Senior Logistics Planner Job Westville South Africa,Supply Chain/Logistics

Location: Westville

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.

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our .

Job Description

Key Responsibilities May Include:

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.

Position Purpose

The Senior Logistics Planner is responsible for end‑to‑end planning and fulfillment of customer demand for all equipment within the pallet family representing more than two‑thirds of the organisation’s revenue and forming a critical pillar of business success.

This role serves as the liaison between Planning & Logistics, Operations and the Commercial Sales teams to ensure alignment between supply and demand. The Senior Logistics Planner will develop the short to medium-term hire equipment demand and supply plan, ensuring sufficient hire equipment is available at the required location at the right time.

Through stringent data analysis and meta-data insights; the Senior Logistics Planner will control, drive and implement procedures to ensure that the Service Centre network is optimally balanced. This will include delivering exceptional Customer Experience (CX) through striving toward achieving 100% DIFOT and 100% CIFOT whilst optimizing the cost base.

Equipment Flows (Demand Planning):

Own the Blue Yonder Customer Forecasting process, working with the Commercial Sales teams to obtain and validate customer forecasts through monitoring and utilising historical demand (issue & return) 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…