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Priyanka Kaur

Alberta Beach,AB

Summary

Productive Transportation Planner offering 10-year background tracing orders, coordinating load patterns and determining most cost-efficient solutions. Expertise in maintaining logistics records and generating transportation schedules. Excellent multitasking, organizational and interpersonal abilities. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Transportation Planner

Purolator Courier Service
05.2021 - 02.2023
  • Manage projects for new, expanded, or modified rail services to accommodate growth, changing markets, and provincial/municipal transportation plans, assessing impacts on ridership, schedules, equipment, capital and operating budgets and other corporate resource requirements.
  • Develop, assemble, and maintain databases on ridership, revenue, fares, schedules, costs, market characteristics, operating performance, or other factors as required for on-going monitoring.
  • Coordinate projects with other internal offices for input, development of recommendations, implementation, monitoring, and administration.
  • Conduct market research and transportation analysis to develop plans and business cases for new and/or expanded services including resource requirements, revenue and ridership projections, and capital and operating cost estimates.
  • Monitor and analyse services to identify short- and long-term service issues, opportunities, and determine rail traffic operating plans, infrastructure requirements, and other resource requirements.
  • Recommend strategic service design, identify, and evaluate existing resources required to provide optimum levels of service, and identify potential improvements to service to meet objectives.
  • Responsible for modelling and simulating rail networks using industry and best practice standards to test and validate timetables and investigate impacts resulting from track impairments, speed restrictions, and increased train frequencies.
  • Participate in a variety of rail network analyses, studies, computer simulation model development or modification, and technical report generation addressing a wide range of operating, infrastructure and performance issues.

Transit Planner

BC Transit
01.2017 - 02.2021
  • Managed successful day-to-day operations of projects by maximizing productivity from available resources.
  • Engaged in both long and short-term project planning, strategizing for on-time, high-quality deliverables.
  • Worked directly with production personnel to resolve production scheduling issues and conflicts.
  • Developed comprehensive plans for large-scale projects that involved coordinating multiple teams.
  • Receive, record inventory information and customer orders.
  • Schedule loads based on safety, customer service, and load efficiency.
  • Create, communicate, schedule, and maintain driver schedule.
  • Communicate dispatch to the independent brokers and their drivers, (including shift plans, site plot plans and trailer information).
  • Ensure brokers are dispatched accordingly to meet Ministry regulations regarding driving hours.
  • Manage and coordinate deliveries through overflow carriers.
  • Confirm loads have been delivered.
  • Monitor emergency phone line and report all incidents to management.
  • Monitor daily markets and rack pricing reports to assists in organizing lift plans for Parkland Transport and outside carriers.
  • Prioritized schedules to meet project goals and overall customer satisfaction.

Transportation Planner Coordinator

TransX Group Of Companies
03.2014 - 12.2016
  • Planned pickups and drops for suppliers and carriers.
  • Collaborated with shipping analysts and distribution service coordinators to schedule deliveries.
  • Maintain TMS (carriers, rates, transit times, locations, etc.)
  • Utilize TMS to provide optimal load solutions on a timely basis and manage transportation planning activities
  • Provide analysis and recommendation on carrier performance vs. standards
  • Analyze on-time performance for delivery and pick up with special focus on priority customers and suppliers
  • Run daily shipment report and resolve any issues
  • Support distribution locations in resolving transportation related issues
  • Ensure cross border carriers are C-TPAT certified
  • Work closely with Supply Chain to support order changes, special requests and customer freight requirements.
  • Maintain and develop strategic partnerships with carriers and suppliers to support operational transportation needs.
  • Onboard new carriers
  • Help educate other departments on SOP’s for transportation stakeholders
  • Manage carrier performance daily while implementing regular reviews
  • Provide support to Customer Service, Transportation Analyst and Customs

Education

Master of Science - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN TRANSPORATION

University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
04.2022

BBA - Business

Humber College
Toronto, ON
04.2013

Skills

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Civil Engineering
  • Customer Complaint Resolution
  • Quality Assurance
  • Supply Chain Improvement
  • Cost Control

Software Used

SAP, TMS , BAANIV, TMW, JDA, ERP , Sales Force, Transit Softwares

Timeline

Senior Transportation Planner

Purolator Courier Service
05.2021 - 02.2023

Transit Planner

BC Transit
01.2017 - 02.2021

Transportation Planner Coordinator

TransX Group Of Companies
03.2014 - 12.2016

Master of Science - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN TRANSPORATION

University of British Columbia

BBA - Business

Humber College
Priyanka Kaur