Logistics Clerk Job Description
Logistics Clerk Duties & Responsibilities
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Logistics Clerk Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Logistics Clerk
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Education for Logistics Clerk
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Employers hiring for the logistics clerk job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as High School and Bachelor's Degree in Computer, Associates, Accounting, Business/Management, Business, Education, General Education, Technical, Supervision, Management
Skills for Logistics Clerk
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Logistics Clerk Examples
Logistics Clerk Job Description
- Receive and process orders through customer service department
- Create production orders in SAP for tank truck finished product
- Verify conformance of all tank truck finished product shipments to finished product specifications and release product for shipment
- Produce all shipping documentation for tank truck finished product including COA’s, SAP documents, Bill of Lading, Customs Paperwork
- Coordinate bulk delivery schedule with carriers
- Maintain shipping records files including adding shipping records to API product batch records
- Backup to logistics coordinator
- Ensure relative documentation is created and/or entered into computerized system for all incoming/outbound shipments
- Communicate with Customer Service to coordinate releasing of loads
- Resolve shipment errors prior to shipment release
- Ability to work with little supervision and track multiple processes
- Must be a team player and possess a high level of customer service skills
- MUST be proficient in data entry!
- MUST have excellent verbal and writing skills!
- MUST have the ability to be discreet and maintain confidentiality
- MUST have the ability to be self-directed!
Logistics Clerk Job Description
- Knowledgeable in Air Freight Shipments
- Distribute workloads to forklift operators
- Communicate with carriers on load departure time
- Print bills of lading, pick lists, and stencils
- Conform to Internal Control, ISO-9001, ISO 14001, and QMS, EMS programs
- Ensure group conformance to company, client, and governmental policies and regulations
- Scheduling and entering package deliveries and transfer of deliveries
- Assist with Accounts Payable data entry
- Assist with reconciliation of freight invoices through analysis and verbal and email communications with internal and external customers
- General administrative tasks, including such report generation of on time carrier performance, plant and terminal daily inventory levels, entering delivery date and time orders, filing, ordering office supplies, and other tasks as assigned
- General mathamatic skills
- MUST be able to provide 2 Professional work references
- Oversee, direct and action as required the receipt and input customer orders into Syacc
- Provide prompt and continuous follow up to Customer and Sales team to ensure delivery commitments are met
- Deal directly with customers by telephone and/or electronically to provide information regarding product availability, confirm pricing previously determined by CDM, specifications and estimated time/date of delivery
- Responsible to update customer information in SyAcc
Logistics Clerk Job Description
- Meet or exceed and comply with all company safety standards, policies, rules and regulations
- General dispatch duties
- Driver load planning and assignments
- Will be required to take calls from drivers as needed on a weekly basis
- Various office and administrative duties, which may include answering phones, assisting drivers, customer support, miscellaneous real time, daily, and weekly reporting and communications
- Audit of logs and trip reports and other DOT reporting, maintain of files, customer service interaction, resolution of driver and customer requests
- Maintenance and distribution of route books, daily interface with drivers, assist with driver coverage of vacation and overflow freight
- Various office and administrative duties, which may include handling accounts maintaining database and miscellaneous reporting
- Customer service interaction with manufacturing plants and customers
- Ensure the reception of materials
- Forklift Certification preferred but not required
- Lean Enterprise Certification preferred but not required
- Record details of inquiries, comments and/or complaints and develop steps necessary to resolve issues, ensure the CDM's and BTM's are informed about issues and resolution
- Must have two years of logistic/warehouse/tool crib experience
- Must have knowledge of disbursing and receiving documents
- Must have knowledge of commercial arithmetic and ability to apply basic stockroom principles
Logistics Clerk Job Description
- Ensure that the received material is distributed rapidly to the appropriate storage area or department
- Ensure stock level (minimum required) and advise the stakeholders to optimize it when needed
- Store the received materials in the warehouse in the appropriate location
- Optimize the availability of the space within the warehouse
- Prepare and deliver the orders placed by the internal departments
- Follow the standard operating procedure
- Support the stockholders to supply the material needed for the daily operations
- If needed help other departments
- Any others assignments from the Logistics Workflow lead
- Shipping - scheduling trucks to pick up and deliver rental equipment (including driving a forklift lift) Ensuring rental orders are fulfilled before they ship
- Ability to operate forklifts and warehouse equipment
- High school diploma but a college degree is preferred
- College courses in supply chain operation is a plus
- High School Education, college degree preferred
- Must possess good communication skills organizational and problem solving skills
- Must be able to use CRT, scanners, calculators and related equipment
Logistics Clerk Job Description
- Returning equitment to green (rent-ready) ASAP
- Tracking and scheduling maintenance
- Priortizing maintenance
- Reporting equipment status
- When the Chicago Depot does not have the equipment on the suite he/she will be checking equipment availability across the nation to fulfill orders and coordinate the delivery of equipment from depot to depot
- When Carrier does not have the equitment and we need to re-rent from another rental company he/she will check availability to coordinate delivery
- Automotive plumbing etc
- Sit down forklift required
- 7 am - 4 pm 1 hour lunch
- High School diploma needed
- Accounting Receivables administrator for Seeds, Vegetative Logistics, and Supply chain
- Easy Procure Requestor for seeds and vegetative logistics
- Shipping of seeds and seed documentation
- Assist Customer Service, planning and supply with any and all requests in a timely manner
- Provide support to all logistics functions
- Proven ability to analyze data and spreadsheets