Supply Chain Analyst

ABOUT QCD:

Established in 2006, Quality Custom Distribution Services LLC (QCD), a subsidiary of GSF, is a custom last-mile distribution company specializing in tailored solutions for selected food service Industry customers. Headquartered in Frisco, Texas, QCD services thousands of restaurants throughout the United States. Providing over 37,000 deliveries a week from 25 strategically located distribution centers, the QCD fleet averages more than 40 million miles driven per year.

QCD associates also help run a national non-profit, the GSF Foundation.

At QCD, every role drives success. Whether you're preparing orders, making deliveries, mapping routes, or managing warehouses, you're part of a dynamic team that keeps America's favorite restaurants running. Beyond offering logistics jobs, we build careers and fuel the future of food service distribution.

The Supply Chain Analyst collects data, creates reports, and analyzes data to meet various internal & external reporting requirements, to enable other resources to have data/analysis they need to execute their roles with excellence, and to make improvements within the supply chain.

Deliver the reporting and analysis QCD uses to run its distribution network, working across our ERP, data warehouse, and our systems to perform the following activities:

• Generate reports to meet routine external reporting requirements for customers, other leaders within the supply chain, & operations.
• Pull & analyze data to enable visibility & understanding of distribution center operating performance & cost drivers.
• Partner with stakeholders on standard data reporting requirements.
• Establish & execute various trackers & scorecards to help operations resources navigate ongoing performance changes, helping to provide visibility to service & cost risks. Identify trends & process improvement opportunities.
• Design and implement methods to gather and manage data.
• Review and analyze gathered data to locate potential improvement / cost reduction opportunities in distribution, transportation, & warehouse processes. Partner with appropriate resources to realize the improvements.
• Support the measurement & tracking of key operating metrics.
• Support routine data maintenance processes & partner with IT to ensure accurate, timely data loads into the reporting environment, including onboarding any new / updated data sources as appropriate.
• Partner with Operations & Transportation leaders to build & maintain recurring reporting, including managing & analyzing operating data, submitting reports to customers, & identifying opportunities to improve performance towards the objectives of the business.
• Support the distribution centers as appropriate to ensure smooth execution of routine operations reporting activities.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Leader in data analysis & reporting to enable others in the organization & to meet customer reporting expectations.

• Productivity/quality standards: accuracy, timeliness, thoroughness
• Productivity/quality standards: continuous improvement of processes
• Cost containment / improvement
• Teamwork within the department and across departments
• Adoption & use of reporting by the distribution centers

• Education/Certification:
  
  Bachelor or associate degree from an accredited college or university
• Experience:
  
  2 to 4 years of relevant experience data management, analysis, & reporting.

Knowledge of (B/basic; J/journey; E/expert):

• SQL & relational data concepts (J)
• JD Edwards (JDE) or comparable ERP data structures & extraction (B)
• AWS Redshift or comparable cloud data warehouse (B)
• High-level understanding of distribution, transportation, & warehouse operations (B)
• Previous experience with distribution or transportation operations preferred (B)

• Analyze and improve operations data, information, and processes
• Learn & continue to learn new technology, tools, & data sources as they are introduced
• Analyze and resolve complex problems
• Interpret problems or anomalies and…