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Job Description
Analyze product delivery or supply chain processes to identify or recommend changes. May manage route activity including invoicing, electronic bills, and shipment tracing.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 13-1081.02
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Logistics Analysts”.
Also Known As…
- Logistics Analysts
- Supply Chain Analyst
- Logistics Analyst
- Global Logistics Analyst
- Sustainment Logistics Analyst
- Supply Technician
- Supply Chain Specialist
- Reverse Logistics Analyst
- Provisioning Analyst
- Product Control and Logistics Analyst
- Procurement Specialist
- Procurement Analyst
- Operations Logistics Analyst
- Logistics Specialist
- Logistics Manager
- Logistics Management Specialist
- Inventory Manager
- Acquisitions Logistics Analyst
- Acquisition Analyst
Tasks for “Supply Chain Analyst”
- Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers.
- Write or revise standard operating procedures for logistics processes.
- Manage systems to ensure that pricing structures adequately reflect logistics costing.
- Contact carriers for rates or schedules.
- Prepare reports on logistics performance measures.
- Apply analytic methods or tools to understand, predict, or control logistics operations or processes.
- Monitor industry standards, trends, or practices to identify developments in logistics planning or execution.
- Identify opportunities for inventory reductions.
- Compute reporting metrics, such as on-time delivery rates, order fulfillment rates, or inventory turns.
- Route or reroute drivers in real time with remote route navigation software, satellite linkup systems, or global positioning systems (GPS) to improve operational efficiencies.
- Develop or maintain payment systems to ensure accuracy of vendor payments.
- Contact potential vendors to determine material availability.
- Track product flow from origin to final delivery.
- Provide ongoing analyses in areas such as transportation costs, parts procurement, back orders, or delivery processes.
- Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
- Enter logistics-related data into databases.
- Communicate with or monitor service providers, such as ocean carriers, air freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or trucking companies.
- Monitor inventory transactions at warehouse facilities to assess receiving, storage, shipping, or inventory integrity.
- Confer with logistics management teams to determine ways to optimize service levels, maintain supply-chain efficiency, or minimize cost.
- Recommend improvements to existing or planned logistics processes.
- Arrange for sale or lease of excess storage or transport capacity to minimize losses or inefficiencies associated with empty space.
- Reorganize shipping schedules to consolidate loads, maximize vehicle usage, or limit the movement of empty vehicles or containers.
- Maintain logistics records in accordance with corporate policies.
- Develop or maintain freight rate databases for use by supply chain departments to determine the most economical modes of transportation.
- Develop or maintain models for logistics uses, such as cost estimating or demand forecasting.
- Review procedures, such as distribution or inventory management, to ensure maximum efficiency or minimum cost.
- Determine packaging requirements.
- Maintain databases of logistics information.
- Compare locations or environmental policies of carriers or suppliers to make transportation decisions with lower environmental impact.
- Enter carbon-output or environmental-impact data into spreadsheets or environmental management or auditing software programs.
- Analyze logistics data, using methods such as data mining, data modeling, or cost or benefit analysis.
Related Technology & Tools
- Desktop computers
- Computer laser printers
- Multi-line telephone systems
- Personal computers
- Laser facsimile machines
- Computer data input scanners
- Photocopiers
- Photocopying equipment
- Laptop computers
- Minitab
- Logisuite Forwarder
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Warehouse management system WMS
- Microsoft Word
- SAP
- Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Windows
- Oracle E-Business Suite Financials
- Microsoft Outlook
- Graphics software
- Oracle PeopleSoft Financials
- Oracle Hyperion
- Fleet management software
- Four Soft 4S eLog
- Oracle E-Business Suite Logistics
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Reporting software
- Cadre Technologies Accuplus Integrated Distribution Logistics System
- StataCorp Stata
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- SPSS
- MicroStrategy
- Advanced business application programming ABAP
- Microsoft Project
- Qlik Tech QlikView
- Four Soft 4S VisiLog
- Flow chart software
- Microsoft Office
- Oracle PeopleSoft
- Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
- Microsoft Access
- SAP Business Objects
- Inventory control software
- Microsoft Visio
- Logisuite Enterprise
- 3PL Central
- Tableau
- IntelliTrack 3PL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
- Microsoft Excel
- Spreadsheet software
- ESRI ArcLogistics
- IBM Cognos Impromptu
- Optimization software