In-Charge Road Operation

Distribution and Dispatch Planning:

• Ensure Allocation of orders to transporters through vendor portal and get visibility of order acceptance from vendor for dispatch planning; align road dispatches/forecast on shift to shift basis.
• Track STO movements for plant
• Monitor and review Logistics MIS on daily weekly fortnightly and monthly basis on various dispatch performance indicators for all Plants and discuss with respective PLHs/ head Operations .
• On daily basis manage fleet requirement and priority movement share of fleet efficiencies & reasons for variance and monitor truck yard management system at the plant
• Evaluate infrastructure available for truck loading with type and allocate a loading time window sector wise depending upon transit time and other barriers

Compliance to Sales & Operations Planning:

• Ensuring timely deployment of the fleet for the assigned sector / segment in line with the orders.
• Monitors COF order, schedule the pending orders in line with plant production capacity.
• Providing trigger w.r.t change in grade / product for loading from various packers w.r.t customer's prioritization.
• Responsible for providing order visibility to vendor, to follow up for execution of order, scheduling and coordinating with packing plant foe loading of fleets deployed.
• Responsible for additional fleet deployment within a short notice period depending upon the customer requirement, rake availability & forecast for capacity utilization.
• Responsible to find out the scope for improvement of truck turnaround time inside the plant.
• Responsible for order allocation to the vendor.

Cost Management:

• Providing inputs based upon market survey, prevailing market primary freight in the cluster & inflow & outflow of the fleet.
• Providing inputs w.r.t PER TON PER KM analysis & further analysis where ever there is a large variation.
• Conduct route mapping, find out alternative routes and freight accordingly.
• Create a data base w.r.t Toll Master sector wise, available of fleet with type sector wise etc.

Achievement of desired Customer Service Levels/Delivery Compliance:

• Providing the visibility to vendor w.r.t qty, delivery window schedule & priorisation and scheduling for loading and giving desired inputs to shift for maintaining the desired service level.

Vendor Management:

• Creating a database of those trucks which are deployed long back and presently out from the circuit and working jointly with vendor to attract maximum truck for further deployment.
• Educating the vendor to get maximum benefit by tracking the fleet movement, trip time, no. of trips sector wise.
• Follow up with TSM / Accounts dept w.r.t timely getting acknowledgement and vendor payment.
• Conduct Driver engagement activities at plant
• Resolve disputes w.r.t. freight payments claims etc. with Accounts

Safety:

• Ensure safety compliance for all vehicles and drivers loaded from Plant
• Conduct regular defensive driving trainings for drivers
• Create Awareness on Road Safety for both inbound/outbound vendors and drivers
• Conduct safety trainings at plant and ensure work in alignment with transport safety committee
• Implement road safety standard inside Plant and Yard

Cost Management:

• Conduct route mapping find out alternative routes and freight and create a database w.r.t. toll master and availability of fleet (sector wise) for plant
• Based upon market survey prevailing market primary freight provide inputs w.r.t. PER TON PER KM (PT / KM) analysis and further analysis wherever there is a large variation
• Gather market intelligence w.r.t. sectoral availability of fleet freight trends of peer units that may impact availability & cost

Cross Functional Collaboration:

• Interface with marketing team to understand depot wise/segment wise priorities w.r.t plant
• Collaborate & coordinate with Manufacturing for Packer Planning