Description
Analyze and coordinate the ongoing logistical functions of a firm or organization. Responsible for the entire life cycle of a product, including acquisition, distribution, internal allocation, delivery, and final disposal of resources.
- • Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
- • Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
- • Direct availability and allocation of materials, supplies, and finished products.
- • Collaborate with other departments as necessary to meet customer requirements, to take advantage of sales opportunities or, in the case of shortages, to minimize negative impacts on a business.
- • Protect and control proprietary materials.
- • Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
- • Develop and implement technical project management tools, such as plans, schedules, and responsibility and compliance matrices.
- • Direct team activities, establishing task priorities, scheduling and tracking work assignments, providing guidance, and ensuring the availability of resources.
- • Report project plans, progress, and results.
- • Direct and support the compilation and analysis of technical source data necessary for product development.
- • Explain proposed solutions to customers, management, or other interested parties through written proposals and oral presentations.
- • Develop proposals that include documentation for estimates.
- • Plan, organize, and execute logistics support activities, such as maintenance planning, repair analysis, and test equipment recommendations.
- • Provide project management services, including the provision and analysis of technical data.
- • Participate in the assessment and review of design alternatives and design change proposal impacts.
- • Support the development of training materials and technical manuals.
- • Stay informed of logistics technology advances and apply appropriate technology to improve logistics processes.
- • Redesign the movement of goods to maximize value and minimize costs.
- • Manage subcontractor activities, reviewing proposals, developing performance specifications, and serving as liaisons between subcontractors and organizations.
- • Manage the logistical aspects of product life cycles, including coordination or provisioning of samples, and the minimization of obsolescence.
- • Perform system lifecycle cost analysis and develop component studies.
- • Perform managerial duties such as hiring and training employees and overseeing facility needs or requirements.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
