13-1081.02 Bright OutlookApprenticeship

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.

Career Cluster:Supply Chain & Transportation
Job Family:Business and Financial Operations
Job Zone:Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
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Technology Tools

Amazon RedshiftIBM SPSS StatisticsMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Office softwareMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft Power BIMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft WindowsOracle PeopleSoftMicrosoft ProjectMicrosoft SharePointMicrosoft SQL ServerMicrosoft VisioMicrosoft Visual BasicMicrosoft Visual Basic for Applications VBAMicrosoft WordTableauSAP softwareStructured query language SQLThe MathWorks MATLAB

Key Tasks

  • Maintain databases of logistics information.
  • Communicate with or monitor service providers, such as ocean carriers, air freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or trucking companies.
  • Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers.
  • Track product flow from origin to final delivery.
  • Reorganize shipping schedules to consolidate loads, maximize vehicle usage, or limit the movement of empty vehicles or containers.
  • 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.
  • Contact potential vendors to determine material availability.
  • 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.
  • Maintain logistics records in accordance with corporate policies.
  • Monitor inventory transactions at warehouse facilities to assess receiving, storage, shipping, or inventory integrity.
  • Contact carriers for rates or schedules.
  • Confer with logistics management teams to determine ways to optimize service levels, maintain supply-chain efficiency, or minimize cost.
  • Manage systems to ensure that pricing structures adequately reflect logistics costing.
  • Develop or maintain payment systems to ensure accuracy of vendor payments.
  • Compute reporting metrics, such as on-time delivery rates, order fulfillment rates, or inventory turns.
  • Develop or maintain freight rate databases for use by supply chain departments to determine the most economical modes of transportation.
  • Identify opportunities for inventory reductions.
  • Review procedures, such as distribution or inventory management, to ensure maximum efficiency or minimum cost.
  • Develop or maintain models for logistics uses, such as cost estimating or demand forecasting.
  • Monitor industry standards, trends, or practices to identify developments in logistics planning or execution.
  • Route or reroute drivers in real time with remote route navigation software, satellite linkup systems, or global positioning systems (GPS) to improve operational efficiencies.
  • Write or revise standard operating procedures for logistics processes.
  • Determine packaging requirements.
  • Enter carbon-output or environmental-impact data into spreadsheets or environmental management or auditing software programs.
  • Compare locations or environmental policies of carriers or suppliers to make transportation decisions with lower environmental impact.
  • Arrange for sale or lease of excess storage or transport capacity to minimize losses or inefficiencies associated with empty space.

Skills

Reading Comprehension
75%
Critical Thinking
75%
Complex Problem Solving
72%
Active Listening
72%
Monitoring
69%
Speaking
69%
Systems Analysis
69%
Systems Evaluation
69%
Judgment and Decision Making
66%
Writing
60%
Time Management
56%
Active Learning
53%
Coordination
50%
Mathematics
50%
Social Perceptiveness
50%
Management of Personnel Resources
50%
Service Orientation
50%
Instructing
47%
Persuasion
47%
Negotiation
47%
Learning Strategies
44%
Management of Material Resources
41%
Management of Financial Resources
38%
Quality Control Analysis
31%
Operations Monitoring
28%
Operations Analysis
28%
Programming
25%
Technology Design
22%
Science
19%
Troubleshooting
13%
Repairing
0%
Installation
0%
Operation and Control
0%
Equipment Selection
0%
Equipment Maintenance
0%

Knowledge

English Language
80%
Computers and Electronics
72%
Transportation
71%
Mathematics
66%
Administration and Management
63%
Customer and Personal Service
61%
Education and Training
54%
Administrative
51%
Geography
51%
Production and Processing
51%
Law and Government
50%
Communications and Media
44%
Public Safety and Security
44%
Telecommunications
44%
Economics and Accounting
38%
Engineering and Technology
35%
Personnel and Human Resources
30%
Mechanical
24%
Foreign Language
24%
Design
22%
Psychology
21%
Sales and Marketing
19%
Physics
18%
Sociology and Anthropology
15%
Philosophy and Theology
11%
Building and Construction
11%
Chemistry
11%
History and Archeology
10%
Food Production
10%
Therapy and Counseling
10%
Biology
8%
Medicine and Dentistry
6%
Fine Arts
2%

