- Review contractual commitments, customer specifications, or related information to determine logistics or support requirements.
- Analyze logistics processes.
- Determine logistics support requirements, such as facility details, staffing needs, or safety or maintenance plans.
- Analyze logistics processes.
- Propose logistics solutions for customers.
- Advise others on logistics topics.
- Direct the work of logistics analysts.
- Supervise employees.
- Evaluate effectiveness of current or future logistical processes.
- Analyze logistics processes.
- Provide logistics technology or information for effective and efficient support of product, equipment, or system manufacturing or service.
- Advise others on logistics topics.
- Evaluate the use of inventory tracking technology, Web-based warehousing software, or intelligent conveyor systems to maximize plant or distribution center efficiency.
- Analyze logistics processes.
- Develop logistic metrics, internal analysis tools, or key performance indicators for business units.
- Develop business or financial information systems.
- Analyze or interpret logistics data involving customer service, forecasting, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, transportation, or warehousing.
- Analyze logistics processes.
- Prepare or validate documentation on automated logistics or maintenance-data reporting or management information systems.
- Maintain data in information systems or databases.
- Identify cost-reduction or process-improvement logistic opportunities.
- Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
- Evaluate the use of technologies, such as global positioning systems (GPS), radio-frequency identification (RFID), route navigation software, or satellite linkup systems, to improve transportation efficiency.
- Evaluate logistics methods to reduce environmental impact.
- Develop or maintain cost estimates, forecasts, or cost models.
- Estimate costs of goods or services.
- Develop specifications for equipment, tools, facility layouts, or material-handling systems.
- Develop technical specifications for systems or equipment.
- Conduct logistics studies or analyses, such as time studies, zero-base analyses, rate analyses, network analyses, flow-path analyses, or supply chain analyses.
- Analyze logistics processes.
- Apply logistics modeling techniques to address issues such as operational process improvement or facility design or layout.
- Apply mathematical models of financial or business conditions.
- Prepare logistic strategies or conceptual designs for production facilities.
- Develop business or market strategies.
- Identify or develop business rules or standard operating procedures to streamline operating processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
- Establish organizational guidelines or policies.
- Design comprehensive supply chains that minimize environmental impacts or costs.
- Evaluate logistics methods to reduce environmental impact.
- Develop or document reverse logistics management processes to ensure maximal efficiency of product recycling, reuse, or final disposal.
- Develop sustainable business strategies or practices.
- Prepare financial documents.
- Determine feasibility of designing new facilities or modifying existing facilities, based on factors such as cost, available space, schedule, technical requirements, or ergonomics.
- Assess the cost effectiveness of products, projects, or services.
- Interview key staff or tour facilities to identify efficiency-improvement, cost-reduction, or service-delivery opportunities.
- Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
- Analyze jobs using observation, survey, or interview techniques.
- Conduct environmental audits for logistics activities, such as storage, distribution, or transportation.
- Evaluate logistics methods to reduce environmental impact.
- Create models or scenarios to predict the impact of changing circumstances, such as fuel costs, road pricing, energy taxes, or carbon emissions legislation.
- Apply mathematical models of financial or business conditions.