Karan Larabee Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Route cargo in accordance with customer requirements. Coordinate routing process including using contract rates and spot quotes for over length or hazardous material. Capture all costs associated with export shipment including freight cost, detention, packing and inland freight. Send pre-alerts with all customs documents to customer. Coordinate with.

Porter Texas

• Work directly with customer service, freight forwarder, 3PL (Transplace), trucking companies and warehouse to ship chemicals domestically or internationally
• Execute SAP delivery due list
• Run SAP Tcode to create transfer orders allocating goods
• Create SAP shipment records
• Post Goods Issue in SAP
• Maintain daily outbound shipment log

11330 Brittmoore Park Houston 77041

• Arranged two successful Top Drive (motor used to rotate drill pipe) pickups Free Carrier (FCA Houston) with customer’s freight forwarder meeting month end revenue of $1,500,000.
• Filed EEI’s for business units’ courier shipments (USPPI) and customer air and ocean (routed) shipments (FPPI) at ACE Secure Portal saving company $1,000. over 10 months.
• Filed Electronic Export Information (EEI’s) for business units’ courier shipments US Principal Party in Interest (USPPI) and customer air and ocean (routed) shipments Foreign Party in Interest (FPPI) at Automated.
• Scheduled oil / gas replacement parts on expedited less than truckload (LTL) for two separate domestic rig downs meeting customer demand of 48 hour ETA saving customer over $400,000. per day.
• Trained, mentored and assisted 3 new employees on company logistic and trade compliance processes, steps to filing Electronic Export Information (EEI’s) on Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) website and Excel.
• Responsible for creating commercial invoice (Excel) for customer and alerting same sales tax added. Advised customer if proof of export received within 7 days of export, sales tax would be credited adhering to Texas.

• 2012-2017
• Export purchase orders created, transferred and invoiced in JDE ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning).
• Prepared commercial invoices, shipper’s letter of instruction (SLI’s), verified material receipts, packing lists and bills of material, obtained region green light to export ship ocean, air or courier.
• Generated Shipper’s Declaration for Dangerous Goods to ship batteries and / or valves ~ Class 9 ~ from manufacturing to freight forwarder avoiding DOT (US Department of Transportation) penalties / fines.
• After creating commercial invoice, ran Excel ad hoc Pivot Tables to advise freight forwarder correct export value declaration, country of origin, Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), export control classification number.

• 2010-2012
• Set up and led conference calls with senior management, finance, SAP team (Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing), legal, trade compliance, business units and vendors to assess needs and customer bill of.
• Served as focal point for freight payment inquiries company wide.

• 2006-2009
• Tested multiple SAP upgrades optimizing data integration performance and accuracy
• Assisted in process improvement initiatives for month-end close improving action by 12 hours
• Documented over 100 dynamic close processes within a 3-year period ensuring service continuity
• Liaison to end users capturing and resolving SAP technical issues via IMS, escalating complex issues validating customer satisfaction
• Flexible regarding work hours safeguarding close processes completed in timely fashion

• 2003-2006
• Collaborated appropriate filing of tax returns and preparation of annual state reports with tax team
• Arranged CMRR tax payments and tax returns to confirm receipt of tax filings avoiding penalties
• Maintained tax filing system

• Generated SAP payroll reports of employees’ time worked and passed to payroll for processing
• Assisted with TEA (Travel, Expense, Accounting) expenditures working with MUD engineers
• Prepared presentations with Power Point
• Generated SAP payroll reports of employees’ time worked and passed to payroll for processing.

Bachelor Of Science Information Systems, Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Walden University, Bachelor of Science Information Systems, summa cum laudeBachelor of Science in Information.

Aa, Paralegal

summa cum laude