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Abilities

Oral Expression
75%
Oral Comprehension
75%
Near Vision
72%
Written Comprehension
72%
Deductive Reasoning
69%
Speech Recognition
69%
Inductive Reasoning
69%
Information Ordering
69%
Problem Sensitivity
66%
Mathematical Reasoning
66%
Speech Clarity
63%
Category Flexibility
56%
Flexibility of Closure
56%
Written Expression
56%
Selective Attention
56%
Number Facility
56%
Perceptual Speed
53%
Fluency of Ideas
53%
Originality
53%
Far Vision
47%
Visualization
44%
Time Sharing
44%
Speed of Closure
44%
Memorization
44%
Visual Color Discrimination
25%
Auditory Attention
25%
Finger Dexterity
25%
Hearing Sensitivity
22%
Depth Perception
22%
Control Precision
16%
Arm-Hand Steadiness
13%
Trunk Strength
13%
Manual Dexterity
13%
Wrist-Finger Speed
6%
Dynamic Strength
3%
Sound Localization
0%
Reaction Time
0%
Extent Flexibility
0%
Night Vision
0%
Stamina
0%
Static Strength
0%
Explosive Strength
0%
Peripheral Vision
0%
Multilimb Coordination
0%
Spatial Orientation
0%
Speed of Limb Movement
0%
Glare Sensitivity
0%
Gross Body Equilibrium
0%
Rate Control
0%
Dynamic Flexibility
0%
Response Orientation
0%
Gross Body Coordination
0%

Work Activities

Working with Computers
89%
Analyzing Data or Information
86%
Getting Information
86%
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
84%
Processing Information
82%
Making Decisions and Solving Problems
82%
Communicating with People Outside the Organization
81%
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
77%
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
75%
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
75%
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
70%
Documenting/Recording Information
70%
Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
70%
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
68%
Developing Objectives and Strategies
66%
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
66%
Thinking Creatively
65%
Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People
64%
Training and Teaching Others
61%
Scheduling Work and Activities
57%
Coaching and Developing Others
57%
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
57%
Developing and Building Teams
57%
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
56%
Providing Consultation and Advice to Others
52%
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
52%
Performing Administrative Activities
50%
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates
50%
Monitoring and Controlling Resources
48%
Selling or Influencing Others
39%
Assisting and Caring for Others
39%
Staffing Organizational Units
33%
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
29%
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
27%
Controlling Machines and Processes
25%
Performing General Physical Activities
24%
Handling and Moving Objects
23%
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
19%
Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment
19%
Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment
17%
Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
15%

Work Context

E-Mail

How frequently does your job require you to use E-mail?

100%

Telephone Conversations

How often do you have telephone conversations in this job?

96%

Indoors, Environmentally Controlled

How often does this job require working indoors in an environmentally controlled environment (like a warehouse with air conditioning)?

92%

Contact With Others

How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?

90%

Spend Time Sitting

How much does this job require sitting?

88%

Work With or Contribute to a Work Group or Team

How important is it to work with or contribute to a work group or team in this job?

83%

Duration of Typical Work Week

Number of hours typically worked in one week.

82%

Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams

How frequently does your job require face-to-face discussions with individuals and within teams?

82%

Freedom to Make Decisions

How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?

80%

Time Pressure

How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines?

80%

Importance of Being Exact or Accurate

How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?

79%

Determine Tasks, Priorities and Goals

How much freedom does the worker have in determining the tasks, priorities, or goals of the job?

77%

Importance of Repeating Same Tasks

How important are continuous, repetitive, physical activities (like key entry) or mental activities (like checking entries in a ledger) to performing this job?

75%

Coordinate or Lead Others in Accomplishing Work Activities

How important is it to coordinate or lead others (not as a supervisor or team leader) in accomplishing work activities in this job?

66%

Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions

How much does this job require making repetitive motions?

64%

Frequency of Decision Making

How often is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization?

61%

Deal With External Customers or the Public in General

How important is it to deal with external customers (as in retail sales) or the public in general (as in police work) in this job?

60%

Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results

What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer?

