Traffic clerk vs shipping coordinator

Differences between traffic clerk and shipping coordinator duties and responsibilities

Traffic clerk example responsibilities.

• Manage comprehensive truckload and LTL logistical information for customers and trucking carriers.
• File BOL's for inbound and outbound loads to maintain audit standards.
• Work on AS400 to adjust and close food orders.
• Analyze and direct routing for LTL or T/L shipments, follow up T/L shipments for delivery dates.
• Maintain clean and sanitary operating environment; responsible for maintaining cleanliness of receiving area including loading dock and trash areas.
• Coordinate shipments of LCL cargo going to Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala and Honduras.
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Shipping coordinator example responsibilities.

• Utilize ERP system to track, manage, and maintain raw bulk inventory, WIP inventory, and finish goods inventory.
• Develop and implement lean processes to manage the economical and efficient coordination of interdepartmental logistics.
• Manage all aspects of customer shipments including generation of shipping output documents, coordination of logistics or scheduling domestic/international freight forwarders.
• Improve all KPI reporting for the bottling operation and implement visual aids such as report cards and production floor daily displays5.
• Ensure freight forwarders are select based on company objectives for cost and delivery
• Used computers for fed-ex and ups deliveries.
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