Logistics Analysts

What the job really is

Analyze product delivery or supply chain processes to identify or recommend changes. May manage route activity including invoicing, electronic bills, and shipment tracing.

At a glance

• Sector: Business & Financial
• O*NET-SOC code: 13-1081
• O*NET job zone: 4 — considerable preparation
• Work sample tasks on file: 12
• Tools and technologies listed: 12

What you actually do

Work sample tasks recorded for this occupation:

• Maintain databases of logistics information.
• Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers.
• Communicate with or monitor service providers, such as ocean carriers, air freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or trucking companies.
• Track product flow from origin to final delivery.
• Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
• Recommend improvements to existing or planned logistics processes.
• Apply analytic methods or tools to understand, predict, or control logistics operations or processes.
• Prepare reports on logistics performance measures.
• Enter logistics-related data into databases.
• Provide ongoing analyses in areas such as transportation costs, parts procurement, back orders, or delivery processes.
• Analyze logistics data, using methods such as data mining, data modeling, or cost or benefit analysis.
• Monitor inventory transactions at warehouse facilities to assess receiving, storage, shipping, or inventory integrity.

Tools and technology

Amazon Redshift, IBM SPSS Statistics, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office software, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Visio

What employers expect you to already be comfortable with.

Where this job leads

Related occupations — the usual moves up and sideways:

• Supply Chain Managers
• Logisticians
• Logistics Engineers
• Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
• Purchasing Managers
• Procurement Clerks
• Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
• Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products

Getting in

O*NET assigns this occupation job zone 4 (considerable preparation). The related occupations above are the realistic routes in and out.

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