Logistics Analyst II

About the Role Natural Brothers Trucking is seeking a Logistics Analyst II to support transportation, warehouse, inventory, and supply chain operations through data analysis, forecasting, performance measurement, pricing analysis, and process improvement. The Logistics Analyst II will analyze transportation flows, freight pricing, warehouse capacity, inventory movement, carrier performance, and operational data to identify trends, bottlenecks, cost-saving opportunities, and areas for improvement. The position works closely with management, warehouse personnel, carriers, vendors, and other operational stakeholders to support data-driven logistics decisions. Key Responsibilities ● Analyze inbound and outbound transportation volumes, shipment schedules, capacity requirements, and operational exceptions. ● Evaluate transportation and warehouse capacity, including shipment volume, warehouse utilization, inventory accumulation, dock availability, and carrier capacity. ● Analyze inventory movement, warehouse utilization, WMS records, and storage capacity to identify discrepancies and future capacity risks. ● Evaluate carrier performance using metrics such as on-time performance, service reliability, transportation cost, available capacity, and missed loads. ● Analyze freight pricing, carrier rates, lane costs, fuel surcharges, accessorial charges, and vendor quotations to identify cost trends, pricing variances, and cost-saving opportunities. ● Compare transportation pricing and service options to support carrier selection, rate negotiations, budgeting, and transportation cost optimization. ● Develop and maintain logistics KPIs, carrier scorecards, dashboards, forecasts, and recurring analytical reports. ● Analyze historical shipment and inventory data to identify trends and develop short-term forecasts for transportation and warehouse planning. ● Use Excel, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, WMS/TMS data, and related analytical tools to clean, validate, analyze, and visualize operational data. ● Perform root-cause and scenario analyses to identify transportation, inventory, warehouse, pricing, and process bottlenecks. ● Analyze logistics workflows and recommend process improvements to enhance transportation efficiency, inventory accuracy, warehouse utilization, service performance, and cost efficiency. ● Develop and maintain SOPs and analytical documentation relating to transportation, inventory validation, warehouse operations, and WMS processes. Required Qualifications ● Bachelor’s degree or higher in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, or a directly related field providing specialized education in logistics operations and quantitative analysis. ● Academic or professional knowledge of transportation management, supply chain planning, inventory and warehouse management, and logistics operations. ● Knowledge of quantitative analysis, statistics, forecasting, pricing analysis, KPI development, and performance measurement. ● Ability to analyze transportation rates, logistics costs, operational data, and service performance metrics. ● Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify operational trends, exceptions, cost drivers, and root causes. ● Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and experience working with operational or logistics datasets. ● Ability to communicate analytical findings and recommendations to management and operational teams. Preferred Qualifications ● Experience with SQL, Tableau, Power BI, or similar analytics and visualization tools. ● Experience with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Transportation Management Systems (TMS), or other logistics information systems. ● Experience analyzing transportation, inventory, warehouse, carrier-performance, freight rate, or logistics-cost data. ● Knowledge of freight transportation, drayage, truckload operations, transloading, and warehouse operations. About Natural Brothers Trucking Natural Brothers Trucking provides freight transportation and logistic…

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