What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Coordinator position at Staffmark?
1. Analysis/Excel
2. Transportation Knowledge
3. Communication
Transportation Coordinator
Under the guidance of a manger, this position is responsible for a transactional part of the logistics cycle for all Samsung products; including manufacturing, SEA warehouse tracking, customer delivery, and customer product returns and claims.
The position ensures the smooth transportation of routine products through the transportation channel by managing individual shipments in transit, selecting standard shipping/warehousing methods, collecting and processing delivery and documentation items, and personal contact with logistics colleagues, business partners, internal partners, and customers.
Duties & Responsibilities
• Conduct a transactional process from warehouse to customer distribution or retail center under managerial supervision, making routine decisions using pre-determined decision alternatives on matters that have light to moderate impact on business operations.
• Track and resolve shipping, warehouse, and carrier shipping errors, as well as assist with damaged products claims by providing necessary documents.
• Material master management in Samsung system.
• Outbound shipping and delivery to customer distribution or retail centers.
• Proven experience communicating with external clients to relay difficult messaging around delayed shipments.
• Preparing daily and weekly reports and executing KPI calls with 3PLs to assess performance and drive improvement.
• Preparing daily and weekly reporting to track and assess on time delivery performance by carrier and drive improvement.
• Working with 3PLs to provide corrective actions to improve on time delivery performance.
• Prepare and update Standard Operating Procedures for documenting department activities.
• All other duties as assigned.
Required Education/Experience
• Bachelors or equivalent degree or experience.
• 0-2 years of experience
• The ability to read, prepares, interpret, and understand product shipment information from various order and shipping documents to ensure accuracy and thorough preparation of transportation documents.
• Works on problems of limited and routine scope where limited analysis of data requires identification of predetermined solutions.
• Typically has general knowledge of logistics operations related to employees specific area of work, and limited knowledge of overall logistics operations.
• Is able to identify standard problems within the delivery cycle and makes recommendations to change either delivery methods or dates, and authorize standard returns or claims to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Strong analytical skills for calculating costs per unit and freight costs using advanced skills in Excel and Access.
• Ability to multi-task effectively, prioritizes and execute against multiple priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• This individual will work closely with the Supply Chain Planning teams and Logistics colleagues both inside and outside the company in order to assure the most efficient delivery of products to customers, as well as customers, 3PLs and vendors.
About Staffmark
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