure the smooth running of operations at optimal transportation cost levels.
**Responsibilities**
- Analyzing transportation plans and identifying opportunities for improvements to meet client needs.
- Implementing and maintaining monitoring systems to provide information on shipment status, shipped date, in transit location, estimated arrival date, and actual delivery date.
- Generating and analyzing reports of transportation costs, carrier performance and lead times.
- Assisting in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity and providing solutions to reduce lead times.
**Skill Descriptors**
Process Management:
- Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
- Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.
- Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.
- Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
- Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.
Analytical Thinking:
- Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
- Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
- Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
- Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
- Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
- Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
- Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
- Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
- Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
- Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
- Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.
**Problem Solving**:
- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
**Relationship Management**:
- Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties.
- Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship.
- Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes.
- Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors.
- Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities.
- Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships.
Transportation - PHA:
- Demonstrates expertise with all major modes of domestic transportation.
- Shares approaches for assessing transportation alternatives and selecting optimum mode.
- Conducts joint planning with carriers to forecast short
- and long-term transportation needs.
- Participates in evaluation, selection, monitoring and termination of carriers.
- Works with shippers to plan for and mitigate the transportation capacity crunch.
- Negotiates and monitors rates and service controls with major carriers.
Logistics Management:
- Uses tools, with guidance, to forecast delivery times, determine costs and assess performance.
- Works with logistics in a domestic environment.
- Maintains records of all shipments and invoices using an established system.
- Assists in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity.
- Participates in integrating logistics processes and developing effective networks.
Supply Chain Management:
- Recognizes software systems or components used to manage supply chain.
- Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities.
- Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.
- Summarizes supply chain considerations for different types of products.
- Works with a specific part of supply chain management process.
**What is required**:
- Bachelor's degree completed.
- Minimum of 7-10 years of Lo
