Logistics Planner

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

• Conduct comprehensive analyses of transportation patterns, inventory metrics, and logistics costs to uncover improvement opportunities that optimize efficiency and reduce operational costs.
• Develop, maintain, and refine Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor logistics operations, offering proactive alerts and insights to stakeholders through detailed reporting.
• Initiate and drive continuous improvement projects to streamline logistics processes, focusing on achieving cost reduction, operational efficiency, and superior service delivery.
• Partner with regional teams and external stakeholders to ensure effective implementation of logistics strategies and initiatives that align with business goals.
• Design and generate real-time dashboards and reports that track the progress of logistics initiatives, providing insights for performance improvements and strategic decision-making.
• Regularly engage with senior leadership, presenting data-driven insights and recommendations for long-term supply chain enhancements and business growth strategies.
• Maintain compliance with internal controls, company policies, and legal requirements, contributing to logistics planning, budgeting, and financial performance monitoring.

The Logistics Planner role takes ownership for planning and fulfillment of customer demand, and for transport revenue and costs. This role acts as the liaison between Planning & Logistics, Operations and the Commercial Sales teams to ensure supply and demand needs are met; and will be responsible for developing the short to medium-term hire equipment demand and supply plan, ensuring sufficient hire equipment availability at the right time and right location to meet customer demand.

Through stringent analytical processes, the Logistics Planner will control, drive and implement procedures to ensure that the Service Centre network is optimally balanced and CHEP hire equipment are adequately planned to positively impact overall Customer Experience (CX) through striving toward achieving 100% DIFOT and 100% CIFOT at the lowest cost to serve.

• Own the Customer Forecasting process, working with the Commercial Sales teams to obtain and validate customer forecasts through monitoring and utilizing historical demand data as well as market intelligence to ensure a high level of short to medium-term issue and return forecast accuracy by customer and Service Centre
• Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of dynamics and influencing factors specific to CHEP products at a customer, Service Centre, geographical area and regional levels, including seasonal fluctuations and reasons / causes of fluctuations.
• Strive toward achieving 100% Demand Planning forecast accuracy in Blue Yonder through ensuring that customer master data in Blue Yonder is maintained and through suggesting changes to forecasting algorithms to improve customer level demand forecasts.
• Conduct detailed analysis of network flows to identify, setup and maintain Inventory Management and Order fulfillment & distribution in Blue Yonder, including identifying all rules and constraints affecting the supply of Hire Equipment at customer and Service Centre level, ensuring that relocation flows suggested by Blue Yonder…