60%

Exposed to Sounds, Noise Levels that are Distracting or Uncomfortable

How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable?

58%

Conflict Situations

How frequently are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job?

56%

Written Letters and Memos

How frequently does your job require written letters and memos?

55%

Dealing With Unpleasant, Angry, or Discourteous People

How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements?

50%

Physical Proximity

To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks physically close to other people?

50%

Degree of Automation

How automated is the job?

49%

Level of Competition

To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures?

49%

Work Outcomes and Results of Other Workers

How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers?

49%

Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls

How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls?

47%

Consequence of Error

How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not easily correctable?

41%

Health and Safety of Other Workers

How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job?

39%

Public Speaking

How frequently does your job require public speaking (one speaker with an audience)?

38%

Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled

How often does this job require working in an environment that is not environmentally controlled (like a warehouse without air conditioning)?

35%

Spend Time Standing

How much does this job require standing?

30%

Exposed to Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting Conditions

How often does this job require working in extremely bright or inadequate lighting conditions?

25%

Exposed to Hazardous Equipment

How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment?

23%

Exposed to Contaminants

How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)?

22%

In an Enclosed Vehicle or Operate Enclosed Equipment

How often does this job require working in a closed vehicle or operate enclosed equipment (like a car)?

22%

Exposed to Very Hot or Cold Temperatures

How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures?

21%

Outdoors, Under Cover

How often does this job require working outdoors, under cover (like in an open shed)?

21%

Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets

How often does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, hard hats or life-jackets?

21%

Outdoors, Exposed to All Weather Conditions

How often does this job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions?

19%

Exposed to Hazardous Conditions

How often does this job require exposure to hazardous conditions?

18%

Spend Time Walking or Running

How much does this job require walking or running?

18%

Spend Time Bending or Twisting Your Body

How much does this job require bending or twisting your body?

16%

Dealing with Violent or Physically Aggressive People

How frequently does this job require the worker to deal with physical aggression of violent individuals?

14%

Wear Specialized Protective or Safety Equipment such as Breathing Apparatus, Safety Harness, Full Protection Suits, or Radiation Protection

How often does this job require wearing specialized protective or safety equipment such as breathing apparatus, safety harness, full protection suits, or radiation protection?

14%

Exposed to Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions

How often does this job require working in cramped work spaces that requires getting into awkward positions?

13%

In an Open Vehicle or Operating Equipment

How often does this job require working in an open vehicle or operating equipment (like a tractor)?

11%

Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment

How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.)

11%

Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling

How much does this job require kneeling, crouching, stooping or crawling?

10%

Exposed to High Places

How often does this job require exposure to high places?

9%

Spend Time Climbing Ladders, Scaffolds, or Poles

How much does this job require climbing ladders, scaffolds, poles, etc.?

7%

Work Schedules

How regular are the work schedules for this job?

7%

Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings

How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings?

5%

Exposed to Whole Body Vibration

How often does this job require exposure to whole body vibration (like operating a jackhammer or earth moving equipment)?

5%

Exposed to Disease or Infections

How often does this job require exposure to disease/infections?

4%

Spend Time Keeping or Regaining Balance

How much does this job require keeping or regaining your balance?

4%

Exposed to Radiation

How often does this job require exposure to radiation?

2%

Education

Bachelor's degree

64%

Associate's degree

23%

Some college, no degree

5%

Interests

Conventional

Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or hum

97

Enterprising

Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertis

57

Investigative

Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the f

50

Realistic

Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, t

37

Social

Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.

9

Artistic

Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts,

0

Work Styles

Attention to Detail
86%
Dependability
82%
Cautiousness
61%
Achievement Orientation
58%
Integrity
58%
Intellectual Curiosity
55%
Adaptability
54%
Perseverance
49%
Stress Tolerance
41%
Innovation
40%
Initiative
39%
Self-Control
38%
Tolerance for Ambiguity
38%
Self-Confidence
36%
Cooperation
30%
Leadership Orientation
23%
Social Orientation
18%
Sincerity
17%
Humility
11%
Optimism
8%
Empathy
3%

Work Values

Achievement
67%
Independence
67%
Recognition
61%
Working Conditions
56%
Relationships
50%
Support
45%

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