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13-1081.02 - Logistics Analysts


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


Key Facts
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Bright Outlook
1
Career Details
Green Job
Career Details
Current Employment
130,400
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Forecasted Employment
132,900
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Change in Employment
+2,500
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Change in Employment %
+1.9%
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Tasks
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Tasks
The tasks listed below can be performed to prepare you for a career in this field.
Core
  • Identify opportunities for inventory reductions.
  • Monitor industry standards, trends, or practices to identify developments in logistics planning or execution.
  • Enter logistics-related data into databases.
  • Contact carriers for rates or schedules.
  • 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.
  • Write or revise standard operating procedures for logistics processes.
  • Review procedures, such as distribution or inventory management, to ensure maximum efficiency or minimum cost.
  • Recommend improvements to existing or planned logistics processes.
  • Provide ongoing analyses in areas such as transportation costs, parts procurement, back orders, or delivery processes.
  • Prepare reports on logistics performance measures.
  • Manage systems to ensure that pricing structures adequately reflect logistics costing.
  • Monitor inventory transactions at warehouse facilities to assess receiving, storage, shipping, or inventory integrity.
  • Maintain databases of logistics information.
  • Maintain logistics records in accordance with corporate policies.
  • Develop or maintain models for logistics uses, such as cost estimating or demand forecasting.
  • Confer with logistics management teams to determine ways to optimize service levels, maintain supply-chain efficiency, or minimize cost.
  • Compute reporting metrics, such as on-time delivery rates, order fulfillment rates, or inventory turns.
  • Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
  • Apply analytic methods or tools to understand, predict, or control logistics operations or processes.
  • Analyze logistics data, using methods such as data mining, data modeling, or cost or benefit analysis.
  • Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers.
Supplemental
  • Develop or maintain payment systems to ensure accuracy of vendor payments.
  • Determine packaging requirements.
  • Develop or maintain freight rate databases for use by supply chain departments to determine the most economical modes of transportation.
  • Contact potential vendors to determine material availability.
  • Reorganize shipping schedules to consolidate loads, maximize vehicle usage, or limit the movement of empty vehicles or containers.
  • Route or reroute drivers in real time with remote route navigation software, satellite linkup systems, or global positioning systems (GPS) to improve operational efficiencies.
  • Arrange for sale or lease of excess storage or transport capacity to minimize losses or inefficiencies associated with empty space.
  • 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.
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Knowledge
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Knowledge

The items listed below are organized into sections that contain knowledge useful for pursuing a career in this field. Each section also contains a "Percentage of Importance" statistic that shows how relevant an item is to the occupation.
 English Language
  • 84%
    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
 Computers and Electronics
  • 77%
    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
 Transportation
  • 76%
    Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
 Mathematics
  • 72%
    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
 Administration and Management
  • 70%
    Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
 Customer and Personal Service
  • 69%
    Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
 Education and Training
  • 63%
    Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
 Clerical
  • 61%
    Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
 Geography
  • 61%
    Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
 Production and Processing
  • 61%
    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
 Law and Government
  • 60%
    Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
 Communications and Media
  • 55%
    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
 Telecommunications
  • 55%
    Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
 Public Safety and Security
  • 55%
    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
 Economics and Accounting
  • 50%
    Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Tools
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Tools
The tools listed below include machines, equipment, tools, and software that is useful for individuals who are interested in this career.
 Computer data input devices
  • Computer data input scanners
 Computer printers
  • Computer laser printers
 Computers
  • Desktop computers
  • Laptop computers
  • Personal computers
 Duplicating machines
  • Laser facsimile machines
  • Photocopiers
  • Photocopying equipment
 Personal communication devices
  • Multi-line telephone systems
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Technology
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Technology
The technologies listed below include machines, equipment, tools, and software that is useful for individuals who are interested in this career.
 Business function specific software
  • 3PL Central
  • Cadre Technologies Accuplus Integrated Distribution Logistics System
  • ESRI ArcLogistics
  • Fleet management software
  • Four Soft 4S eLog
  • Four Soft 4S VisiLog
  • IntelliTrack 3PL
  • Inventory control software
  • Logisuite Enterprise
  • Logisuite Forwarder
  • Microsoft OfficeHOT
  • Microsoft ProjectHOT
  • Microsoft SharePointHOT
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Logistics
  • Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio ManagementHOT
  • Warehouse management system WMS
 Development software
  • Advanced business application programming ABAPHOT
  • Microsoft Visual BasicHOT
  • Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBAHOT
 Data management and query software
  • Amazon RedshiftHOT
  • IBM Cognos ImpromptuHOT
  • Microsoft AccessHOT
  • Microsoft SQL ServerHOT
  • MicroStrategyHOT
  • Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise EditionHOT
  • Qlik Tech QlikViewHOT
  • Reporting software
  • SAP Crystal ReportsHOT
  • TableauHOT
 Content authoring and editing software
  • Flow chart software
  • Graphics software
  • Microsoft ExcelHOT
  • Microsoft PowerPointHOT
  • Microsoft VisioHOT
  • Microsoft WordHOT
  • Spreadsheet software
 Information exchange software
  • IBM NotesHOT
  • Microsoft OutlookHOT
 Industry specific software
  • IBM SPSS StatisticsHOT
  • MinitabHOT
  • Optimization software
  • StataCorp Stata
  • The MathWorks MATLABHOT
 Operating environment software
  • Microsoft WindowsHOT
 Finance accounting and enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Financials
  • Oracle HyperionHOT
  • Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOneHOT
  • Oracle PeopleSoftHOT
  • Oracle PeopleSoft FinancialsHOT
  • SAPHOT
  • SAP Business ObjectsHOT
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Certifications
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Certifications
The certifications listed below are useful to pursue if you are interested in a career in this field.
 Advanced
 Unknown
  • SAP Certified Application Associate - SRM with SAP SRM 7.0 EHP1
    3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073888-227-1727

 Product/Equipment
  • Oracle Fusion Procurement 2014 Essentials
    500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065800-833-3536

  • Production Planning (PP/DS) and Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP) in SAP Advanced Planning
    3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073888-227-1727

  • Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Lean Manufacturing
    One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399

  • Oracle Global Trade Management 6 Essemtials
    500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065800-833-3536

  • SAP Certified Application Associate - Logistics Execution and Warehouse Management with SAP ERP 6.0
    3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073888-227-1727

  • SAP Certified Application Associate - Logistics Execution and Warehouse Management with SAP ERP 6.0
    3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073888-227-1727

  • SAP Certified Application Associate - Supplier Relationship Management 7.2
    3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073888-227-1727

  • SAP Certified Application Associate - Strategic Planning (DP/SNP) in SAP APO 7.0
    3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073888-227-1727

  • SAP Certified SAP Business All-in-One Application Associate Logistics
    3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073888-227-1727

 Core
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Licensing
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Licensing
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No specific licensing information is listed for this occupation in the area you have selected.
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
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