Surface supervisor vs transportation supervisor

Differences between surface supervisor and transportation supervisor duties and responsibilities

Surface supervisor example responsibilities.

• Manage and organize LTL shipments and warehouse responsibilities.
• Handle oversight of packaging and logistics for merchandising, sorting and delivering merchandise to selling departments and maintaining team performance.
• Prepare, maintain, and submit required reports to upper management and military personnel.

Transportation supervisor example responsibilities.

• Manage relationships with outside FTL and LTL carriers to secure the best transportation rates for warehouse customer's.
• Direct employees in identifying and correcting any unsafe conditions, eliminate avoidable accidents and improve department performance manage KPI's.
• Create and lead a team of internal and external partners to move land invoices from paper transmission to electronic EDI transmission.
• Charge with managing contracts for non-emergency and emergency transportation of Medicaid and Medicare members.
• Manage inventory of inbound ocean containers, coordinate and schedule TL operations, supervise yard hostlers and manage outbound trailer traffic.
• Coordinate with medical clinicians to identify veterans in need of transportation services.
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