Senior Logistics Planner

A typical week often involves planning, capacity coordination, exception management, and the steady cadence of cross-functional sync — building daily and weekly plans for complex networks, working with carriers and DCs on capacity, adjusting plans as orders or constraints shift, sitting with customer-service and operations teams on plan execution. You're often the senior planner when day-to-day execution depends on integrated planning across modes and locations. Plan adherence, 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 morning meeting needs revision by lunch. Variance across employers is wide: at large shippers TMS systems automate much of the math; at smaller operations the senior planner runs more manually with direct carrier and DC coordination.

The role tends to suit people who are analytically disciplined, operationally calm, and patient with the constant replanning rhythm. 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.