Job Title: Import & Export Logistics - Senior Executive.
Experience: 5 - 7 Years
Qualification: Graduation / Post Graduation in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Commerce, or a related field.
Location: Ramayapatnam, Kavali, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities:
1. Import Logistics & Customs Clearance:
- Manage end-to-end import shipments, including shipment planning, freight booking, vessel tracking, customs clearance, and delivery to the plant.
- Coordinate with international suppliers, freight forwarders, shipping lines, and Customs House Agents (CHAs) to ensure timely clearance and delivery.
- Review and verify commercial invoices, packing lists, Bills of Lading (BL), Air Waybills (AWB), and other import documentation.
- Monitor Bills of Entry (BOEs), customs duty payments, Delivery Orders (DOs), and transportation arrangements.
- Coordinate with Finance for customs duty payments and timely processing of freight, clearance, and transportation invoices.
- Handle bonded warehouse procedures, in-bond shipments, and related documentation.
- Ensure compliance with applicable customs regulations and EXIM schemes, including IGCR, EPCG, Advance Authorisation, and applicable duty benefits.
- Coordinate documentation and compliance requirements related to applicable anti-dumping duty (ADD) and other customs levies.
2. Export Logistics & Documentation:
- Manage export shipment planning, freight forwarding, shipping documentation, and customs clearance.
- Prepare and verify commercial invoices, packing lists, shipping bills, e-way bills, and other export documents using SAP or the applicable ERP system.
- Coordinate with shipping lines, freight forwarders, CHAs, courier agencies, and customers for timely dispatch and delivery.
- Verify shipping bill checklists and BL/AWB drafts and coordinate post-shipment documentation.
- Coordinate with relevant agencies for Certificates of Origin and other export-related certificates, wherever applicable.
- Track export shipments, communicate dispatch schedules to customers, and resolve shipment-related issues.
3. Domestic Logistics & Distribution:
- Plan and coordinate domestic transportation from the manufacturing facility to customer locations, warehouses, and project sites.
- Obtain quotations, negotiate freight rates, finalize transporters, and optimize transportation costs.
- Coordinate with internal teams for material availability, dispatch planning, packing, loading, and timely delivery.
- Prepare and verify sales invoices, delivery challans, packing lists, e-way bills, and transportation documents.
- Coordinate with customers and transporters regarding delivery schedules, permits, payment requirements, and dispatch documentation.
- Monitor shipment status, delivery performance, freight costs, and transit-related issues.
4. Freight Management & Vendor Coordination:
- Obtain competitive quotations and negotiate freight rates with shipping lines, freight forwarders, CHAs, and transporters.
- Evaluate service providers based on cost, transit time, reliability, and service quality.
- Monitor freight bills, customs clearance charges, transportation invoices, and other logistics expenses.
- Identify opportunities for cost optimization and minimize avoidable detention, demurrage, and shipment delays.
- Maintain effective coordination with vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure uninterrupted logistics operations.
5. MIS, Reporting & Compliance:
- Maintain import, export, and domestic shipment trackers and update shipment status regularly.
- Prepare daily dispatch reports, freight cost statements, shipment MIS, finished goods reports.