Purpose

Perform various day-to-day administrative tasks related to inbound materials transportation and outbound orders shipping in coordination with Warehouse Operations and Customer Care with the objective to minimize transport costs while providing the necessary level of service to meet operational requirements and customer satisfaction.

Core Responsibilities

• Perform a range of administrative activities to facilitate the timely and accurate shipment of materials, equipment, products, packages, and documents.
• Coordinate the incoming and outgoing transport within an assigned area.
• Coordinate transport complaints and implement corrective solution within due time.
• Prepare and maintain shipping records; prepare bills of lading; compute duties, tariffs, price conversions, weights, and volumes.
• Monitor and track the delivery of materials/products to inbound/outbound or customer warehouse(s) as per agreed/committed date. Provides special follow-up on shipments of critical materials.
• Optimise and/or introduce flows related to transport and distribution.
• Communicate with external organisations (for example customs authorities or shipping agents) to verify customs requirements and negotiate shipping costs and times.
• Perform other general administrative tasks as required.

Academic Background

• Vocational diploma in logistics

Professional Experience

• Overall work experience of 1 to 2 years in logistics in a manufacturing environment (4 to 5 years if high school diploma)

Technical Skills

• Good understanding of shipping and receiving regulations and protocol
• Good knowledge of local and international material/product safety/security norms and regulations
• Knowledge of supply chain dependencies and processes
• Basic knowledge of production process flow and scheduling
• Good computer skills (MS Office, SAP)