Logistics Planner

BakeMark has an immediate job opening for Logistics Planner!
With over 100 years of service to the baking industry, BakeMark is recognized as an industry leader and trusted partner for quality bakery ingredients, products, supplies and services. BakeMark is a manufacturer and distributor with 30 branches conveniently-located across the U.S.

Summary: Utilize transportation management system (TMS) to coordinate and plan inbound, outbound, direct-ship, and backhaul shipments. Assure all loads are tendered in a timely manner so that all purchase and sales orders will be delivered. Resolve and/or escalate when orders are not confirmed as tendered. Coordinate with Purchasing, Operations, and Accounting teams to ensure purchase orders are moving through the system during creation, change, receipt, and settlement. Monitor data concerning routing locations, carrier rates, vendor allowances, etc.

Great benefits at a very low employee cost and 401k Retirement Plan with company match!

17 Day Paid Vacation (Within 1 yr of employment)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the transportation activities to and from vendor, branch, or customer. Ensure managed orders are tendered to carriers in a timely manner;
• Coordinate and negotiate rates with carriers when routed orders are not confirmed;
• Retender managed orders when carriers reject or do not respond to loads.
• Directly responsible to ensure data integrity throughout TMS.
• Analyze and propose ideal shipping methods, routing or carriers to meet necessary parameters, specifications and costs.
• Analyze and update current and possible lanes for bid to carriers.
• Analyze the backhaul capabilities of the existing company fleet, and coordinate the efforts of the buyers, suppliers, and operations managers without disturbing service to customers.
• Audit invoices by generating documents for TMS carrier invoicing to accounting; to bill the company at the existing freight rate, so the savings may be sheltered properly by partnering and communicating with the Buyers at each branch.
• Create reports and metrics to Supervisor and Management related to the TMS program.
• Negotiate rates and service commitments with carriers, in order to assure the best possible service at the most reasonable rates.
• Analyze and develop an understanding of buying patterns to analyze vendors and recommend consolidations of less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments, from multiple suppliers to full truckload shipments.

Qualifications:

• Prior Logistics and Dispatch work experience, minimum 2-5 years is a must. Must have basic knowledge concerning Supply Chain and Logistics.
• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from accredited college or university preferred, but not required and/or combination of education and experience.
• Must have basic computer experience with Windows, including Outlook, Excel, and Word, as well as internet applications. Prior experience with ERP and TMS systems is a plus.