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Job Description

Job Responsibilities:

• Works across transportation and distribution functions to prepare and maintain comprehensive transportation plans for finished products, ensuring alignment with objectives and adherence to established processes, working under general supervision.
• Communicates shipment status, delays, and other transportation and distribution-related matters to internal teams and external partners in a timely and transparent manner, escalating issues for resolution as needed.
• Ensures the quality assurance of master data and transactional data throughout the entirety of his/her operational activities, maintaining a stringent adherence to established protocols and standards to guarantee accuracy, consistency, and reliability across all created and updated records.
• Monitors and maintains subsystem parameters within the transportation system, conducting root cause analysis of daily exceptions and identifying opportunities for optimization, with a focus on enhancing efficiency and minimizing disruptions in transportation operations.
• Calculates transportation capacity and develops transport plans on a short-term basis, utilizing logistics systems to accurately populate data for each destination and calculate transport needs, contributing insights to support decision-making and adjustment recommendations.
• Guides in the purchase of new means of transport, drawing up analysis on available transport capacity and underpinning adjustments to address situations of moderate complexity, while ensuring timely, efficient, and cost-conscious transportation operations.
• Ensures execution of the introduction of new destinations into transportation plans, coordinating with relevant stakeholders to ensure seamless integration and alignment with distribution center operations, fostering effective communication and collaboration across teams.
• Facilitates daily inbound activities of the distribution center, including priority setting and exception handling such as overdue Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN) checks, resolution of delivery discrepancies, and coordination of rework activities as needed.
• Handles logistics-related duties, such as ensuring timely, efficient, and cost-effective transport, including deciding on whether or not to outsource transportation and/or maintenance within a small budget, and executing daily checks of interfaces between SAP/Infodis/LSP systems.
• Reports on the performance of service providers, conducting regular reviews to identify trends and implement corrective actions, while executing daily checks of interfaces between SAP/TMID/LSP systems to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
• Participates in rework activities, and ensures timely delivery of products, supporting promotional Value-Added Services (VAS) activities and coordinating stock alignment between SAP and Warehouse Management System (WMS) systems as required.


Minimum required Experience & Education
Minimum 4 years of experience with Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management or


Preferred Skills:
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Logistics Systems
• Troubleshooting
• Data Analysis & Interpretation
• Transport Planning & Scheduling
• Data Management
• Documentation & Reporting
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
• Capacity Planning
• Warehouse Management System (WMS)
• Business Acumen

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
About Philips
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