Road Transport Analyst

Job description

Company Description

Shell began operations in India more than 80 years ago. At Shell India, we invest in our people through our industry-leading development programme, which sees our employees thrive and gain access to experts on a local and global level. To date, we have invested more than US$ 1 billion already in India's energy sector alone in socially and environmentally responsible ways. It is the only global major to have a fuel retail license in India. The Shell Technology Centre Bangalore, STCB, is one of the three global hubs for technology in the Projects & Technology business of Royal Dutch Shell. In addition, we supply crude, chemicals and technology to public and private sector oil companies, and our Chennai Business Centre provides a wide range of finance, accounting and business services to Shell globally.

Job Description

Purpose:
Support the business by contributing to the optimization of secondary transport and scheduling operations through meaningful analysis of performance data.

Accountabilities:
·  Analyze demand forecast accuracy, its impact on distribution service levels and financial impact of forecast errors as a key input to the monthly S&OP process
·  Analyzed Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) data and ensure accurate data input for daily scheduling process
·  Analyze turnaround time of fuel delivery road tankers and generate reports for identifying improvement opportunities
·  Root cause analysis of stock outs, redirects, tanker truck decantation delays at retail outlets and develop insights for relevant stakeholders
·  Monitor retail sales trends and provide inputs to OTD team for improving scheduling accuracy
·  Work with Road Transport team to identify potential value leakages and optimizing service levels, HSSE and costs
·  Participate in projects for supporting LEAN/CI initiatives in operations
·  Monitor haulier wise RT/OTD performance data and share inputs for reward and consequence management
·  Budget and SLA analysis, monitoring and reporting
·  Support business initiatives - data collation, evaluation. Gather and compile data from internal and external sources, such as the finance system, CROSS and other business tools
·  Ensure the accuracy of Distribution tariffs calculation and allocation to business partners through appropriate management and analysing of Cost2Serve tool and process
·  Support Distribution operations and cross-business analyses towards improvements in the road transport efficiency
·  Monitor system data ensure all customer data are properly registered in CROSS, GSAP, VMIFE and/or any other scheduling IT tools (e.g. products, tanks, delivery time windows and SLAs for each site, trucks weight, drivers data, site location map etc.)
Special Challenges

·  Managing the multiple interfaces with hauliers and business partners, customers and other key stakeholders within T&S for supporting Enterprise First decision making
·  Support delivery of the required Customer Service and Unit Cost performance for multiple territories for distribution where targets and operating conditions vary significantly from market to market
·  Standardization and simplification of processes; support data driven decision making and removing subjectivity
·  Support delivery of CI/Lean projects; desirable to develop improvement skills and tools in order to identify the right approach for improving operational performance

Desired profile

Requirements

·  Bachelor or equivalent degree in logistics, economics or business administration or equivalent experience
·  Good commercial mindset and analytical skills with knowledge of excel based analysis
·  Stakeholder management skills and excellent English language communication skills
·  Knowledge of SAP, ability to generate SAP reports
·  Knowledge of Vendor Managed Inventory Front End, CROSS or equivalent planning and scheduling platform
·  Knowledge of distribution and customer service metrics – OTIF/Stock Outs/Distribution cost/Inventory turns/TAT analysis/VCU-VTU etc
·  Knowledge of LEAN and CI processes/terminology – VSM, problem solving skills, root cause analysis (5 why/fish bone etc.)

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No. of Positions

1

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Removal Date

19-Jan-2018