Description
Analyze product delivery and end-to-end supply chain processes to identify improvements and cost savings. Manage routing activities, invoicing, electronic billing, and shipment tracking to ensure timely, compliant delivery.
- • Identify opportunities for inventory reductions.
- • Monitor industry standards and trends to inform logistics planning and execution.
- • Enter logistics data into enterprise databases.
- • Develop and maintain payment systems to ensure accurate vendor payments.
- • Determine packaging requirements.
- • Build and maintain freight rate databases to select economical transportation modes.
- • Contact potential vendors to confirm material availability.
- • Contact carriers for rates and schedules.
- • Communicate with and monitor service providers (ocean carriers, air forwarders, consolidators, customs brokers, trucking).
- • Track product flow from origin to final delivery.
- • Write and revise standard operating procedures for logistics processes.
- • Review distribution and inventory procedures to maximize efficiency and minimize cost.
- • Recommend improvements to existing or planned logistics processes.
- • Analyze transportation costs, procurement, back orders, and delivery processes.
- • Prepare reports on logistics KPIs and service levels.
- • Manage systems to ensure pricing reflects logistics costs.
- • Monitor warehouse transactions to assess receiving, storage, shipping, and inventory integrity.
- • Maintain databases of logistics information.
- • Maintain logistics records in accordance with corporate policies.
- • Build and maintain logistics models for cost estimating and demand forecasting.
- • Partner with logistics management to optimize service levels, efficiency, and cost.
- • Compute metrics such as on-time delivery, order fill rate, and inventory turns.
- • Interpret data on availability, reliability, sourcing, distribution, supplier management, and transportation.
- • Apply analytical methods and tools to understand, predict, and control logistics operations.
- • Analyze logistics data using data mining, modeling, and cost-benefit analysis.
- • Remotely monitor vehicles and inventory with web-based logistics systems.
- • Reorganize shipping schedules to consolidate loads and maximize equipment utilization.
- • Route or reroute drivers in real time using navigation and GPS tools.
- • Arrange sale or lease of excess storage or transport capacity.
- • Compare carrier and supplier locations and environmental policies to reduce transport impact.
- • Record carbon-output and environmental-impact data in tracking systems.
- • Manage routing, invoicing, electronic billing, and shipment tracing activities.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
