Description
Analyze freight rates, routings, carrier performance, and logistics networks to optimize cost, service, and compliance. Use shipment data, market intelligence, and regulations to recommend transport strategies and support procurement and operations. Develop reporting, forecasts, and sustainability insights while coordinating with carriers, brokers, and internal teams.
- • Analyze and recommend optimal shipment routes based on commodity, transit time, and security needs.
- • Model end-to-end transport methods to optimize cost and service levels.
- • Forecast capacity needs and support carrier space allocation planning.
- • Evaluate delivery, drayage, and storage options; provide data-driven recommendations.
- • Assess requirements for temperature-controlled, hazardous, or sensitive cargo and advise compliant solutions.
- • Analyze claims and insurance recoveries; identify root causes and trends.
- • Build cost models using weights, volumes, tariffs, and accessorials.
- • Create and maintain standards and audits for shipping documentation accuracy.
- • Identify load consolidation opportunities by lane and schedule.
- • Produce briefings on shipping options, lead times, transfers, and regulatory impacts.
- • Track regulatory and geopolitical changes and assess freight implications.
- • Develop dashboards to monitor in-transit status and exception trends.
- • Provide rate benchmarks and should-cost analyses to support rate negotiations.
- • Recommend cargo insurance coverage levels based on risk assessments.
- • Reconcile freight invoices, validate charges, and analyze variances.
- • Generate cost estimates and quotations for proposed moves.
- • Advise on packing methods considering climate, terrain, weight, fragility, and cost.
- • Audit packaging and labeling compliance for export shipments.
- • Audit documentation for customs, insurance, and regulatory adherence.
- • Model landed costs, including duties, taxes, and fees, and advise on customs requirements.
- • Support customs clearance with data validations, pre-alerts, and document checks.
- • Evaluate customs broker performance and coordinate data exchanges.
- • Compile port and terminal performance, congestion, and cutoff information.
- • Automate shipment status updates and exception notifications to stakeholders.
- • Curate resources and connect teams with SMEs in trade finance, marketing, banking, or marine insurance.
- • Analyze routing scenarios to minimize environmental impact and carbon emissions.
- • Model multimodal options (rail, short sea, air, road) to reduce cost and emissions.
- • Incorporate sustainability criteria when recommending packaging or unitization.
- • Recommend shipping solutions balancing cost, service, risk, and environmental impacts.
- • Assess carriers' environmental, safety, and service records to inform selection.
- • Ensure TMS/ERP/EDI data quality and drive process improvements and automation.
- • Maintain shipment master data and performance KPIs.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
