Logistics Manager

Job description / Role

Finished Goods Transportation Scheduling & Execution:
- Finalize and approve finished good transportation scheduling (routes, & allocated driver with truck) based on allocation provided by Sales.
- Communicate with other teams in PPP regarding various loading parameters.
- Assign responsibilities to the Supervisor team based on the schedule and follow up with the teams to ensure execution as per plan.
- Negate any delays in transportation by arranging effective back up to avoid any delays to key accounts & individual unit sales.
- Effective utilization of manpower & machineries by virtue of scheduling & upkeep of assets.
- Enhance transportation capacities to cope up with any increase in the Production numbers by virtue of effective upkeep & adherence to maintenance schedules.
- Record & report any deviations by personnel & resort to disciplinary action if deemed necessary.

Vehicle Maintenance:
- Communicate & coordinate with the Workshop Manager for the various needs of the Logistics fleet to ensure optimum utilization & corresponding increased efficiency.
- Ensure that the necessary resources are provided to the Workshop teams and the team puts in best effort to keep the sales assets in excellent condition.
- Review the type of usage, number of years the vehicle has served the organization, maintenance history of the critical category of vehicles & plan for the timely maintenance and purchase of new vehicles.
- Follow up with the Workshop to ensure that minimum working stock of spares in maintained to eliminate assets being idle due to non-availability of spares.
- Ensure that the Workshop reports any case of misuse by the drivers & appropriate disciplinary action taken accordingly.

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain (is Preferable) or in Management stream.
- 5+ years of experience in logistics/transpiration role, preferably in KSA.
- Good understanding of the geographical implications for route planning.
- Basic knowledge of various vehicles for different operations.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office ( MS-Excel, MS- PowerPoint , MS- Word , MS Outlook).
- Working knowledge of English and Arabic.

About the Company

Arasco, The Arabian Agriculture Services Company, was founded in 1982 with a vision to supply the budding animal farm sector with the necessary products and services for intensive growth. Its first full feedmilling plant, based in Al-kharj, was and still remains a state-of-the-art technology backed by world class nutritionists and veterinarians. It has served as a catalyst (if not the driving instrument) for the fantastic growth of the dairy and poultry industries in its areas of operations. Spurred by this success, Arasco continued to grow in scope, capacity and excellence with vertical and horizontal expansions to cover the wide spectrum of agro and food industries with quality products and services. Today Arasco is an amalgam of synergized businesses which include:

• Animal feed production (2 Feed mills)
• Corn milling and refining (Starch & Glucose) and feed by-products
• DCP production (Archem)
• Production, processing and distribution of meat products and poultry breeds (Intaj)
• Bulk materials handling, storage and distribution
• Cold storage services
• Analytical and technical services (IDAC)
• Agrochemicals trade and services (Alemar)

These business entities operate in unison and are served with the latest ERP and communication systems, in addition to central sales and marketing teams at Head Office and specialized teams in each of the units.