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Logistics Analysts

  • Bright Outlook
  • Rapid Growth

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

What you’d do

  • 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.

Skills that matter

  • Critical Thinking
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Active Listening
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Monitoring
  • Speaking

How to get there

Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree

Also called

  • Logistics Analyst
  • Logistics Management Analyst
  • Supply Chain Analyst
  • Transportation Analyst
  • Global Logistics Analyst
  • Material Supply Planner

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