Freight & Distribution Planner

**Freight & Distribution Planner**:

- Job Id: 11358
- City: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Department: SCM
- Function: SCM
- Employee Type: Permanent Full Time
- Seniority Level: Associate
- Description:

- **Job Title**Freight & Distribution Planner - Southern Africa

**Designation**Individual Contributor

**Reporting To**Logistics Specialist Southern Africa

**Skip Level Reporting**Head of Supply Chain Africa

**Function**Supply Chain

**GJL**GJL 2B

**Location**Durban, La Lucia

**ABOUT UPL**:

- UPL is focused on emerging as a premier global provider of total crop solutions designed to secure the world’s long-term food supply. Winning farmer's hearts across the globe, while leading the way with innovative products and services that make agriculture sustainable, UPL is the fastest-growing company in the industry. Our successes in the field add up to powerful financials. UPL delivers results from protecting crops that translate into attractive investor value. Based on the recognition that humankind is one community, UPL’s overarching commitment is to improve areas of its presence, workplace, and customer engagement._

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**_Our purpose _**_is_**_ ‘OpenAg’. _**_An agriculture network that feeds sustainable growth for all._**_ No limits, no borders._**

- We are one team, for maximum impact. One team with shared goals. We have a laser-like focus on what our customers need and want, on anticipating their future needs, and on how we can create innovative solutions and experiences for them. We think outside the box and go beyond our comfort zone. We believe in agility, we mix the power of speed, with structure from process. And wherever we can, we always believe in having fun._

**Role Summary**
- To provide safe, cost effective and efficient transportation to all stakeholders according to UPL SA business requirements. Plan, manage and control of Distribution & Logistics functions in the Sub-region of Southern Africa & Public Health including end to end Order Fulfilment activities. Managing the day-to-day distribution operations aligned to demand, supply, inventory and distribution planning exceeding customers’ expectations. Customer Management, Cost Control, Hazardous Manufacturing, Road and Sea Freight Transportation & Operations knowledge is key. Cross functional team collaboration i.e. customer services, manufacturing, planning, warehousing and tolling is key to achieving the desired business results. Detailed understanding of Imports, Exports management and Documentation control is critical to this role in servicing UPL cross border & International Affiliates. An added advantage is Expert knowledge on National Road Transport Regulations for Dangerous Goods compliance as well as aligning Order Management with Distribution Planning and execution. Risk and compliance management of transportation of hazardous goods on national and international networks is key. point of contact for incidents that may cause harm to people, the environment or infrastructure. Transport Control Tower, Cost reduction and Warehouse & Distribution optimization experience is key, like =wise management of Transporters. Core KPI - Expense ratio to revenue of goods moved %, OTIF% by vendor in last leg.

**Role Responsibilities**

**Financial**
- Knowledge of and provide active inputs into Transport Budgeting
- Detailed analysis of cost/unit & km spend and prevent Road and Sea freight overspend
- Oversee accurate and in-time PO and support document generation
- Co-ordinate with all departments to ensure that purchase orders on SAP are updated daily with actual freight costs. These include the following: Import PO, Tolling Freight, STO Freight, Local Shuttle freight.
- Ensure 100% verification and accuracy when updating POs on SAP
- Ensure that freight out transactions is captured on iValua daily and reports updated on the
- Reconcile Ivalua transactions with transport quality system on the X drive.
- Capture and send out manifests and POs to transporters daily.
- Ensure close cooperation with finance department to ensure that costs are reconciled daily and accurate reports submitted on a weekly basis i.e. no billing errors or under absorption.
- Maintain SAP freight vendor lists and update automatic freight setup as required.
- Maintain accurate SAP data including transport T lanes to ensuring SAP integrity
- Verify freight transactions and amount to correct GL accounts for shuttle movements and reconcile with finance on a weekly basis.
- Setup and retrieve reports from SAP and other Data sources and Dashboards for analysis.
- Updated or oversee load recon schedule for Sea Freight charges to finance monthly, these need to marry charges entered into SAP.
- Update and submit load recon schedule for road transport Freight charges to finance monthly,

**Customer**
- Ensure best Distribution Planning, aligned with commercial to meet customer requirements
- Ensure prompt responds to changing demand and aligning plan with executio