Logistics Planner

Most days tend to involve plan generation, carrier and capacity coordination, and the steady cadence of plan adjustments — building load plans in TMS, working with carriers on capacity for the next day or week, adjusting plans as orders shift, coordinating with operations on dock readiness. You're often the person who sees the network in motion before anyone else does. Plan completion, capacity utilization, and on-time delivery anchor the operating view.

Where it gets demanding is the constant replanning — orders change, carriers cancel, weather happens, and the plan you built at 8 a.m. needs revision by lunch. Variance across employers is wide: at large shippers TMS optimization handles much of the planning math; at smaller operations the planning runs through Excel and direct judgment.

This work rewards analytical patience and the operational instinct to see the network whole. APICS CLTD and CSCP credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is operating between operations and customer service — both depend on your plan, and both notice when it doesn't hold.